“JOB: Coproduction & Campaign Lead, RAID – apply now”

About the role

This role will help turn the voices and experiences of Disabled people into meaningful action, influence and lasting change. RAID’s Co-production and Campaigns Lead will play a key role in ensuring that the voices, experiences and priorities of Disabled people influence RAID’s services, activities, campaigns and future direction. The postholder will create impactful and targeted campaigns that put pressure on decision-makers to make change and support local disabled people to have a voice about issues that impact them. The postholder will lead and develop RAID’s approach to co-production, building meaningful opportunities for members, service users and other Disabled people to influence our work. They will work across RAID, connecting co-production with our advice services, inclusion and peer-led activities, membership and campaigning work, ensuring that learning and priorities are shared across the organisation. As the lead they will provide advice and support to managers, build organisational capacity, and establish sustainable participation structures across services. They will also develop strong relationships with local decision-makers and organisations, including the local authority, NHS, social housing providers and other key partners, using the experiences and collective voice of Disabled people to influence services, resolve issues and improve outcomes. The role will continue to lead RAID’s established Housing Forum, while developing a wider network of co-production forums, panels and other opportunities for people to contribute their experience and expertise. The postholder will ensure that co-production is meaningful and has a clear impact – making sure that people’s contributions inform decisions, lead to action and result in improvements that people can see and experience.

Responsibilities

• bring together insight from across RAID to identify emerging issues, systemic barriers and opportunities for change
• lead and champion co-production and campaigning across RAID’s ensuring it is embedded across the organisation, supporting managers to use lived experience to inform service development, quality and planning
• lead the Housing Forum and establish and facilitate other forums, panels and groups based on the priorities of Disabled people
• work closely with managers to identify recurring issues and trends that could inform service improvement, influencing and campaigning, increase membership and peer-led activities
• ensure Disabled people’s voices arising from RAID’s coproduction work are communicated accessibly and effectively across social media, e-newsletters, and their website.
• capture and demonstrate the impact of co-production, campaigning and influencing activity.

Requirements

• passionate about user-led working, co-production and campaigning creating positive change for Disabled people
• understand that people with lived experience are experts in their own lives and should have a genuine voice in shaping the services