Contract Details Permanent Salary £39,448.00 (includes London weighting) Weekly Hours 35 with flexibility options Location London EC2A / Hybrid in the UK Application Deadline Monday, November 21, 2022 Interview Date Tuesday, December 6, 2022 Job Summary
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 Education Officer – Youth and Schools.

About the role

The role of the Education Officer is to support the implementation of Amnesty International UK’s Human Rights Education (HRE) Strategy. Our HRE strategy aims to enable people to develop: knowledge and understanding about human rights; attitudes and behaviour respectful of those rights; the skills to uphold and protect human rights. Delivering the strategy involves UK based projects targeted at children, young people and adults including Amnesty activists.

The Education Officer – Youth and Schools leads Amnesty UK’s work to educate young learners and young activists to know, claim and defend their rights. The role holder creates and collaborates on inspiring education content and journeys, with a particular focus on working with activist educators and creative partners. This post will work closely with all members of the team and take the lead on specific HRE projects including the Youth Coaches project and Words That Burn project.

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 collaborating effectively with a wide range of people for example activists and colleagues at senior levels
  • You can design and deliver learning events and training for youth and adult audiences
  • You collaborate and positively contribute to an inclusive culture.
  • You also have a good knowledge of human rights education methodology and practice

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). 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. See more details of our benefits here.

Apply for this role

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. We are a disability confident organisation. More details of inclusion in the AIUK recruitment process can be found here.
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