Programme Manager, Economic Justice Programme, (Birmingham)

Through its Economic Justice programme, Barrow Cadbury Trust is supporting a growing movement for economic systems change in Birmingham.  Co-designed with a local advisory group, the Trust’s programme brings together people interested in economic systems change in Birmingham.  Its funding supports three types of activity: personal empowerment to enable people to influence policy and practice; campaigning and advocacy for change; and supporting organisations building alternative approaches.  Our approach values both lived and learned experience and has a strong element of convening people across traditional organisational and power divides.  This is not a traditional funding role: our grant funding is just one way in which we support change, and the post holder can expect to be an active part of the change we seek to make.

We are looking for someone based in Birmingham, or nearby, with an understanding of the causes and consequences of economic injustice; of the interrelationship between economic and other injustices including race and gender; and of how to bring about systems change.  You will be a strategic thinker, able to bring people from widely differing backgrounds together to create momentum for a better economy in Birmingham.

This is a new post, designed to provide local capacity to develop the work and accelerate change.

• Salary: scale starting from £32,200 for a 21-hour week (worked over a minimum of three days).

• Generous contributory pension scheme of up to 10%.

• The post-holder will work from home. The post will require regular (probably once or twice a month) trips to the Trust’s offices in Vauxhall, London to participate in wider team activities.

The Barrow Cadbury Trust is an independent charitable foundation seeking a just and peaceful society which recognizes the equal value of all people.  Largely working in partnerships with others, we use all our resources – our money, our people and our name – to bring about structural change to increase social justice and equality.

We have a strong commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion and we encourage applications from people with personal experience of the social justice and human rights issues we seek to address.

Any offer of employment will be made subject to references and confirmation of the right to work in the UK.

How to apply and interview date

Please send your CV and a covering letter (no more than 2 sides of A4).   Your covering letter should show how your skills and experience meet each criterion in the person specification.  Please note that if you do not meet all or most of the essential criteria in the person specification you are unlikely to be shortlisted.

Deadline:  Applications should be emailed to Emily Wojcik  [email protected] by 8.00 am on Thursday 28 November.  Please also complete and return the Equal Opportunities form and note our Privacy statement. 

Interviews for short listed candidates will be held on 10 December 2024 in Birmingham at a venue to be confirmed.

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