Vacancy: Advocacy and Communications Director (Starting Sept 2025)
Location: Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI), London
Salary: £50,000 – £55,000 per annum
Deadline: 28 August 2025 11:30pm
Overview
We’re thrilled to announce an exciting opportunity for an Advocacy and Communications Director to join JCWI.
About the Role
This is a new role, where the director will bring together the work of the Advocacy and the Communications teams to lead JCWI’s campaigns. The Director leads JCWI’s campaigns and community organising; policy and parliamentary advocacy; working in alignment with directly impacted communities and partners within and beyond the migration sector.
Candidate Profile
- Committed to defending and furthering the rights of all people who move, and embodies wider anti-oppressive values and practices, including anti-racism, queer and trans liberation, gender justice, class solidarity, and the importance of an intersectional approach to social justice
- Recognises the value of legal representation when used as a tool of resistance, and is committed to legal aid as fundamental to access to justice
- Someone who proactively collaborates with others and nurtures and develops relationships both internally and externally, seeing the value in the diversity of skills and methodologies that drive organisations and campaigns forwards
- A strategic thinker who is politically astute, has an advanced understanding of the political landscape as it relates to migrants’ rights and racial justice and can identify threats and harness opportunities when working on politically contentious issues
- A relationship-builder, able to support their Team and the organisation by building and maintaining relationships with external partners, including with key media
- Creative and innovative, and eager to encourage and support others’ creativity
- A person who comfortably deals with new and complex information, digesting this quickly and simplifying nuanced policy or legal issues for a range of audiences
- An excellent written and verbal communicator, able to produce written outputs and review or edit drafts for quality, consistency and accessibility, and also represent the organisation at key events, meetings and in the media clearly and persuasively
Application Process
Apply here: Advocacy and Communications Director (Starting Sept 2025)
Deadline: 28 August 2025 – 11:30pm
Start your journey towards a fulfilling career advocating for social justice – Apply today!