The Black Maternal Health Programme, a partnership between the South East London Integrated Care Board (SEL ICB) and Impact on Urban Health, involves sharing power with communities to decide what work to fund, which organisations should deliver it, and to oversee its delivery.  

They are looking to recruit a number of lived experience consultants to support the newly launched grant making process through which they will allocate £1.5m of funding for projects running up to 3-years. The is a paid opportunity.

Lived Experience Consultants will complement the lived experience expertise in their Expert Reference Group (ERG), who have co-designed all stages of the programme to date, support them to rigorously and fairly assess grant-making applications, and decide which applications to take forward for funding. The role will include:  

• shortlisting applications with reference to criteria co-developed with our Expert Reference Group  
• doing on-site visits as part of assessment panels to see the work of applicant organisations in action
• attending final allocation meetings with the ERG and other key stakeholders to collectively decide how to allocate the total funding pot.

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Lived Experience Consultants should meet the following criteria:  

• Black mothers and birthing people and/or fathers and wider family networks who have experience of south east London’s maternity and neonatal services, including pre-birth/pre-conception services
• Black residents of south east London with an interest in health inequities and maternal and neonatal health

The work will take place in January-March 2026. The process is led by the SEL ICB's learning partner, JRNY Consulting, who will provide training and support as needed to fulfil the role successfully. If you are interested in this role, please email noa@jrnyconsulting.com with a brief overview of why you are interested in the work and what you would bring to it.

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