Hope for Justice exists to bring an end to modern slavery by preventing exploitation, rescuing victims, restoring lives and reforming society. Around the world, we are growing a movement of abolitionists who believe freedom is worth the fight. Our team works from more than 30 locations across five continents. If you’re looking to make a difference, this is the place for the you.

Hope for Justice is committed to the principles of diversity, equality and inclusion. We are a global organisation with staff from a wide variety of backgrounds, and ensure through our recruitment processes that we continue to welcome candidates from all walks of life. If you feel that your skills and experience fit one of our advertised roles, and you share our values and mission to end slavery, then we strongly encourage your application regardless of your background.

Hope for Justice is seeking an experienced and enthusiastic professional to join our UK Advocacy team as our Advocacy Advice Co-ordinator.

As the Advocacy Advice Co-ordinator, you will lead and manage the advocacy advice service and work directly with professionals, key agencies and individual survivors in relation to modern slavery survivor care in the UK. From delivering expert advocacy and advice, supporting our existing team of Independent Modern Slavery Advocates (IMSAs), and contributing to research, strategy development and training needs, you will act as a trusted advisor and professional in the fight against modern slavery. The Advocacy Advice Co-ordinator will also play a key role in the design, implementation and development of the IMSA model.

As an Advocacy Advice Co-ordinator, you will:

· Lead and manage the advocacy advice service for professionals and individuals on modern slavery survivor care in the UK.

· Oversee all enquiries into the advocacy advice service and provide tailored, specialist advice, advocacy and signposting in response to enquiries in a timely and efficient manner.

· Manage a small caseload of clients to provide advocacy interventions.

· Oversee the structures, processes, and best practice for the advice service, including contributing to funding, finance and MEAL systems.

· Evaluate and report on the effectiveness of the advocacy advice service to internal and external stakeholders.

· Work with the Senior UK Policy and Research Advisor to lead the UK programmes team on relevant changes to legislation and policy in the UK and their impact on survivors of modern slavery.

· Work with the UK Advocacy Manager and IMSA Model Development Manager to implement the IMSA Model Hub and Stages 2 and 3 of the IMSA Model Development Project.

For more information on the role, please download the attached Role Profile.

· Strategic and operational knowledge of modern slavery and broader Human Rights legislation.

· Knowledge of the UK modern slavery sector and the pathways of support for survivors.

· Understanding of the legal rights and obligations of victims of modern slavery – including an understanding of immigration, housing, community care, welfare benefits, public law, civil law (including access to compensation), debts and victim rights in the criminal justice process.

· Advocacy, research and drafting skills

· Ability to use trauma-informed methods

· Maintaining professional boundaries

· Word, Excel and PowerPoint proficiency

· Educated to Degree level

· Previous work within the modern slavery sector, ideally with survivors of modern slavery and/or victims of serious crime

· Enhanced DBS check

Benefits of working at Hope for Justice

Hope for Justice is committed to supporting our staff’s wellbeing and offers competitive salaries and a range of additional benefits to our staff.

At Hope for Justice, our values act as guiding principles for everything we do, and we are committed to upholding our values of honouring and empowering our employees. Hope for Justice are a Living Wage employer, accredited by the Living Wage Foundation.

As part of Hope for Justice, you will benefit from an excellent package including:

· 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing with service

· 1 day Marriage Leave

· Enhanced employer pension contributions

· Company sick pay

· Enhanced maternity and paternity pay

· Access to our Employee Rewards Platform, providing discounts and offers for well-known retailers

· Free, confidential Employee Assistance Programme for staff and their family

· Professional development opportunities

· Professional memberships paid

· Flexible and hybrid working

Other Details

Job Type: Full Time (37.5 hours per week)

Salary: up to £30,000 (Dependent on experience)

Closing date: 6 May 2024 (interviews will be held on a rolling basis, and advert removed if role filled sooner so please submit application as soon as possible)

Location: UK, Remote (Occasional travel to Manchester head office is required).

All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, which include criminal records checks, in line with our Global background checks policy – to view this please click here. Hope for Justice participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this scheme, as part of the referencing process we will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms his/her understanding of these recruitment procedures.

We would like to inform you that due to the high number of applicants we receive, we regret that we are not able to respond individually to all applicants. Rest assured that all applications are carefully reviewed, however only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for further steps in the selection process.