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The Ben Kinsella Trust

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2008

🤲 Charity

📚 Education

🌍 Social Impact

Charity • Education • Social Impact

The Ben Kinsella Trust is a UK-based charity dedicated to preventing knife crime through education, awareness campaigns, training, and immersive workshops. It delivers award-winning school exhibitions and prevention programmes, provides resources and training for educators, parents and youth workers, and advocates to influence policy and public awareness. The organisation also runs fundraising, volunteer and ambassador programmes to support its mission to stop knife crime and keep young people safe.

📋 Description

• Act as a full member of the Board of Trustees, contributing to the overall governance, strategy, and direction of the charity. • Lead on education and youth work at Board level, keeping young people at the centre of our decision making, and ensuring our programme delivery is grounded in best practice. • Lead on safeguarding and child protection matters at Board level, ensuring safeguarding remains a key strategic priority for the organisation. • Support the Board in understanding and carrying out its safeguarding responsibilities and regulatory obligations. • Ensure compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements, including the Charity Commission and funders. • Promote a strong safeguarding culture across the organisation, centred on the safety and wellbeing of children and vulnerable adults. • Support the review, development and implementation of safeguarding-related policies, procedures and practices. • Work closely with the Senior Leadership Team to provide strategic advice and support on safeguarding and child protection matters. • Provide oversight and appropriate challenge regarding safeguarding incidents, themes, risks and organisational responses. • Act as Deputy DSL in cases involving escalated, high-risk or complex safeguarding concerns where additional support or oversight is required. • Provide professional education, youth work, and safeguarding expertise and mentorship to the Board, Senior Leadership Team and relevant staff. • Support the organisation in developing safe, inclusive and trauma-informed approaches to working with young people. • Provide appropriate challenge and scrutiny to ensure all decisions are centred around young people and their safety, whilst aligning with the charity’s values, responsibilities and risk mitigation strategies.

🎯 Requirements

• A recognised qualification in education, youth work, social work or a related field • Substantial safeguarding leadership experience (5+ years) in a senior leadership, executive or board level role; with current or previous experience as a Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) • Proven strategic experience at executive or board level, recognising the impact of strategic decisions on outcomes for young people, whilst overseeing service delivery and protecting the organisation from risk.

🏖️ Benefits

• Occasional travel to London (expenses reimbursed)