Hope for Justice exists to bring an end to modern slavery by preventing exploitation, rescuing victims, restoring lives and reforming society. Around the world, we are growing a movement of abolitionists who believe freedom is worth the fight. Our team works from more than 30 locations across five continents. If you’re looking to make a difference, this is the place for the you.

Hope for Justice is committed to the principles of diversity, equality and inclusion. We are a global organisation with staff from a wide variety of backgrounds, and ensure through our recruitment processes that we continue to welcome candidates from all walks of life. If you feel that your skills and experience fit one of our advertised roles, and you share our values and mission to end slavery, then we strongly encourage your application regardless of your background.

We are looking for a dynamic UK Programme Director to lead our programming across the UK. Our preferred candidate will have the gravitas and subject-matter expertise to engage in national-level policy dialogue and to generate new funding relationships and opportunities. S/he will have the knowledge and strategic insight to maximise the impact we can have through our programming. S/he will have the senior leadership and managerial experience to inspire high performing teams to deliver our services and interventions effectively and professionally.

For the right individual, this demanding position represents a fantastic opportunity to have a significant impact on modern slavery in the UK and beyond.

For full details of this role and person specification, please download the attached role profile.

Programme and Operations Leadership and Management – 70%

• Provide inspirational leadership and strategic direction to the Hope for Justice programme in the UK.
• Give professional and caring line management to managers in the UK Programme, and lead the management team.
• Maintain oversight of project implementation across the UK portfolio, ensuring each intervention is meeting objectives, timeframes and budgets, resolving issues and initiating corrective action as necessary.
• Develop and oversee the tools and documentations necessary for good project management (e.g. Project DPro approaches) and effective operations (e.g. standard operating procedures).
• Work with colleagues in MEAL (Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning) to ensure we are constantly learning about the impact we are achieving and how we can improve our programming.
• Ensure our right case management system and other data collection processes are fit for purpose and aligned with data protection policies.
• Maintain a strong understanding of the finances of the UK Programme, e.g. preparing budgets and monitoring variances at a programme and grant level.
• Oversee the development of new programming, scoping and evaluating opportunities for consideration by the organisation’s leadership

Policy and fundraising – 25%

• Represent Hope for Justice at the highest levels in the UK, building the visibility, credibility, and influence of Hope for Justice among government agencies and statutory bodies, civil society organisations, donors, and others.
• Lead work to leverage our direct programming by influencing policy and practice across the sector in the UK.
• Proactively engage with institutional and other donors, building the relationships that will give us early market intelligence on opportunities, and the positioning that will help us to secure funding.
• Ensure all our secured grants and contracts are professionally managed and excellent donor relations are maintained.

Other/general – 5%

• Understand and uphold the standards outlined in the Hope for Justice Safeguarding policies, acting with due care and attention to safeguard the wellbeing of anyone that comes into contact with our work and reporting concerns if they do arise.
• Ensure the UK programme team operates within the recommended practice for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in its care.
• Proactively manage programme risks, maintaining a live risk management register and an issue log. Report and manage any incidents in line with established policies and protocols.
• Ensure policies are adhered to by programme staff in the UK, with a particular emphasis on anti-fraud and safeguarding, etc.

Benefits of working at Hope for Justice

Hope for Justice is committed to supporting our staff’s wellbeing and offers competitive salaries and a range of additional benefits to our staff. This includes generous annual leave entitlement, pension scheme contributions, company sick pay, enhanced maternity and paternity pay and access to the Employee Assistance Programme for staff and their family. As well as operating both Flexible and Hybrid working policies for our UK employees.

Salary: Up to £48,000 per year, dependent on experience

Closing date: 22nd March 2023

Location: Home based (Occasional travel maybe required to the Manchester Head Office)

All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, which include criminal records checks, in line with our Global background checks policy. Hope for Justice participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this scheme, as part of the referencing process we will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms his/her understanding of these recruitment procedures.