Digital Lead - Schools and Colleges Early Support Service

Job Summary

Anna Freud is a world-leading mental health charity for children, young people and their families. Our mission is to close the gap in wellbeing and mental health by advancing, translating, delivering, and sharing the best science and practice with everyone who impacts the lives of children, young people and their families. More information about Anna Freud is available on our website: .

We value diversity and aim to have diverse workforce that reflects the community and our service users, in line with our vision, values and inclusion commitments. We encourage applications from all sections of the community.

We are recruiting for a Digital Lead to join our Schools and Colleges Early Support Service (SCESS), which offers direct remote support to children, young people, families and school staff across England. This exciting new role sits within our renowned Schools Division, whose vision is one where all schools and colleges in the UK are mentally healthy.

We are seeking a confident with IT user, specifically in Microsoft Office, websites and Salesforce (or common customer relationship management (CRM) software). You will demonstrate strong written and verbal communication skills to successfully interact with internal and external stakeholders to help improve processes. You will work closely with our Project Manager leading on digitalisation projects, therefore previous experience of assessing and prioritising development ideas to implement changes would be helpful in this role.

You will join us at an exciting time for our digital transformation projects, so there will be opportunities for personal and career development. For example, leading on key projects in collaboration with colleagues with expertise in areas such as user experience (UX), project management and Salesforce.

Please email with any job enquiries, or if you require assistance or experience difficulties when applying. Please note that successful candidate(s) will be asked to evidence their Right to Work in the UK post-job offer - we do not hold a sponsor licence therefore we are unable to provide Visa sponsorship.

Location

Hybrid working (a mixture of onsite and home/remote working). Staff are working onsite for at least 20% of their working hours, either at our London site (4-8 Rodney Street, London N1 9JH) or our Northern Hub (Huckletree, The Express Building, 9 Great Ancoats Street, Manchester M4 5AD).

Contract duration

Fixed-term, 12 months.

Closing date for applications

Midday (12pm), Monday 6 January 2025. Please note that due to high application volumes, we may close this advert early. We encourage you to apply promptly and to keep an eye on our future vacancies for more opportunities.

Notification of interview

Shortlisted applicants will be notified no later than Friday 10 January 2025. During shortlisting, applicants are anonymously assessed using the criteria visible in the Job Profile. Please note: due to the high volume of applications received, we will not be able to provide feedback to unsuccessful applicants.

Interviews

Interviews will be held remotely on Thursday 16 January 2025.