Programmes Assistant

Lumos is an international children’s charity founded in 2005 by the author J.K. Rowling to end the harmful practice of institutionalisation of children. Lumos’s mission is to fight for every child’s right to a family by transforming care systems around the world.  Our vision is for all children to grow up in safe and loving families. 

Despite clear evidence of the harms of institutionalisation, an estimated 5.4 million children worldwide continue to live in institutions. Separated from their families and communities, these children are deprived of the love, attention and opportunities they need to thrive. Our three-pronged approach is to prevent family separation, to protect children and to promote care reform. We’ve made important progress in closing harmful institutions and reuniting children with their families. And where children are unable to live with their birth families, we promote alternative family-based care, such as kinship care and quality foster care.  Thanks to our tireless efforts alongside many other champions of care reform, the harms of institutionalisation are now more widely understood. A global movement is underway and the UN, the EU and some large development agencies have joined individual countries in pledging to change how they care for vulnerable children.  We are committed to ensuring that global policy commitments are translated into local action, leading to sustainable change for vulnerable children.

JOB PURPOSE

The Programmes Assistant within Programmes will provide efficient, flexible and proactive administrative and organizational support to the Director of Programmes and to the two Deputy Directors (Programmes and Advocacy). He/ She will be responsible for the Director of Programmes’ diary management, for organising various internal and external meetings, including meeting agendas, setting up translations and minute taking, as well as, providing follow up summary notes and action trackers. This will include the Programme advisory group meeting, countries Board meetings, Programmes regular meetings and many other various meetings within Programmes.

The Programmes Assistant will also support the Director of Programmes and Deputy Directors to design presentations, develop dashboards, manage excel sheets, etc.

Candidates must have the right to live and work in the UK.