Training & Community Development Co-ordinator
Employer: Birthrights
Location: Remote/Hybrid (with some in-person work required across the UK)
Temporary: Fixed-term until March 2027 (with potential for extension)
Working hours: 3–4 days per week. We operate a flexible working policy around core hours of 10am - 3pm
Salary: £32,960 FTE (pro rata)
Closing date: 12pm on Monday 16th March
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This is a hugely exciting role that will play a key part in strengthening andexpanding Birthrights’ training and community development work.
As our Training & Community Development Co-ordinator, you will:
· Support and co-deliver our human rights in maternity care trainingprogramme
· Ensure training sessions run smoothly, both online and in person
· Work closely with our Training Manager, Legal Lead and Associate Trainers
· Build strong, trust-based relationships with community organisations
· Centre co-production and lived experience in training design and development
This role sits within a wider project exploring how communities understand,interact with and advocate for their rights in maternity care — and how we candesign more relevant, impactful and community-rooted training.
You will collaborate closely with our Campaigns & Policy team to ensureorganisations and communities we work with are connected into broadermovement-building and systems change work.
Key responsibilities
1. Training Coordination, Preparation and Delivery
· Schedule and prepare online and in-person training sessions
· Liaise with organisers, trainers and partners to confirm logistics and requirements
· Set up Zoom links and create QR codes for attendance tracking and feedback
· Prepare and adapt training materials using templates and case studies
· Maintain accurate records in internal spreadsheets and CRM systems
· Co-facilitate or lead training sessions for Civil society organisations, healthcare professionals and community members
Communication Management and Team Support
· Monitor the shared training inbox and respond or allocate queries
· Provide administrative support to the Training Team
· Attend weekly training team meetings
· Check in with trainers before and after sessions
· Offer light-touch debriefs where requested
· Flag safeguarding or feedback concerns appropriately
Community Engagement & Relationship Building
· Build strong, trust-based relationships with grassroots and community organisations
· Act as a key point of contact for ongoing communication and support
· Centre co-creation throughout the training design process
· Involve communities in feedback loops and content review
· Work with the Advice Team, Legal Lead and Communications team to develop toolkits, visual aids and digital and printed resources
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· Gather and analyse feedback to identify gaps in rights knowledge, barriers to advocacy and emerging themes and priorities.
· Ensure learning is recorded accurately and shared with the wider team.
Network and Legacy Development
(Under guidance of line manager)
· Work with communities and the Advice & Information
· Team to develop tools that support communities to understand and claim their rights
· Assess learning from community work and collaborate with Campaigns and Advice teams to explore pathways for collective action
· Explore how training can continue to be delivered and adapted in communities beyond the lifetime of the project
Person specification
Essential
· Experience developing and delivering training
· Confident facilitation skills, able to hold inclusive, trauma-informed spaces
· Experience working with communities to co-create
· Strong communication skills (written and verbal), with sensitivity and empathy
· Knowledge of human rights law and healthcare law, particularly relating to pregnancy and childbirth
· Experience coordinating events, meetings or training programmes
· Highly organised with the ability to manage multiple tasks and deadlines
· Confident using digital tools (Zoom, Microsoft Office, databases, shared inboxes)
· A self-starter, able to work independently in a remote team
· A collaborative team player
· Commitment to Birthrights’ values, inclusion and anti-oppressive practice
· Willingness to flex between strategic thinking and hands-on delivery
· Desirable
· Knowledge of maternity care and/or current rights issues in pregnancy and birth
· Understanding of inequalities and systemic barriers within maternity care
· Understanding of anti-Black racism and oppression, and commitment to challenging injustice
· Lived experience, community-based work or self-directed learning related to these issues
· (we will not ask you to disclose details of lived experience during recruitment)
What You’ll Gain
· An opportunity to shape a national programme at the intersection of human rights, maternity care and community power
· A role that embeds co-production and long-term systems change at its core
· Connection to a supportive, values-led team with deep expertise in human rights law and health equity
· Professional development and learning opportunities
· Flexible working within a wellbeing-focused organisation
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