We’re looking for a Campaigns and External Influencing Officer with experience in social change, policy or campaigning to join our Policy and Influencing Team.

This role is central to strengthening how we are seen by external audiences, translating evidence-based policy positions into compelling public-facing activity, and coordinating influencing opportunities that raise our profile as a trusted partner, system influencer, convener and leading authority on issues affecting children and young people with cancer.

As an expert communicator with a strong understanding of politics, the NHS, the charity sector and social change campaigning, you will help deliver the Innovation, Policy and Systems Change Directorate’s External Influence and Engagement Approach. You will help ensure external influencing activity is coordinated across the directorate and wider organisation, grounded in lived experience, evidence and learning, and focused on shaping the wider system affecting children and young people with cancer and their families. A key and part of this approach are our Policy & Influencing campaigns which this role delivers.

Building relationships is a crucial part of the role. You will support the directorate to deliver online and offline influencing activity, including public mobilisation, campaign communications, collaborative work with sector colleagues, partners and coalitions, and attendance at external positioning meetings where organisational profile, influence, partnership opportunities and thought leadership ideas are developed. This work will be co-created with children, young people and their families wherever appropriate and will help Young Lives vs Cancer actively shape conversations, relationships and decisions across the wider system in each nation of the UK.