Youth Endowment Fund Director
Youth offending is a complex and deep-rooted issue, the best long-term response is to reach children and young people long before they ever get drawn into crime. The Youth Endowment Fund is a bold new attempt to put early intervention at the heart of efforts to tackle youth offending, testing what works so that more children can benefit from the best possible support in the years ahead and can reach their full potential.
As part of the Government’s Serious Violence Strategy, the Home Office has made £200m available, over a 10 year period, to support interventions and community partnerships working with 10 – 14 year olds at risk of being drawn into crime and violence, and build up our knowledge of what works to prevent that.
The work of the Fund will be informed by the lived experience of those effected by crime and violence, funding and evaluating promising interventions over the long term to build the foundations for scalable and sustainable long-term impact. They will also work with multi agency partnerships in areas with high levels of youth violence to develop and implement local strategies for preventing and tackling youth offending. Collating, generating and disseminating evidence of what works will be central to our mission – the Fund has joined the government’s What Works network as an independent What Works Centre.
The Youth Endowment Fund starts with many assets to achieve their ambitious vision. The job of the Youth Endowment Fund Director is to seize this opportunity and use these assets to maximum effect. The postholder will need to set the long-term strategy for the Fund, establish the Fund’s reputation as a respected source of evidence on early intervention to prevent offending, and work with the sector to translate the evidence into impact for children.
Impetus appointed an experienced leader, founder and political adviser, who was previously the Special Adviser to the Secretary of State for Education. A McKinsey alum (rated top 5%) who founded and scaled one of the UK’s largest school-facing charities, they also have a track record of building strong management teams, creating effective and sustainable partnerships, raising funds and influencing government policy.