Salary: £31,532 pro rata (3 days per week) – one year fixed term contract (with the aim to extend dependent on funding)
Do you have a passion for challenging hate, discrimination, and prejudice in the UK media/press? Are you keen to empower people from across society to come together and take action? Can you help strengthen our campaign with insights about the challenges faced by communities affected by media discrimination and racism? Are you driven to unite communities facing negative media attention?
Stop Funding Hate is looking for an outstanding Community Organiser to help build the fightback against racism, xenophobia, transphobia, misogyny, anti-Traveller hate, Islamophobia and other forms of discrimination in the UK media.
If you have brilliant written communication skills and a strong track record in using digital platforms to develop online communities we’d love to hear from you.
We especially welcome applications from people affected by identity-based discrimination within the media and wider society, who can bring insights to this role grounded in lived experience.
Stop Funding Hate is a people-powered, community-driven human rights campaign, working to challenge media hate by engaging with advertisers. Since we launched in 2016, we’ve seen a marked reduction in anti-migrant front pages within the UK press.
We’re now working to build longer-term systemic change to make hate unprofitable through:
- Online campaigning, mobilising consumer power to continue challenging toxic media by engaging with advertisers
- Building a strong and vibrant wider ethical advertising movement through knowledge sharing, capacity building and amplifying voices
- Direct engagement with advertising industry allies, charities and community partners to establish ethical advertising as a mainstream business ethics issue
How to apply:
You can download the application pack with full person specification and job description here
You can find out more about Stop Funding Hate’s work here, our core principles here, and on our Facebook community here.
If you need to apply in a different format or have any questions about the application process please contact us.
Your application will be read using the person specification and job description to assess which candidates are suitable for the role, so please use these when writing your supporting information. Let us know which skills, experiences and knowledge you have which makes you particularly suitable for this role and give examples of this in practice. We’d love to know why you want to work for Stop Funding Hate and why you’re interested in this role.
Every application will be read by at least two people, and at least one of whom who has lived experience of media hate and discrimination.
Closing date: 23rd August 2021 (11.59pm)
Interview date: interviews will take place via zoom on 9th September 2021
The interview panel will include members of the Stop Funding Hate team and board and someone who has lived experience of the impact of media hate
Each applicant will also be required to take a short test before the interview takes place.