Young Women’s Trust is to revisit a recruitment process it ran last year for a new chief executive after the successful applicant announced she is leaving just seven months into the role.

The charity appointed Katharine Sacks-Jones to the role in March last year.

But the charity has announced she is to leave to take up the same role with another charity Kids, which supports children and young people and has supported her own family.

The Trust said that it will look again at last year's recruitment drive that had identified “a set of exceptional candidates”.

“We thank Katharine for her leadership of Young Women’s Trust, and the passion and drive she has brought to the mission to create a more equal world for young women,” said the Trust’s co-chairs Michelle Nelson and Lorna Lewis.

“She leaves the organisation in a strong position to take on the rising challenges of misogyny and the difficult economic climate young women are entering into.”

They added: “Young Women’s Trust’s strong position and growing voice attracted a stellar field of candidates when we last recruited to the CEO role late last year.

“As a result, we’re confident that we can revisit this field and appoint a successor quickly, ensuring the organisation can continue its momentum at such a critical time for young women.”

Sacks said: “The opportunity to lead Kids felt like a uniquely powerful combination of my professional experience, personal values and lived experience.

“The chance to lead an organisation whose work is so closely connected to my own family’s experience is one I felt I couldn’t pass up.”

Sacks is a former CEO of care experienced children’s charity Become, a role she spent six years in.

Last year she was appointed chief executive of former Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s anti-poverty charity Multibank but left after only four months in the role.

Sacks Jones takes up her new role at Kids in November. She replaces Katie Ghose, who is leaving the charity in October to join the Refugee Council as its CEO.

Before Sacks Jones joins Kids it will be led by its chief operating officer Helen Ellis as acting chief executive.

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