Head of engagement

Contracted to their Peterborough office with flexibility for hybrid working

Salary £50,000 - £55,000 depending on experience

Full time: 37.5 hours per week

Benefits: They want all their employees to feel valued and engaged and are committed to offering a positive working culture along with a good work-life balance. As well as ensuring they pay their employees fairly, they offer the following benefits:

1. Flexible working
2. Generous annual leave
3. Private Medical Insurance, including dental and optical
4. Pension Scheme
5. Sick Pay
6. Death in Service
7. Employee Assistance Programme
8. Bike Loan Scheme
9. Cycle2Work Scheme
10. Eyecare
11. Discount Portal

Be a part of an energetic and vibrant team who are driven by the desire to improve the lives of people living with kidney disease. Their vision is the day when everyone lives free from kidney disease.

Kidney disease already affects ten per cent of the UK population – and it’s growing. Now more than ever, it’s vital that they're able to drive awareness and understanding of the condition and move forward in their mission to end kidney disease.

Through their Public and Patient Involvement and Volunteering functions, the voices, experiences and contributions of people living with and affected by kidney disease are already integral to everything they do in the charity.

But they're ambitious, they want to strengthen their connections with people and make them feel genuinely part of a movement and community working to transform kidney health, raise awareness and drive positive change. They're looking for a head of engagement who can bring their skills and experience to deliver that ambition. You’ll have demonstrable experience as a leader in either PPI or volunteering, be able to inspire and motivate a team and drive forward plans that will increase engagement with priority audiences.

As a strategic leader, you’ll have a proven ability in the development, implementation and evaluation of strategies and operational plans that inspire support, enable participation and deliver benefits for both the organisation and individuals.

This is a new role and the head of engagement will be key to ensuring we maintain their strong foundations whilst ambitiously developing and leading new routes and ways for people to act, get involved and influence change.

If you are interested in the position, please complete the online application form and submit together with your CV.

They are committed to providing equal opportunities for everyone and encourage applications from all sections of the community.

About their organisation:

Our client is the leading charity in the UK focused on funding research into the prevention, treatment and management of kidney disease. Their vision is the day when everyone lives free from kidney disease and for more than 60 years the research, they fund has been making an impact. But kidney disease is increasing as are the factors contributing to it, such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease and obesity, making our work more essential than ever.

They work with clinicians and scientists across the UK, funding and facilitating research into all areas of kidney disease. They collaborate with partners across the public, private and third sectors to prevent kidney disease and drive innovation to transform treatments.

Over the last ten years they have invested more than £71 million into research. They lobby governments and decision makers to change policy and practice to ensure that the estimated 7.2 million people living with all stages of kidney disease in the UK have access to the most effective care and treatment, and to make kidney disease a priority.

Most importantly, they also work closely with patients, ensuring their voice is heard and is at the centre of everything they do, from deciding which research to invest in to how they plan their priorities and their work across the charity.

Those patient contributions are vital, always helping them and their partners to understand what life is like with kidney disease, always ensuring they see the patient behind the treatment and always reminding them that behind every statistic and every number is a person – the patients and the carers who inspire their mission and push them forward to make a difference and change the future of kidney disease.

Closing date: Sunday 23 March 2025

Interviews will be held week commencing 31 March 2025 in Peterborough

No agencies please

You may have experience of the following: Head of Community Engagement, Director of Public and Patient Involvement, Head of Volunteer Engagement, Engagement and Outreach Director, Director of Stakeholder Engagement, Head of Engagement and Participation, Director of Community and Volunteer Programs, Head of Advocacy and Engagement, Head of Supporter Engagement, Director of Public Engagement, etc.

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