Senior Global Advisor - Decent Work

Are you passionate about helping young people around the world to access decent, sustainable work? The King’s Trust International is looking for a Senior Global Advisor, Decent Work to provide strategic and technical leadership across our global employment and self-employment portfolio. This is an exciting opportunity to shape how we support young people to build skills, confidence and livelihoods, while influencing high-quality programme design across diverse international contexts.

In this role, you will lead the review and improvement of KTI’s priority employability and enterprise programme models, ensuring they are evidence-led, locally relevant and aligned with emerging best practice in youth employment and decent work. You will work closely with regional delivery, impact, fundraising and programme teams to strengthen quality, support localisation and help grow programmes that deliver meaningful outcomes for young people.

What you’ll do • Lead a comprehensive review of employment and self-employment programmes, identifying strengths, gaps and opportunities to increase impact. • Translate learning into practical improvements, including new programme content, delivery tools, processes and global quality standards. • Provide expert technical support to regional teams on programme design, employer engagement, localisation and proposal development. • Collaborate with the Impact team to strengthen monitoring, evaluation and evidence-informed decision-making. • Work with Fundraising colleagues to scope opportunities, engage partners, support design workshops and contribute to project plans and budgets. • Co-lead KTI’s employability Community of Practice, championing learning and sharing insight across the organisation and wider sector. • Represent KTI externally with donors, peer organisations and global networks, helping position us as a thought leader in youth employability and self-employment.

We are looking for someone who combines strategic thinking with hands-on programme expertise, strong relationship-building skills and a commitment to inclusive, youth-centred impact. If you want to help shape global approaches to decent work and support young people to learn, earn and thrive, we would love to hear from you.

Perks for working at The King’s Trust International: Great holiday package. 30 days annual leave entitlement, plus public holidays. Office closure the days between Christmas and New Year Fantastic Family leave. Receive 13 weeks full pay and 13 weeks half pay for maternity and adoption leave, and pro rata entitlement for shared parental leave. Receive 8 weeks' full pay for paternity leave. Flexible and agile working. Where operationally possible, you can work your hours that support a work-life balance, including compressed hours and hybrid-working (part office - part home-based) or working from home options. Benefits platform. Everything from health and financial wellbeing support to discounts on your favourite restaurants, shops and cinemas A free employee assistance programme (EAP) to support your mental wellbeing. KTI will contribute 5% of your salary to the workplace Pension Scheme Generous life assurance cover (4 x annual salary) In-house and external training opportunities are available throughout the year

King's Trust International is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. As part of this commitment, we undertake basic disclosure checks (or international equivalents) in accordance with the Codes of Practice for all roles within King’s Trust International, and for our roles working directly with young people, at an enhanced level. Having a criminal record will not automatically exclude applicants.

In further support of a Safeguarding First approach, we are signatories to the Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. The Scheme facilitates the sharing of misconduct data between employers. In line with this Scheme, 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 his/her/their understanding of these recruitment procedures.

We are committed to equitable work practices and believe in building a diverse organisation that is representative of and responsive to the needs of our young people and stakeholders. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian, Mixed and other Ethnic candidates which are currently under-represented throughout King’s Trust International. As a disability confident employer, we will interview applicants who meet the essential criteria and who have declared a disability. Please let us know if you need any adjustments at the interview stage.