Department Coordinator in London

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. If you want to use your skills, knowledge, and experience to help fight for human rights, you could be our new Directorate Coordinator.

About the role

The Strategy and Organisational Effectiveness team help us achieve our goal of making human rights a vote winner by aligning the organisation behind our strategy. As part of the Chief Executive's Directorate, this role predominantly supports cross-organisational priorities and helps ensure alignment, communication and effective decision-making at a senior level. The Department Coordinator is also accountable for providing high-quality administrative, governance and coordination support to two of the Directors, enabling them to lead their areas effectively. In this role you will report to the Head of Strategy and Organisational Effectiveness, working closely with two other directorate coordinators and with the Impact, Evaluation and Learning Manager.

This role typically needs to spend 1 day per week in the office to fulfil the responsibilities of the role, with some flexibility.

The role may be for you if:

• You're skilled in coordinating complex administration and providing high-level support to senior leaders.
• Managing competing priorities and organising workloads in fast-paced environments.
• Building effective relationships and influencing across teams.
• Communicating clearly and confidently with a wide range of stakeholders.

You can:

• Work flexibly and with ambiguity, using sound judgement and discretion.
• Plan, prioritise and deliver multiple tasks to tight deadlines with strong attention to detail.
• Navigate complex organisational dynamics and find practical solutions quickly.
• Maintain confidentiality while handling sensitive information.

You collaborate and positively contribute to an inclusive culture.

You also have a good knowledge of:

• Inclusive ways of working and organisational best practice.
• Governance processes and senior leadership coordination (desirable).
• The aims and values of Amnesty International and the wider human rights landscape (desirable).

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) and 3 wellbeing days. 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.

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. To support all candidates to perform their best at interview, we send questions 24 hours in advance. We are a disability confident organisation.

Visit amnesty.org.uk/jobs for application guidance and information on benefits, recruitment inclusion and hybrid working.