Regional Lived Experience & Co-Production Lead

We Manage Jobs(WMJobs); Birmingham; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Local Government Pension Scheme

Healthcare plans

28 days paid annual leave

Job summary

WMCA is seeking a Lived Experience and Co-production Lead to shape the regional lived experience and co-production function for Changing Futures, spanning housing, health, social care, and local government in the West Midlands.

You will build partnerships across public services, VCSE sectors and regional boards, ensuring diverse voices inform decisions, learning and system reform, with a focus on trauma-informed approaches and inclusive participation.

Qualifications

• Significant experience designing, leading and embedding co-production, participation or lived experience approaches within complex multi‑agency or public service environments.
• Experience working with people experiencing multiple disadvantage or inequalities.
• Experience providing specialist advice and guidance to senior leaders, boards, partnerships or organisations.
• Strong knowledge of co-production theory, principles and practice.
• Strong understanding of trauma‑informed and psychologically informed approaches.
• Experience interpreting policy, guidance, regulatory requirements or recognised frameworks to support service improvement, transformation or systems change.
• Excellent facilitation and relationship-building skills, with the ability to bring organisations and perspectives together.
• Ability to communicate complex information clearly and influence without direct authority.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and implementation of the regional lived experience and co-production function for Changing Futures.
• Ensure lived experience informs regional governance, learning, improvement priorities and systems change.
• Provide specialist advice, guidance and challenge to senior leaders, programme boards and partner organisations.
• Develop and promote frameworks, tools and guidance to support high-quality co-production across the region.
• Influence policy development, service design, commissioning and system reform through lived experience evidence.
• Identify common themes and emerging issues from lived experience activity across Birmingham, Sandwell and Wolverhampton.

Skills

Co-production leadership

Stakeholder engagement

Facilitation

Policy interpretation

Trauma-informed approaches

Public sector reform

Regional collaboration

Budget management

Job description

WMCA is seeking a Lived Experience and Co-production Lead to shape the regional lived experience and co-production function for Changing Futures, spanning housing, health, social care, and local government in the West Midlands.

You will build partnerships across public services, VCSE sectors and regional boards, ensuring diverse voices inform decisions, learning and system reform, with a focus on trauma-informed approaches and inclusive participation.