Write for Rights Intern

Salary: £28,770 starting salary (salary range will increase to a max 31,364 via the length of service) per annum pro rata plus £4,087.65 Inner London Weighting if based in London per annum pro rata. 

Contract: part-time fixed term basis until 31st December 2024.

Part-Time: 21 hours per week (excluding lunch breaks),

Location: Any Refugee Action office – London, Birmingham, Bradford or Manchester. We will consider UK based hybrid working options.

Our vision is that refugees and asylum seekers will be welcome in the UK. They will get justice, live free of poverty and be able to successfully rebuild their lives.

Applying for this role – please read:

Applications for this role are only* open to people who identify as having lived experience of forced displacement due to war, invasion, persecution or human rights abuses

(This also includes British nationals living/working overseas who have been forced to leave due to war, invasion, persecution or human rights abuses)

*Current Refugee Action employees with lived experience, are eligible to apply. It is a funder requirement

We are looking to recruit two Programme Officers who will work across the Explore Adapt Renew programme until 31 December 2024. They will support the Programme Manager and gain knowledge, skills and experience across these activities:

• Partnership working
• Meeting and event planning and facilitation
• Communications and content creation
• Programme administration and governance.

In the second half of the traineeship, the Programme Officers will be supported to take responsibility for leading a piece of work. This specific area of work will depend on the needs of the programme and also the interests and skills that the individual Programme Officers want to pursue. At the end of the traineeship, we expect the Programme Officers to be able to demonstrate their experience across all the areas of work listed above. We believe this will put the Programme Officers in a good position to gain further employment in a similar role.

 To succeed in the role you will need to demonstrate:

•  Understanding of the needs, hopes and experiences of asylum seekers and refugees in the UK.
• 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.
• Good written and verbal communication skills with ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.
• Good team working skills, with the ability to collaborate and enable others to thrive.
• Good interpersonal skills with the ability to develop positive relationships and maintain flexibility and open-mindedness.
• Ability to use your own initiative to work through challenges or problems or to see an opportunity and take steps to improve something. 
• Ability to ask for help, identify your own strengths and challenges, be open to giving and receiving feedback and work towards professional development.
• Insight and experience or interest in developing skills in: research, Human Centred Design / service design, coproduction, programme management, monitoring evaluation and learning - or something else that we haven’t thought of that would be useful for this work!

 We want to make sure that we reach to as many potential candidates as possible and that we make the process accessible so we will be running 2 information sessions where interested people can come and find out more about the role, the work of the GPP team and the application process.

For online Information Sessions via Zoom, please register via the links below:

Monday 4th March – 15:00-16:00

https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwtdumtqzkoE9NQpNG21cFGwpsSREnv-G1Z

Or Monday 11th March – 10:00-11:00

https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUoduivrDMjGdSXW2rNSX7MrHb4RWcrCoTN

For further details, and to apply, please visit our website.

Closing date: Sunday 17 March 2024

Interviews: Thursday 28 March 2024 – online via 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.