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OVERVIEW OF THE ROLE

The purpose of this role is to support the clients and graduates of the Helen Bamber Foundation to use their first-hand knowledge and experience to improve both practice and policy in the asylum and trafficking sectors. You will work as a key member of our Community and Integration team to ensure that HBF clients have agency, and that they are safeguarded throughout engagement and advocacy projects.
The Survivor Engagement and Activism Coordinator is the lead person for the organisation in managing client engagement and activism. The post holder will oversee and facilitate the main survivor participation mechanisms at HBF, as well as being a point of contact and coordinator of other engagement and activism opportunities that the Foundation and our clients have.
There are currently four key survivor engagement and activism projects within the Helen Bamber Foundation:

•The Ambassadors for Change programme is a survivor-led advocacy and leadership training programme that supports a small group of clients from HBF to develop and implement a campaign to create positive change. Ambassadors use their lived expertise and knowledge of their community to influence social change, and they receive training and support to champion better outcomes for survivors of human rights abuses. Whilst the Ambassadors work collectively on a campaign project, they are also supported individually with personal goals and advocacy achievements alongside their work with the group.
•The Client Voices Forum is the main hub for clients’ active collaboration with HBF in the development and evaluation of the Foundation’s services. This group meets regularly, to share their feedback and recommendations on HBF’s services as well as to suggest and execute projects centred on improving client experience at HBF such as informative workshops and trips.

•The Board Advisors are paid positions held by experts by experience, who observe and support the HBF Board of Trustees, they contribute, advise, and make recommendations to Board on the work and strategy of HBF.

•The HBF Alumni Network is a new platform that supports graduated HBF clients to learn about and connect to lived experience engagement, advocacy and leadership opportunities. The Alumni Network receives a quarterly newsletter containing lived experience work and training opportunities that may be of interest as well as having in person meet ups every six months.

APPLICATION PROCESS

The first stage is to complete on our online application form on our website by 10am on Monday 9th March 2026.
The website form will ask you to:
1.Upload a short covering letter. Please tell us why the position appeals to you, and how your
relevant skills and experience, including any voluntary experience and lived experience, matches the listed responsibilities and person specification. Please also state in your covering letter when you would be available to start the role.
The covering letter can be provided in one of four different ways:
1.Written A4 (No more than 2 sides of A4)
2.PowerPoint (No more than 3 slides)
3.Audio recording (No more than 5 mins)
4.Video Recording (No more than 5 mins)

2.Upload your current CV

3. Complete an online Equal Opportunities monitoring form – completion of this form will help us ensure that our recruitment procedures operate in such a way as to provide genuine equality of opportunity. The questions are entirely optional and this information will not be available to members of the selection panel.

SELECTION PROCESS

We will invite candidates to an initial 15-minute online screening meeting week commencing 16th March, followed by shortlisted candidates attending in-person interview week commencing 23rd March. We will also ask you to complete a short written exercise on the day.
At Helen Bamber Foundation Group we want to be transparent about what kind of qualities we are looking for and build trust from the very beginning of your journey with us. The first step is your interview, and we mean ‘your’ interview so we will provide you with your interview questions ahead of the interview. This will allow you time to prepare, and ensure you have your best examples in mind.

ELIGIBILITY

Please note that the successful candidate must have the right to work in the UK (as a small charity we do not have the capacity to sponsor work visas).
Successful candidates will also be subject to a DBS check. If appointed, you will also be required to give your consent to the charity to receive regular updates on your criminal records status throughout your employment and to disclose any relevant convictions incurred during your time with us.

ADJUSTMENTS

We are committed to providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process and we’ll always endeavour to be as accommodating as possible. If you require a different format of the application form, such as large print or Word format, or if you would like to discuss any specific requirements, please get in touch with us at jobs@helenbamber.org.

EXPERTS BY EXPERIENCE SUPPORT

We are also proud to be a member of the Experts by Experience Employment Network (www.ebeemployment.org.uk), which aims to increase representation of people with lived experience in the charitable sector.
If you are an expert by experience (a refugee or a migrant with direct, first-hand experience of issues and challenges of the UK asylum or immigration system), you can ask for an independent and confidential support for your job application from the Experts by Experience Employment Network and access other information and resources at https://www.ebeemployment.org.uk/ebe which may help in preparing your job application. (www.ebeemployment.org.uk).