"There aren’t many campaigns underway that have achieved both significant cross-party support and, in just over a year, made lasting changes to an industry." 
The Guardian on Fair Funerals

We're hiring a Fair Funerals campaigns officer 

Working within the UK’s only funeral poverty campaign you will raise awareness of this issue within low income households and highlight positive steps that can be taken to improve the situation. Supporting the campaign manager you will:

  • Help push the funeral industry for greater price transparency and fairer, simpler practices to increase access to affordable funerals.
  • Support public education work and, alongside other civil society organisations, raise people’s awareness of, and resilience to, funeral poverty.
  • Seek to improve the state’s response to people exposed to funeral poverty.

Our campaign needs to be setting the agenda and also to move fast to respond to issues that affect funeral poverty, so there will lots of priorities to balance and to plan ahead for, requiring excellent organisational skills. The rewards will be in having a varied workload, within a friendly work environment and making a direct contribution to the charitable aims of Quaker Social Action.

We want to find an excellent team player and someone who is motivated by our work and our mission.

Download the job pack for full information. 

Your salary will be on NJC scale point 27-30, which starts at £27,105 for a full time post of 36 hours. All appointments are made at bottom of scale.

This is a part-time post of 21 hours per week, giving a starting salary of £15,811.

The campaign is time limited so this is a fixed-term appointment and will run until 31 December 2018.

How to apply

Download the job pack and send the following two documents:

  • A copy of your CV, highlighting the experience you have that is most relevant to this role
  • A supporting statement, of no more than 3 sides of A4, outlining how you meet our person specification

APPLICATIONS WITHOUT A SUPPORTING STATEMENT WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED.

The closing date is 10am on Monday the 3rd October 2016. Interviews for the shortlisted candidates will be held on Friday 14 October 2016. We look forward to hearing from you.

Click here to download the job pack including job description and personal specification

If you have any questions about the job or the application process, email us on or call 0208 983 5030.