Job Title: Policy and Campaigns Manager
Permanent, either full-time (31.5 hours a week,) or part-time (28 hours per week)
Location: Anywhere – If London-based, you can work hybrid and will be required to come into our East London office two days a week or you can choose to work remotely from home outside of London with one trip to London each month and as needed for external meetings.
Salary: £43,411, rising to £50,326 in 5 annual increments (pro rata for part time, i.e. £38,587 rising to £44,735)
Deadline for applications: 9am on Monday 11 November
Debt Justice is recruiting a Policy and Campaigns Manager to take forward our work on household debt. This role plays a key part in our campaign to end the UK’s household debt crisis.
Over ten million people in the UK are now ‘overindebted’, meaning they are behind on bills or are finding their debt repayments a heavy financial burden. The crisis has been growing over the last decade but has increased dramatically because of the pandemic and the cost-of-living crisis. More and more people are now borrowing to cover bills and essentials.
Our campaign combines community organising with national level campaigning and advocacy work to bring the voices of those most affected by the debt crisis to the fore in debates on policy solutions. You will use your policy and campaigning expertise to help ensure the people most impacted by problem household debt have a say in influencing the policies that affect them. You will work on issues such as the growth in council tax debt and bailiff use, the huge build up in energy debt as a result of the cost of living crisis and making insolvency policy and practice fairer and more accessible so more people can get out of debt.
You will be a key member of our household debt project team, working alongside the Head of Campaigns, Head of Policy and Advocacy, Digital Campaigner and Lead Organiser.
We are looking for someone with great policy analysis and advocacy skills, a strong campaigning mindset, and a passion for social justice. We are not expecting you to already be an expert in all aspects of the role or in household debt policy but are looking for someone with the potential to develop quickly. Crucially, you will also need to appreciate why taking a community organising approach and building the power of people affected by debt is important, though you do not need to have experience in community organising.
This role will require some evening and weekend working, though this will be infrequent.
We strongly value diversity and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds. We would particularly like to encourage applications from women and non-binary people, people of colour, people who identify as LGTBQIA+ and people who identify as working class or have done in the past. If you have a question about location or any other aspect of the role, please do get in touch by emailing application@debtjustice.org.uk.
For full details, please see the comprehensive role profile (.pdf).
To apply, please make sure you have read the application guidelines in the role profile. Download and complete the application form (.docx) and equal opportunities monitoring form (.docx), and send both by email to application@debtjustice.org.uk.
The application deadline is 9am on Monday 11 November.