Business and Human Rights Resource Centre vacancy: Corporate Accountability and Communications Officer - deadline 4 September, London

Location: London, UK

Salary and Terms: £30,000 + 5% pension, 1 year contract with possibility of extension.

Closing Date: 5:00pm on 28th August; Interview Date: 4th September.

About us:

This is an opportunity to join a global team of experts working on one of the pressing issues of our time: building human rights into the business models of companies around the world. We are a web-based, global organisation, providing information & action in seven languages. We have 25 team members, based in every region of the world. Our purpose is to:

• Build transparency: we track over 5,600 companies’ human rights performance – their advances and abuses.
• Strengthen Accountability: we seek responses from companies for allegations of abuse and put their responses on our site as the first line of accountability. We also take a small number further and seek redress and remedies. This post will expand this work.
• Empower Advocates around the world: provide guidance on integrating human rights in business, and providing space for all actors in our broad movement to participate in key debates.

About the role:

These two roles can be summarised as:

• Corporate Accountability: to collaborate with our researchers around the world to pursue adequate accountability and remedy for victims of human rights abuse from companies which initially provide no adequate response to allegations.
• Communications: to increase substantially the media and social media coverage of our analysis and propositions, and the struggles of our partners to achieve justice and remedies for abuse.

About you:

We are looking for a dynamic communicator and advocate, able to work with our global team to lead our media and social media work, and drive our work for greater accountability from companies that are not responding to allegations of abuse in their operations or supply chains. You will have the following attributes and skills:

• Knowledge of human rights and social justice, especially regarding companies.
• Track record of success in media, digital media, and advocacy work to make change happen.
• Powerful analytical and strategic thinking to document and report accurately on allegations of abuse; and to create the strategies to promote remedy and redress.
• Expert media and social media skills to develop communications strategy, and to deliver effective advocacy outreach that delivers our, and our partners’, messages to global media.
• Strong interpersonal and team skills in working in multicultural teams, and communicating with diverse contacts and audiences – from community and trade union leaders, to senior journalists, and company representatives.

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