Job Description

Role: Senior Lead Survivor Voice (Maternity Cover)

Based: Remote with occasional onsite work

Rate: £25ph umb

Start Date: ASAP

Duration: Fixed Term Contract until June 2025

Hours: 35 hours per week

Our client, a specialist Domestic Violence charity, is looking to recruit a Senior Lead Survivor Voice to play a pivotal role in shaping and enhancing a Whole Health Approach to domestic abuse by ensuring the active inclusion of victim-survivors voices.

Synopsis of duties:

• Organise and facilitate interviews and focus groups with victim-survivors, children, and young people.
• Coordinate enquiries from stakeholders regarding the project and provide regular updates to the steering group on all aspects of survivor engagement.
• Liaise with key partners to map existing survivor networks and identify avenues for further engagement.
• Lead the development and cultivation of trusting relationships with survivors to ensure their voices are central to the project.
• Design, distribute, and analyse surveys that explore the experiences of victim-survivors.
• Collect, collate, and analyse both qualitative and quantitative data to inform project insights.
• In collaboration with the Programme and Project Managers, ensure that the development of tools and resources integrates findings from survivor engagement.
• Produce comprehensive reports detailing the outcomes and insights from all elements of survivor engagement

Essential Requirements:

• Proven experience of working in the Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) sector.
• A thorough understanding of domestic abuse, its dynamics, and its impact on the health of survivors and their children.
• An understanding of the Coordinated Community Response to domestic abuse and a commitment to all aspects of partnership and multi-agency working to improve that response.
• An understanding of safeguarding responsibilities, especially in relation to domestic abuse.
• A genuine interest in, and understanding of, the importance of survivor engagement.
• Experience writing reports, presentations, and training materials.
• Experience working in partnership with those who have lived experience to enable their full participation in projects.
• Experience collecting, maintaining, analysing, and presenting data for reports and/or visual presentation

Supporting Futures Consulting acts as both an employer and an agency.