Women's Football Officer - Amnesty International

Women’s Football
Officer
Team                   Movement Building Team

Reports to             Women’s Football Officer

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 The Movement Building team
 The Movement Building Team sits within the wider Community Organising, Artists and Events and
 Human Rights Education (CORE) Team, whose purpose is to empower more people in the UK to
 know, claim and stand up for human rights.

 The team builds and maintains positive relationships with AIUK’s activists, Trade Unions, and other
 partners, including football clubs and organisations as part of our ground-breaking Football
 Welcomes programme, enabling all to play central roles in AIUK’s work. It empowers groups,
 networks, and individuals to have an impact in bringing about positive human rights change, to
 reach new, more diverse audiences and to be champions for Amnesty International and its work in
 and with their communities.

 The Women’s Football Officer role overview
 The Women’s Football Officer is an innovative role at Amnesty UK, funded by the Football
 Association, as part of our Football Welcomes programme. Through Football Welcomes, we work
 with football clubs, their foundations, County Football Associations and other partners across the
 country to harness the huge profile of the national game and its unique power to bring people
 together to help create communities more welcoming to refugees and people seeking asylum.

 There are currently two focal points of this work – the Football Welcomes Month in April, when
 clubs across the country come together to celebrate the contribution players with a refugee
 background make to the game, and our five Football Welcomes Community Projects – a three-year
 pilot initiative in which we are working closely with four football club foundations and one County FA
 to establish the most effective way to create more welcoming communities through football.

 The Women’s Football Officer is responsible for ensuring all of this work is gender inclusive. You will
 build and maintain relationships with a variety of organisations and individuals to ensure access to

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Football Welcomes and wider football activities for women and girls from a refugee background, set
up new projects in collaboration with club foundations and County FAs, design and deliver a
leadership training programme for participants, and secure the participation of women’s teams in
the Football Welcomes Month and wider programme.

The Women’s Football Officer will
Main responsibilities

→ Build and maintain relationships with football club foundations, women’s leagues, refugee
  organisations, County FAs and work with them establish football projects with and for refugee
  women and girls, including in four Euro 2022 host cities

→ Deliver training to football coaches, volunteers and administrators in how to engage refugee
  women and girls in football

→ Develop and deliver a leadership training programme with and for participants in the Football
  Welcomes Community Projects

→ Work with colleagues, Amnesty’s activist base, and external partners on creative and impactful
  ways to ensure that refugee women and girls are at the heart of efforts to create more
  welcoming communities through football

→ Create and deliver opportunities to exchange best practice and ideas between all stakeholders

→ Keep abreast of external developments and debates linked to football and diversity and
  inclusion, refugee issues and campaigning to ensure the project stays relevant

→ Establish opportunities to raise the profile and impact of Football Welcomes, by representing
  Amnesty and Football Welcomes in the media, as well as working with Amnesty’s media, digital,
  artist relations and advocacy teams

→ Organise, attend and/or speak at meetings, panel discussions and other events

→ Monitor expenditure against the operational budget

→ Ensure that the development and delivery of the Football Welcomes weekend in 2021 is fully
  inclusive of the women's football club network and refugee women and girls

→ Prioritise the needs and safeguard the dignity of individuals we work with

All colleagues
→ Contribute collaboratively and positively to the organisation’s aims of equality diversity and
  inclusion

→ Look after the health, safety and welfare of self and all around you

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→ Take on other reasonable duties as appropriate in line with your skills, knowledge abilities and
  experience

What We're Looking For
                             Communication
 AIUK
                             Listen to others and communicate in a respectful, clear, open and
 Commitments                 inclusive way. Give constructive feedback and be open to others
                             giving feedback

                             Collaboration
                             Seek to build effective working relationships. Contribute expertise,
                             learn from others and encourage others to do the same

                             Consideration
                             Guided by values and strategic priorities, manage time and workload
                             with respect to the time and workload of others. Be fair and
                             consistent in decision making and dealings with others

                             Change
                             Innovate and improve the way things are done. Make time to
                             increase knowledge and skills and guide others to do the same

                             Experience
 You already have
                             Building and managing long-term, mutually beneficial relationships
 these skills and            and partnerships, internally and externally
 knowledge                   Managing projects involving multiple internal and external
                             stakeholders, and deadlines

                             Working with refugees and people seeking asylum, in particular
                             women and girls

                             Establishing inclusion programmes at community level

                             Organising internal and external events to raise the profile and
                             increase the reach and impact of an area of work

                             Developing and delivering engaging training, in particular in
                             leadership skills

                             Knowledge
                             An interest in and passion for women and girls’ football

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Deep understanding of the obstacles to women’s participation in
               sport, and of sports inclusion, equality and diversity

               Knowledge of UK women’s football league and governance
               structures

               Deep understanding of the experiences of people who are refugees
               or seeking asylum, in particular women and girls

               Awareness of inclusive principles and ways of working

               Skills
               Can work with limited supervision and manage own workload day-
               to-day while handling competing priorities and deadlines

               Can plan monitor and evaluate own work and to analyse data and
               use insights to develop innovative activities to achieve objectives

               Can communicate with different audiences, with excellent attention
               to detail and using inclusive methods and language

               Demonstrated leadership and team-building skills, including the
               ability to enthuse, motivate and support others

               Excellent administrative skills, including using spreadsheets

               Can work as part of a team

               Other
               Ability to travel within the UK and work outside of normal hours

You may also   Experience
have           Sport-related inclusion work at community level

               Any relevant lived experience that can support and inform AIUK’s
               wide reaching commitments to diversify our movement which
               involves working with young people, communities impacted by
               human rights violations, and people with protected characteristics

               Working with the media and using social media as a tool for social
               change

               Knowledge
               Awareness of the aims and work of Amnesty International

               Skills

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Ability to speak one or more languages spoken in refugee
communities, for example, Arabic, Farsi, Dari, Tigrinya or French

Knowledge of Community Organising models

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