Director of Advocacy and Impact

TARGET OVARIAN CANCER; London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent charity is seeking a Director of Advocacy and Impact to lead efforts in transforming outcomes for ovarian cancer. This senior role includes strategic leadership, stakeholder engagement, and the responsibility for advocacy and policy initiatives. The successful candidate will demonstrate a passion for impactful service design, effective communication, and a commitment to improve the lives of those affected by ovarian cancer. A hybrid-working model is available, with office attendance in London as needed.

Qualifications

• Senior experience in health/cancer.
• Passionate about impact measurement.
• Proven ability to lead and motivate teams.

Responsibilities

• Deliver advocacy and impact strategy for the charity.
• Build partnerships with stakeholders and lead policy work.
• Manage and evaluate services to ensure community needs are met.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic Thinking

Communication

Influencing Change

Job description

The Director of Advocacy and Impact will play a central role in delivering our mission to transform outcomes for everyone affected by ovarian cancer. This is a senior leadership role reporting into the Chief Executive with responsibility for our external affairs and policy work, the services and programmes we deliver, and how we evaluate and improve our impact. This role is highly visible internally and externally, and will be a key voice for the charity, building influential partnerships across a range of stakeholder groups and shaping our direction, culture and performance as a member of the Senior Leadership Team.

What we’re looking for:

• A motivated, ambitious and results-driven leader with senior experience of working in health/cancer.
• Someone who is passionate about effective impact measurement, and ensuring that charities deliver what their beneficiaries need in the best possible way.
• A strategic thinker who is able to weave together multidisciplinary strands of work into a coherent plan to drive change, and who can lead the achievement of our long term goals with focus, while ensuring that we meet day to day needs for our community.
• A compelling communicator who can influence a range of stakeholders.
• A collaborative and credible organisational and team leader who is able to contribute effectively at SLT level as well as effectively managing, motivating and developing their teams.

This is a permanent, full time role.We currently offer a hybrid-working model. This means you may usually work from your home or remote location, but are expected to attend meetings and pay for your own travel to the office in Angel, London when required. Please contact usif you would like to find out more about how frequently you would likely be required in the office for this role.

To apply, please visit our website where you will be asked to submit your CV and a cover letter answering the following questions:

Application questions (max 250 words each)

Strategic Leadership & Impact
Tell us about a time when you led or contributed to the development of a strategy to improve outcomes for a community. If you haven’t done this directly, describe how you would approach it in this role.

Influencing Change

This role involves influencing policy and practice across health and government systems. Share an example of how you’ve influenced change, or outline how you would build relationships and advocate effectively in this context.

Leading Service Design

Describe what you consider when designing services, and share examples of where you have done this in the past or the principles and steps that would guide your approach.

Impact and Evaluation

How would you approach understanding and improving the impact of services or programmes? What methods or values would guide your approach, and how would you embed learning across the organisation?

Please submit your application by midnight on Sunday 20^th July. First round interviews will be online on the 31^st July and 1^st August, and second round will be in person at our offices in Angel on the 7^th and 8^th August.

We want to make our recruitment accessible to all, if there is a way we can support you in your application, please contact us.

Target Ovarian Cancer does not hold a sponsorship licence and therefore cannot sponsor any individual to work in the UK.