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SalarySalary: £28,770 starting salary (salary range will increase due to max £31,364 via the length of service) per annum (pro rata where applicable).
Contract: Fixed Term basis until 30 April 2025
Hours: Part-time 28 hours per week (excluding lunch breaks)
Location: This role is London-based, with regular travel to the Refugee Action London office, and some flexibility on hybrid working.
Our vision is that refugees and asylum seekers will be welcome in the UK. They will get justice, live free of poverty, and be able to successfully rebuild their lives.
Applying for this role – please read:
Applications for this role are only* open to people who identify as having lived experience of forced displacement due to war, invasion, persecution or human rights abuses
(This also includes British nationals living/working overseas who have been forced to leave due to war, invasion, persecution or human rights abuses)
*Current Refugee Action employees with and without lived experience, are eligible to apply.
About Refugee Action
Refugee Action exists to work with refugees and people seeking asylum who’ve survived some of the world’s worst regimes. We are a national charity with more than 40 years’ experience of empowering people who’ve survived some of the world’s worst regimes to secure the protection and support that they need to live with dignity and respect and build a new life in the UK. We do this by providing expert advice and casework, building the capacity of partner organisations and campaigning on the policies that affect them.
We are looking for a Community Engagement Coordinator to join our Fundraising and Campaigns teams. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone with experience of campaigning and organising to help us shape our community engagement plans.
As Community Engagement Coordinator, you will steward and engage supporters, developing activist packs and engagement opportunities, supporting on delivering campaigning events and help us develop our brand new Speakers Group. Working across the Fundraising and Campaigns teams, you will be fundamental in helping us to shift the narrative around people seeking safety in the UK to create a welcoming and anti-racist society.
To succeed in the role you will need to demonstrate:
- Commitment to removing barriers to power for people with lived experience, and commitment to anti-racist practices.
- Understanding of how the UK’s hostile refugee protection and asylum system impacts those affected by it.
- Passion and motivation to raise vital funds to support refugees and people seeking asylum in the UK.
- Effective time management who can well to tight deadlines.
- Excellent organisational skills to help develop and deliver campaign events.
- Ability to collaborate and work supportively and effectively within a team.
- Excellent written and interpersonal communication skills.
- Able to work with a high level of attention to detail.
- Understanding of cultural diversity and the ability to work with people from a range of different cultures.
- Experience of activism and community organising.
- Passion for and interest in delivering engaging and motivating activism plans.
For further details, and to apply, please visit our website.
Closing date: 23:59 on Thursday 11th April 2023
Interviews: Monday 22nd and Tuesday 23rd April 2023 (on Zoom)
Refugee Action only operates in the UK, so all roles are UK-based, and you must have the right to work in the UK.
This role is not on the Shortage Occupation List. If you have permission to work that is restricted to the Shortage Occupation List, we will be unable to appoint you to this role.
You can find out which roles are on the shortage occupation list via these two links:
- Skilled Worker visa: shortage occupations
- killed Worker visa: shortage occupations for healthcare and education
We are currently campaigning for people seeking asylum to have the right to work in the UK, see our Lift the Ban campaign here.
