Senior Advisor – Youth Strategy and Policy

**Senior Advisor – Youth Strategy and Policy Location: UK Flexible (hybrid working between home and office) Contract type: Permanent Hours per week: 35 Salary: £29,711 – £33,288 per annum (plus £3,344 Inner London Weighting allowance if applicable)

Can you contribute to shaping the routes for young people to engage with the BRC through a spectrum of voluntary and paid opportunities?

About this opportunity**

This exciting new post is part of the British Red Cross’ new Volunteering and Youth team within People Services. This new team, created as part of a recent transformation programme, will set the future direction for volunteering and youth engagement at the BRC and support the entire organisation to ensure volunteers and young people are engaged in meaningful ways that work for them and help deliver our strategy. **As the Senior Advisor – Youth Strategy and Policy, you’ll work collaboratively to help design accessible age-appropriate pathways to enable young people to give their time and talents to support our mission in ways that are innovative, safe, empowering and resonate with young people’s needs and wants, supporting the development, implementation and evaluation of the youth engagement elements of the volunteer and youth mobilisation strategy.

You’ll manage a portfolio of discovery projects to develop, test and build opportunities for young people’s engagement, source and collate relevant desk research, and provide advice, guidance and assurance to teams across the British Red Cross to create the enabling environments for young people to thrive as partners in delivering our corporate strategy.

Diversity is something we celebrate

At the British Red Cross, we are looking for the best people to help us provide support to millions of people affected by crisis in the UK. We want our team to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve, offering equal opportunities to everyone, regardless of; age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation.

This role might be for you if…**

• You have experience of managing competing priorities and changing requirements, from project initiation through to continuous improvement and of undertaking primary and secondary research
• You can demonstrate proven experience of contributing to developing and implementing strategy or policy to achieve organisational objectives
• You can manage multiple projects and stakeholder groups, prioritising your work to flex with changing business needs
• You have the ability to communicate in a clear and engaging way, keeping people informed in the right way at the right time, listening as much as speaking and can make the complex easy to understand
• You have a curious mind with the ability to ask pertinent questions in order to data to draw out narrative
• You understand the principles of youth participation & legislation surrounding it, along with the principles of keeping young people safe and are confident you can apply these practically
• You are a collaborator and can build positive relationships with colleagues to achieve your goals or shared goals.

**About the Team

The new Volunteering and Youth function will provide recruitment, deployment and retention support, based on prioritised need. A key aspect is the delivery of high-quality volunteer management support across the organisation, ensuring that those responsible for volunteers have the skills to always deliver a high-quality experience for them. The function also houses our award-winning Volunteer Support Line, a vital and valued service to support our volunteers wellbeing.

(Please read the full Role Profile/ Job Description for more information about this vacancy including responsibilities and full person specification and refer to the ‘Additional Information’ attached for support completing your application)

Closing date for applications is (23:59), Tuesday 9th of August 2022 with interviews anticipated to be held week commencing 15th of August.

We offer a wide range of staff benefits, including:**

• 36 days holiday (inclusive of bank holidays)
• Option to buy an extra 5 days annual leave
• Up to 6% contributory pension
• Flexible working policy
• Genuine investment in your development

**A little bit more about us…

The British Red Cross help anyone, anywhere in the UK; get the support they need if crisis strikes. From hiring a wheelchair or dealing with loneliness, to adjusting to life in a new country – we’re there when you need us.

Our organisation was born out of a desire to bring help without discrimination. Impartiality and neutrality have been central values for the Red Cross since we started.

Diversity is something we celebrate and we want you to be able to bring your authentic self to the Red Cross. We want you to feel that you are in an inclusive environment, and a great position to help us spread the power of kindness.

In the British Red Cross we will not tolerate any form of misconduct, including sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse. We have a code of conduct in place and are committed to creating a culture of integrity in the organisation where misconduct is not tolerated, situations of abuse are quickly investigated and perpetrators are dealt with effectively.

If you are appointed to a role within BRC you will be subject to the organisation’s Code of Conduct, a copy of which you can find on our website.

The British Red Cross, incorporated by Royal Charter 1908, is a charity registered in England and Wales (220949) and Scotland (SC037738).

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Connecting human kindness with human crisis**