Feb 20, 2019
Temporary
About SafeLives
SafeLives is a creative, practical organisation dedicated to ending domestic abuse. Since 2005 we have constantly looked to evidence, the voice of survivors and practical expertise from across the UK to create improvements in the way domestic abuse is prevented, identified and addressed.
As well as being known for incubating new research and practical interventions to address the risk of domestic abuse, SafeLives has the ability and motivation to replicate and scale good practice so that victims, survivors and their children all over the UK can benefit. Last year, SafeLives’ interventions helped over 60,000 adults increase their safety, and many more children.
We haven’t yet gone far enough. Radical change is still needed to not just reduce the impact of domestic abuse, but also reduce the prevalence of the problem so that fewer individuals and families are touched by it in the first place. Two million people indicated they had experienced domestic abuse last year and we know that those experiences, a significant majority of which were amongst women and girls, have a ripple effect into all areas of someone’s life and future. For this reason, we need to take our own initiatives - both existing and those still to come - and the partnerships we can forge with others, and influence those with an ability to reduce the prevalence and impact of domestic abuse
About the Role
As a UK-wide charity dedicated to ending domestic abuse, SafeLives provides frontline professionals with the confidence and knowledge they need to help victim/survivors of abuse to use digital technology and stay online safely. As technology becomes part of every sphere of people’s lives, domestic abuse is increasingly perpetrated through or undertaken using digital technologies. This new role will work closely with our innovative Consultancy team to:
Provide expertise and develop a pilot response to practitioners supporting victim/survivors of domestic abuse facing digital abuse and/or looking for online expert and peer support
Share key learnings from these responses with frontline practitioners through the SafeLives Community, tools and briefings
Continue strategic partnerships with technology companies, think tanks and other charities to explore ongoing solutions
Grow SafeLives’ internal expertise in using digital technology to address domestic abuse and deliver our strategy
The Digital Lead will do this in collaboration with all teams across SafeLives, including Practice, Training, Communications and Research, Evaluation and Analysis.
How to apply
If this challenge sounds as exciting to you as it does to us and you believe you have the qualities we have described, please visit our website http://www.safelives.org.uk/about-us/work-safelives take a look over the job description and submit your 500- word cover letter, CV and equal opportunity form by 10.00am on Wednesday 27th February 2019 . First interviews will take place in London on Tuesday 5th March 2019.
No agencies please.