Reference: 81867
Date Added: 23 December 2021
Closing Date: 24 January 2022
Job Title: Public Affairs and Policy Officer
Working For: SafeLives
Location: London
Salary: £23,534 - £25,000 (plus London Weighting of £3,000 if applicable)
Length of Contract: 12 month Fixed term
Job Details
We are SafeLives, the UK-wide charity dedicated to ending domestic abuse, for everyone and for good.
Last year alone, nearly 13,500 professionals received our training. Over 70,000 adults at risk of serious harm or murder and more than 85,000 children received support through dedicated multi-agency support designed by us and delivered with partners. In the last four years, over 2,000 perpetrators have been challenged and supported to change by interventions we created with partners, and that’s just the start.
Together we can end domestic abuse. Forever. For everyone.
Purpose of role:
Our influencing work is changing the national conversation about domestic abuse, with both national and locally based elected representatives and the officials and colleagues who work alongside them. Our Public Affairs and Policy Officer, reporting to the Head of Public Affairs and Policy will be crucial in helping us to develop our engagement with Parliamentarians, as well as deepen our policy influencing capacity to support our national roll-out of ground-breaking interventions to end domestic abuse and ensure support for the whole family to keep people safe sooner.
We welcome staff members who have themselves had an experience of domestic abuse, either directly or indirectly, whether they choose to discuss this openly or not. We particularly encourage candidates from under-represented communities
Please use this link to access the full Job description: https://safelives.peoplehr.net/Pages/JobBoard/Opening.aspx?v=bd801ce2-e7fc-48db-a3f9-1a9e5cebe38a
Closing Date: 24 January 2022
Interview/Start Dates
Yet to be determined, interviews will commence in Feburary.
Application Details
If this challenge sounds as exciting to you as it does to us and you believe you have the qualities we have described, please take a look over the job description and submit your 500 word cover letter, CV by 9.00am, Monday 24th January 2022 via this link: https://safelives.peoplehr.net/Pages/JobBoard/Opening.aspx?v=bd801ce2-e7fc-48db-a3f9-1a9e5cebe38a
Please email recruitment@safelives.org.uk for any enquiries.
Website: https://safelives.org.uk/