Help shape a youth-led movement to end child homelessness within 9 years by leading insight and policy work grounded in lived experience, and supporting young people in turning their voices into powerful, evidence-backed policy change.
We're looking for a dedicated volunteer to be our Youth Insight & Policy Lead, supporting Project 9.0, a youth-led campaign committed to ending child homelessness in London within 9 years, starting with a 9-point plan designed by young people with lived experience.
You’ll work closely with our Youth Advisory Group (YAG) and Youth Ambassadors to help them shape and articulate their vision into a formal campaign plan. This includes supporting them with:
You’ll also support internal evaluation (impact stories, data collection, light analysis) to help us show why our campaign matters and how it’s working.
This is a flexible role you’ll shape as the project develops, and you’ll work directly with the Project Coordinator (a young person with lived experience who leads the project). We’re a small, ambitious youth-led social enterprise with big plans and a collaborative, informal culture.
We’re looking for someone with experience in youth policy, research, or systems change – particularly someone who understands how to turn lived experience into clear, evidence-backed insight. You don’t need to be an academic or policy expert, but you should be confident supporting young people to shape narratives, produce reports or briefings, and influence decision-makers.
You should be comfortable:
A background in youth participation, qualitative research, policy, or community organising is helpful - but equally, we welcome people from lived experience, grassroots, or campaigning backgrounds who are open to learning and guiding others.
Above all, we’re looking for someone who’s values-led, inclusive, and passionate about co-creating change with young people, not for them.
Your work will help ensure children experiencing homelessness in London are no longer ignored or left behind. By grounding our campaign in real evidence and young people’s voices, you’ll help us build a strong case for change that funders, councils, and politicians can’t ignore.
You’ll support a group of young campaigners in taking their lived experience and turning it into real policy, empowering them to lead the conversation and shape a better system.
Your insight and guidance will shape the campaign’s 9-point plan to end child homelessness within 9 years, and provide the foundation for systemic change in how child homelessness is understood and tackled across London.
We’ll have a short, informal chat with all shortlisted volunteers from 3rd July onwards. You’ll also need to be available on Saturday 12th July for an away day with the whole team (including young people involved in the project). If you’ve got any questions, feel free to message us via the Reach platform.We particularly welcome applications from people with lived experience of homelessness, housing insecurity, or the care system. We also encourage applications from those underrepresented in campaigning and policy spaces, including racially minoritised people, disabled people, LGBTQ+ individuals, and those from working-class backgrounds.
