£37,551 inc. London Weighting
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 Community Organising Assistant.
About the role
The Community Organising Team help us achieve our goal of empowering more people in the UK to know, claim and stand up for human rights. The Community Organising Assistant is accountable for ensuring that we have excellent administrative systems and processes in place that support our aim of enabling more people across the UK to achieve human rights change. It also involves building and maintaining excellent relationships with colleagues and activists, communicating with a variety of audiences, managing projects, managing, monitoring and evaluating data; supporting the delivery of large activist events, and keeping sources of information up to date.
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 developing and managing administrative systems
- You can work collaboratively with colleagues, activists and partners
- You have excellent communication skills
- You collaborate and positively contribute to an inclusive culture.
- You also have a good knowledge of activism and grassroots campaigning
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
The vacancy may be closed earlier than advertised if a high standard of applications is received. If you wish to be considered for the role, avoid delay in submitting an application.
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.