Survivor Movement & Participation Lead; Female

About the role

This is a strategic leadership role dedicated to amplifying survivor voices and driving systemic change across the Alliance Partnership and the wider VAWG sector. You will champion survivor leadership by embedding accountability, fostering peer‑led services, and building a strong, intersectional movement to end violence against women and girls. The role leads the Experts with Lived Experience (ELE) network, develops survivor‑led spaces and leadership pathways, and embeds survivor influence within governance and decision‑making.

You will represent survivors and the Alliance in national forums, coalitions and sector discussions, ensuring survivor participation shapes strategies, policy and practice.

As the Survivor Movement & Participation Lead, you will:

• Lead and coordinate the Experts with Lived Experience (ELE) network, ensuring survivors are supported, resourced and fairly compensated, and design and facilitate survivor‑led and peer support spaces grounded in trauma‑informed, anti‑racist and culturally rooted practice.
• Build survivor leadership through training, mentoring and development opportunities, and embed safeguarding, boundaries, confidentiality and collective care across all survivor involvement.
• Strengthen survivor leadership within VAWG and wider justice movements through campaigns, activism and public engagement, and support cross‑movement alliances with LGBTQ+, disability and other justice communities.
• Facilitate survivor participation in governance structures, promote ethical and power‑sharing frameworks, represent survivor‑led practice in strategic forums and partnerships, and contribute to tools, learning and resources that assess and promote survivor influence.

For key responsibilities please see the attached job profile document.