Senior Community Organiser - Anti-Racism

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Job description

Amnesty International UK (AIUK) has a simple aim: an end to human rights abuses. Independent, international and influential, we campaign for justice, fairness, freedom and truth wherever they are denied. Do you want to use your skills, knowledge and experience to help change the world? You could be our new Senior Community Organiser leading on anti-racism and activism.

About the role

The Campaigning Communities team help us achieve our goal of connecting with communities and developing activism by using community organising. The Anti-Racism and Activism organiser is accountable for the development of networks and developing anti-racism through Amnesty International UK's activism streams.They will also seek opportunities and partnerships to innovate and connect to other movements working on anti-racism.They will also develop our overall approach to building and supporting diverse, inclusive and powerful campaigning networks. Alongside this they will develop the networks, design and deliver training to, build partnerships with external organisations and strengthen our activism.

More details can be found by downloading the job description from our careers portal.

The role may be for you if:

You're skilled in building relationships, particularly working with communities of colour. You have been community organising and develop partnerships and activism.

You can manage complex relationships and bring people together on issues that they can all work on.

You collaborate and positively contribute to an inclusive culture.

You also have a good knowledge of anti-racism and disability organising.

Our Commitment to you

Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Anti-Racism (IDEA) are at the core of our values. We want to be an organisation that tackles structural inequality and prejudice as well as be an actively anti-racist organisation. This means taking a meaningful and equitable approach to supporting and developing you and others during your time with us.

New colleagues receive 27 days leave annually (29 after five years), as well as bank holidays (pro rated for part time). 2-5% employee pension contributions are matched at 6-9% and we offer 6 months full pay for family leave. We offer flexible working such as compressed work patterns and job shares. See more details of our benefits here.

Apply for this role

We welcome applications from everyone and particularly encourage applications from people from an ethnic minority background, and people with a disability to help us achieve a balanced representation in our workforce, especially at senior grades.

To reduce bias in our shortlisting process, AIUK operates an anonymised application process. If for any reason you prefer to apply in a different format, or require adjustments in the process, please get in touch. We are a disability confident organisation. More details of inclusion in the AIUK recruitment process can be found here.

The vacancy may be closed early if it receives an overwhelming amount of applications.