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Form of work
SalaryLocation: Flexible hybrid working with a mixture of in person and home/office working, either based in London or in North East Scotland. This role requires some occasional trips to the FLEX office in London or to NE Scotland to meet with project staff (covered by FLEX), depending on where it’s based.
Reports to: FLEX CEO
Management: FLEX Outreach and Engagement Team, 3-4 staff members
Benefits: 25 days holiday per year plus bank holidays and incremental leave (pro rata), and extra days over the holiday period; enhanced maternity, adoption and paternity pay; occupational sick pay; incremental pension contributions; Employee Assistance Programme; and a wide range of opportunities for skills development.
Deadline for applications: 21st January 2024
Interviews: 29th and 30th January 2024
About FLEX:
Focus on Labour Exploitation (FLEX) is a research and policy organisation working to end labour exploitation by challenging and transforming the systems and structures that make workers vulnerable to abuse. We are striving for a world free from all forms of labour exploitation, including forced labour and human trafficking. FLEX seeks to achieve this vision through the prevention of labour abuses, protection of the rights of those affected or at risk of exploitation and by promoting best practice responses to labour exploitation through research and evidence-based advocacy.
About the project:
This is an exciting new project that will pilot a Worker-driven Social Responsibility (WSR) model in UK fishing, delivered in partnership with the International Transport Federation, and in consultation with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers and the Fair Food Standards Council of the Fair Food Program. The WSR model for achieving human rights for workers in corporate supply chains exists in stark contrast to traditional corporate social responsibility, which generally involves voluntary and unenforceable commitments by corporations to standards without input or participation from the workers themselves. The WSR model seeks to create a paradigm shift in supply chains by putting workers at the centre of both developing and enforcing the solutions that truly respond to their priorities, empowering them to serve as frontline monitors of their own rights by harnessing the purchasing power of major buyers to protect workers who identify abuses against retaliation.
About the role:
You will coordinate an exciting new pilot project seeking to design and implement a Worker Driven Social Responsibility (WSR) programme in UK fishing. You will be responsible for planning and coordinating the delivery of all project activities and outputs and for managing the project budget.
PHASE 1: The role involves leading on or supporting the development of project outputs, organising partnership meetings, and registering a new legal entity. As part of the first phase of this project, you will line manage at least two Outreach Workers based in Northeast Scotland who will engage with migrant fishers. Working closely with partners from ITF and FLEX, and in consultation with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers and the Fair Food Standards Council of the Fair Food Program, you will develop and implement an outreach strategy to ensure that all project outputs and processes are directly informed and shaped by the workers whose rights are the subject of the pilot project.
PHASE II: Upon the launch of a Worker-driven Social Responsibility (WSR) pilot in the UK fishing industry, you will coordinate the project staff and initial implementation process, including but not limited to worker education and monitoring protocols.
As Manager of FLEX’s Outreach and Engagement team, you will be responsible for monitoring and strengthening FLEX’s Worker Engagement Strategy and for providing line management and supervising the delivery of FLEX’s training programme.
