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Executive Assistant to Director of Activism & Education (FTC)

Employer
Amnesty International UK
Location
London
Salary
Up to £39842 per annum + 35 days holiday (including BH)
Closing date
22 Oct 2024
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Function
Administration
Sector
Human Rights
Hours
Full Time
Contract Type
Contract
Seniority
Junior

Job Details

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.

If that sounds like the impact you would like to have in your professional career, and you believe you have the skills, knowledge and experience to be successful in this role, you could be our new Executive Assistant reporting the Director of Activism & Education.


About the role

This role ensures that the Directors have the right personal support in organising their departments and fulling their obligations in reporting, performance and business planning to Boards and Committees. The Directors are part AIUK's Senior Management Team.

The Director of Activism & Education is a new role at AIUK focusing on our important work in Community Organising, Activist Events and Human Rights Education and is responsible for Movement Building. They are responsible for the Building a Powerful Movement Sub-committee supported by a team of around 20, currently with 6 line reports.

The Executive Assistant will be integral to supporting the Director to provide positive leadership, by ensuring that their departments have the right administrative systems in place, and representing them when liaising with internal and external contacts when providing organisational and administrative services for committees and meetings.

More details can be found by downloading the job description from our careers portal.


The role may be for you if:

  • You're well organised and skilled in using, maintaining and developing administrative systems.
  • You can manage your workload effectively with priorities from multiple stakeholders
  • You collaborate and positively contribute to an inclusive culture.
  • You are confident in providing organisational and administrative services for committees and meetings.
  • You also have good relationship management skills and can deal well with ambiguity in your work.


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) and 3 wellbeing days. 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.

Apply for this role

This vacancy advert may be taken down from job boards earlier than the stated deadline if a high standard of applications is received (if you have started an application in our portal, you will still have opportunity to complete it by the original deadline).

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. To support all candidates to perform their best at interview, we send questions 24 hours in advance. We are a disability confident organisation.

Visit amnesty.org.uk/jobs for application guidance and information on benefits, recruitment inclusion and hybrid working.

Company

Amnesty International UK (AUIK) is part of a worldwide movement working to promote respect for human rights, as set out in 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Amnesty in the UK is headquartered in London but also has offices in Edinburgh and Belfast. A membership organisation, Amnesty International UK has around 170 employees across its three locations and 207,000 supporters and members.

Amnesty was founded in England in 1961 by barrister Peter Benenson. It now has an estimated seven million members, supporters and activists in more than 150 countries. In the UK, Amnesty is actually two legal entities - Amnesty International United Kingdom Section, a limited company which undertakes campaigning work in the UK, and Amnesty International UK Section Charitable Trust, a registered charity which funds some of the projects undertaken in the UK and globally. These two organisations form Amnesty International UK, one of 68 national entities in the Amnesty International movement.

Amnesty’s mission is to undertake research and action aimed at exposing, preventing and ending grave abuses of human rights. It concentrates on ending abuses of the rights to physical and mental integrity, freedom of conscience and expression and freedom from discrimination.

Supporters are integral to Amnesty’s work in standing up for people whose rights are abused. This work involves helping to release prisoners, change discriminatory laws, compensate victims of abuse and provide moral support. Two main methods are used. Supporters receive Urgent Action appeals from around the world. This could be to stop an imminent execution or protect prisoners from torture. In 2015, the 10,000 supporters in AUIK’s Urgent Action Network took action in 629 cases, by for example, sending a letter, email or text.

In 2015, UK supporters also took action in 96 long-term cases. Human Rights issues here included enforced disappearance, torture and restrictions on freedom of expression.

Amnesty also promotes awareness of human rights through means such as public events, fundraising activities and multimedia outreach. In 2015, AUIK demanded protection from torture for people in state custody, opposed proposed repeal of the Human Rights Act in Britain and pressured the UK government to meet its responsibilities to Syrian refugees.

Amnesty in the UK has around 170 employees and has received a number of commendations for its treatment of staff. The organisation has received an outstanding 1 star status from the Best Companies accreditation scheme for high levels of workplace engagement. In 2011, AUIK was a finalist in the Best Employer Category in the Third Sector Excellence Awards. And AUIK was voted by students the most popular graduate employer in the charity and not for profit sector in a 2014 Guardian newspaper survey.

Company info
Website
Telephone
020 7033 1777
Location
Amnesty International UK
Human Rights Action Centre,
17-25 New Inn Yard,
London
EC2A 3EA
GB

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