Campaigns Manager

We're looking for an exceptional campaigning professional to lead our campaigning strategy into the future.
Are you an experienced campaigns manager wanting to make your mark on standing against torture and for a compassionate UK asylum system? Freedom from Torture's award winning campaigns, developed and delivered alongside survivors of torture, have made a huge impact for people. From our Stop the Flights campaign, persuading airlines to pull out of the UK's cruel Rwanda scheme to successfully campaigning to remove torture, war crimes and crimes against humanity from impunity protections in the Overseas Operations Bill.

This role sits within the Survivor Leadership and Influencing Directorate and is responsible for developing impactful, strategic campaigns that support the delivery of Freedom from Torture's influencing aims.

A new role, the successful candidate will have the opportunity to develop and lead a programme of work that will deliver a shift in narrative and positive policy changes to stop torture and stand up for the rights of survivors. This role works closely with Freedom from Torture's digital team, experts in innovative, engaging digital campaigns delivery.

About the role

The key purpose of the role is to lead on the strategy and delivery of Freedom from Torture's campaigns programme to deliver our influencing objectives. Working closely with Policy and Advocacy colleagues on our international accountability and refugee rights workstreams and our survivor leadership team, the Campaigns Manager will build a campaigns strategy to engage public audiences to drive our influencing work.

The role works closely with colleagues in our digital team, most specifically the Digital Engagement and Campaigns Manager, who will be responsible for developing and delivering digital communications to engage the public and our supporters in campaigning activity.

What's in it for you?

The opportunity to develop a campaigns strategy fit for the future, adapting to a new UK government and changing national awareness of the needs of those fleeing torture and persecution.
The opportunity to join a passionate, dynamic and impactful team. And to work with and learn from Freedom from Torture's survivor leadership community, working with and supporting them to build engaging and impactful campaigns.

Excellent benefits, including a generous annual leave package.

About you

We would love to hear from you if: 
* You're a lifelong learner. You love learning new skills or reading up on the latest best practice
* You've got experience of developing and implementing impactful campaigns
* You're a strategic thinker, able to translate complex influencing and policy messaging into clear and engaging public and political campaigns
* You're a creative with a can-do attitude who makes things happen
* You have a strong understanding of what metrics indicate campaign success and how to analyse and act on results
* You're a great relationship manager with experience with working with broad coalitions and lived experience groups
* You're politically savvy
* You are highly developed in influencing, persuasion and negotiation skills.



The big pluses

* Lived experience of torture or asylum and migration
* Experience working with and on behalf of people with lived experience
* Experience of working in coalition with other like minded organisations


In return, we offer a competitive package, with a generous 30-day annual leave entitlement, and 6% employer pension contribution (minimum 1% employee contribution).

Freedom from Torture is committed to showing the salary for all advertised roles and not negotiating salaries for roles, in light of evidence that this contributes to structural inequality.

Our policy is that all appointments will be at the start of the salary range but successful candidates will have the opportunity to move up the scale over time. For this role, the salary range is £47,432 - £55,021 (including London Weighting).

To view the Job Description and Person Specification, please visit our website.

Please note a CV and a cover letter addressing the job description and person specification of the role are mandatory to be considered for the position.

Freedom from Torture is dedicated to healing and protecting people who have survived torture. We provide therapies to improve physical and mental health, we medically document torture, and we provide legal and welfare help. We expose torture globally, we fight to hold torturing states to account and we campaign for fairer treatment of torture survivors in the UK.

We campaign for national and global change, using evidence from our services and survivor voices to protect and promote survivors' rights and hold torturing states to account. We are proud to play a significant role in the global anti-torture movement. Survivors, active and empowered, are at the centre of all of our work.

Freedom from Torture is committed to its responsibilities under safeguarding, and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is subject to a satisfactory DBS disclosure, as well as a need for full employment history and up to date employment references.

Freedom from Torture is an equal opportunity employer. People with lived experience of torture or asylum, from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQIA+ individuals and people with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply.

We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications.