Head of Community Engagement - 12 month FTC
Our Future Health is the UK's largest ever health research programme, bringing together 5 million volunteers to create the most detailed picture of people's health and how it evolves over time. Our data will enable researchers to discover new ways to detect, prevent and treat disease earlier and more effectively.
To ensure this research is truly beneficial to everyone, our data must reflect the true diversity of the entire UK population.
Our Head of Community Engagement leads our work engaging with communities who have historically been underrepresented in health research, driving forward our participant diversity strategy.
As Head of Community Engagement, you will lead a multidisciplinary team responsible for designing and delivering innovative ways to reach and engage communities across the UK.
You will embed diversity into participant recruitment and engagement strategies, drive internal and external collaboration, and pilot and scale initiatives that make participation in research more inclusive. You’ll combine strategic leadership, data-driven insight and partnership working to ensure our programme truly reflects the people it aims to serve.
You will:
- Own the vision and strategy for participant diversity and community engagement across Our Future Health.
- Lead, develop and inspire a high-performing, multidisciplinary team.
- Driving the design, delivery and continuous evolution of the participant diversity strategy.
- Proactively inputting in, influencing and challenging delivery plans to ensure the voices, needs and interests of underrepresented communities are central to decision-making.
- Using data, analytics and insight to monitor cohort diversity at a strategic level.
- Leading cross-organisational alignment on diversity priorities.
- Building and overseeing high-impact external partnerships and relationships.
- Acting as a senior external representative and spokesperson, shaping the narrative on diversity, community engagement and health equity.
- Driving organisational learning, innovation and culture change around diversity.
- Improving of internal ways of working to enable diversity-led innovation and effective delivery of projects and pilots.
Requirements
- Senior leadership experience delivering complex programmes focused on community engagement, inclusion or social impact
- A track record of developing and delivering strategy that drives measurable outcome
- Experience working with diverse or underrepresented communities and understanding the barriers to engagement
- Experience leading and developing teams in complex or fast-moving environments
- Strong ability to influence senior stakeholders and shape organisational priorities
- Experience using data and insight to evaluate impact and guide strategy
- Experience building external partnerships with community organisations, charities, public bodies or industry partners
- Confidence acting as a credible external representative with partners, communities and senior stakeholders
Experience in health research, public health, the NHS or life sciences would be beneficial.
Let's prevent disease together.
Closing date 25th March. We recommend you apply as soon as possible as we occasionally need to take adverts down earlier due to an extremely large volume of applications.
Benefits
- Salary from £75,000.
- Generous Pension Scheme – We invest in your future with employer contributions of up to 12%.
- 30 Days Holiday pro rata + Bank Holidays – Enjoy a generous holiday allowance with the flexibility to take bank holidays when it suits you.
- Enhanced Parental Leave – Supporting you during life’s biggest moments.
- Cycle to Work Scheme – Save 25-39% on a new bike and accessories through salary sacrifice.
- Home & Tech Savings – Get up to 8% off on IKEA and Currys products, spreading the cost over 12 months through salary sacrifice
- £1,000 Employee Referral Bonus – Know someone amazing? Get rewarded for bringing them on board!
- Wellbeing Support – Access to Mental Health First Aiders, plus 24/7 online GP services and an Employee Assistance Programme for you and your family.
- A Great Place to Work – We have a lovely Central London office in Holborn, and offer flexible and remote working arrangements.
At Our Future Health, we recognise the importance of having a diverse workforce and ensuring that all candidates, regardless of their background, have equitable access to our application process. We proactively encourage applicants who identify as having a disability, neurodiversity, or long-term health conditions to let us know if they require any reasonable adjustments as part of their application process.
If you do require any reasonable adjustments, please email us at talent@ourfuturehealth.org.uk