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SalarySalary: £28,770 starting salary (salary range will increase due to max £31,364 via the length of service) plus ILW £4,087.65 if based in London per annum pro rata
Contract: Permanent basis
Hours: Part-time 17.5 hours per week (excluding lunch breaks)
Location: Refugee Action London Office. We will consider UK-based hybrid working option.
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.
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.
- Insight into the needs, experiences and hopes of refugees and people seeking asylum.
- Ability to compile and input data, and use Windows-based software packages (preferably Microsoft Office: spreadsheets, databases, word-processing packages), with the ability to produce information materials.
- Ability to manage and prioritise own workload.
- Good spoken English and written communication skills.
- Basic research skills and the ability to compile information.
- Commitment to and understanding of the principles of confidentiality, impartiality and equality of opportunity.
- Ability to work constructively and sensitively with a wide range of colleagues, counterparts in other agencies and user representatives.
- Flexible approach to tasks undertaken.
- Experience of using Sage accounting software desirable.
- Staff will be office based with opportunity to work from home.
- Experience and understanding of cultural diversity and the ability to work with people from a range of different cultures.
- Ability to travel in the UK with occasional overnight stays away from home.
Those with lived experience as a refugee are particularly encouraged to apply.
Closing date: 23:59 on Monday, 1 April 2024
Interviews: Wednesday 10 April 2024 (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
- Skilled 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.
