Community Engagement Coordinator | Refugee Action

The Aziz Foundation is partnering with Refugee Action to offer a one year fixed term contract role. This is a flexible part time (28hrs per week), hybrid working post.

The Community Engagement Coordinator post is ringfenced for someone with lived experience of forced displacement, who can demonstrate knowledge of issues affecting Muslim communities and long-term commitment to community/ societal development.

This role is specifically responsible for helping steward and engage Community and Events audiences. The post-holder will support on the development and delivery of engaging and effective activist packs, a Refugee Action speakers’ group, and key flagship campaigning events working closely with the Community and Events and Campaigns team. The successful candidate will be fundamental in helping Refugee Action to shift the narrative around people seeking safety in the UK to create a welcoming and anti-racist society.

Refugee Action exists to work with refugees and people seeking asylum who’ve survived some of the world’s worst regimes. After fleeing unimaginable horrors, they can find themselves in a continued crisis in the UK, often homeless, living in poverty and unable to work. This is compounded by the racism that refugees face here in the UK. Refugee Action sees every day the power systems which inform the hostile environment, policies, and procedures that people seeking safety are subject to.

Refugee Action support people to live with dignity, helping them build safe, happy and productive lives in the UK. Its vision is that refugees and people seeking asylum will be welcome in the UK, getting justice, living free of poverty and being able to successfully rebuild their lives.

Refugee Action is striving to become an anti-racist organisation where it recognises and highlights racism whenever and wherever it sees it – including within its own organisation. It is working to change the structures that are rooted in colonialism and negatively impact on refugees here in the UK. It is committed to increasing its understanding of colonisation, its impact on how it thinks and work, and how it is part of its fundraising.

Application deadline: Thursday 11th April 2024, 23:59hrs.

Refugee Action Community Engagement Coordinator Job Description

Shortlisted candidates will be interviewed.