University of Strathclyde
Job title:
Head of Practice Development
Company
University of Strathclyde
Job description
Salary: £57,696 – £64,914
FTE: 1 (35 hours/week)
Term: Fixed Term until March 2025 with indicative funding for a further two years
Closing Date: 18/02/2024
The Children and Young People’s Centre for Justice (CYCJ) works towards ensuring that Scotland’s approach to children and young people in conflict with the law is ; contributing to better outcomes for our children, young people and communities. We produce robust ground-breaking work by bringing together children and young people’s contributions, research evidence, practice wisdom and system know-how to operate as a leader for child and youth justice thinking in Scotland and beyond. An of CYCJ, published in 2020, highlights how our significant contribution stems from our unique role and positioning:
‘CYCJ is a boundary-spanning intermediary organisation. Boundary spanners are capable of contributing to system change. Their work to redress the imbalances of information, to connect and share insight across groups, to coordinate people to collaborate on key issues as well as focused interventions on seemingly intractable issues can come together to create paradigm shifts in the system’
Our focus for 2020-2025 is on supporting Scotland to comply with its international commitments for children and young people in conflict with the law in relation to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), find our here.,
We work across three workstreams: Practice and Policy Development, Research and, Participation and Engagement. This post will provide strategic leadership on Practice Development, to ensure our strategy is achieved and a real difference is made to the lives of children and young people in conflict with the law. The successful candidate will also deputise for the director and work collaboratively as a member of our senior management team to contribute to meeting CYCJ’s vision and action plan.
We are seeking a motivated individual who has excellent knowledge of the issues facing children and young people in conflict with the law; management and leadership experience; who can contribute to the development and delivery of our vision, strategies, and practice; and can prioritise and embed the voice of lived experience in all areas of work. We need a leader who can enthuse, motivate, and inspire, who genuinely cares about children who are in conflict with the law, is strategic in their thinking, who is determined and resilient, and can work with children and young people, families, practitioners, policy makers and researchers to make change.
CYCJ is primarily funded by the Scottish Government and based in the University of Strathclyde, in the School of Social Work and Social Policy. Our Executive Governance Group has oversight of CYCJ and our strategic direction, and consists of representatives from across policy, practice, research and lived experience.
Any queries regarding the position, please contact [email protected].
Expected salary
£57696 – 64914 per year
Location
Scotland
Job date
Sun, 21 Jan 2024 06:16:50 GMT
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