Job Details
* Remote: Remote with travel, primarily in North-East Scotland with the main work areas being in and around Fife, Angus, Perth, and Dundee.
* Closing: 20th January 2025
* Advertised from: 20th December 2024
* Hours: 17.5 hours per week, flexible
About the Worker Support Centre
The Worker Support Centre (WSC) is a Scotland-based charity that promotes decent work and prevents exploitation. We support marginalized and isolated workers in labor sectors where there is a high risk of abuse and exploitation. We work in partnership with workers to build power to secure and advance workplace rights. WSC values include respect for human rights, representation, transparency, equality, and innovation.
WSC support includes advice, mediation, advocacy, and assisted reporting to enforcement agencies. Our worker engagement informs policy change activity to address harms faced by those in high-risk work. In 2023 and 2024, WSC activities were targeted at workers in seasonal agriculture on the UK Seasonal Worker visa (SWV). During this time, we provided advice, support, and information to 1031 people in relation to the SWV. To learn more about work, visit workersupportcentre.org.uk.
About the Role
This role is focused on advancing seasonal agricultural workers’ rights by supporting WSC’s peer engagement work, including actively conducting outreach to workers and facilitating worker education and power sessions. In this role, you will support WSC in meeting two of its four core objectives: to work together with workers to claim spaces for power and representation in decision-making, and to build the field of knowledge about workers and their experiences to influence policy. This role will work closely with our Peer Engagement team and Outreach Caseworkers.
WSC strives to achieve representation of individuals with lived experience of the issues on which we work at all levels of our organization and actively promotes applications from individuals with experience of the issues on which we work. For this role, we would especially welcome applications from individuals with experience of working in seasonal agriculture.
Application Notes
* Applications to consist of a CV and supporting statement no longer than one side of A4 outlining how you meet the skills and experience required, to be sent to recruitment@workersupportcentre.org.uk.
* Deadline for applications: Midnight on Monday 20th January 2025.
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