Advocacy Coordinator

TN United Kingdom; London; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking an Advocacy Coordinator to lead efforts in tackling injustice through public policy and advocacy. This role involves coordinating campaigns and building influential relationships within the ecumenical Joint Public Issues Team, which focuses on critical issues such as poverty, migration, and the environment. The ideal candidate will possess a strong understanding of UK politics and excellent communication skills, contributing to a mission-driven organization committed to justice, equality, and inclusion. Join a supportive team that values employee wellbeing and offers a positive work-life balance.

Benefits

Generous annual leave

Occupational pension scheme

Wellbeing Adviser service

Extra 3 days leave over Christmas/New Year

Qualifications

• Experience in coordinating advocacy initiatives and campaigns.
• Strong ability to build influential relationships.

Responsibilities

• Develop and coordinate influencing strategies for public policy.
• Facilitate groups for decision-making and shared action.

Skills

Campaign Coordination

Relationship Building

Public Policy Understanding

Communication Skills

Job description

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Location: London (Hybrid - at least 2 days per week in the office)

Would you like to use your understanding of politics and advocacy and your relationship-building skills to tackle injustice? Can you bring people together to work for change? We are seeking to recruit an Advocacy Coordinator to develop and coordinate the delivery of influencing strategies around the identified public policy and advocacy priorities of the Methodist Church and the Joint Public Issues Team. In recent years these have includes issues around poverty, refugees and migration, the environment, the economy, peace and conflict, and politics.

You would be working for the Methodist Church and as part of the ecumenical Joint Public Issues Team, which brings together the Baptist, Methodist and United Reformed Churches, plus associate partners, to work together for peace and justice. It does this through listening, learning, praying, speaking and acting on public policy issues.

You’ll need to bring experience of coordinating campaigns or advocacy initiatives, and a proven ability to build influential relationships and to convene and facilitate groups to enable decision-making and commitment to shared action. You’ll also need a good understanding of UK politics and of the context for public policy development, and to be a great communicator. While there is no requirement that you be a practicing Christian, you should be sympathetic to the mission of the Methodist Church, and share our commitment to seeking justice and to issues of equality, diversity and inclusion.

Our Culture, Values and Benefits

Thank you for considering joining our inclusive and welcoming team that strives for excellence and values employee wellbeing.

We value and support all those who join our team through a positive work-life balance augmented by generous annual leave (plus an extra 3 days over Christmas/New Year), annualised hours and a Wellbeing Adviser service. We offer a generous occupational pension scheme, where the Methodist Church will pay double the employee contribution up to a maximum of 16% employer contribution.

The Methodist Church is an inclusive and supportive employer. We are actively committed to encouraging applications from people of all backgrounds. We welcome applications from people of Black, Asian and other Minority Ethnic groups. We also welcome applications from people living with disabilities.

If you require reasonable adjustments to be made at any stage of the recruitment process, please contact

Closing date: 4 June 2025

Interviews: 24 June 2025 in person in London.

N.B. We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.