Advertised from 4 July 2025

Role

Zero Tolerance is a Scottish charity working to end men’s violence against women by promoting gender equality and challenging attitudes which normalise violence and abuse. We are a values-led organisation and seek to improve the way we integrate feminism, equality, and diversity into our work. We ensure our HR policies and practices reflect our values (including enhanced parental leave, miscarriage and menopause policies and flexible working) and our salary framework is fair and competitive. We are committed to staff learning and development and have a paid reading week for all staff.

Zero Tolerance has a commitment to diversity and challenging all forms of inequality alongside gender inequality. We are open to as many different voices as there are experiences, and to all genders, and particularly welcome applications from Minority Ethnic, LGBT+, disabled, migrant, and other backgrounds currently underrepresented within the women’s sector. 

We achieve change in the following ways:

1. Raise public and political awareness of the root cause of VAWG (gender inequality) and call for action.
2. Challenge and support key institutions to embed primary prevention of VAWG in their work.
3. Advance and share the evidence base on preventing VAWG.

What you’ll do

We are looking for an experienced Engagement Officer to join our team and lead our work to engage key groups – including men and boys organisations, and marginalised women – in preventing violence against women and girls. You will support the organisation’s aims by building strong relationships with stakeholders, developing effective networks, and identifying effective strategies to promote positive attitudes and behaviours.

You will represent Zero Tolerance in public forums as required and work with ZT colleagues to identify areas of influence and priority. Incorporating the views and needs of marginalised women is essential in the role.

What we need

The successful candidate will have previous experience in a similar role, in a paid or voluntary capacity, with knowledge and understanding of violence against women and gender equality. You’ll be an engaging communicator with the ability to influence a wide variety of audiences, have a creative mindset, and enjoy a challenge. You will be someone who learns quickly and can work strategically to promote ZTs aims.

You will also have:

• A shared understanding of our vision, values, aims and positions 
• Proven experience of building networks
• Excellent written communication skills with experience producing engaging and accessible resources
• Organisational skills with the ability to see projects and events through from inception to completion

What do we offer? 

• Competitive salary with annual pay progression. We operate a grading structure based on five salary grades. New employees start on point 1 of each salary grade and receive annual increments until the top of the grade is reached. This role is Grade 3, pro rata of £33,537.08 - £ 37,018.66. 
• Staff pension scheme (6% employers’ contribution). 
• 28 days annual leave plus 10 public holidays (pro-rata) and a flexible working hours policy.
• We actively encourage continuous professional development for all our employees and have implemented a paid reading week and continuous training opportunities for individual learning and whole team development.

Application notes

Please send completed application to recruitment@zerotolerance.org.uk by 17:00 Monday 28th July 2025. Please put ‘Engagement Officer Application’ in the e-mail header.

We would appreciate it if you would also complete an Equality and Diversity Monitoring Form to assist us in monitoring our practice. However, there is no obligation to do so, and your decision will not influence the recruitment process in any way. Please access the Equality and Diversity Monitoring Questionnaire via Survey Monkey. 

If you have any questions, please email recruitment@zerotolerance.org.uk 

Interview date: Wednesday 13th August 2025

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