The Role:
The Royal Foundation's Homewards programme is seeking a motivated, results-driven Strategic Employment Lead to unlock better job and training opportunities to end homelessness.

This role will drive national commitments and support local teams in building sustainable structures across six key locations to deliver. You'll have the chance to transform how employment and training prevent homelessness, with the aim of creating scalable models in the UK and internationally. In the first year, we expect the Employment Lead to establish lasting local structures and secure significant national commitments.
If you're an ambitious, action-oriented leader, we'd love to hear from you.

Roles and responsibilities

• Lead, shape and deliver the Employment strategy as part of The Royal Foundation's Homewards programme
• Work with a range of partners - experts, locations and the private sector - to design and leverage major national commitments for job, training and skills opportunities across our locations. These will deliver on local Action Plans (the Homewards locations' roadmaps to preventing and ending homelessness) and the Employment Lead will need to use the TRF platform sensitively but for greatest impact.
• Shape and support our locations to establish sustainable long-term structures to deliver on these commitments and build a thriving local ecosystem of employment and training opportunities to end homelessness
• Support Homewards location teams to deliver local employment models and opportunities, identified as priority work in the Local Action Plans, leveraging partners as necessary to deliver
• Work closely with other leads, specifically the Finance Lead and Homes Lead, ensuring a joined-up approach which delivers maximum impact.
• Work across the Homewards team to prioritise, co-develop and deliver the strategy, ensuring the approach is backed by a robust delivery plan
• Feed into wider Strategic Delivery approach and Homewards strategy as an expert in the Employment field.

Relevant Knowledge, Experience, and Personal Qualities

• Significant experience operating at a senior level with major businesses to deliver impact - ideally with a focus on employment, skills and/or training and understanding of that market; and experience working at a local and national level to deliver impact
• Creative thinker, with the ability to see the 'big picture' and desire to drive systemic change - understanding of the role TRF could play and a vision of what systemic change could look like when it comes to unlocking job opportunities to end homelessness
• Experience delivering strategic projects and new partnerships, ideally working with the private sector and with multiple stakeholders, to create lasting social impact
• Confident leader who can support and empower the Homewards team to confidently engage in this area
• Self-starter and desire to collaborate - we're a lean team who matrix work and person would need to be up for pitching in!

Application

If you are passionate about employment and skills and have a proven track record in making impact, we invite you to apply for this exciting opportunity.
Please send your CV and a covering letter detailing your relevant experience and why you're the perfect fit for this role.
This post is subject to receipt of two satisfactory references and proof of the right to work in the UK.

About Homewards
The Royal Foundation mobilises leaders, businesses, and individuals to address society's greatest challenges. Under the leadership of Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, our initiatives are driven by world-class research, long-term partnerships, and a commitment to measurable, scalable impact.

In June 2023, Prince William and The Royal Foundation of The Prince and Princess of Wales launched Homewards. Homewards is a transformative five-year programme, working with six locations, to demonstrate that together it's possible to end homelessness - making it rare, brief and unrepeated.
The Royal Foundation's Homewards programme is recruiting to their Strategic Delivery team. This team will be focused on leveraging significant impact across the locations focused on key, cross-cutting, themes and report into the Programme Director.

• Salary: £70K to £80K DOE
• Location: Central London office / Office-based in a Homewards location with regular London travel, and occasional travel within the UK. Hybrid (60% office, 40% WFH). Occasional travel within the UK
• Contract type: 2yr FTC
• Holiday: 25 days per annum + BH
• Hours: 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday)
• Benefits: Pension scheme (non-contributory), private medical insurance, life insurance, season ticket loan