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Join our team: Project Manager, Equal Media & Culture Centre for Scotland
Closing date: August 19, 2024
Anticipated week of interview: Thursday the 29th of August.
We are delighted to be seeking a Project Manager for Engender's Equal Media and Culture Centre for Scotland! Apply here.
The Role
This role will manage the 'Equal Media and Culture Centre Scotland', an initiative that focusses on securing intersectional gender equality in Scotland’s media and cultural landscape. The Centre works to increase accountability around equality within media and cultural institutions through a programme of research development, awareness raising, advocacy, partnership-working, and shared learning.
This project delivers on a recommendation from the First Minister's National Advisory Council for Women and Girls.
Benefits
- Competitive salary £35,569.09 (funding is secured until 31st March 2025 with the expectation of continued funding)
- 39 days annual leave, including bank holidays (36 days pro rata during 4-day week trial)
- Auto-enrolment into Engender’s pension scheme with 8% employer contribution
- Flexible working opportunities and access to services and resources to support your wellbeing
Find all the details and apply here.
General Election 2024 - The Rwanda Scheme & Safety of Women – Joint Blog with Amina MWRC
[Content Note: abuse, sexual assault]
In this joint blog, women’s rights experts from Amina MWRC and Engender come together to discuss the safety of women in light of the Rwanda Act.
We are calling on candidates in the upcoming General Election to commit to taking action on four key areas for women if elected. In our What’s in it for women? four-part series, we’ll break down each of our key asks covering health, social security, equal representation and immigration.
Find and email your local candidates with our pre-written letter here.
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General Election 2024 - Reforming social security to fight women's poverty
We’re calling on candidates in the upcoming General Election to commit to taking action on four key areas for women if elected.
In our What’s in it for women? four-part series, we’ll break down each of our key asks covering health, social security, equal representation and immigration.
Today, we’ll focus on social security and why we need reform of household payments of Universal Credit and removal of the two-child limit to fight women’s poverty.
Find and email your local candidates with our pre-written letter here.
General Election 2024 - Why we need equal representation of women in politics
We’re calling on candidates in the upcoming General Election to commit to taking action on four key areas for women if elected.
In our What’s in it for women? four-part series, we’ll break down each of our key asks covering health, social security, equal representation and immigration.
Today, we’ll focus on equal representation and why we’re calling for action on quotas and better data collection about our candidates.
Find and email your local candidates with our pre-written letter here.
General Election 2024 – The urgent need to modernise abortion law.
We’re calling on candidates in the upcoming General Election to commit to taking action on four key areas for women if elected. In our What’s in it for women? four-part series, we’ll break down each of our key asks covering health, social security, equal representation and immigration.
Today, we’ll focus on health, and why we’re calling for the urgent modernisation of abortion law in Scotland.
Find and email your local candidates with our pre-written letter here.
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Engender Briefing: Pension Credit Entitlement Changes
From 15 May 2019, new changes will be introduced which will require couples where one partner has reached state pension age and one has not (‘mixed age couples’) to claim universal credit (UC) instead of Pension Credit.
Engender Parliamentary Briefing: Condemnation of Misogyny, Racism, Harassment and Sexism
Engender welcomes this Scottish Parliament Debate on Condemnation of Misogyny, Racism, Harassment and Sexism and the opportunity to raise awareness of the ways in which women in Scotland’s inequality contributes to gender-based violence.
Gender Matters in Social Security: Individual Payments of Universal Credit
A paper calling on the Scottish Government to automatically split payments of Universal Credit between couples, once this power is devolved to the Scottish Parliament.
Gender Matters Manifesto: Twenty for 2016
This manifesto sets out measures that, with political will, can be taken over the next parliamentary term in pursuit of these goals.
Scottish NGO Briefing for UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women
Joint briefing paper for the UN Rapporteur on Violence Against Women.
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