Campaigns & Engagement Officer

Job Description

Base: Flexible, with regular presence in our Central London Head Office ( at least 4 times per month)Hours: Full-time 35hrs p/wContract: Three year fixed term contract starting January 2024Salary: £30,000Job Purpose To build relationships with disabled people and disabled people’s organisations in England to engage them in our clients campaign activity in order to improve the provision of accessible and inclusive housing.They aim to increase the range of lived experience represented in their campaigning work by developing active relationships with people with diverse backgrounds including disabled people from black and minoritised ethnic communities.This role is grant funded by the Oak Foundation and will significantly enhance the reach and impact of our clients well respected influencing voice.Role Our client is looking for a new member of their team to join them in this exciting opportunity to make a difference.- To devise and facilitate campaigning activity in line with our clients influencing strategy, targeting national and local policy change goals;- To proactively research and develop active relationships with disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) in England, engaging them in campaign activity;- To identify and build relationships with individual disabled people with relevant lived experience to engage them in campaign activity;- Support individual disabled people to engage with national and local politicians and decision makers, offering training and coaching as required;- To support individual disabled people to engage with the media to help drive awareness and understanding of the need for accessible homes and the policy changes required;- To plan and deliver online and in person events to help build and up-skill a network of accessible housing campaigners in support of our clients strategic influencing goals;- To plan and co-ordinate engagement and collaboration with disabled people and relevant DPOs to help formulate campaign messages, campaign action plans and responses to policy proposals, including arranging meetings, agendas and taking minutes and actions;- To support Habinteg’s role as co-chair of the Housing Made for Everyone (HoME) coalition, along with any other formal organisational partnerships, this will include attending meetings, taking minutes and engaging with disabled people where needed to deliveron agreed activity;- To work with the Public Affairs and Engagement Manager and other Communications Team colleagues to devise proposals for new research and reports to support the case for more accessible homes;- To generate campaign content including blogs, campaign articles, newsletters and social media posts;- To collaborate with communications team colleagues to produce compelling media releases, videos and other material for publication;- To devise, commission and disseminate campaign materials and toolkits to enable action and engagement of individual campaigners as well as other organisations.About us Our clients mission is to champion inclusion by providing accessible homes and neighbourhoods that welcome and include everyone, using their expert knowledge to inspire and influence decision makers. A third of the homes they provide are designed to meetthe needs of wheelchair users and their schemes - from Tyneside to Cornwall - provide sustainable, inclusive neighbourhoods for disabled and non-disabled people to share and enjoy. As champions of inclusive housing design they engage regularly with policydevelopments, politicians and other stakeholders to help increase the number of accessible homes built across all sectors.In line with their goals on Diversity our client welcomes applications from every section of the community.Benefits: - Company pension- Life insurance- Sick pay- Work from homeWork Location: Hybrid remote in London/Bradford