Contract: Permanent
Salary: £38,722.85
Hours: 5 days/35 hours per week (applications for 4 days per week are welcomed)
Location: home-based from within the UK
Deadline: 9am on Monday 23rd September
Interviews: Wednesday 9th October
About NSUN (the National Survivor User Network)
NSUN is a charity and a membership organisation. We are a network of grassroots, user-led mental health groups and people with lived experience of mental ill-health, distress and trauma. We connect, support and amplify the voices and work of our membership and work towards the redistribution of power and resource in mental health.
NSUN is a user-led organisation, and all staff and trustees have lived experience of mental ill-health, distress or trauma.
Over the past couple of years, NSUN has scaled and changed. This is an exciting time to join an organisation which is growing and embarking upon an exciting new strategic direction, focussed on doing things differently in mental health and beyond.
About the role
We are looking for someone with relevant skills to develop and deliver NSUN’s policy strategy and policy/campaigns projects. NSUN takes a critical, political and rights-based approach to policy work at, centering social justice, anti-oppression, and the social and material determinants of distress and trauma. We want to work intersectionally, and do not consider ourselves to be a “single-issue” organisation.
The Policy Manager will play a key role in creating collaborative spaces with members and partners to build momentum and sustainability for lived experience-led mental health policy and campaigns work. Though we do analyse, respond to, and engage with traditional policy mechanisms such as parliamentary processes and legislative change, our focus is more on building an alternative approach and challenging traditional silos at a time where the external environment is one of hostile and unjust structures, systems, and legislation.
Before applying, we ask that candidates familiarise themselves with the information on our website about our campaigns and policy work, as the successful candidate will need to demonstrate a strong understanding of NSUN’s approach to this area. We are keen to hear from people with less traditional policy experience, such as experience of community organising: while this is not an entry-level position, you do not necessarily need to have traditional policy and influencing experience.
The deadline for applications is 9am on Monday 23rd September 2024. If you would like to discuss this role in more detail please contact Ruairi White (he/they, Senior Communities and Grants Manager) by emailing ruairi.white@nsun.org.uk. If you require this recruitment pack in a different format, please let us know by contacting info@nsun.org.uk.
Job description and person specification
The recruitment pack contains more information about NSUN and the role, the job description/person specification, and information about the application process. To open links within the pack without navigating away from it, please right click on hyperlinks and select “Open link in new tab”.
Alternatively, click here to download the recruitment pack as a plaintext Word document
Apply
To apply, please download the application form and equality and diversity monitoring form from the recruitment pack above.
These forms must be completed and returned to info@nsun.org.uk by 9am on Monday 23rd September 2024.
Please note that we do not accept CVs/cover letters. Please make sure that all the information about your skills and experience is included in the application form: we recommend you use the full two pages allowed in the “supporting information” section in the application form to explain how you meet each of the points in the person specification.
We are unable to consider applications from candidates living outside of the UK.
Please contact us at info@nsun.org.uk if you need these materials in a different format or any other support in making an application.