Salary: £61,818 - £65,574
FTE: 1.0 (35 hours/week)
Term:
Fixed
term for 3 years, with an extension likely dependent on funding.
Secondments and Job Shares welcome.
Closing Date: 10/10/2021
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 rights-respecting;
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 evaluation
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 strategy
here.
We work across three workstreams: Practice and Policy
Development, Research, and, Participation and Engagement.
CYCJ is primarily funded by the Scottish Government and is
hosted by 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.
We are seeking an exceptional new Director to lead the next
phase of our development which is particularly focused on improving the
participation of children and young people in shaping policy and practice
developments, and strengthening our academic research contribution. As a boundary spanning organisation you may
be an experienced leader from practice, policy, research or participation; or
have experience across these domains. 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 change things.
Please note this is a fixed term appointment for 3 years, with an
extension likely dependent on funding.
Secondments
and Job Shares welcome.
Informal enquiries about the post can be directed to Prof Jennifer
Davidson, jennifer.davidson@strath.ac.uk ,
or Sandy Cameron (Chair of CYCJ’s Executive Governance Group, cameronsathome@btinternet.com).
Formal interviews for this post will be held on Friday 29th
October 2021.
Please click here for full details