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Amnesty International UK 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 to the Director of Fundraising also supporting the Director of Data, Finance and Infrastructure.

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 of AIUK’s Senior Management Team.

The Director of Fundraising is responsible for our income generation plan and leading the department (organised into four teams: Individual Giving, Social Giving and Retail, Major Gifts Fundraising, Fundraising Innovation) that delivers circa £30m income per year from a wide range of income streams, and manages the relationships with financial supporters, members, and funders. They have a team of 43 with four direct line reports in addition to this role.

The Director of Data, Finance and Infrastructure is responsible for our finance, IT, data & insights, risk & assurance, events and facilities functions. They are responsible for overseeing the running of the Finance, Audit and Risk Sub-committee (FARSC). They have a team of 32 with six direct line reports.

The Executive Assistant will be integral to supporting the Directors 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. The role will also support the Director of Fundraising with the management of our fundraising compliance programme.

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

We would welcome candidates who have applied for a similar Executive Assistant role recently advertised to apply again. If you had applied for the previously advertised Executive Assistant role, you are welcome to submit the same application, as the hiring managers for this role are different.

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, Amnesty International UK 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.