Alder Hey Children’s Charity – Advocacy & Campaigns Manager

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Deadline: 24 June 2025.

Posts available: 1.
Contract: Permanent.
Term: Full-Time.
Salary: £37,164 – £48,981.
Hours per week: 37.5 hours.
Reporting to: Head of Marketing and Communications.
Location: Alder Hey Childrens Hospital, East Prescot Road, Liverpool, L14 5AB.

Employer Bio

Alder Hey Children’s Charity raises vital funds to help make Alder Hey Children’s Hospital a truly world-class, patient-friendly hospital for the 450,000 patients and families they care for every year.

The charity helps to fund a range of activities and projects that are designed to enhance and improve the lives of their amazing young patients. This includes the funding of specialist medical equipment to ensure their brilliant surgeons and clinical staff have the most up to date and cutting-edge technology available and funding hi-tech distraction equipment designed and proven to reduce pain and anxiety in their patients. They also fund a range of programmes and special projects such as their ward musicians, their on-site magician, and the play specialists they have on every ward.

They have recently closed their Surgical Neonatal Appeal, having successfully raised their £3m target towards a brand new, state of the art Surgical Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at the hospital. This year they are fundraising towards a new Same Day Emergency Care Centre, providing an unrivalled experience for their patients and their families.

Job Summary

The Advocacy and Campaigns Manager will play a crucial role in shaping and delivering Put Children First, the advocacy and campaigning initiative of Alder Hey Children’s Charity. The post holder will be responsible for influencing decision-makers, engaging stakeholders, and leading impactful campaigns to ensure children’s health and wellbeing are prioritised in public policy.

This role requires a strategic thinker with strong public affairs expertise, policy understanding, and excellent communication skills. The campaign is child led and will involve working with children to raise their voice. The post holder will also work with politicians, policymakers, clinicians and internal stakeholders, partner organisations, and the public to advocate for change, ensuring that Alder Hey Children’s Charity is a leading voice in children’s health policy and advocacy. This role is one of the first with a charity aligned to an NHS Trust and will appeal to someone with a strong desire to pioneer advocacy and campaigning in a unique setting.

To read the full job description and to apply, please click here.

Interviews: 3 July 2025.

Contact Details: 0151 252 5716 / hrcharity@alderhey.nhs.uk.