1 year Fixed Term Contract / Secondment Opportunity
The Role
Hackney has a longstanding reputation of being open and welcoming to migrants, refugees and asylum seekers – both as a Council and a community. The London Borough of Hackney is committed to ensuring people arriving in Hackney feel welcome and safe, and can access the support that is available.
Currently 800 people are seeking asylum in Hackney, and Welcome Hackney provides access to timely and effective support while they await the outcome of their claim. Hackney has also welcomed over 500 Ukrainians since 2022, as well as a number of Afghan families through the UK’s resettlement schemes.
This role sits within the Welcome Hackney (Refugee, Migrant and Asylum Seeker) Service, and will focus on running a range of programmes supporting Afghan families resettled to the borough. We are particularly interested in receiving applications from Afghan individuals and those who have a lived experience of seeking sanctuary and/or resettlement. We will be running a dedicated briefing session for Afghan individuals and/or those with a lived experience of seeking sanctuary on Monday February 23rd 17:30-18:30 The call will be online, and accessed via this link.
Skills & Experience
– Strong project management, organised with excellent use of project plans – proactive and work independently to ensure that key project milestones are completed on time and a high standard and projects are progressing within scope, time and resource constraints.
– Strong stakeholder management, good at relationship building, cross sector working, influencing and working collaboratively.
– Established experience of working with refugees, asylum seekers or migrants (people with lived experience are particularly welcome)
– Solutions focussed with a can-do approach. Proactively and independently finding solutions to barriers.
Enhanced DBS Required.
For an informal chat about the role please contact Jamie Charnock ( jamie.charnock@hackney.gov.uk ). As this role will be focused extensively on supporting the Afghan community, we are particularly interested in receiving applications from Afghan individuals and those who have a lived experience of seeking sanctuary and/or resettlement. We will be running a dedicated briefing session for Afghan individuals and/or those with a lived experience of seeking sanctuary on Monday February 23rd 17:30-18:30. The call will be online, and accessed via this link.
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Closing date for applications: 01 March 2026 (22:59)
Interview and assessment date: W/C 16 March 2026
We are also working towards our vision, which is to be a place for everyone; where residents and staff can be proud; a place that celebrates diversity and where everyone can feel valued, included and involved. In order to achieve this, we look for people who are: Proud; Ambitious; Pioneering; Open; Proactive; Inclusive.
Hackney Council works to eradicate discrimination on the basis of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation.We also recognise that people can be disadvantaged by their social and economic circumstances, so we will also work to eliminate discrimination and disadvantage caused by social class. We also welcome those interested in flexible working. We particularly welcome applications from disabled people, as this group is currently under represented in our workforce.
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