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Summary
Our goal is to build health equity so that everyone living in urban areas has a fair and just opportunity to thrive and live in good health.
The Director of Policy, Influencing and Change will lead our efforts to shape policy, influence practice, and channel resources towards effective approaches to advancing health equity, this include spreading and scaling our proven projects and ensuring our work has a wider impact.

SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERTISE

Skills, abilities, and attributes:

• Excellent communication skills, including ability to communicate complex information simply
• Excellent stakeholder management skills
• Excellent project management skills
• Outstanding leadership and organisational skills, including the ability to lead leaders
• Excellent budget and risk management skills
• Excellent problem-solving abilities
• You will be personally and professionally committed to our mission and share our values of being enterprising, collaborative, delivery-minded and inclusive
• You will have the inclusive leadership skills to operate comfortably with colleagues at all levels, lead leaders and relate to a wide range of partners, and community members
• You will have determination and willingness to drive progress
• You seek clarity and actively ensure roles and responsibilities are clear

Knowledge, experience, and qualifications:

• Deep understanding of UK political environment and the operation of government
• Experience of overseeing complex large-scale programmes and handling significant (multi-million pound) budgets
• Experience of securing large funding partnerships or financial commitments
• Experience leading and developing teams and managing multiple project demands
• Experience in consistently embedding DEI into ways of working and create a feeling of inclusion for others, a presence to manage and lead others
• You are experienced and comfortable in handling uncertainty and navigating complexity

Policy, Influencing and Change

• Strategic leadership of IoUH Policy and Influencing: Delivering and evolving Policy & Influencing strategy that embeds policy, influencing into all IoUH’s programmes and work, overseeing effective execution of the strategy by the Policy & Influencing Team.
• Strategic leadership of IoUH Change function: Responsible for a strategic approach to partnerships focussed on scaling and sustaining what we know works. Overseeing delivery of a select portfolio of projects that are operating at scale and being replicated, particularly with a view to influencing local and national policy making and co-funding partnerships.
• Impact delivery: Overseeing the development and delivery of Policy and Influencing and Change strategies to support IoUH to achieve strategic aims and stated impact goals, including influencing decision making, policy debate and the policy and practice of key stakeholders.
• Stakeholder engagement and thought leadership: Working with the Director of Comms to manage IoUH’s external presence. Coordinating Policy, Influencing & Change stakeholder relations ensuring that IoUH has strong relationships with key stakeholders that support

scaling of effective approaches and enables wider policy and practice changes, with priority given to Government, Parliament, Lambeth and Southwark Councils, the Greater London Authority, other funders and policy influencing organisations. Supporting the IoUH Director Team to embed good stakeholder management practices within the work of their own teams.

• Thought leadership: Acting as a thought leader and supporting IoUH to be the go-to experts on urban health and health equity, representing IoUH and the Foundation externally

IoUH Leadership

• Champion inclusive leadership and be an effective member of IoUH’s Director’s Team
• Line management responsibility for national and international Partnership Manager, Head of Policy & Influencing and dotted line to Portfolio Managers holding day-to-day responsibility for scaled/to be scaled programmes
• Other responsibilities that can reasonably be expected to help ensure the successful delivery of your role

Corporate responsibilities

• Take strategic responsibility for ensuring consistency and identifying synergies in policy and influencing work across the Foundation, identifying opportunities to use insights from our work to influence policy and key audiences.
• Satisfy governance and accountability requirements including monitoring, evaluating and reporting on the impact of our policy, influencing and change activities