Recruitment
Policy Manager
Contract: Permanent
Salary: £38,722.85
Hours: 5 days/35 hours per week (applications for 4 days per week are welcomed)
Location: home-based from within the UK
Deadline: 9am on Monday 23rd September
Interviews: Wednesday 9th October
We are looking for someone with relevant skills to develop and deliver NSUN’s policy strategy and policy/campaigns projects. NSUN takes a critical, political and rights-based approach to policy work at, centering social justice, anti-oppression, and the social and material determinants of distress and trauma. We want to work intersectionally, and do not consider ourselves to be a “single-issue” organisation.
The Policy Manager will play a key role in creating collaborative spaces with members and partners to build momentum and sustainability for lived experience-led mental health policy and campaigns work. Though we do analyse, respond to, and engage with traditional policy mechanisms such as parliamentary processes and legislative change, our focus is more on building an alternative approach and challenging traditional silos at a time where the external environment is one of hostile and unjust structures, systems, and legislation.
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Equal opportunities and accessibility
NSUN is committed to diversity, inclusion, and providing equal opportunities in employment. Our aim is that the work environment is free of harassment and bullying and that everyone is treated with dignity and respect. Unequal treatment, prejudice or harassment of an employee or member based on characteristics such as ethnicity, gender identity, age, religion, disability, class, and sexual orientation is unacceptable and unwanted in our organisation.
NSUN has a zero-tolerance approach to racism with an aim to be an anti-racist organisation. We are committed to ensuring we have a culture of trust, with safe spaces and systems, where our members, trustees or staff experiencing racism feel confident to come forward and know that they will be listened to and their concerns will be acted upon.
NSUN is an explicitly trans-inclusive organisation. We aim to co-create a work environment that is welcoming of trans, non-binary and intersex colleagues. We are committed to ongoing training on trans equality for staff, associates, and trustees, and we have recently finalised an internal Transitioning at Work Policy, setting out how NSUN will support staff through transition.
NSUN follows the social model of disability and as such recognises that people are disabled by barriers in society, not by their impairment or difference. NSUN will endeavour to, wherever possible, remove these barriers and provide reasonable adjustments and flexibility to application processes, interviews, and working hours.
Click here to read our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Policy.
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