• Salary: £32,642 - £36,868 per annum at 1.0 FTE (or pro rata equivalent if part-time).

• Working pattern: full-time (37.5 hrs per week at 1.0 FTE) or part-time at 0.8 or 0.9 FTE

• Contract: fixed-term for 12-months initially, with potential to become permanent

• Team: Campaigns & Communications Team

• Location: Candidates should be within reach of London. This role can be office-based or hybrid. Team meetings take place in-person from the London office each Thursday and availability to attend some ad hoc events and meetings around London and other parts of the country is required too. 

• Reporting to: Head of Campaigns and Communications 

Safe Passage International (SPI) is recruiting a Grassroots Campaigns Manager to support growth in our ground-breaking work to ensure that safe routes to sanctuary exist for all people seeking asylum.

We are looking for someone with great interpersonal skills, a good understanding of grassroots campaigning at a local level, and the capacity to build relationships with local and national campaigning groups as well as refugee and diaspora communities, as detailed in the Person Specification. Experience in a similar role would be welcome, but this could also be your first paid position in the charity sector, or you could be returning to work after time out. This position will have a dedicated training budget and you will be supported to grow and develop within your role.

Working closely with the Head of Campaigns and Communications as well as the wider Campaigns & Communications team, this is an exciting opportunity to join an award-winning team campaigning for change. With a General Election fast-approaching, it’s a critical time in the fight for refugee rights and safe routes.

As our Grassroots Campaigns Manager, you will lead the development of our volunteer campaigning group, help to train our campaigners to lead relationship building in their local areas, build links with local and national campaigning groups, and develop strong relationships with refugee and diaspora communities as part of our strategy to work with, not for, refugees. You will link all of this up to our broader campaigning objectives, fighting for change in the run up to the General Election and beyond. You will also work alongside our Young Leaders, who are a group of young people from refugee & asylum-seeking backgrounds, working together to campaign for change.

You will be attentive to detail, flexible, efficient, great at time management, and able to work well both independently and under supervision as part of a small and energetic team. A keen interest in the charity/NGO/refugee sectors is advantageous. 

We value equality and diversity in our organisation, and are striving to build a workforce reflective of the communities we work in. We welcome applications from everyone regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, faith, or disability. People with refugee or asylum-seeking backgrounds are experts by experience and are particularly encouraged to apply.

As a refugee charity, we offer a guaranteed interview for people with lived experience of seeking asylum who meet most of the essential criteria outlined in the Person Specification. If you have first-hand experience of applying for asylum in any country, please let us know in your application.  

We respect that people’s identity is not defined by their past experiences and do not expect candidates to describe their lived experience during the interview process unless they wish to.

If you are excited by this role and working at Safe Passage but do not have all the experience you think is needed, we would encourage you to apply anyway and reach out for an informal chat beforehand to discuss why you would like to apply for the role and what skills or experiences you think are relevant.

If you would like to arrange this, please contact, Gunes, our Head of Campaigns and Communications, on gunes@safepassage.org.uk.

How do I apply?

Please read the full Job Description & Person Specification and our ‘How to Apply Guide’ below.

The ‘How to Apply Guide’ asks candidates to submit a CV and Cover Letter answering five specific questions linked to the Person Specification. Applications can be submitted via email in written form or as digital audio or video files.

We also ask candidates to complete our ‘Equal Opportunities Form’ to help us monitor and improve in our aims to become a truly diverse, representative and inclusive work force.

We are proud to be a member of the Experts by Experience Employment Network (www.ebeemployment.org.uk), which aims to create a charitable sector that is led by people with lived experience of the asylum and immigration system. As part of this network, we challenge the one-size-fits-all approach in our employment practices, and respect personal circumstances and needs of people with lived experience. Please feel free to use information and resources at https://www.ebeemployment.org.uk/ebe which may help in preparing your job application.

Closing date: Sunday 25th February at 11.59 pm.