Migrant Democracy Project

We are starting 2024 Party Conference season in Manchester with The Green Party! Warm reception to our campaign for voting rights for all residents with more councillors pledging to pass our motion for voting rights for all in their local authorities. Great to hear proposed policies to improve the lives of migrants. We will be attending the Liberal Democrats, Labour, and Conservative party conferences in the coming weeks, advocating for voting rights for all!

Do you have experience working on national policy in the UK, for an MP or a campaign and want to see residence-based voting rights? We're recruiting a Campaign Organiser! ⏰ Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. Interviews on 9 October 2024 in London. ➡️ Job Description and Application Form: https://lnkd.in/d9sjYHXS

📣 EU citizens! 🇪🇺 Have you received a letter or email from your local authority about your vote in the UK? Due to the Elections Act, EU citizens' eligibility to vote are being checked by their local authorities. Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/grYftnqK Keep an eye out to make sure you respond to your council's confirmation process and share your letter with us to ensure accountability. 📩 email us at organiser@migrantdemos.org.uk with your letter. We will keep this anonymous. We want to understand how different local authorities are communicating these changes with their residents.

Do you have administrative experience and looking for a role supporting migrants' rights justice? We're recruiting a Digital Organiser! ⏰Deadline 11:59pm Thurs 25 July. ➡️ Find out more here: https://lnkd.in/dd-FBEZm 📩 CV + cover letter at info[at]migrantdemos.org.uk.

Our MPower report is out! We have achieved a lot in our pilot project training and organising future migrant councillors! 10 participants 2 new councillors elected in May! Lots of events organising communities. Increased knowledge and confidence in the UK political system. We are so ready to see all our candidates winning for and with migrants. Thanks Teo Benea for organising this pilot programme so well for our participants! You can read the report here: https://lnkd.in/d4vJicCd And if you are inspired, consider applying in the future to become a migrant councillor. Thanks to all our speakers, mentors, and partners! And if you are ready to organise migrant candidates, apply to be our next Electoral Organiser. We will be training and supporting a new generation of migrant leaders across the UK. Join our team here: https://lnkd.in/ePvBTmWE

We're recruiting for two roles at Migrant Democracy Project! 🗳️ Electoral Organiser - 4 days/week, £32,000 (pro-rata) 🗳️ Community Organiser - full-time, £32,000 We are interviewing candidates on a rolling basis. Job descriptions & how to apply here: https://lnkd.in/ePvBTmWE

Do you want to see more diversity in our local politics? We're hiring an Electoral Organiser to train and empower first-generation migrants to be part of politics in their local communities in the UK! Apply here on Charity Jobs with your CV and cover letter - applications are reviewed on a rolling basis: https://lnkd.in/g9q7t3Dy

Do you have experience working with political candidates, political parties, communities or causes within the UK political system? We're hiring an Electoral Organiser! 4 days a week, £32,000 (pro rata), flexible working. If you want to work to mobilise first-generation migrants in the UK to be informed and engaged in democracy and represent their communities, this job is for you! Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, with interviews on 20 June. Full job description here: https://lnkd.in/dNjMM3gC

Say hello to Honorata Mikołajew - one of our brilliant MPower Future Candidates. We have been training up 10 dedicated, passionate, and brave people from migrant backgrounds to stand as councillors in future elections. Honorata is one of them. Already a community champion in Liverpool, organising film screening events to bring the community together to discuss social and political issues and take proactive political action towards social change. Honorata is from Poland and now calls Liverpool her home. We can't wait for her to take her activism to the next level by becoming an elected councillor! #Liverpool #councillors #migrant #ukpolitics #ukdemocracy

Our team is growing!! 🙏 Meet Francesca Gaynor, our new Advocacy Manager. Frankie is joining us full time starting today! She will be helping us campaign for the extension of the right to vote to all residents, no matter where they are from. Check out the Our Home Our Vote campaign here: https://lnkd.in/eMBddhdp Frankie is American and doesn’t have the right to vote in the UK herself! So she has that extra energy to bring about democratic reform so everyone can vote. Say hi to Frankie and message us your voting rights story and campaign with us for democracy for everyone. If you are one of our partner orgs, say hi and let’s collaborate further.