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Join our community of volunteers who give their time, commitment and talent to make Campaign Against Antisemitism the success that it is.
Everything we have accomplished has been led by volunteers. We are truly a grassroots campaign and we look forward to welcoming you to the team! If none of the roles below appeal to you, please sign up to receive details of our newest roles as soon as we publish them.
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CAA Security Officer
CAA Security Officer
Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) is the UK’s leading organisation fighting antisemitism nationwide. As the foremost organisation taking a stand against antisemitism and anti-Jewish hatred, we face unique security challenges that differ from those of other charities. We require a Security Officer to ensure that security requirements are met across our organisation and make sure that all of our dedicated volunteers and events that we hold are safe.
As Security Officer you will:
- Organise security for our office, events, protests and rallies, ensuring that security teams are adequately staffed, organised and informed;
- Help to build and maintain our contacts among security volunteers so that adequate teams can be formed at short notice and be ready to react quickly to changing circumstances;
- Assist with screening new volunteers; and
- Initiate and maintain relationships with relevant Jewish organisations and local police contacts.
Applicants for this position must be confident and effective leaders, capable of coordinating and managing larger teams in tense situations. Applicants must be aware of the unique security challenges faced by CAA and dedicated to providing effective security for our charity, potentially undertaking work at short notice and consistently seeing assigned tasks through to completion. Although no particular professional background is required for applicants for this position, candidates with a background in security, policing, IT or defence are particularly sought.
Applicants must be organised and good at prioritising a given workload. They must be articulate and able to present information and evidence in a useful manner. The applicants should be able to use critical thinking to assess how best to proceed with a given case.
Most importantly, the applicants should be passionate about confronting antisemitism in all walks of life.
Casework Officer
Casework Officer
Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) is the UK’s leading organisation fighting antisemitism nationwide. In order to effectively manage our workload, we require dedicated Casework Officers.
As a Casework Officer you will:
- Conduct investigations ensuring that the cases are dealt with in a robust and effective manner;
- Report criminal behaviour to the police and raise antisemitic incidents to the relevant regulators;
- Hold the police and regulators to account ensuring that investigations are progressed in the optimal way; and
- Assist colleagues within CAA when information or updates are required regarding cases.
Applicants must be organised and good at prioritising a given workload. They must be articulate and able to present information and evidence in a useful manner. The applicants should be able to use critical thinking to assess how best to proceed with a given case.
Most importantly, the applicants should be passionate about confronting antisemitism in all walks of life.
Event Monitor
Event Monitor
Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) is the UK’s leading organisation fighting antisemitism nationwide. In order to ensure that the law, especially in relation to terrorism legislation, is enforced at protests, rallies and events around the country, we require Event Monitors to attend events and gather photographic or audio evidence of breaches of terrorism legislation and the International (IHRA) Definition of Antisemitism. As an Event Monitor you will:- Attend events around the country identified by our Event Monitoring team;
- Gather photographic evidence of criminal activity, offences under terrorism legislation or breaches of the International Definition of Antisemitism; and
- Rapidly submit this material back to our Event Monitoring team for it to be properly utilised by our Investigations and Enforcement Unit and Communications team.
Ideal candidates for this position are robust and confident, able to walk up to strangers and strike up conversation. Candidates must be keen to support CAA on the front lines, interacting with members of the public who may harbour antisemitic views whilst being careful to maintain composure and an incognito status at events. Candidates must have a good understanding of antisemitism, both historical and contemporary, along with familiarity with CAA’s goals as an organisation, capable of picking out items carefully in accordance with the International Definition of Antisemitism. Successful applicants do not require any experience in photography or technology, but must be able to operate smartphones and cameras fluently, taking high quality images with good focus in busy environments and quickly and discreetly feeding this information back to colleagues at CAA.
Legal Officer
Legal Officer
Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) is the UK’s leading organisation fighting antisemitism nationwide. In order to ensure that antisemites are held to account by the full force of the law and to assist with legal aspects of CAA’s general operations, we require legal officers.
As a Legal Officer you will:
- Assist with drafting, editing and reviewing legal and regulatory documents (including pleadings, correspondence, submissions and agreements);
- Assist with reviewing and analysing potential new cases;
- Provide legal advice and guidance (both substantive and procedural) and general assistance in any areas in which you have particular expertise; and
- Provide legal support where required across general operations.
Applicants for this position must have some legal background, whether professional or in higher education. Successful candidates will be meticulously precise and capable of independently producing high quality, succinct and accurate written work with an understanding of the attention to detail required in this area and an awareness of CAA’s policies and goals. They will have excellent analytical skills and judgment, in order to be able conduct research on complex legal and factual issues and provide reasoned analysis at pace. Applicants for Legal Officer must be happy to work in a supportive role, taking on tasks as they are assigned by our Legal Unit.
Online Monitor
Online Monitor
Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) is the UK’s leading organisation fighting antisemitism nationwide. In order to tackle a rise in antisemitic instances on social media, we require monitors for our Online Monitoring Team.
As an Online Monitor you will:
- Conduct regular monitoring of social media sites and identify relevant cases for escalation;
- Conduct deep-dive investigations into subjects of interest including individual social media accounts, online communities or online trends; and
- Assist other teams within CAA when online investigative expertise is required.
Candidates for this position must be highly familiar with navigating the internet effectively and efficiently. Although specialist IT skills or a background in IT or computing are desirable, they are not at all required. Successful applicants will be quick learners, capable of adapting to new tools and able to produce meticulously precise reports. Candidates must have a good understanding of both historical and contemporary antisemitism.
PHP Developer
PHP Developer
Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) is the UK’s leading organisation fighting antisemitism nationwide. In order to support the maintenance of our website that acts as the UK’s best interactive resource on antisemitism we require PHP developers.
As a PHP Developer you will:
- Assist with the maintenance and improvement of our website and supportive systems; and
- Take part in larger projects in collaboration with our Systems Unit that may relate to areas other than our public facing webpage.
Applicants for this position must be highly skilled in advanced web development and IT generally, familiar with coding languages such as PHP, HTML and CSS. Applicants must have the time and energy to take part in larger development projects in conjunction with our Systems Unit.
Proceedings Monitor
Proceedings Monitor
Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) is the UK’s leading organisation fighting antisemitism nationwide. We strive to hold public authorities to account in matters relating to antisemitism, ensuring that Britain continues to remain safe and hospitable to the Jewish community and that those who perpetrate antisemitic crimes face justice.
As a volunteer Proceedings Monitor you will support our Scrutiny Unit by monitoring how the Criminal Justice System handles cases of antisemitism. You will receive training on how criminal cases are investigated by the police and prosecuted by the Crown Prosecution Service.
You will help us to identify cases where public bodies have failed to adequately defend the British Jewish community, reporting directly to the Head of Scrutiny.
As Proceedings Monitor you will:
- Monitor traditional and social media to identify relevant cases;
- Maintain our record of active criminal cases in the UK, including by calling police forces and courts to inquire as to the status of investigations and prosecutions, and working with our Incident Response Unit to track cases in which we are more actively involved;
- Manage our court diary and network of court reporters, and ensure that court hearings are attended; and
- Update our investigations, enforcement, litigation and communications teams as cases progress.
You do not need to have formal experience in any area but do need to have an aptitude for administration and a passion for conducting independent research.
Media monitoring: You will monitor both traditional and social media to identify new cases and track existing ones, to ensure that other Units within CAA have the information that they need when they need it, including our Incident Response and communications team.
Data management: You will help to maintain our dynamic record of ongoing criminal cases. This requires attention to detail and a basic level of comfort dealing with data management software such as Excel. Our database needs to be continually updated to reflect the ongoing work of our Scrutiny Unit.
Court diary: In order to keep abreast of legal developments in particular cases of interest, and to hold the authorities to account, representatives of CAA must attend court hearings. We rely on a network of court reporters to do so, and your role will be to maintain and expand this network, update our court diary and ensure that hearings are attended.
Liaising with colleagues: You will keep various teams within CAA updated as cases progress, ensuring that all team members are aware of developments.
Proceedings Monitoring requires absolute discretion as to the details of work being conducted by the Scrutiny Unit and an understanding of the serious and highly sensitive nature of this work. The Scrutiny Unit provides vital monitoring and research to inform the charity’s campaigns, policy and public awareness of antisemitism. You must be happy working in a supportive rather than frontline role.
Public Liaison Moderator
Public Liaison Moderator
Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) is the UK’s leading organisation fighting antisemitism nationwide. In order to ensure that we keep up to date with the growing volume of queries that we receive, we require Public Liaison Moderators who can communicate with members of the public, ensuring that their messages are dealt with in a timely manner and ensuring that correspondence reaches the appropriate unit within CAA.
As Public Liaison Moderator you will:
- Respond to queries received via e-mail and into the inboxes of the various social media accounts we operate;
- Operate telephone lines and receive calls from members of the public who make contact with CAA; and
- Moderate the comments sections of our social media accounts and remove inappropriate material and instances of abuse.
Candidates must be well spoken with a native level of fluency in written English. Candidates must be patient and courteous, capable of dealing with potentially difficult callers whilst maintaining composure and offering a professional level of support and service. Candidates must have a high level of attention to detail, capable of maintaining absolute accuracy in written responses to queries, and an awareness of when they need to ask for guidance. Successful applicants must also have a keen awareness of antisemitism, both historical and contemporary, and whilst a high level of IT proficiency is not required, candidates must be comfortable navigating cloud-based systems, web-platforms and social media platforms. We are open to applicants who only wish to work on one or some of e-mail, telephone and social media but not all.
Systems Support Administrator
Systems Support Administrator
Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) is the UK’s leading organisation fighting antisemitism nationwide. In order to support our Systems team and continue to enhance our operations, we require Systems Support Administrators.
As a Systems Support Administrator you will:
- Assist with general processes within CAA utilising cloud-based services and web-platforms;
- Assist with tasks as they arise within the Systems unit;
- Help to manage our Systems inbox and assist with the general upkeep of CAA systems; and
- Assist our large network of volunteers with technical support.
Applicants for the position of Systems Support Administrator do not require any particular professional background but must be highly IT-literate and extremely quick to learn new tools. Applicants must be patient and able to offer technical support empathetically and effectively to a large volume of volunteers who may not be especially versed in navigating IT issues and cloud-based systems. Successful candidates will be highly precise and capable of conducting work in a highly specific manner.
Social Media Moderator
Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) is the UK’s leading organisation fighting antisemitism nationwide. We require dedicated Social Media Moderators.
As a Social Media Moderator you will:
Applicants must be organised and good at prioritising workload and have excellent judgement. They will require significant experience with at least one of these social media platforms, and will be designated to the platform(s) with which they are familiar.