Advocacy Officer

Role Title: Advocacy Officer
Salary: £36,562 - £37,602
Location: London
Tenure: Permanent - Full Time

This role will require frequent/weekly travel to London, UK

ActionAid UK is a member of the ActionAid Federation, an international charity that works with women and girls living in poverty. We work with our partners and dedicated staff in 43 countries to end violence and fight poverty so that all women, everywhere, can create the future they want

Are you a keen advocate of women and girls’ rights in emergencies? 

Are you ready to take the lead in delivering an exceptional supporter experience and shaping the way people engage with one of the UK’s most impactful international charities? 

Then we'd love to hear from you!

ActionAid UK is looking for a dynamic and motivated Advocacy Officer to join our Advocacy & Influencing team. This role offers the chance to support ActionAid’s bold mission to end violence against women and girls, promote economic rights, and ensure women’s voices are heard on the global stage. This is an exciting externally facing role, requiring frequent travel to the ActionAid UK office in London and/or Parliament sometimes required at short notice.

Working closely with a passionate team, the Advocacy Officer plays a vital part in helping ActionAid UK influence political and institutional stakeholders. You will be at the heart of our advocacy efforts—monitoring political developments, preparing briefings, coordinating meetings and events, and ensuring our engagement with government and parliamentary stakeholders is impactful and strategic. Within this role you’ll utilise your excellent knowledge of the UK political context and system, Commitment to AA’s vision, mission and values, including a commitment to feminist and anti-racist principles and working in an anti-racist organisation committed to working for the rights of women and girls to support AAUK’s Advocacy efforts. This is a highly collaborative role, involving coordination across departments and engagement with international colleagues, NGOs, and policy networks requiring experience and expertise in using Outlook calendar and email, including diary management, coordinating meetings and making travel arrangements as well as Advanced IT skills, including Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint and use of databases. You’ll contribute to shaping how we present our policy priorities, manage our external relationships, and build alliances to support women’s rights worldwide. 

In addition to supporting the operational work of the Advocacy Team, you’ll take an active role in our anti-racism and decolonisation efforts. This includes helping to embed these principles into our strategy, ways of working, and partnerships.

We’re looking for someone with strong organisational and communication skills, excellent political awareness, and a commitment to feminist values and social justice. Experience working with parliamentary stakeholders, managing stakeholder tools, or organising high-profile events would be an advantage, as would a background in international development or women’s rights.

Experience of supporting colleagues to manage budgets, expenses and financial reconciliation and Proficiency in setting up videoconferencing will be required.

This is an opportunity to be part of a team that is influencing national and international discourse at a crucial moment in global efforts for equality.

Due to the nature of this role, the successful candidate will be asked to participate in criminal records checks at the point of offer. 

Additional information

Diversity, equality, inclusion and belonging:

Diversity, inclusion and belonging are key to our organisational culture. We are on a journey to become not only an anti-racist organisation but one that proudly celebrates the diversity of all applicants and employees. We look forward to you bringing your full self to work, proudly sharing your unique perspective and helping us to shape our combined future. We especially welcome applications from those from under-represented/marginalised communities.

AAUK is a Disability Confident Committed organisation and as such any candidate that declares a disability will be shortlisted for interview if they meet the essential criteria for the role.

Referencing and safeguarding:

All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, which can include safeguarding, criminal records and terrorism finance checks. By submitting an application the job applicant confirms their understanding of these recruitment procedures. 

ActionAid UK is committed to preventing any form of sexual harassment, exploitation, and abuse (including child abuse and adult at-risk abuse) and responding robustly when these harms take place. We expect all ActionAid UK staff and ActionAid UK representatives to share this commitment. We will not tolerate our staff or other representatives carrying out any form of sexual harassment, exploitation or abuse towards anyone we come into contact with through our work.

Working practices:

ActionAid is committed to supporting flexible working. If you would like to discuss flexible working options, including the possibility of a job share for this role, there will be space to do so during the interview process.

ActionAid UK has a hybrid working policy for many of our roles. The requirement will vary from team to team and the responsibilities of individual roles. As a minimum, all colleagues are expected to attend the office 12 days per year, plus additional time for induction, training, and company connection days. Some roles may require in-office attendance on all days and if so, these will clearly be marked as in-office roles.

Please note that ActionAid UK does not offer fully remote working options. We encourage you to discuss hybrid working expectations at interview.

Recruitment processes:

Please note that ActionAid UK may review, shortlist and interview candidates prior to the closing date so we encourage all candidates to apply as soon as possible. If we receive a very high response, we may close the vacancy early and will not accept further submissions.

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