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Associate Director of Data and Technology
This exciting role will support the implementation of a newly-formed function encompassing IT Infrastructure, Cyber Security, Data Analysis and Insight, and the creation of a new Data Engineering team. With a strong technical foundation in data disciplines, you’ll bring your expertise to ensure best-in-class data governance, management, and stewardship.
Associate Director of Digital Delivery
This pivotal position will oversee a newly formed Digital Delivery Function, bringing together Service Operations, Digital Products, and a brand-new Digital Transformation Projects team. You’ll lead this dynamic function to ensure seamless delivery, consistent ways of working, and impactful digital transformation across the organisation.
Welcome from Rachel Kirby-Rider, CEO
Thank you for considering these opportunities at Young Lives v Cancer.
When a child or young person is diagnosed with cancer, their whole world (and their family’s) can feel like it’s falling apart. They need special treatment because their cancer is different to adults’, they can only be treated in certain hospitals, and they often travel miles and miles to get there.
The impact of cancer on young lives is far more than medical. Their anxieties are deep. Their education, mental health and social lives suffer. Their futures feel very uncertain. Young Lives vs Cancer is the only charity in the UK with specialist social workers dedicated to providing tailored psychosocial support to children and young people with cancer, and their families.
We stop at nothing to make their voices heard and their unique needs understood, so they can get the right care and support at the right time.
In 2024, Young Lives in collaboration with partners published a ‘North Star vision’ for the sector with the direct aim of reducing barriers to access, improving experiences and outcomes for young cancer patients, for a more equitable future. Last month we published our new organisational strategy, ‘The Time Is Now’, which focusses on creating the foundations to achieve this ambitious systemic change and reduce those health inequalities young cancer patients and their families face.
Underpinning our ambitions we are building an even stronger data, digital and technology function, led by our recently appointed Director, David Minahan.
If you are bold, brave and engaging and want to join a driven team which is passionate about positive change and justice, then we would love to hear from you.
Rachel Kirby-Rider, CEO