Community Organiser

Act Build Change; United States; Remote; USD 52,000 - 76,000; Full time

Job summary

Birthrights seeks a dedicated professional to advance human rights in maternity care through reflective collaboration and co-creation with those most affected.

You will support the Campaigns and Policy Manager and CEO in developing Communities Imagine, centring voices and leadership of people impacted by inequities in maternity care.

Qualifications

• Focus on rights-based maternity care advocacy.
• Experience listening to communities and translating insights into campaigns.
• Ability to work with cross-functional teams and external partners.
• Strong collaborative and self-starting work style.

Responsibilities

• Support Campaigns and Policy Manager and CEO in developing Communities Imagine initiative.
• Listen to communities, conduct research and mapping, support campaign development.
• Collaborate with Training, Information and Advice, and Legal teams to advance policy goals.
• Build relationships internally and externally and progress work independently.

Skills

Community engagement

Advocacy

Research

Collaboration

Job description

We are looking for someone who is passionate about advancing human rights in maternity care through reflective, compassionate and meaningful collaboration, and co-creation with those most affected.

This role will support our Campaigns and Policy Manager and CEO in developing Communities Imagine, an initiative that centres the voices, knowledge, and leadership of people most impacted by systemic inequities in maternity care. They will form a key part of the Campaigns and Policy work.

The role will also involve listening to communities, research and mapping and supporting the development of campaigns, also working with Training, Information and Advice, and Legal team colleagues. They will need to be a strong team player who can build relationships both internally and externally, and a self-starter able to progress work independently. They will have the opportunity to make a real difference to women and birthing people’s experience of pregnancy and childbirth.

Birthrights is the leading authority on the rights of women and birthing people during pregnancy and birth in the UK.

Birthrights is the leading authority on the rights of women and birthing people during pregnancy and birth in the UK.

Our work is critical to not onlytransforming the experiences and outcomes for individuals, but also inshifting wider policy, practice and systems.

Our vision is of a world where women and birthing people can access safe maternity care that fully respects their right to bodily autonomy and self-agency, free from discrimination, coercion and violence.