If you are looking for a fulfilling new role, join our team and work with us to eradicate slavery in all its forms. Unseen works with individuals, communities, business, governments, other charities and statutory agencies to stamp out slavery for good. To do that, we need experienced and committed people who share our vision and values.
Our people are driven by our values and work together to successfully deliver our strategy. Everyone at Unseen plays a role in tackling modern slavery and exploitation. Once recruited, we aim to support our people to succeed in their roles and grow both personally and professionally.
33 days of annual leave (including public holidays), rising to 38 days with length of employment.
Flexible or hybrid working options available.
Enhanced sick leave of up to 60 days.
Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), which offers a complete resource of wellbeing services for employees.
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Unseen is working towards a world without slavery. We provide safehouses and support in the community for survivors of trafficking and modern slavery. We also run the Modern Slavery & Exploitation Helpline and work with individuals, communities, businesses, governments, other charities, and statutory agencies to stamp out slavery for good.
Purpose of the role
The purpose of the Fundraising Officer role is primarily to secure income from Trusts and Foundations through writing accurate and compelling funding applications. The role will also be involved in other areas of fundraising such as supporting our work with Major Donors, Corporate Funders and Events.
Working with the Senior Fundraising Officer, you will secure funding from private and statutory grant-making organisations, ensuring a robust multi-year funding base for our important work in the fight against modern slavery. The Fundraising Officer, working with the wider Fundraising Team will be an important contributor to the success of our multi-channel fundraising programme.
Working as part of a small team spanning a number of other areas of fundraising activity such as Individual Giving, Campaigns and Appeals and Community Fundraising, the ideal candidate will be creative and collaborative in their approach to work. You will be driven by a desire to make a positive impact, and create lasting change for some of the most underrepresented people in society.
For more information about the role, please refer to the job pack below.
To apply
Please note: The only information from your application that will be shared with the hiring manager is your personal statement and CV.
As an organisation focused on equality and diversity, we welcome applications from all sections of the community and all backgrounds, including those with a lived experience of modern slavery, those from ethnic minority groups, those with disabilities and those from the LGBTQ+ community.
Any questions, please contact [email protected].
Unseen is working towards a world without slavery. We provide safehouses and support in the community for survivors of trafficking and modern slavery. We also run the Modern Slavery & Exploitation Helpline and work with individuals, communities, businesses, governments, other charities, and statutory agencies to stamp out slavery for good.
Purpose of the role
This is an exciting opportunity to join Unseen’s Operations team in a junior role. This role will work with colleagues across the organisation and will be key in delivering Unseen’s recruitment function, as well as supporting with cross-organisation initiatives including learning and development, employee experience and providing operational support.
Responsibilities will primarily consist of:
1. Working with the Operations team to provide operational support across the organisation.
2. Leading on recruitment administration including enquiries, advertising, interview and selection
processes.
3. Facilitating onboarding for new starters and providing an excellent employee experience.
4. Maintaining Unseen’s learning management system and supporting with training requirements.
We are looking for a proactive, adaptable, and detail oriented individual, with exceptional organisation skills to take on this diverse role. Excellent written communication skills, and an ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of stakeholders will be essential for this role. Specific experience of recruitment administration, is particularly desirable. You will need to demonstrate your ability
to fulfil the criteria from the person specification included in this job pack.
This role is based at Unseen’s head office in central Bristol and while some working from home days will be allowed, a significant part of the role will require you to be in the office for face to face tasks (including meeting candidates to facilitate interviews and meeting new starters on their first day to support onboarding).
For further information, please refer to the job pack below.
To apply:
Please note: The only information from your application that will be shared with the hiring manager is your personal statement and CV.
The deadline for applications is midnight on Sunday 4 June 2023.
As an organisation focused on equality and diversity, we welcome applications from all sections of the community and all backgrounds, including those with a lived experience of modern slavery, those from ethnic minority groups, those with disabilities and those from the LGBTQ+ community.
Unseen is committed to empowering survivors and learning from people with lived experience of modern slavery, as such lived experience plays an active role in our recruitment processes.
Any questions, please contact [email protected].
Unseen is working towards a world without slavery. We provide safehouses and support in the community for survivors of trafficking and modern slavery. We also run the Modern Slavery & Exploitation Helpline and work with individuals, communities, businesses, governments, other charities, and statutory agencies to stamp out slavery for good.
Purpose of the role
This is an exciting opportunity to join a fast-paced and ambitious organisation at a time of growth as a key member of the Senior Management Team. You will lead a multi-disciplinary Operations team delivering HR, recruitment, administration and general organisational support to projects and services across Unseen. You will primarily be focused on maintaining strong operational control across the organisation and delivering Unseen’s HR function.
From an operational perspective the Head of Operations will be required to maintain a cross-organisational focus while delivering operational support, governance and quality assurance. The role is responsible for driving and maintaining compliance in a number of areas, and will work with the Operations team, Director of FCO, and other colleagues to achieve this. We are looking for someone who is forward-looking and committed to driving a strategy of continuous improvements in these areas. To do this, you will be required to build and maintain collaborative and effective relationships with Unseen’s external support providers and, crucially, with the Senior Leadership Team (SLT), Senior Management Team (SMT), other managers and colleagues across the organisation.
As Unseen grows there is an opportunity to shape the culture of the organisation and develop clear and consistent policies to guide Managers and Employees. We are looking for someone with considerable HR management experience and ideally CIPD level 3 qualifications to lead Unseen’s growing teams.
The successful candidate will bring a solutions-focused approach to helping Unseen achieve its strategic goals, and a commitment to optimising the employee experience by creating a safe, supported and inclusive environment for all.
Responsibilities will primarily consist of:
This role will be subject to satisfactory references, a DBS check and completion of a 6 month probationary period.
For further information, please refer to the job pack below.
To apply:
Please note: The only information from your application that will be shared with the hiring manager is your personal statement and CV.
The deadline for applications is midnight on Sunday 11 June 2023.
We encourage early applications as we will be reviewing applications as they are received. We reserve the right to close the role early by taking this advert down before the deadline if required.
As an organisation focused on equality and diversity, we welcome applications from all sections of the community and all backgrounds, including those with a lived experience of modern slavery, those from ethnic minority groups, those with disabilities and those from the LGBTQ+ community.
Unseen is committed to empowering survivors and learning from people with lived experience of modern slavery, as such lived experience plays an active role in our recruitment processes.
Any questions, please contact [email protected].
Unseen is working towards a world without slavery. We provide safehouses and support in the community for survivors of trafficking and modern slavery. We also run the Modern Slavery & Exploitation Helpline and work with individuals, communities, businesses, governments, other charities, and statutory agencies to stamp out slavery for good.
Unseen directly supports survivors of human trafficking and modern slavery and is part of the Government’s Victim Care Contract to provide services to this group of vulnerable adults.
Survivors are supported both in Unseen safehouse accommodation and in the community. Survivors receive support through the National Referral Mechanism which entitles them to safe housing, financial support, access to legal advice and mental and physical health services. Survivors remain in support until their trafficking claim is decided by the Home Office.
Purpose of the role
The Head of Frontline Services will be responsible for leading the Support Service Managers who run Unseen’s survivor project and teams. These projects currently cover a women’s safe house, a men’s safe house, community outreach support and a Reach In service. The service is delivered by a mobile team of case workers and accommodation support officers. The Head of Frontline Services is responsible for the contract management of the Victim Care Contract as well as other contracts which enable the delivery of police welfare support, wellbeing activities, referrals into the National Referral Mechanism (Unseen is a designated First Responder) and survivor involvement forums. The post holder is a designated safeguarding lead for all survivor projects and is a key member of the Senior Management Team at Unseen.
The Head of Frontline Services is based at Unseen’s Head Office in Bristol. However, the job holder will be expected to be mobile and flexible, with regular travel to Unseen’s two accommodation projects.
Responsibilities will primarily consist of:
For more information and a full job description, please see the job pack which can be downloaded below.
To apply:
Please note: The only information from your application that will be shared with the hiring manager is your personal statement and CV.
The final deadline for applications is Sunday 4 June. We encourage early applications as we will be reviewing applications as they are received. We reserve the right to close the role early by taking this advert down before the deadline if required.
As an organisation focused on equality and diversity, we welcome applications from all sections of the community and all backgrounds, including those with a lived experience of modern slavery, those from ethnic minority groups, those with disabilities and those from the LGBTQ+ community.
Any questions, please contact [email protected].
Unseen is a UK charity with its head office in Bristol. We provide safehouses and support in the community for survivors of trafficking and modern slavery and operate the 24/7 UK wide Mod-ern Slavery & Exploitation Helpline. We also work with individuals, communities, business, governments, other charities and statutory agencies to end slavery for good.
Accommodation Support Officers (ASOs) work at Unseen’s safe houses; these are accommodation services for men and women who have been identified as victims of human trafficking and modern slavery.
The purpose of the ASO role is to ensure all health and safety requirements in the safe house are met on a day to day basis and that all house protocols and policies are adhered to. ASOs will also ensure the safety and security of service users by welcoming and settling new residents, promoting awareness of health and safety, helping clients to manage risk and supporting survivors to engage with support plans and work towards their goals. ASOs will work to create a friendly and supportive environment for residents with opportunities to instigate communal activities with residents.
The Accommodation Support Officer role will be working as part of Unseen’s friendly and committed Support Services Team that provides high quality support services to clients living both in safe house accommodation and in the community. You will work closely with the Support Services Managers and caseworkers to deliver services in line with best practice and achieve positive outcomes for clients. Full and on-going training and supervision will be provided.
Responsibilities will primarily consist of:
For more information and a full job description, please see the job pack which can be downloaded below.
To apply:
Please note: The only information from your application that will be shared with the hiring manager is your personal statement and CV.
Please note, applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, so we encourage early applications.
As an organisation focused on equality and diversity, we welcome applications from all sections of the community and all backgrounds, including those with a lived experience of modern slavery, those from ethnic minority groups, those with disabilities and those from the LGBTQ+ community.
Any questions, please contact [email protected].
We welcome applications from all sections of the community we serve and recognise the value that diversity adds to our work and organisation. We encourage applications from BAME, disabled and LGBT people who are under-represented in our workforce, as well as people with lived experience of slavery and human trafficking.
Our mission is simple: to put an end to slavery for good. We do this by supporting survivors of modern slavery and trafficking and working collaboratively with our partners to put an end to exploitation.
We are proud of the expertise and experience of everyone in our team. We’re working together to put an end to modern slavery and human trafficking in order to bring about positive and transformational change.
Since Unseen began in 2008, we’ve supported over 800 survivors of modern slavery through our safehouse & outreach services and identified over 23,000 potential victims through our helpline.
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As I came to understand more about the issue, including through a visit to an Unseen safehouse, I knew I needed to do more to stop this abuse and exploitation.
For the last five years of my Civil Service career, I was the Modern Slavery Senior Policy Advisor in the Home Office and led on development of the Modern Slavery Act, including the transparency in supply chains provision and business guidance.
I joined Unseen to lead the development of the Modern Slavery & Exploitation Helpline, and Unseen’s work with businesses. I am regularly called upon to present at national and international conferences and use my experience of working with Ministers to influence other governments internationally to take action to address modern slavery and, in particular, business supply chain issues.
In my spare time I enjoy keeping fit, music, reading and travelling.
What ultimately compelled me to act was a report on how people from Eastern Europe were being trafficked through Bristol airport to the USA. Kate Garbers, who went on to be an Unseen Director, and I wrote to all the city councillors, MPs and the Police Chief Constable challenging them on the issue. The challenge came back to us: this city needs safe housing for trafficked women. And so Unseen began.
But we never wanted Unseen to be just about safe housing. We wanted to end slavery once and for all, and that remains our driving focus.
I chaired the working group for the Centre for Social Justice’s landmark report “It Happens Here: Equipping the United Kingdom to Fight Modern Slavery”. This is now acknowledged as the catalyst behind the UK’s Modern Slavery Act of 2015. It was a great honour to be awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours that year. On the other hand, I’ve also been described as “the loveliest disrupter you could ever hope to meet”.
This job has taken me from building flat-pack furniture for safehouses, to working with businesses to address slavery in supply chains, to delivering training, raising awareness and advising governments around the world.
When not at work, I enjoy travelling, spending time with my dog Harley, cooking, supporting Liverpool and Yorkshire CC, music (I’m a former DJ) and endurance events such as the Three Peaks Challenge and Tribe Freedom Runs – which I vow never to do again. Until the next time.
