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Purpose of the Role

We’re looking for a dynamic Head of Learning and Collective Impact to join us at Mission 44, ensuring that everything we do is informed by the views and experiences of young people and by the very latest in research and evidence. With responsibility for building communities of practice across the education and employment sectors, we’re looking for someone that is expert in building partnerships, that can bring data and research to life and above all, is deeply passionate about the power of convening and collective impact.

The role has four core deliverables:

• Convening and Collective Impact - inspire and facilitate collaboration between our funded partners, our peers and policymakers by building high quality communities of practice across the education and employment sectors. You will convene peers and partners to disseminate Mission 44’s research and to create dialogue on relevant areas of policy and practice.

• Programme Strategy and Design - provide strategic leadership on the design of all programmatic work, to ensure new grant funds and campaigns are underpinned by robust theories of change, are informed by the latest evidence and research and are co-designed with young people

• Research and Evidence - develop Mission 44’s research and evidence base, outlining the problems and best practice solutions to the various systemic issues that we’re tackling. This will include commissioning large scale research projects, and will have a heavy focus on participatory research to ensure we incorporate the views and experiences of young people in everything we do.

• Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning - support the Senior Research and Evaluation Manager to embed our MEL frameworks, helping us to monitor and evaluate the impact Mission 44 is having, and the progress we’re making towards our strategic goals.

This is a critical role for Mission 44 that will connect you to all areas of our work both within the UK and internationally. You’ll work closely with our Senior Leadership Team (SLT), our youth advisory board, our funded partners, external evaluators and researchers in all countries that we operate in. As a global charitable foundation, this role has huge potential to make radical, long-lasting changes to the systems that support young people across the world.

To view the full job description, please view the Candidate Pack.