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Community Organiser - Local Groups

London (Hybrid)
Up to £46961 per annum + 35 days holiday (including BH)
Full-time
This job is closed.
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. If you want to use your skills, knowledge, and experience to help fight for human rights, you could be our new Community Organiser for Local Activism


About the role

The Community Organising team is key to our strategic goal of building a powerful movement. Which will ensure that by 2030, more individuals and communities , especially those with less social power are empowered with the connections, resources, protection, and determination to stand up for their rights and the rights of their communities.

The Community Organiser for Local Activism is responsible for enabling, connecting, and empowering more communities throughout the UK to use their skills, connections, knowledge, and passion to organise and campaign together for positive human rights change.

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 intersectional collective power
  • You can convene and connect diverse communities to campaign on human rights
  • You collaborate and positively contribute to an inclusive culture.
  • You also have a good knowledge of community organising
  • You can undertake regular travel and can work outside of normal hours on occasions usually planned with prior notice


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) and 3 wellbeing days. 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.

Apply for this role

This vacancy advert may be taken down from job boards earlier than the stated deadline if a high standard of applications is received (if you have started an application in our portal, you will still have opportunity to complete it by the original deadline).

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. To support all candidates to perform their best at interview, we send questions 24 hours in advance. We are a disability confident organisation.

Please note that due to the nature of the work any offer of employment for this role will be subject to safer recruitment checks, including a criminal record check.

Visit amnesty.org.uk/jobs for application guidance and information on benefits, recruitment inclusion and hybrid working.

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Amnesty International UK View profile Organisation type Registered Charity Company size 101 - 500
Posted on: 12 September 2024
Closed date: 02 October 2024 at 18:06
Job ref: Ex-COLG-Sept24
Tags: Operations
This job is closed.