Job Description

Senior Technical Advisor

Located: Vauxhall, London with extensive travel to Africa and Asia

Contract: Fixed term – 3.5 years

Salary: Circa £45,000 to £49,700

About the Role

This is an exciting opportunity to be the lead technical guide across our consortium programme, influencing the programme to ensure it has an inclusive innovative and digital focus whilst influencing policy and change.

About You

You will be Masters Level education, expansive technical skills in the disability arena on a global scale with forward thinking knowledge of programme development in the area of technical application and use of digital technology. Innovation and thinking outside the box should be the norm.

As a technical lead in a consortium your need to be well organised, demonstrate sound judgment and be able to take on a solution focused approach, all within tight timescales.

We seek candidates with a genuine commitment to the values and ethos of Leonard Cheshire and who are excited by this opportunity to make a difference to the lives of persons with disability and we strongly encourage applications from persons with lived experience of disability.

Leonard Cheshire welcomes applications from all sections of the community, but you must already have the right to work in the UK.

A satisfactory disclosures check is required for this post.

What we Offer

• Fair and competitive pay rates
• A generous employer contribution to a company pension scheme with additional life cover
• Substantial annual leave, with the possibility of buying or selling leave via salary sacrifice
• Access to a cash health plan at favourable rates
• A Comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme

Closing date 29 April 2018.

Leonard Cheshire Disability welcomes applications from all sections of the community but you must already have the right to work in the UK.

A satisfactory disclosure check is required for this post.

About the Organization

Leonard Cheshire supports individuals to live, learn and work as independently as they choose, whatever their ability. As the UK’s largest voluntary sector provider of services for people with disabilities, we do everything humanly possible to empower people to live their lives as freely and as fully as they choose. Click through to find out more about this exciting opportunity to join the team that secures around £7m per year to support our amazing work.