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Form of work
SalaryContract: Permanent
Hours: 35 hours a week
Location: London
Starting salary: £33,396 - £38.740 per annum Inc. London weighting
Closing date: 28th January 2024
Expected date of interviews: 5 February 2024
Job ref: VA681
Freedom from Torture is the Winner of the Overall Award for Excellence and the top prize for Campaigns and Advocacy at the 2023 Charity Awards.
We have an exciting opportunity to support the development and delivery of a survivor-led programme of strategic external influencing work aimed at creating positive change for torture survivors.
Would you like to join our award-winning organisation?
About the role
Survivor Speak Out (SSO) Network Coordinator will ensure networks members are engaging in activities and kept up to date with opportunities. You will play a big role in ensuring that survivor voices are represented in our work.
About you
You will work very closely with the Survivor Speak Out Network manager in delivering the policy influencing and accountability work to deliver Freedom from Torture and the Survivor speak Out strategy.
You will be responsible for organising meetings, sharing opportunities with survivors and lived experienced of the asylum system. Growing the involvement of survivor is a key goal, therefore, as SSO Coordinator. You will liaise with clinicians about opportunities for referral and trainings for members. You will need to be self-determined and lead to encourage members participations.
In return, we offer a competitive package, with a generous 30-day annual leave entitlement, and 6% employer pension contribution (minimum 1% employee contribution).
Freedom from Torture is committed to showing the salary for all advertised roles and not negotiating salaries for roles, in light of evidence that this contributes to structural inequality. Our policy is that all appointments will be at the start of the salary range, but successful candidates will have the opportunity to move up the scale over time. The progression up the salary range is reviewed on an annual basis and subject to affordability. For this role, the salary range is : £33,396 - £38.740
To view the Job Description and Person Specification, please visit our website
Please note a CV and a cover letter addressing the job description and person specification of the role are mandatory to be considered for the position.
Freedom from Torture is dedicated to healing and protecting people who have survived torture. We provide therapies to improve physical and mental health, we medically document torture, and we provide legal and welfare help. We expose torture globally; we fight to hold torturing states to account, and we campaign for fairer treatment of torture survivors in the UK.
We campaign for national and global change, using evidence from our services and survivor voices to protect and promote survivors' rights and hold torturing states to account. We are proud to play a significant role in the global anti-torture movement. Survivors, active and empowered, are at the centre of all our work.
Freedom from Torture is committed to its responsibilities under safeguarding and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is subject to a satisfactory enhanced DBS disclosure, as well as a need for full employment history and up to date employment references.This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.)
Freedom from Torture is an equal opportunity employer. People with lived experience of torture or asylum, from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQIA+ individuals and people with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply.
