WORK FOR PBI! Recruitment for paid and voluntary roles now open
We're currently recruiting for several exciting positions at PBI UK. We're looking for Officers to handle external relations, communications, grants and policy work (closing 23 March), a new Trustee to join our Board (closing 5 March), and a Programme Support Volunteer to assist with advocacy, events and communications (closing 3 March). We will also soon have opportunities for international field volunteering with our Front Line Teams for those interested in direct protection work.
If you're passionate about human rights, the environment, and supporting those risking their lives on to campaign on these issues, we'd love to hear from you!
For full details on all positions and how to apply, please visit our Vacancies page. There is additional information on the Officers roles below.
Officer Roles: External Relations, Communications, Grants and Policy
Peace Brigades International (PBI) is seeking skilled communicators, excellent writers and diligent researchers to harness the power of our external relationships in order to resource our work, support grassroots human rights activism, and protect the environment.
PBI provides life-saving protection and catalytic support for women’s rights activists, Indigenous leaders, LGBTIQ+ groups, environmentalists and other human rights defenders in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. You’ll join our UK Team, which contributes to this work in a range of ways, including by raising funds from trusts and foundations, and through policy advocacy alongside grassroots leaders.
Whether remotely or in-person, full-time or part-time, you will work closely with our International Secretariat, liaising with colleagues and human rights defenders around the world. You will research, write for and interact with activists, philanthropists and policymakers. As a proactive person who thrives in a small team, you will be able to seize opportunities for personal and professional growth.
The successful candidates will be detail-oriented, well-organised people who are committed to our mission, and able to communicate it creatively to a broad community of stakeholders.
We don’t expect you to do everything on the lists below, but if you’re experienced in one area and can grow into others, then we encourage you to apply! We envisage at least two roles being created as a result of this recruitment process, providing candidates with an opportunity to excel in a role that is moulded to their strengths while allowing them space to upskill and gain diverse experiences.
About the Roles:
You will work closely with PBI’s UK Director, UK Advocacy Manager and International Co-Executive Directors to ensure that we have the systems, relationships, research and written outputs to effectively fundraise for PBI’s global work, as well as to advocate for laws, policies and actions to protect human rights defenders.
We envisage creating two to three roles to cover all of the work listed below, and will work with successful candidates through the recruitment process and first months in the job to evolve job descriptions to harness candidate skills and expertise while ensuring hands-on capacity building.
There will be scope for overlap across work areas and opportunities to gain diverse professional experience. Our innovative recruitment process aims to ensure that you can grow into the role and the role can grow around you! Learn more in the FAQs on the final page of this document.
Day-to-day tasks could include analysis, research, writing, external representation, communications and project management. You will be part of a small team that builds, maintains and harnesses external relations with politicians, donors, civil servants, NGOs, human rights activists and other stakeholders in order to make human rights and environmental change.
Grant-writing and donor reporting at PBI is less about form-filling and more about concise, creative and persuasive writing. Our policy research is directly applied through our advocacy campaigns. Our communications range from supporter newsletters to political briefing papers. We carry out our advocacy together with global activists on the front line of the issues at stake.
All staff are given ample opportunities to engage with human rights defenders, social movements and NGOs, as well as to attend events related to human rights and environmental activism. There will be some potential for work-related travel within and beyond the UK.
The responsibilities listed in the job ad will be covered across the two to three roles recruited - you are not expected to do all of them.
We are interested in which of these areas you are already experienced in and which you are keen to grow into. You will be expected to cover either two of the areas descibed in the job advert, or a number of tasks from across all four areas, and will work closely with colleagues who are implementing other tasks.
For the full job descriptions, what we’re looking for in candidates, information about conditions and compensation, plus FAQs, see the full job advert here.
