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SalaryAmnesty 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 Individuals at Risk - Assistant.
About the role
Individuals at Risk refers to individuals, families, communities and organisations around the world who have had their human rights violated or put at Risk. The Individuals at Risk team help us achieve our goal of an end to human rights abuses, campaigning for changes that will have a direct impact on Individuals lives.
The Individuals at Risk Assistant will ensure our teams vital administrative and organisation systems are efficiently, maintained and developed to enable impactful and ethical campaigning across our movement.
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 maintaining administrative systems, including basic website updates, and coordinating requests across multiple teams.
- You can work with people across the organisation, to support the effective work of the Individuals at Risk team.
- You have a strong interest in, and a basic understanding of campaigning principles but specific campaign experience is not necessary.
- You'll have experience of a variety of administration tasks, using Microsoft Word and Excel to a proficient standard as well as administration of a records / database system where knowledge of GDPR was required.
- You collaborate and positively contribute to an inclusive culture.
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.
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