Advocacy Director

Job description

Glitch is going through an exciting period of transformation We are developing our AI governance and algorithmic discrimination work, and further formalising our Black feminist underpinning. This role will be integral in ensuring that our mission, theory of change, and advocacy work sync up and fulfil their objectives and aims.

You'll take a leading role in shaping and implementing our strategy to fulfil our mission. You will be responsible for setting the advocacy strategy alongside our Executive Director, which encompasses policy, research and campaigns elements of our overall advocacy strategy and work plan.

Our missionis to ensure that internet technologies in the information ecosystem do not replicate or further discrimination to Black women and other marginalised people. We're a Black-led, transnationally-focused remote charity, with the majority of our staff in the UK. Our Executive Director ("ED") travels frequently to Europe and elsewhere for business. This role will be expected to deputise for the ED at external events.

Our advocacy encompasses research, policy influencing and campaigning on tech-facilitated gender-based violence, algorithmic discrimination, platform governance and other technology-related harms impacting race and gender injustice. We advocate on behalf of those excluded and ignored.

Role Overview

This position reports to Glitch's Executive Director. Glitch is a distributed charity, and this is a remote position. You'll work in a collaborative environment with a team and different stakeholders (civil society, parliamentarians, grassroots organisations, and our focal population) to achieve our mission.

We are seeking a highly effective strategic leader and experienced team manager. To be successful at Glitch, the Advocacy Director must demonstrate an understanding of, and passion for Black feminist thought, and the ability to translate this critical social theory into organisational work, specifically towards systemic change with/in: tech policy, digital rights, AI governance and legislation, and tech-facilitated gender-based violence as it relates to broader social media platform governance. The Advocacy Director will also support fundraising and programme strategy (when necessary and appropriate).

Key Details

• Contract type: Permanent
• Hours: Full-time (32 hours per week - Monday to Thursday)

• Benefits:

• Four-day work week (Fridays off)

• 5% employer pension contribution (with minimum 3% employee contribution)
• Wellbeing budget; learning and development budget
• 23 days annual leave (pro-rata for four-day work week, inc bank holidays)
• Private healthcare & additional paid sick days
• Two-week December shutdown for the holiday period (not deducted from annual leave).
• Location: Remote, home-based; anywhere in the UK (UTC-0)

Hiring requirements: must have the right to work in the UK.

Main Responsibilities

As Advocacy Director, you will play an important role in working towards our mission in several core areas:

Advocacy - Policy (75%)

• Identify new opportunities and respond to external developments, in the UK and transnationally where appropriate, on the issues of AI governance and platform governance, non-criminal redress for tech harms, and alt-right, fascism, and platform power.
• Ensure the delivery of the Mitigation strand of advocacy work.
• Oversee the updating of Glitch's policy positions and recommendations and put forward proposals around new and emerging policy positions.
• Manage associated advocacy budgets and feed into reporting requirements for all Mitigation strand work.
• Lead on all external policy requests (regulatory consultations, statements, joint letters).
• Develop and implement creative and influential campaigns to help us meet our strategic objectives and mission.
• Work with the Programmes Director to ensure alignment with the Organising strand of advocacy work, identifying Mitigation opportunities to fulfil the theory of change.
• Maintain thorough knowledge of all aspects of our work and keep informed of external affairs - domestically and transnationally.
• Support in the development and commissioning of new research and campaigns in specific issue areas identified in our strategy, especially in the Imagining strands of our work.
• Maintain good knowledge of practices across the sector and relevant work happening in other organisations around our core issue areas.

Influencing and Stakeholder Management (10%)

• Develop clear plans for influencing and change, working closely with the ED to agree allocation of responsibilities and areas to maximise impact.
• Build strong relationships with external stakeholders.
• Operate as the deputy to the ED for representing Glitch at meetings where a senior Glitch representative is required, especially for government and ecosystem events or meetings in the UK and Europe.
• Develop briefings and agendas ahead of and for Glitch meetings with Ministers and officials, Parliamentarians and other key stakeholders.
• Maintain our records of interactions with key individuals and organisations in our CRM system, in line with good practice around data protection and GDPR.
• Represent Glitch through writing blogs and commentary on all of our core issue areas.

Strategy and development (10%)

• Contribute to the development, delivery and evaluation of our organisational strategy.
• Lead on the implementation of the Mitigation and Imagining strand of our advocacy framework, supporting the ED with strategy development.
• Ensure that resources are deployed effectively to progress and achieve our aims for change, particularly within our Mitigation and Organising strands of work, in collaboration with the Programmes Director.
• Carry out measurement, evaluation and learning of our Mitigation and Imagining strands of our advocacy work plan.
• Develop reactive advocacy strategies in response to changing policy, legislative or government shifts.

Leadership and people management (5%)

• Lead and role-model a high-performance, inclusive culture that is grounded in our organisational values.
• Ensure resources are applied effectively and appropriately within the advocacy function.
• Ensure that delivery of advocacy work is aligned with agreed objectives and key performance indicators, through the effective management of staff and other resources.
• Work with the Finance Director to ensure accurate allocations of advocacy personnel time.
• Line manage and coach direct reports effectively, empowering them to thrive and fulfil their potential. Such work would include: developing learning and development plans for advocacy team members in collaboration with direct reports, and running annual performance reviews.

As a charity working to ensure technologies do not replicate or extend discrimination of marginalised communities, we are committed to providing equal opportunities for employment on our team. All applicants will receive equal treatment regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. We strongly encourage Black women and gender-expansive people to apply

How to Apply

Please fill in the application form here:

You will be required to upload your CV and answer some questions. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, so we strongly suggest applying sooner rather than later. We will stop reviewing applications on 15th November, 2025. Ideally, we are looking for someone who is able to start immediately, but will wait for the right candidate.

Successful candidates will be contacted to schedule an interview within two weeks of the closing date.