Tech Advocacy Officer

Full time and permanent from London office.

Salary: £40,500 full time.

Benefits: 26 days annual leave (plus bank holidays), generous workplace pension, wellbeing support, resources for learning & development, and we can offer a modest relocation fund.

Join us: You’re curious about how technologies affect power and shape the future. You’re an advocate who wants to speak out for change with a voice that is both nuanced and engaging. You want to help build an organisation that is always learning. You want to cooperate closely with colleagues and partners across the world on a tapestry of topics, developing and sharing diverse skill-sets along the way. You’re keen to explore new multidisciplinary and resourceful methods to achieve meaningful change.

Working together: You’ll join an organisation of 24 people in our Central London office from diverse backgrounds, collaborating, building and learning together. We are delivering our multi-year strategic plan to protect democracy and civic spaces from authoritarian technologies, defend people’s dignity as they seek access and protection, challenge companies who profit from exploitation of our digital lives, and hold governments accountable for the extraordinary powers they amass. We engage stakeholders, institutions, and adversaries with tact and persistence. We target systems-level change and establish safeguards for people across the world so that freedom and privacy will be the foundations of tomorrow’s societies.

About this role

What you’ll be doing

The Tech Advocacy Officer will conduct advocacy to achieve PI’s goals. This will include policy, research, outreach and public engagement initiatives in order to formulate new and creative ways to demand change globally, including working with our partners across the world. You will assist in organisation, planning, monitoring and direction of projects, and ensure they are adequately resourced and on schedule to generate timely results and impacts.

Particular to this role

In delivering our current strategic plan, the role may include investigating, exposing, monitoring and documenting technologies and technology policies, and practices of different stakeholders including state authorities and private entities

Essentials

Experiences

• A degree in any discipline where focus of study included technologies and data analysis (e.g. STEM, social sciences, journalism) or 3 years experience in investigating technologies and technical systems and/or the entities who develop, deploy, and use them.
• A proven track record of communicating complex issues to diverse audiences.
• Experience in engaging in strategic advocacy, particularly regarding technologies and deployment by state or non-state actors.
• Experience in designing and delivering learning and education activities and content, i.e. trainings, workshops, etc.

Skills

• Capable of developing and conducting research and analysis.
• Proactive and self-motivated, capable of working unsupervised and taking responsibility for managing relationships with key partners, stakeholders, and adversaries.
• Capable of delivering projects, working collaboratively through delegation and coordination, navigating deadlines, and incorporating critical reflections into future planning.
• Able to engage thoughtfully and proactively with colleagues and stakeholders from experientially, demographically, cognitively, and culturally diverse backgrounds.
• Strong written and oral communication skills, with attention to detail and audiences.

Desirable experience and skills

• A passion for technology and its interaction with human rights.
• Experience in identifying, researching, monitoring and documenting technologies and technology-related policies and practices of state actors, companies, and other third-parties.
• Experience in system administration or IT backoffice systems.
• Willing and able to travel internationally.
• Fluency in a language other than English, with one of the other 5 UN languages (Spanish, French, Russian, Arabic and Chinese) an asset.

How to apply

We want to encourage applicants with diverse experiences, backgrounds and talents. You might be reading this page and thinking ‘they won’t want someone with my unusual background’. Well, you’d be wrong. Each of us here have followed our unique paths. PI is built on genuine diversity, and we would encourage you to apply if you think you can meet the criteria of the role based on your life experiences.

To apply, please send:

• a CV (not more than two pages)
• a covering letter (not more than two pages)

The closing date for applications is 2 July 2025 at 11:59pm BST.

Please send the requested material in one email to [email protected]. Only complete applications will be considered.

The candidates who we choose to interview will be contacted by the end of the day on 4 July 2025.

Interviews will take place between 8 and 10 July 2025 – please reserve these days for a possible interview, which we will arrange as a video conference.

We may conduct a second round of interviews, which will be decided only after the first round of interviews takes place.

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