Job Board

The programme ‘Transforming Lives: Reducing women’s imprisonment’ is a Prison Reform Trust drive supported by a major grant from the Big Lottery Fund, to reduce the number of women who are unnecessarily sent to prison across the UK.

We are looking for an exceptional person for the role of executive assistant to the programme head, additionally providing support to the Transforming Lives team. This is a full-time contract, on a fixed-term basis, from August 2018 to October 2019. The programme is now well established and this position requires a person with the energy, skills, commitment and drive to help the work to reduce women’s imprisonment in the UK.

The programme ‘Transforming Lives: Reducing women’s imprisonment’ is a Prison Reform Trust drive supported by a major grant from the Big Lottery Fund, to reduce the number of women who are unnecessarily sent to prison across the UK. The programme has been awarded a further year funding.

We are looking for an exceptional person for the role of research officer, for the Transforming Lives programme, for a full-time contract from August 2018 to October 2019. The programme is now well established and this position requires a person with the commitment, skills and drive to continue the work to reduce women’s imprisonment in the UK.

L&W is an independent research and development organisation dedicated to promoting lifelong learning, full employment and inclusion.

 

We’re looking to recruit a Head of Research to join our growing team – leading, managing and delivering high profile research and development work, and supporting colleagues within the organisation to do the same.

As Head of Research you will bring extensive expertise in applied research, a track record in leading projects and in business development, and a good understanding of the policy and delivery context for learning, skills and/or employment.

PET is a highly regarded and long-established national charity combining service delivery and advocacy. We support prisoners to engage in rehabilitation through learning by providing access to a broad range of distance learning opportunities and related services.

PET is looking for someone with experience of serving time in prison to facilitate a short-term project aimed at developing active citizenship among prisoners. The role will involve planning and running ‘learner voice’ workshops in two prisons, and analysing findings.

We have recently piloted a small series of workshops in an open prison. This post will help us to revise and develop this approach further by facilitating two further pilots in different prisons.

Spark Inside is committed to ensuring that its programme participants, people who live and work in prison, are at the heart of everything that we do; and that our programmes are co-developed in partnership with them, rather than imposed on them with good intentions.

This is an exciting opportunity for a ‘service user/participant voice’ expert to further strengthen the voices of the people we work with in prisons across London and the South-East. In order to drive forward the practice of listening and responding to our programme participants, we would like to work with a professional who has experience of setting up successful advisory boards, preferably within the criminal justice system (prisons, YOIs, YOTs, etc).

Nacro are a national social justice charity with more than 50 years’ experience of changing lives, building stronger communities and reducing crime. Last year alone we helped support, house, educate, advise and speak out for 38,000 disadvantaged young people and adults – and you could now help us make an even bigger impact going forward.

We are in search of a highly talented Policy & Research Officer who can interact & maintain excellent working relationships with all of our staff members & external bodies to extract experiences & feedback and create robust policy positions for Nacro. The successful applicant must be able to demonstrate capability of undertaking information gathering and analysis/research, report or proposal writing and policy development in a political environment.

Leap Confronting Conflict is looking for a Senior Communications and Policy Officer to raise the profile of our work with major stakeholders and the wider public.

Managed by the Deputy Chief Executive, this role is varied with responsibilities including managing the website and social media presence, PR and media relations, producing marketing materials and the Impact Report and leading on the planning for Lighting the Fire – Leap’s annual awards ceremony. The role also takes responsibility for Leap’s policy work, collaborating closely with experts within the organisation and young people who have been through our programmes.