Participation & Research Lead (Lived Experience)

Missing People; Barnes; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Enhanced family-friendly benefits

Job summary

Missing People seeks a Participation and Research Manager to drive voice, participation and engagement for families, children, young people and adults affected by missing. You will lead consultations and research, and oversee evaluation projects, ensuring lived experience is central and co-produced wherever possible.

You will embed best practices, coordinate cross-organisational participation, and upskill teams in engagement, while working under Enhanced DBS requirements and a flexible working

Qualifications

• Knowledge of good practice in participation and engagement with a range of audiences.
• Knowledge of good practice in conducting research with vulnerable groups, including participatory approaches.
• Knowledge of missing or linked issues, including mental health, exploitation, the care system, and homelessness.

Responsibilities

• Embed a culture across Missing People that ensures people with lived and living experience are at the heart of everything we do.
• Increase the charity's capacity to involve people with lived and living experience of missing by leading and supporting participation approaches and activities.
• Lead and deliver research and evaluation projects, with a focus on projects that involve, or are co-produced with, people with lived and living experience.
• Lead the cross-organisational co-ordination of lived experience participation, ensuring all teams follow good practice and are consistent in their approaches to participation.
• Developing and implementing successful participation approaches to embed user-led and/or experience-led practice across an organisation.
• Designing, leading and conducting research co-production.
• Qualitative and quantitative research methods, including with those with lived experience of an issue.
• Engaging service users or those with lived experience of an issue in a range of voice and participation activities, from consultation to co-production to user-led, to create impactful change within an organisation and externally.
• Upskilling others in participation and engagement and supporting colleagues to conduct their own participation and engagement activities.

Skills

Communication

Research skills

Collaboration

Stakeholder engagement

Qualitative research

Quantitative research

Tools

Excel

Job description

Missing People seeks a Participation and Research Manager to drive voice, participation and engagement for families, children, young people and adults affected by missing. You will lead consultations and research, and oversee evaluation projects, ensuring lived experience is central and co-produced wherever possible.

You will embed best practices, coordinate cross-organisational participation, and upskill teams in engagement, while working under Enhanced DBS requirements and a flexible working