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Strategy & Programme Delivery Lead

The Internet Watch Foundation exists to detect, disrupt, remove and prevent child sexual abuse material online. For 30 years, our analysts have actively searched for and removed the online record of children's abuse, working with governments, law enforcement and the world's biggest tech companies to make the internet safer for everyone. Now, we're looking for a Strategy & Programme Delivery Lead to play a critical part in helping us deliver on that mission with even greater impact.

In this pivotal 12-month role, you'll create the cross-organisational processes that ensure the right resources, focus and actions are in place to enable strategic success. You'll act as the key liaison for our Board of Trustees, supporting robust oversight of strategy and organisational risk, and you'll lead the development of high-quality reporting for both our Senior Leadership Team and the Board. You'll also help build a stronger impact measurement, evaluation and learning framework, ensuring that everything we do is grounded in clear evidence of the difference we're making for children.

We're looking for someone with proven experience in strategy delivery, project and process development, and reporting, with strong analytical skills and a background in KPI development and performance measurement frameworks. You'll need to be confident gathering and validating data from multiple sources, comfortable engaging and constructively challenging senior stakeholders, and able to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.

This is more than a strategy role - it's an opportunity to help set up our Board, Executive Team and Senior Management Team to make the informed, evidence-based decisions that drive our work to protect children from sexual abuse online. If you want your skills in strategy and programme delivery to support a mission that genuinely changes lives, we'd love to hear from you. 

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How to apply

Please email [email protected] with a current CV and a supporting statement that explains:

  • Your motivation for joining IWF and how you would help us achieve our mission to eliminate online child sexual abuse.
  • How your experience, skills and achievements make you a strong candidate for this role.

Closing date

Role to start as soon as possible; we will be screening and interviewing on a rolling basis until the position is filled, so we encourage early applications - there is no set closing date. 

Please note: All applicants will be subject to enhanced DBS checks prior to confirmation of employment.

 

Caring for our staff

IWF may operate in a highly advanced technological world, but it’s the expertise and experience of our analysts that sets us apart. We give all our staff the flexibility and reassurance they need to manage their home and work life.

  • All new analysts go through a specially developed induction training programme to help them mentally process and cope with exposure to disturbing images.
  • Our analysts’ working hours are restricted; they take regular timetabled breaks and are encouraged to take more breaks as and when they need.
  • All our staff work shorter days to ensure their personal lives don’t suffer, and we don’t allow analysts to work overtime.
  • Each month our analysts have individual mandatory counselling sessions and all employees who see criminal imagery have an annual full psychological assessment.
  • Everyone who works for us is offered counselling support.

We work in partnership with internet service providers, telecommunication companies, mobile operators, software providers, the police, Government, the public, other NGOs and charities to minimise the availability of child sexual abuse images and videos online. Our tech-for-good solutions make the internet safer for everyone to use and help children move on from their traumatic experiences.

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