Chief Impact Officer

Hope for Justice is a charity working to bring freedom from human trafficking and modern slavery with an effective and proven multi-disciplinary model. Our wholly owned social enterprise, Slave-Free Alliance, provides services to global companies and public bodies seeking to protect their operations and supply chains against the risks of modern slavery and labour exploitation. We have active programmes in the UK, USA, Ethiopia and Uganda, reaching approximately 200,000 adults and children a year.

Hope for Justice and Slave-Free Alliance have staff and volunteers involved in operational support, fundraising or other initiatives in Australia. Hope for Justice exists to bring freedom from human trafficking and modern slavery by identifying victims, supporting survivors and preventing exploitation.

If you’re looking to make a difference, this is the place for the you. Hope for Justice is committed to the principles of treating people fairly. We are a global organisation with staff from a wide variety of backgrounds, and ensure through our recruitment processes that we continue to welcome candidates from all walks of life. If you feel that your skills and experience fit one of our advertised roles, and you share our values and mission to end slavery, then we strongly encourage your application regardless of your background.

Position:

Lead transformative global impact. Champion survivor centred change. Shape the future of a world free from slavery.

Hope for Justice is seeking a bold, visionary Chief Impact Officer to spearhead our global Programmes, Policy, Training, and Survivor Inclusion work. This is an exciting executive opportunity to drive systemic change, innovate at scale, and ensure our worldwide efforts remain survivor‑centred, rights‑based, and grounded in evidence.

As our CIO, you will shape and grow high‑quality programmes across the Global North and Global South, lead our policy and research agenda, strengthen our awareness & prevention, and embed MEAL‑driven insight across the organisation. You will partner at the most senior levels—internally and externally—to influence governments, donors, partners, and international stakeholders.

You will also play a critical role in stewarding key donor relationships and guiding programmatic funding strategy in collaboration with our Chief Philanthropy Officer, ensuring long‑term financial sustainability across our global portfolio. Above all, you will champion survivor-empowering approaches in every area of our work, ensuring our mission translates into lasting, transformative change.

We’re looking for someone who brings:

✅ Executive-level Experience

Significant leadership experience at an executive or equivalent senior level in complex international organisations.

🌐 International development expertise

A strong track record working in the Modern Slavery Human Trafficking sector across international development or global programme contexts, including experience working across both Global North and Global South environments.

💡 Strategic and innovative leadership

Proven ability to shape and scale strategies, drive innovation, and lead cross‑functional, multicultural teams toward shared impact goals.

🎤 High‑level stakeholder influence

Confidence engaging with senior stakeholders, funders, boards, governments, and global partners; comfortable representing the organisation at the highest levels.

❤️ Commitment to survivor empowerment

A deep understanding of rights‑based, survivor‑centred approaches—and a passion for embedding these principles across all aspects of organisational impact.

Requirements:

Programmes

• Strategic development and innovation of Programmes in line with the 5-year Step Change Framework and Theory of Change.
• Creating long-term strategic planning for strengthening and scaling impact across the organisation, focusing on programmatic touchpoints.
• Providing direction and guidance for new work including partnerships, programme products and funding-directed work.
• Developing the necessary structure for global programmes management (Global North & Global South).
• Ensuring the vision, values, and aims of Programmes are embedded and communicated internally and externally.
• Ensuring Programmes advance through technology and digitisation to strengthen innovation and collaboration.
• Ensuring sustainability of programme models beyond operational lifespan (e.g., transition to local ownership).

Understanding intersectionality (climate, poverty, civil war, displacement) and how this impacts programmes, partners and strategy.

Building synergy with Slave-Free Alliance to inform programme responses to forced labour/child labour.

Oversight of MEAL including rebuilding capacity, data consistency, digitisation rollout, and use of data to drive quality and learning.

Oversight of Programme Operational Procedures, ensuring organisational policy, governance, due diligence and safeguarding.

Effective management of programmatic risk and incidents, including mitigation actions.

Driving efficiencies through strong monitoring and data utilisation.

Serving as a standard-bearer for quality-led, human-rights-based, survivor-empowering programming.

Policy

• Overseeing development and implementation of Hope for Justice’s Policy strategies related to the anti-trafficking response.
• Participating in sector-specific committees and international opportunities to build relationships, identify opportunities for collaboration and speak on policy forums and platforms where appropriate to share about our work.
• Oversight of the Policy & Research function globally.
• Helping establish frameworks for international and local policy and advocacy.
• Ensuring organisational policy adapts to legislation and government approaches.
• Supporting reform and policy-oriented research at governmental, intergovernmental, multilateral and civil-society levels.
• Advancing policy understanding across Programmes to influence systemic change.
  
  

Training and Learning

• Oversight of the Global Learning function.
• Supporting strategic development of training for prevention and awareness.
• Leading training product development and initiatives for Philanthropy, Programmes, and Slave-Free Alliance.
• Oversight of internal training product development and initiatives.

Using MEAL insights and learning agendas to adapt programming and drive quality.

Fundraising

• Accountability for Programme finances and funding-related strategic decision-making.
• Working with finance and strategic partnerships teams on grants and funding applications and reporting.
• Development and management of the annual Programme budget.
• Accurately identifying funding needs across programmes and managing funding flow.
• Building and maintaining high-level relationships with funders and potential funders.
• Supporting development of a funding strategy for sustainable programming with country teams and fundraising experts.
• Communicating and presenting to donors when required.
• Ensuring data and impact accountability for donors through MEAL and reporting.
  
  

Survivor Inclusion

• Ensuring Hope for Justice remains a human-rights-based, survivor-empowering organisation.
• Ensuring systems and structures support survivor and community empowerment and long-term change.
• Ensuring safeguarding standards are understood and upheld, including acting with due care and reporting concerns promptly.
• Embedding survivor-centred principles across Programmes, Policy, Learning, and external engagement.
  
  

Other information:

Benefits Of Working At Hope For Justice

Hope for Justice are committed to supporting our staff’s wellbeing and offers competitive salaries and a range of additional benefits to our staff.

Hope for Justice is a Living Wage employer, accredited by the Living Wage Foundation.

As part of Hope for Justice, you will benefit from an excellent package including:

• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays (prorata for part time employees)
• 1 day Marriage Leave
• Birthday Day
• Enhanced employer pension contributions
• Company sick pay

Enhanced maternity and paternity pay

Access to our Employee Rewards Platform, providing discounts and offers for well-known retailers

Free, confidential Employee Assistance Programme for staff and their family

Professional development opportunities

Professional memberships paid

Flexible and hybrid working

Role Details

Job type: Full Time

Salary: Up to £80,000 based on experience

Closing date: 10th April 2026

Applications will be reviewed a rolling basis. The advert may be removed prior to the closing date if the position is filled. If you are interested in this role please ensure to submit your application as soon as possible.

Location: Manchester (Hybrid working)

All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, which include criminal records checks, in line with our Global background checks policy – to view this please click here. Hope for Justice participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this scheme, as part of the referencing process we will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms their understanding of these recruitment procedures.

Personal data of the selected candidate(s) may be transmitted to INTERPOL for a security check for the purpose of identifying threats the candidate could pose to children and vulnerable persons in regard to a sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment offences.

We would like to inform you that due to the high number of applicants we receive, we regret that we are not able to respond individually to all applicants. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for further steps in the selection process, thank you for your understanding.