Application process: Please apply via LinkedIn by uploading your CV. Your covering letter (maximum two sides of A4), should explain how you meet the person specification, and should be uploaded as an additional document where possible. If LinkedIn does not allow this, please email your covering letter to recruitment@londonjewishforum.or.guk, quoting the role title in the subject line.
Organisation Description The London Jewish Forum is the voice of Jewish Londoners. We work with local councils, the Mayor’s office, MPs and public bodies on the issues that shape daily life for Jewish residents. Our role is to ensure that Jewish voices are heard in local decisions, across areas such as community safety, education, housing, health and social care, and civic life. We bring context and evidence to these discussions, and enable constructive dialogue between councils and the communities they serve. Jewish London is diverse, with different traditions, experiences and local priorities, and our work reflects that diversity in both our engagement and the partnerships we build across the city. Our approach is practical and borough-focused. We convene meetings, strengthen local relationships, and connect civic leaders with community organisations, working closely with partners across the Jewish and wider voluntary sector to address shared challenges and strengthen community cohesion.
The London Jewish Health Partnership (LJHP) was established by the London Jewish Forum following the pandemic to connect key health partners within the NHS, councillors and public health teams with Jewish organisations working in the health space. It focuses on improving access to health and social care, including mental health, ageing, and support for vulnerable groups. LJHP works to reduce health inequities among Jewish Londoners by promoting immunisation, access to screening, and other preventative interventions.
The Jewish Health Equity Partnership (“JHEP”) is a joint project of the Board of Deputies of British Jews and the London Jewish Forum (LJF), to tackle health inequalities impacting the Jewish community. JHEP is a partner of the Health Inequities Partnership, a National Lottery Community Fund (“TNLCF”) project to tackle health inequalities caused by structural racism and discrimination.
JHEP will build systems partnerships within the Jewish community; undertake advocacy across the health sector; deliver training; commission research; embed sustainability, and undertake collective work within the Health Inequities Partnership. The Programme Director will work with a professional team, lay leadership and communal partners to deliver these workstreams.
Role Description: Purpose
To lead delivery of the Jewish Health Equity Partnership, delivering systems partnerships within the Jewish community, influencing policy and practice across the health sector, and ensuring successful delivery of the programme’s workstreams in collaboration with partners. The Programme Director will lead JHEP’s operational relationships with partners across the Jewish community and the health sector, building relationships to bring about structural change. The postholder will bring experience of project delivery and stakeholder management within the health sector. This would ideally include familiarity with NHS, ICS, health trusts, public health, commissioning, workforce and/or health
equity settings, together with a strong understanding of how antisemitism and structural discrimination affect Jewish communities and wider health outcomes.
Key responsibilities
• Lead delivery of the Community Systems Partnerships; and Policy, Commissioning & Systems Influence workstreams, ensuring delivery against agreed objectives, milestones and outcomes.
• Translate community insight into improvements in policy and practice.
• Build and sustain relationships across the health sector, including Integrated Care Systems, NHS Trusts, commissioners, public health teams, local authorities and Jewish community organisations, supporting collaboration and systems change
• Build and sustain relationships across the Jewish community, including health and social care charities, professional networks, local and regional groups, and other organisations active in the health sector.
• Represent the programme externally, building partnerships and influencing policy and practice through meetings, networks, working groups and public events.
• Support delivery of the Sustainability & Embedding; and Partnership Co design & Collective Work workstreams, contributing to long-term programme sustainability and collaborative working across the National Lottery Health Inequities Partnership.
• Develop and maintain programme delivery plans, monitor progress against milestones and KPIs, identify risks and ensure timely reporting to the Project Lead and Steering Group.
• Support management of programme budgets, contracts and commissioned activity, ensuring compliance with funder requirements and value for money.
• Work collaboratively with the Project Lead, Research Lead, Training Lead and partner organisations to ensure co-ordinated delivery across all workstreams.
What success looks like
• Delivery milestones and KPIs are achieved on-time and within budget.
• Strong partnerships are established across the Jewish community and the health sector.
• Evidence of influence on policy, commissioning, workforce practice or service delivery is demonstrated.
• The programme is well positioned for long-term sustainability.
Qualifications
Essential experience, skills and knowledge
• Demonstrable experience of delivering complex, multi-partner programmes involving a range of stakeholders
• Building and sustaining partnerships across statutory, voluntary and community sectors.
· Experience of the health sector, ideally NHS organisations, Integrated Care Systems, public health, commissioning or related health policy environments.
· Good understanding of health inequalities, structural racism and/or antisemitism and their impact on health outcomes and access to services.
· Ability to work credibly with a range of stakeholders in diverse contexts and at different levels of seniority
· Experience of managing programme delivery, reporting and risk in politically and reputationally sensitive contexts.
· Strong judgement, diplomacy and the ability to operate effectively at senior level.
Desirable experience, skills and knowledge
· Experience of work on Jewish community issues, antisemitism or faith- based discrimination.
· Experience of co-production or community-led systems change.
· Experience of delivery in the charity, public or health sectors, particularly where this has involved health inequalities, anti-racism or systems change.
· Familiarity with the UK Jewish community in general, and the charedi community in particular.
