Festival Producer

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 be successful in this role, you could be our new Festival Producer

About the role

Amnesty International UK is looking for an experienced producer for our new flagship festival of human rights. In this role you will lead operations effectively and be responsible for managing the logistics of sessions and speakers across the event programme The role is key to the smooth running of the event and will lead on comprehensive production planning for the festival

The Festival of Human Rights (21-23 June 2024) is a new event in the Amnesty International UK calendar, bringing together Amnesty activists and those interested in human rights from across the UK for an inspiring weekend of workshops, meetings, talks, installations and performances. The festival will be a weekend of celebration: celebrating the successes of people powered movements and empowering attendees to continue the fight for human rights in the future.

The event will take place across multiple venues in Sheffield City Centre for an audience made up of AIUK activists and general public. The event will also be livestreamed.

The role can be based anywhere in the UK but will involve travel to the project sites in Sheffield.

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

The role may be for you if:

• You have experience of working on festivals and/or events in a production role
• You are highly organised and able to work across multiple projects and conflicting deadlines
• You collaborate and positively contribute to an inclusive culture.
• You also have a good knowledge of relevant policies including safeguarding, health and safety, data protection, risk management.
• You have an interest in the wider cultural and human rights sectors

The successful candidate must be available to start as soon as possible in early April.

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.