About us
We’ll fight for every child’s life until the world is free from hunger.
Action Against Hunger is an optimistic, inspiring place to work. That’s why we want passionate and dedicated people to help build a better world.
We’re a skilled and creative team made up of people with a wide range of talents, styles and expertise. But we’re united in our relentless dedication to end world hunger. No challenge is too big. With you we can do it. Join us.
Current vacancies
Senior Partnerships Manager
In this role you’ll lead on the growth and delivery of your own partnerships, as well as overall reasonability for a suite of partners worth c£2M per year. This role manages our seven-figure global partnership with InterContinental Hotels Group, as well as other six figure global partners.
Salary: £44,756 to £48,325 per annum
Contract: Full-time, permanent
Location: London (hybrid)
Closing date: 26 November 2024 at 23:30
Senior Research Advisor
We’re looking for a Senior Research Advisor to help us cover gaps in research in prevention and management of acute malnutrition including cost effectiveness to improve policies. You’ll be working with supportive colleagues and learn from additional areas in nutrition security. We’re looking for someone experienced in leading research in public health nutrition, cost analysis and research uptake.
Salary: £44,756 to £48,325 per annum
Contract: Full-time, permanent
Location: London (hybrid)
Closing date: 28 November 2024 at 23:30
Head of Philanthropy (maternity cover)
As an active member of our Senior Leadership Team and expert in high value fundraising, you’ll oversee our high performing and high potential Trust and Foundation, and Major Donor team. This is a fantastic opportunity for you to come into a dynamic and successful Fundraising and Communications Department: who have seen strong and sustained growth in all income streams in recent years.
Salary: £58,494 – £63,149 per annum (2025 pay award pending)
Contract: Full-time, permanent
Location: London (hybrid)
Closing date: 28 November 2024 at 23:30
Legal Counsel
We’re looking for a UK-qualified lawyer who is passionate about working for an international humanitarian organisation and who shares the values of Action Against Hunger and the wider sector. This is an exciting opportunity for a lawyer who is looking to start working or build experience in the NGO sector and work in a broad, challenging and interesting role as part of a dynamic team.
Salary: £51,718 – £57,349 per annum (2025 pay award pending)
Contract: Full-time, permanent – this role could be either a full time, 5-day-per-week position (37.5 hours) or it could be a part time position (30 hours per week or more)
Location: London (hybrid)
Closing date: 6 December at 10am
We welcome applications from all sections of the community and we encourage as broad a range of candidates as possible. If you need any additional support to help you through this process, please let us know by sending an email to jobs@actionagainsthunger.org.uk.
Our values
- We work in partnership
- We’re trusted experts
- We’re unstoppable changemakers
What else? The benefits
You’re likely to be joining us because you’re as passionate about the cause as we are. But since you’re here, here are some more great reasons to work with us:
- we’re all about work-life balance and are flexible so you can manage work around your needs
- we’ll enrol you in our pension scheme and if you put in at least 4%, we contribute 6% to it every month and give you free Group Life Cover
- interest-free season ticket and personal loans (subject to eligibility)
- payroll giving scheme
- ride-to-work scheme
- private medical insurance
- free health cashback scheme, including dentist and optician appointments
- discounted gym and health club membership
- online shopping discount scheme
- employee advice line – free confidential access to financial and legal advisors
- counselling services – telephone and online counselling sessions
- organisational sick pay – starting at four weeks full pay plus two weeks half pay, increasing with service
- 25 days holiday plus eight bank holidays, increasing with service after two years
- ability to buy up to 5 extra days of annual leave each year
- enhanced maternity and paternity pay
- up to 5 days paid carers’ leave
- up to 24 hours paid leave per year for employer-supported volunteering
- paid fertility treatment support leave for employees or partners undergoing IVF treatment
- up to 2 weeks paid compassionate leave and pregnancy loss leave
- flexibility around Christmas and Easter bank holidays for those who wish to take time off to celebrate other religious or cultural events instead
You also need to know:
- We don’t accept speculative applications. We actively embrace equal opportunities and that’s why we advertise all vacancies to help build a diverse and inclusive team.
- Due to the high volume of applications we receive, we’ll only contact candidates who have been shortlisted. If you haven’t heard from us within two weeks of the closing date, please assume your application hasn’t been successful.
- We believe transparency in our approach to pay is important to ensure fair treatment, so we include salary ranges in all our job adverts.
- We operate an incremental pay structure. It’s our policy to offer successful candidates the bottom of the advertised range. But if a candidate can demonstrate their current or most recent salary is higher, we’ll increase our offer up to the top of the advertised range.
- Unless stated, all posts are based in the UK and candidates may only apply if they have right to work in the UK.
- Be alert to recruitment scams. We advertise all genuine Action Against Hunger UK vacancies on our website. We’ll never ask you to pay a fee to us or a third party as part of any selection process, or ask for your bank details.
- As part of the recruitment process, we’ll be collecting and processing your personal data. You can read about what we collect and how we manage and protect it in our Candidate Privacy Statement.
- If you require additional support or reasonable adjustments to enable you to participate in our recruitment process, please don’t hesitate to call us on 020 8293 6195 or email Maria Franklin, HR Director, at m.franklin@actionagainsthunger.org.uk.
We’re a Flexa certified employer
Here’s what our team are saying:
“This is the most supportive, kind and understanding organisation I’ve ever been at. They listen, adapt and make changes so that people are able to perform at their best.”
