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1. Consultant Campaign Manager
   
2. Project Assistant

• Part-time, 6-month contract (January 2024 start with a view to contract until around July 2024)
• Location: London with option of remote working
• Salary: Competitive

Are you looking for a short-term, freelance Campaign Manager role where you can work flexibly from home or a London-based office?

The International Seafarers’ Welfare and Assistance Network (ISWAN) is an international NGO working to improve the lives of seafarers and their families worldwide through services, resources, strategy, and advocacy.

We have recently been awarded grant funding by The Seafarers' Charity and UK P&I Club to design and deliver a sector-wide awareness campaign centred around the personal safety of women seafarers.

We are looking for an experienced freelance Campaign Manager to work alongside our Projects, Policy and Research, and Communications teams to deliver a collaborative campaign which raises awareness of the challenges faced by women seafarers, educates on the value of male allyship, and advocates for a safe and inclusive future for all seafarers.

ISWAN will take a ‘collaboration not duplication' approach to the campaign, encouraging contributions from other expert maritime stakeholders as well as seafarers themselves, and helping to raise the profile of existing specialised support services.

Reporting to the Projects and Relationships Manager, you will be responsible for:

• Scoping and delivering a compelling and relevant awareness campaign related to seafarer personal safety and DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion).
• Working closely with the ISWAN team to develop the campaign strategy, timeline, and materials and ensure they align with ISWAN’s values, mission, and brand-identity.
• Ensuring that the campaign draws effectively on a combination of published research, ISWAN data, and the lived experiences of seafarers.
• Ensuring that cultural and linguistic differences are respected and celebrated within an international context and effectively engage the target audience.
• Leading weekly updates with the ISWAN team, and monthly reporting to the campaign steering committee.
• Building positive and productive relationships with external stakeholders and media outlets who may contribute to the campaign and support with distribution.

Maritime is a multicultural, multilingual, truly international sector, so it is vital that the campaign is both sensitive to difference yet encourages broad engagement. It will address some sensitive topics including lived experience of harassment and abuse. It is therefore vital that you have a demonstrable history of person-centred campaigning, ideally with reference to DEI and women’s personal safety, although this is not essential.

The campaign will be delivered across multiple media channels, with a key focus on social media. You will need a proven track-record of delivering impactful multi-channel campaigns that successfully identify the most appropriate means for reaching their key target audiences.

You will be working across multiple ISWAN departments as well as collaborating with external stakeholders, so solid experience of nurturing productive, professional relationships is a must to ensure that this innovative campaign is widely supported and shared to reach as many seafarers as possible.

Requirements:

• Proven campaign management experience in raising awareness of welfare issues in an international context.
• Experience of producing person-centred content which draws on lived experience, DEI principles, and empowers minority or persecuted demographics.
• Great communicator and presenter, with an ability to bring out the best in contributors from diverse, international backgrounds.
• Experience of using research and published data to inform campaign content.
• Experience of implementing meaningful metrics to evaluate the impact of campaigns.
• An understanding of the maritime sector is desirable but not a must.

The campaign will sit under ISWAN’s Safe and Inclusive Future for All (SAIFA) Seafarers project strategy, which is aiming to re-define understandings of ‘safety’ in a maritime context by addressing personal safety issues which affect seafarers worldwide through the promotion of an equitable, diverse, and inclusive maritime sector. Seafarers of all gender identities will benefit from the campaign through increased understanding of the importance of visible allyship, what constitutes unacceptable behaviours, and how to make a proactive difference which improves the health and wellbeing of all. The campaign will ultimately help to prevent threats and issues which affect the personal safety of women seafarers.

Although not confirmed, the campaign is planned to last around six months and to be focussed on social media, although it will be important to also employ other media which could include posters, videos, and a launch event.

How to apply:

Please submit a cover letter (strictly no more than 800 words) which explains why you are the right choice for this campaign; and a CV or portfolio to jobs@iswan.org.uk. Applications without a cover letter will not be considered.

For more information on ISWAN, see www.seafarerswelfare.org, www.seafarerhelp.org and www.yachtcrewhelp.org. If you would like to arrange a confidential discussion about the vacancy, please email jobs@iswan.org.uk.

Closing date: 23rd December 2023

We promote a working environment in which diversity is recognised, valued, and encouraged. We are committed to principles of fairness and mutual respect where everyone accepts the concept of individual responsibility. Our policies seek to ensure job applicants and employees are treated fairly and without favour or prejudice. We are committed to applying this throughout all areas of employment.

• Full-time, contract
• Circa £25,000

Would you like to join our small, dedicated, international team to make a difference to the lives of seafarers and their families worldwide?

This new role is to provide dynamic support to the projects team to help deliver our diverse range of projects related to seafarer welfare and wellbeing.

As ISWAN’s Project Assistant, you will be responsible for proactively supporting the Projects and Relationships Manager and wider ISWAN teams with a varied range of administrative, creative and technical tasks related to the organisation, development and co-ordination of the charity’s projects; to help ensure their timely and successful delivery.

You will need to have experience of working to multiple deadlines, building excellent relationships, and enthusiastically developing new systems of administration. We are looking for someone who thinks innovatively, is proactive about identifying solutions, and is keen to grow and develop with the role.

This is a full-time role (35 hours per week) but we are keen to find the right person and therefore happy to discuss flexible working patterns. We are flexible about where the role is based but you will be working with staff internationally so you will need to be adaptable, a great team player, and comfortable with early meetings.

We have no preconceptions about where the right person will come from, but the role could be suitable for someone seeking a first role in the charity sector, returning to work after a career break, changing direction; and/or who is looking to develop their project management and assistant skills.

This post is subject to a successful 4-month probationary period.

The job description and person specification can be downloaded below.

How to apply:

Please submit a cover letter (strictly no more than 800 words) which explains why you would like to work for ISWAN and your suitability for the role; and a CV (strictly no more than two A4 pages) to jobs@iswan.org.uk. Applications without a cover letter will not be considered.

For more information on ISWAN, see www.seafarerswelfare.org, www.seafarerhelp.org and www.yachtcrewhelp.org. If you would like to arrange a confidential discussion about the vacancy, please email jobs@iswan.org.uk.

Applications and interviews will be assessed on a rolling basis.

Please note that, although we endeavour to respond to all applications, if you have not heard from us by two weeks from the closing date you should consider your application unsuccessful.

We promote a working environment in which diversity is recognised, valued, and encouraged. We are committed to principles of fairness and mutual respect where everyone accepts the concept of individual responsibility. Our policies seek to ensure job applicants and employees are treated fairly and without favour or prejudice. We are committed to applying this throughout all areas of employment.