Head of engagement
Peterborough, England (Hybrid)
£50000 - £55000 per annum
Permanent
Job description
Contracted to our Peterborough office with flexibility for hybrid working
Salary £50,000 - £55,000 depending on experience
Full time: 37.5 hours per week
Benefits: We want all our 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: Flexible working, Generous annual leave, Private Medical Insurance, including dental and optical, Pension Scheme, Sick Pay, Death in Service, Employee Assistance Programme, Bike Loan Scheme, Cycle2Work Scheme, Eyecare, 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. Our 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 we’re able to drive awareness and understanding of the condition and move forward in our mission to end kidney disease.
Through our 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 we do in the charity.
But we’re ambitious, we want to strengthen our 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. We’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 our 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.
We are committed to providing equal opportunities for everyone and encourage applications from all sections of the community.
About Kidney Research UK:
Kidney Research UK is the leading charity in the UK focused on funding research into the prevention, treatment and management of kidney disease. Our vision is the day when everyone lives free from kidney disease and for more than 60 years the research, we 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.
At Kidney Research UK we work with clinicians and scientists across the UK, funding and facilitating research into all areas of kidney disease. We 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 we have invested more than £71 million into research. We 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, we also work closely with patients, ensuring their voice is heard and is at the centre of everything we do, from deciding which research to invest in to how we plan our priorities and our work across the charity.
Those patient contributions are vital, always helping us and our partners to understand what life is like with kidney disease, always ensuring we see the patient behind the treatment and always reminding us that behind every statistic and every number is a person – the patients and the carers who inspire our mission and push us 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.
REF-219 956
Salary £50,000 - £55,000 depending on experience
Full time: 37.5 hours per week
Benefits: We want all our 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: Flexible working, Generous annual leave, Private Medical Insurance, including dental and optical, Pension Scheme, Sick Pay, Death in Service, Employee Assistance Programme, Bike Loan Scheme, Cycle2Work Scheme, Eyecare, 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. Our 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 we’re able to drive awareness and understanding of the condition and move forward in our mission to end kidney disease.
Through our 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 we do in the charity.
But we’re ambitious, we want to strengthen our 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. We’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 our 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.
We are committed to providing equal opportunities for everyone and encourage applications from all sections of the community.
About Kidney Research UK:
Kidney Research UK is the leading charity in the UK focused on funding research into the prevention, treatment and management of kidney disease. Our vision is the day when everyone lives free from kidney disease and for more than 60 years the research, we 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.
At Kidney Research UK we work with clinicians and scientists across the UK, funding and facilitating research into all areas of kidney disease. We 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 we have invested more than £71 million into research. We 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, we also work closely with patients, ensuring their voice is heard and is at the centre of everything we do, from deciding which research to invest in to how we plan our priorities and our work across the charity.
Those patient contributions are vital, always helping us and our partners to understand what life is like with kidney disease, always ensuring we see the patient behind the treatment and always reminding us that behind every statistic and every number is a person – the patients and the carers who inspire our mission and push us 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.
REF-219 956
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Posted on: 25 February 2025
Closing date: 27 March 2025 at 23:59
Job ref: 219956
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