Women's Rights Campaign Manager
- Employer
- ActionAid
- Location
- EC1R 0BJ, London (Greater)
- Salary
- £40,222 - £41,440
- Closing date
- 1 May 2019
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- Function
- Campaigning, Management, International Development
- Sector
- International, Poverty Relief, Human Rights
- Hours
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent
Job Details
Are you passionate and knowledgeable about women’s rights issues, with a strong track record on winning high-profile public campaigns?
As a Women’s Rights Campaign Manager at ActionAid UK you can do just that as part of a team committed to campaigning for the rights of women and girls living in poverty. You will share our passion for working alongside the communities of women and girls that we work with in Africa, Asia and Latin America so that, together we can change lives for good.
The remit of Women’s Rights Campaign Manager is to lead and drive the development of our campaign strategy on Women’s Rights, and work closely with the Digital and Community Organising leads in the Campaigns team to deliver this campaign to success, with a particular emphasis on using digital channels. This will include deepening our relationship with existing supporters, as well as reaching out to new ones.
You will sit in the Campaigns team, but work closely with the Media, Stories, Brand, Public Engagement, Advocacy, Research and Policy teams.
Our model of campaigning is southern-led and as such you will work closely with colleagues and partners in the global south to build their capacity as well as co-create, co-own and co-deliver our flagship campaign on access to justice.
You will be involved in translating complex information and change objectives into succinct and clear messages as well as designing approaches that will engage change makers. Important will be the ability to work collaboratively with colleagues and external coalitions to build alliances and further objectives.
We will also look to you to improve the range and depth of women’s rights knowledge and skills within the team as well as keep in touch with policy and political debates on violence against women and girls.
You must have delivered successful campaigns with a demonstrable knowledge of change theory, power analysis, critical paths and audience insight. You will have a track record in identifying and delivering reactive campaign opportunities as well as developing high impact multichannel media strategies.
You will have a strong understanding of the issues surrounding women’s rights as well as violence against women and girls too. Good at writing impactful copy, you will also possess excellent communication and research skills.
If you are inspired to fight the denial of women and girls’ rights and remove one of the biggest causes of poverty worldwide, please complete an application form.
Company
ActionAid is an international development charity which works in 45 countries across Africa, Asia and Latin America. Founded in 1972, ActionAid is an international federation and has offices in Johannesburg, Nairobi, Rio de Janeiro, Bangkok and Washington DC, as well as London.
ActionAid UK is part of the international federation and almost all of the people and partners who run ActionAid programmes are from the developing world. This means its staff are on the ground, experiencing poverty at first hand. They see day-to-day how poverty affects people’s lives, and are uniquely placed to give a voice to the women and children who suffer most.
ActionAid’s work has several different components, unified by a commitment to place women and girls at the centre of its work. The charity aims to end hunger by giving millions of people in extreme poverty the skills they need to grow sustainable food, and campaigns to address the causes of hunger.
ActionAid also responds to emergencies and conflicts. It provided emergency assistance to more than 600,000 people in 2015 and trained nearly 46,000 others to protect lives and prepare for emergencies. In total the charity responded to 27 emergencies around the world last year.
Improving access to education is another facet of its mission. 59 million children, more than half of them girls, were out of school in 2013. ActionAid works with more than 5,000 schools across Africa, Asia and Latin America to help over a millions girls and boys get the free, quality education they are entitled to.
Women’s rights and gender equality informs all of ActionAid’s activities. The charity works with communities against female genital mutilation, gender-based violence and forced early marriage.
ActionAid also campaigns for tax justice, fairer wages and more effective aid which can tackle the roots causes of poverty. It estimates that poorer countries lose around $200 billion a year from tax dodging by companies.
A variety of different roles are available at ActionAid including policy adviser, fundraising offer and HR manager. Employee benefits are plentiful, encompassing the opportunity to develop new skills, a pension scheme, childcare vouchers and free advice services.
ActionAid also supports selected UK employees to travel to host countries in order to gain first-hand experience of its in-country work. Frequent secondments, whereby employees work, for a period, in another department or different country in the federation, take place. The charity encourages job shares.
- Website
- https://www.actionaid.org.uk/actionaid-job-vacancies
- Telephone
- 020 3122 0561
- Location
-
33-39 Bowling Green Lane
London
EC1R 0BJ
GB
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