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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 Human Rights Education Manager.
About the role
The Human Rights Education Team play a key role in achieving our goal of increasing knowledge and changing attitudes to human rights as well as building a powerful human rights movement. The Human Rights Education Manager is accountable for leading and developing AIUK’s work to educate children, young people and adults – including activists. The day to day of this role involves leading the HRE Team to plan, deliver, monitor and evaluate high quality learning activities. The role also involves collaborating with partners and across the international Amnesty movement. This is a maternity cover role until July 2024. 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 team leadership and line management
- You can design and deliver high quality learning
- You collaborate and positively contribute to an inclusive culture.
- You also have a good knowledge of education methodology and practice and an understanding of human rights
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.
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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. To support all candidates to perform their best at interview, we send questions 24 hours in advance. We are a disability confident organisation.
Please note that due to the nature of the work any offer of employment for this role will be subject to safer recruitment checks, including a criminal record check.
Visit amnesty.org.uk/jobs for application guidance and information on benefits, recruitment inclusion and hybrid working.