Young Women’s Trust, a national charity working with disadvantaged young women across England and Wales, has announced its new director of communications and campaigns, Joe Levenson, who will start on Monday 4 January 2016.

Joe joins the Young Women’s Trust from the National Council for Palliative Care where he was director of communications. In this role he has also led the work of the Dying Matters Coalition, set up to change public attitudes around talking about dying, death and bereavement. Prior to that he was head of communications for the Refugee Council. Joe has also worked for the Greater London Authority, as specialist adviser to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights and for the Prison Reform Trust.

Commenting on his appointment as director of communications and campaigns at the Young Women’s Trust, Joe says, “I am delighted to be joining the Young Women’s Trust, an impressive charity with ambitious and exciting plans. With so many young women on low pay or no pay at risk of being forgotten about and failed, the need for the charity and, crucially, the women it supports and represents to have a strong voice in public and political debate couldn’t be more important.”

Dr Carole Easton, chief executive of Young Women’s Trust says, “I am very much looking forward to working with Joe, who will bring a broad range of experience to bear in his new role at Young Women's Trust. He understands so well the need to engage both men and women in addressing the disadvantage young women face and has an admirable determination to make a difference.”