Survivor Movement & Participation Lead (Female Applicants Only)

Women and Girls Network; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A London-based organization seeks a Survivor Movement & Participation Lead to amplify survivor voices and drive systemic change. The role requires leading the Experts with Lived Experience network, fostering leadership opportunities, and strengthening survivor involvement across justice movements. Candidates from diverse backgrounds are encouraged to apply, as the organization is dedicated to creating an inclusive workforce. This is a strategic position aimed at shaping national strategies and policies.

Qualifications

• Experience in supporting and leading survivor engagement initiatives.
• Strong understanding of social justice movements, particularly VAWG.
• Ability to develop training and support frameworks for survivors.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Experts with Lived Experience (ELE) network.
• Facilitate survivor-led and peer support spaces.
• Strengthen survivor leadership through training and activism.
• Promote ethical frameworks in governance structures.

Skills

Survivor leadership

Trauma-informed practices

Community engagement

Mentoring

Campaigning

Job description

Overview

This is a strategic leadership role dedicated to amplifying survivor voices and driving systemic change across the Alliance Partnership and the wider VAWG sector. The Survivor Movement & Participation Lead (SMPL) will champion survivor leadership by embedding accountability, fostering peer-led services, and building a strong, intersectional movement to end violence against women and girls. The role leads the Experts with Lived Experience (ELE) network, develops survivor-led spaces and leadership pathways, and embeds survivor influence within governance and decision-making. The SMPL will represent survivors and the Alliance in national forums, coalitions and sector discussions, ensuring survivor participation shapes strategies, policy and practice.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate the Experts with Lived Experience (ELE) network, ensuring survivors are supported, resourced and fairly compensated, and design and facilitate survivor-led and peer support spaces grounded in trauma-informed, anti-racist and culturally rooted practice.
• Build survivor leadership through training, mentoring and development opportunities, and embed safeguarding, boundaries, confidentiality and collective care across all survivor involvement.
• Strengthen survivor leadership within VAWG and wider justice movements through campaigns, activism and public engagement, and support cross-movement alliances with LGBTQ+, disability and other justice communities.
• Facilitate survivor participation in governance structures, promote ethical and power-sharing frameworks, represent survivor-led practice in strategic forums and partnerships, and contribute to tools, learning and resources that assess and promote survivor influence.

About Women and Girls Network (WGN)

Women and Girls Network (WGN) is a pan-London organisation that supports women and girls affected by all forms of gendered-based violence. Our overall aim is to promote, preserve and restore the mental health and well-being of women and girls who have experienced, or are at risk of, gendered-based violence, whilst working towards a society free of gendered-based violence.

• Providing women-only holistic and seamless therapeutic services, which meet women and girls\' needs and contribute to total and sustainable recovery from the experiences of violence.
• Evidencing the impact of gendered-based violence and presenting this information in appropriate forums to affect social change in attitudes towards, and responses to, gendered-based violence.
• Developing good practice in the sector by providing training and guidance on specialist service provision and the development of culturally appropriate service delivery.

We are deeply committed to creating a workforce that reflects the diversity and strength of the women and girls we serve, and we strongly encourage candidates from Black and Global Majority backgrounds with Lived Experience who may not meet all criteria to apply. WGN is an equal opportunities employer. The above post is exempt under the Equality Act 2010, Schedule 9, Part 1. We promote social change that transforms societal attitudes, practices, and policies to prevent and eliminate violence against women and girls.