Salary
Up to £40K dependng on experience
Location
East Midlands / Cambridgeshire
Job Overview
This is a leadership role within User Voice’s Midlands team, managing our new flagship Leadership Academy, in partnership with Unlock, and our Lived Experience insights programme with NHS England (East & West Midlands).
The Leadership Academy is designed to create credible, recognised leadership pathways for people in prison and on release, and aims to develop resilient, confident, socially aware, and practically skilled leaders who can positively influence their environments, progress into employment, and contribute to systemic change. The Academy will run its first pilot at Peterborough Prison.
Our two NHS England programmes embed lived-experience insights directly into Health and Justice commissioning, procurement, and service evaluation. and supports a Lived Experience Panel who provide structured input to ensure services are informed by real experiences across the care pathway
The Project Manager will lead the planning, delivery, and evaluation of these initiatives, ensuring they meet strategic objectives and deliver meaningful impact for participants and stakeholders.
This role is ideal for someone experienced in leading complex projects and managing teams and partnerships.
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Skills and Qualifications required
Essential
- Personal lived experience of the criminal justice system.
- Must not be on any form of prison license or community sentence
- Experience working in Justice or aligned support services
- Experience of delivering training programmes
- Strong experience managing complex projects, partnerships, and multi-agency work.
Experience facilitating engagement with marginalised people, including vulnerable or high risk
groups. - Experience managing staff and/or volunteers
- Strong communication and relationship building skills across NHS, prison, and community
partners. - Ability to analyse qualitative and quantitative data and produce high quality insight/impact
reports. - Strong understanding of safeguarding, risk management, information governance, and trauma
awareness approaches. - Ability to manage competing priorities across multiple systems (NHS, prisons, community
services).
Desirable:
- Knowledge of commissioning cycles, co-production methods, and lived experience workforce
development. - Knowledge of NHS governance, S13Q duties, PPV frameworks, and quality assurance
processes. - Existing standard plus prison vetting
Hours per week
40
Closing Date
07/08/2026
Website
Apply for the job by visiting https://www.uservoice.org/project-manager-lived-experience-programmes-2/
Apply
Apply for the job by emailing your CV + covering letter to recruitment@uservoice.org