The client seeks an exceptional Head of Scotland to lead national-level work focused on improving outcomes for people living with cancer in Scotland and increasing impact. The role is designed for a senior leader who wants to drive meaningful, long-term change by changing systems rather than only navigating them. It will help ensure that evidence, lived experience, and partnership-driven insight translate into national decisions that support fairer, more personalised, and more equitable outcomes, addressing entrenched inequalities.
As Head of Scotland, you will set and lead a clear national vision grounded in evidence, equity, and lived experience. You will serve as the client’s most senior representative in Scotland, influencing ministers, senior officials, and health system leaders, and strengthening the client’s national influence in shaping cancer policy and system reform. The role includes building and stewarding high-impact partnerships across health, community, voluntary, corporate, and philanthropic sectors; translating insight and lived experience into compelling national propositions; and aligning and coordinating the client’s activity across Scotland by leading cross-organisational teams to deliver national priorities.
This leadership role requires senior-level experience in influencing national policy, driving system change, or building strategic partnerships within Scotland, typically across health, public services, government, the voluntary sector, or mission-driven organisations operating at scale. You will be politically astute, collaborative, and confident operating at the highest levels, with comfort in complexity, ambiguity, and constructive challenge. You should also bring a strong record of influencing national direction in Scotland, credibility with senior stakeholders across government and health, deep understanding of the local political and health system landscape, experience integrating lived experience, insight, and data into national strategies, and an inclusive leadership style committed to equity, participation, and reducing health outcome inequalities.