Area Leaders Programmes Change Lead

The ALP Lead will oversee the expansion and delivery of the Area LeadersProgramme, ensuring its effectiveness in increasing evidence-based decision-, making, commissioning, and multi-agency collaboration. You will providestrategic direction, operational oversight, and stakeholder engagement tosupport local authorities in reducing youth involvement in violence. This willinclude:Programme Leadership and Delivery

• Lead the expansion of ALP from four pilot areas to 10 new local authorities from
spring 2025.
• Develop and refine frameworks, tools, and resources to support effective
identification of the people and places most vulnerable to violence, evidencebased commissioning, effective case management, and multi-agency collaboration.
• Ensure robust monitoring and evaluation processes to assess the impact and
inform continuous improvement of the programme.
• Manage programme resources effectively, ensuring projects are delivered on
time, within budget, and to high standards.Stakeholder Engagement and Collaboration
• Build and maintain strong relationships with local authorities, safeguarding
partnerships, community safety partnerships, and other stakeholders.
• Act as the primary ambassador for the ALP, representing YEF in discussions
with partners and policymakers.
• Facilitate collaboration across diverse stakeholders to align priorities,
overcome barriers, and promote evidence-based approaches.Capacity Building and Support
• Provide strategic and operational support to senior multi-agency teams,
empowering them to embed effective violence prevention practices.
• Lead capacity-building activities, including workshops, coaching, training, and
peer learning opportunities for local partnerships.Strategic Vision and Development
• Work with the Head of Change for Children's Services and Neighbourhoods to
shape the strategic direction of the ALP, ensuring alignment with YEF's broader mission.
• Identify and respond to emerging trends, challenges, and opportunities in
youth violence prevention., As a senior member of staff in the organisation you also:
• Build a culture where it is natural to perform well and support colleagues
brilliantly.
• Contribute to setting the strategy, delivering results and building and
modelling the culture that we need to succeed.

You are this sort of person:
• You have excellent project and time management skills and the ability to
deliver high-quality work in a fast-paced environment. You can work independently and to a high standard.
• You are comfortable with complexity and ambiguity, whilst being excellent
at bringing clarity and structure. This may have been in the context of developing/growing a new programme.
• You are an excellent strategic thinker. People say that you are good at
seeing the big picture. You have experience of wrestling into place a strategy for a project or organisation. You are good at thinking logically but you are also creative. You have ideas but are happy rejecting a lot of them. You like seeing things from different points of view.
• You are fascinated about change and are experienced in making it happen.
You have outstanding analytical judgment alongside the emotional intelligence and experience needed to identify the right opportunities for change, then make them happen. You understand why people find change difficult. You come alive talking about how people make decisions and why they do the things they do.
• You understand how local authorities tick. You really understand how local
authorities work through your significant experience working in/with local authority senior leadership teams, ideally in a role that worked with young people who are vulnerable to or involved in violence. You might have previous experience of supporting a local authority to develop their violence reduction strategy or reflect on and adopt evidence-based practice.,
• You write in a way that people easily understand. You have that rare skill of
writing in plain English. You have experience of translating complex information into plain writing that everyone can understand.
• You win people over. People tend to warm to you and respect you. You have
built good relationships with very senior people and with very junior people. You are good at chairing meetings, connecting people and having good introductory meetings. You are comfortable talking to a government minister, a youth worker, a company CEO, a teacher and a 15-year-old student. Listening to people from all backgrounds matters to you.
• You learn fast but remain humble. You are very quick at getting your head
around things. You like learning. You are very good at synthesising information. You know how much you don't know. You know that you can learn more. You know that it's easy to assume you know when you don't. You care more that good things happen than who gets the credit. You are a great and supportive team player.
• You don't want your days to pass without making a difference. You want to
play a significant part in reducing violence.
• You are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion.
You must have this sort of experience
• Changing frontline practice and systems: You have significant experience in
leading behaviour, practice or policy changes, ideally within a multi-agency setting. You can show how these have been effective in delivering tangible change.
• Developing and leading capacity-building activities for senior leadership
teams, such workshops, training, and peer learning opportunities.
• Working in or around local authorities and related multi-agency
safeguarding teams , preferably in a role/setting specifically working with young people who are vulnerable to or involved in violence.
• Complex programme management, working across multiple sites, with
varied senior stakeholders.You might have this sort of experience:
• Developing and refining frameworks, tools or resources to support local senior
leaders to develop more evidence-based approaches to identifying 4 vulnerable people and/or places, commissioning, effective case management and/or multi-agency collaboration.While it is not a criteria, we are especially interested to hear from applicants whohave lived experience of violence.It is also important to us that the people we hire do not discriminate. We believe inbeing inclusive and giving everyone an equal chance to succeed. Applicationsare welcome from all regardless of age, sex, gender identity, disability, marriageor civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, religion or belief, race, sexualorientation, transgender status or social economic background.Hybrid WorkingThe office is based in Central London. Those living in and around London areexpected to be in the office a minimum of 2 days per week. If you live outside ofLondon and work remotely, you'll be expected to work from the London office 2days per month.

Reports to: Head of Change for Children's Services and NeighbourhoodsSalary: £53,000 - £65,000 per annum, depending on experienceLocation: Central London or Hybrid
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Contract: (2-year fixed term - potential to extend)Closing date for applications: 9:00am Monday 20th January 2025Interview dates: week commencing 27th January and 3rd FebruaryThe wide salary range reflects our flexibility to tailor the role to the rightcandidate's experience, with the exact responsibilities and leadership leveldecided during the interview process.About the Youth Endowment FundWe're here to prevent children and young people becoming involved in violence.We do this by finding out what works and building a movement to put thisknowledge into practice.In recent years violent crime has risen significantly. Homicides, assaults, robberiesand offences involving weapons have all seen sustained growth. We have alsoseen large increases in violent crime involving children and young people. This isa tragedy. Every child captured in these numbers is an important member of ourcommunity and society has a duty to protect them.The Youth Endowment Fund (YEF) is a charity with a £200m endowment and amission that matters. We exist to prevent children becoming involved in violence.Our mission is to find what works and build a movement to put it into practice. TheArea Leaders Programme (ALP) is central to this mission. The ALP will transformhow areas identify and support young people and places most vulnerable toviolence, collaborate effectively, and deliver impactful interventions to betterprotect children from being drawn into violence. We are seeking an exceptionalleader to drive the next phase of the ALP, scaling from a successful pilot in fourLocal Authorities to broader implementation across England and Wales.,
• £1,000 professional development budget annually
• 28 days holiday plus Bank Holidays
• Four half days for volunteering activities
• Employee Assistance Programme - 24hr phone line for free confidential
support
• Volunteering days - 4 half days per year
• Death in service - 4 times annual salary
• Flexible hours. Core office hours 10am - 4pm
• Financial support including travel and hardship loans