Senior Network Coordinator

Job description

AVID exists to reduce the immediate suffering of people detained and work towards a future without detention. As part of a small and agile team, the Senior Network Coordinator is a central role at AVID.

It is a crucial time to join AVID, as we embark on the implementation of an ambitious new strategic period and contend with detention expansion, increased enforcement, immigration deterrence and hostility.

**Please note**:whilst this role is remote, it is UK-based with some travel required. We have a shared office in Brixton, London which is available for AVID team members to use on a flexible basis. We meet as a team in person once a quarter.

**Summary**

The Senior Network Coordinator is part of the AVID function (alongside the Senior Member Coordinator & Co-Director for Membership and Operations) to deliver AVID’s capacity building support to AVIDs membership network of visitor groups and drives collaboration.

The Senior Network Coordinator leads on the coordination and cultivation of the network through infrastructure support to visitor group coordinators and by facilitating network collaboration. The Senior Network Coordinator fosters collaboration between members and strengthens best practice for visiting, utilising AVID’s Members Charter as a central point of reference. As a small network, relationship building is central to this role and the post holder will provide 1:1 guidance alongside a programme of capacity building support based on membership needs. The role includes responsibility for the ongoing development of AVID’s Members Charter; coordinating and delivering AVID’s membership support programme of network calls, trainings, and skill sharing sessions; and the development of resources on the AVID members’ space.

This is a varied role, working directly with our diverse range of members across the UK, with a focus on the more established groups in the AVID network. The Senior Network Coordinator works closely with the Senior Member Coordinator who has a focus on smaller, grassroot groups and new visitor groups in the AVID network and visitor engagement.

**Main duties and responsibilities**

**Relationship building and providing tailored 1:1 support to visitor group coordinators in the AVID network**:

- Building relationships with AVID members across the UK with a focus on more-established groups in the AVID network.
- Providing 1:1 support, outreach and mentoring for group coordinators.
- Identifying, developing and collectively shaping good practice standards in visiting throughout the network.
- Responding to members’ queries and maintaining ongoing communication.
- Working with the Senior Member Development Co-ordinator to induct new groups to the AVID network and involve smaller grassroot groups in AVID’s programme of support.

**Work alongside visitor groups to build their capacity, resilience and strengthen best practice for visiting in detention through**:

- Delivering AVID’s core training modules on immigration detention and visiting to visitors groups, ensuring materials are relevant and up to date.
- Leading on a programme of training (both in-house and external), education and skill-sharing that addresses the needs of members and group coordinators.
- Building sustainable practices and collective care amongst visitor groups which respond to the adverse impacts of working in detention and vicarious trauma.
- Co-ordinating the AVID Annual Coordinators Network Gathering alongside the Senior Member Development Coordinator, jointly overseeing all aspects of administration and coordination of this event.
- Developing, updating and increasing use of AVID resources through oversight and development of AVID’s Members Area and resources/policies/guidance for visitor groups and coordinators as well as supporting the development of AVIDs volunteer visiting handbook.
- Working alongside people with lived experience of detention in the AVID community to facilitate meaningful opportunities for leadership in network activities.

**Develop network collaboration, facilitated peer-support and alignment of groups around shared network values, strategies and goals through**:

- Co-ordinating and facilitating AVID member calls and skill shares to provide structured peer-support and ensure that information is effectively shared in the AVID network.
- Working with AVID members to establish processes and activities for collaborative development and ongoing revision of the members’ charter.
- Embedding charter values across AVID’s network support and capacity building work with a priority focus on anti-racism & anti-oppression and lived-experience leadership in line with our strategic objectives.

**Maintaining and monitoring the activity of the AVID network and identifying emerging areas for development through**:

- Developing and improving access to AVID’s membership offer, administering the annual membership renewals and keeping up to date records of AVID members.
- Designing and