Amnesty International UK Hiring for Education and Activist Events Assistant Job at London, England , UK Full Time

Amnesty 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. Do you want to use your skills, knowledge and experience to help change the world? You could be our new Education and Events Assistant.

About the role

The Human Rights Education team help us achieve our goal of educating people of all ages about human rights by delivering UK based projects. The Community Organising Team empowers individuals and groups to bring about human rights change. The Education and Events Assistant is a pivotal role, providing administrative and project support across two teams. This role ensures we have excellent administrative systems and processes that support our aim of enabling more people across the UK to achieve human rights change. The diversity of the role includes: establishing, developing and maintaining systems; managing, monitoring and evaluating data; communicating with a variety of audiences and keeping sources of information up to date. 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 developing and maintaining administrative systems and databases
• You can prioritise your own work across multiple projects
• You have experience of events management
• 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). 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. See more details of our benefits here.

Apply for this role

The vacancy may be closed earlier than advertised if a high standard of applications is received. If you wish to be considered for the role, avoid delay in submitting an application.

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. We are a disability confident organisation. More details of inclusion in the AIUK recruitment process can be found here.