Grassroots Campaigns Manager

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 [email removed - click apply for more details].

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