Story and Voice Specialist

• Contract: Six month fixed-term parental leave cover
• Part time: 21 hours per week
• Location: Flexible; National (remote, hybrid or working from one of our regional offices, or London (remote, or hybrid, or working from our London Clerkenwell office)
• Salary: £26,855.58 FTE - £16,113.35 pro rata (National) / £29,793.18 FTE - £17,875.91 pro rata (London)
• Flexible working hours: 8am ─ 4pm, 9am ─ 5pm, 10am ─ 6pm or in between (agreed with your manager)
• Annual leave: 28 days holiday per year pro rata (plus bank holidays)

The Children’s Society has been helping children and young people in this country for over 140 years. We run local services that support children when they are at their most vulnerable and in desperate need of help. We’re there for children, every step of the way. This role sits within our Storytelling Knowledge Group within our Social Impact Domain which works to engage our audiences and inspire social change across society. As an experienced Story and Voice Specialist, your role will be to empower others to become storytellers, supporting them to be comfortable, confident and in control of sharing their experiences.

We are looking for a creative and empathetic listener to join our passionate, dynamic team who’s excited about participation. This role will embed and amplify the voice of young people across internal and external communications. Working closely with our colleagues in youth practice, youth voice, creative, fundraising, campaigns and others across the organisation, you will gather powerful and compelling stories from those with lived experience, using a trauma informed, person-centred approach.

In order to be successful in this role:

• You have experience conducting sensitive trauma-informed interviews with young people and adults
• You are comfortable writing long-form stories that focus on the storyteller leading the narrative in their own words.
• You’ll be eager to amplify stories with our colleagues across the organisation, stewarding the content through campaigns, web and social content, and much more.
• You’re plugged in to contemporary storytelling techniques and have an eye for a great narrative.
• You'll have the ability to build relationships quickly and warmly to ensure trust.

About The Children's Society

We passionately believe that every child should feel safe and loved and be able to be the best they can be. It is a scandal that millions of children in this country are caught in poverty, struggle with mental health issues and are groomed into exploitation and abuse. The Children’s Society has a bold and audacious vision for a country which is built for all children, where no child is left behind and every child can thrive not just survive.

We run over 100 local services that help thousands of young people who desperately need our support, and we campaign to get laws and policies changed to make children’s lives happier and safer. Every day we’re changing the lives of children in this country for the better – and with your help, tomorrow we can be there for even more.

The stories we tell are vital to achieving our mission, helping to change social attitudes and urging people to take action with young people, by offering their time, their money or their voice to our cause. **

The Children’s Society is committed to safeguarding and protecting the children and young people that we work with. As such, all posts are subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks. We ensure that we have a range of policies and procedures in place which promote safeguarding and safer working practices across our services.**

The closing date for applications is midnight on Monday 8th January 2024.

Interviews will be held on the week commencing 15th January 2024.