- Location: remote, UK
- Salary: £38,000 – £50,000 per annum
- Hours: Full time (35 hours per week)
- Contract type: Fixed term, maternity cover (expected end date January 2024)
- Application deadline: 26 February 2023, midnight
- Interview Dates: 7 and 8 March 2023
RNID has been helping people with hearing loss for more than 100 years, and we’ve changed the lives of millions. We support organisations to become more confident working with people who are deaf and have hearing loss or tinnitus. Our online hearing check has now been taken by over 100,000 people and we campaign to challenge the discrimination faced by our communities in society.
Last year we supported 367,000 people online, with 19,000 more helped by our contact centre. We also invested £1m in ground-breaking research into better treatments. Working in coalition with other charities, we successfully campaigned for the BSL Act to give legal recognition to British Sign Language for the first time. Our long-standing campaign to make hearing aids accessible in every region of the UK was realised.
We are externally focused, curious, evidence-based, deliberate, agile, and future orientated. Our values are at the heart of what we do.
We strive to be and continue to be connected to our communities, insightful and confident in what we do and who we are, curious in everything we do and passionate about our purpose.
This role is important to us and this is where you come in…
With our communities and partners, we’re focusing our attention on 4 key programmes where we know we can make a life changing difference. In the health programme this is that:
Looking after your hearing health needs to be high on the national agenda. We want to make checking your hearing is as much a part of daily life as having your eyes and teeth checked. We will work with experts and our communities to improve audiology services, so that from the point people notice their hearing loss or tinnitus they find it easy to get the high-quality healthcare, treatment and support they need. And we want to get rid of the barriers deaf people, and people with hearing loss and tinnitus, face in getting access to healthcare of all kinds.
As health programme lead, you will work closely with the Associate Director of health, to lead and develop activities which will contribute to the long-term objectives of the health programme.
- Management and delivery of several inter-related strategic health projects as a programme
- Effective project management – including project planning, financial oversight and planning, risk management and governance, and managing, monitoring, and reporting activities and outcomes.
- Building and maintaining effective collaborative relationships with a range of internal and external stakeholders, maximising the use of our new matrix model.
- Working flexibly to adapt project design and activities as required in order to achieve the overall desired impact.
- Analysing and resolving complex project-related issues in collaboration with other members of the organization.
- Identifying synergies and interdependencies between programmes or projects to target opportunities to maximise delivery and impact.
- Writing complex reports within tight timeframes and presenting in a manner capable of influencing and persuading a wide range of internal and external audiences.
- Contribute to the design, delivery and impact measurement of pilots and new project ideas with a focus on creating effective and innovative interventions and solutions.
- Working across the organization to effectively and creatively promote RNID’s programmes, tools and resources to the public.
- Working with other programme leads to develop and internally promote effective project and information management tools.
- Analyse current public health system trends, challenges and opportunities to help design high-impact interventions.
- Effectively communicating with stakeholders to influence and inspire.
- Representing RNID at external meetings, workshops and conferences at a range of different levels.
Do you thrive in an organisational culture where agile ways of working, collaboration and a digital environment are the norm? Do want to make lasting change in the world around us for people who are deaf, have hearing loss or tinnitus?
Essential to the role will be qualities of adaptability, good communication and collaboration. Specialist knowledge of the health programme subject areas are desirable but not essential.
Project Management, Agile management (desirable but not essential)
- Digital First, fully remote working with 3 in person all-staff conferences a year
- Fully remote working with no core hours
- £26 remote working allowance every month
- 28 days annual leave plus all bank holidays
- Plus 2 wellbeing days for extra flexibility
- Sickness benefit entitlement from day 1
- Pension scheme with 4% employer contribution
- Life Assurance – 2 x salary
- Employee Assistance Programme and wellbeing app that provides counselling sessions
- Additional benefits for maternity, paternity and adoption
We are committed to supporting our staff including making reasonable adjustments. If you require support to apply for or fulfil the requirements of this role, please inform us so we can discuss the options with you.
Disability Confident is a government scheme designed to encourage employers to recruit and retain disabled people and those with health conditions. It has replaced the previous Two Ticks Positive About Disabled People scheme that you may have heard of.
RNID is proud to be a member of Disability Confident and as a Disability Confident Leader we recognise the value disabled people bring to RNID. We offer interviews to any candidate that tells us they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the role.