Independent Modern Slavery Advocate (IMSA)
Hope for Justice
- Manchester
- £27,560 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Progressing caseload from initial assessment to closure, addressing identified needs
- Building and maintaining partnerships with other organisations (including state and NGO) to create opportunities for survivors of modern slavery
- Supporting the Reforming Society agenda - providing evidence base for reform; providing advice and training, where necessary, to agencies in the community to improve responses to victims of modern slavery thus creating lasting structural change
- Strategic and operational knowledge of modern slavery and broader Human Rights legislation
- Understanding of the legal rights and obligations of victims of modern slavery - including an understanding of immigration, housing, community care, welfare benefits, public law, civil law (including access to compensation), debts and victim rights in the criminal justice process
- Advocacy, research and drafting skills
- Experience of leading interviews using a trauma informed approach
- Educated to Degree level
- Previous work with vulnerable adults, ideally with a legal or social work background
- Enhanced DBS check