What you’ll do: 

• Build and maintain trusted relationships with Black, Middle Eastern, East Asian, and South Asian queer and trans communities, including community members, grassroots groups, informal networks, venues, services and partner organisations

• Support the delivery of community-led research, workshops, systems-mapping activity and other knowledge-generation processes

• Work with the Research Coordinator to support recruitment, participation, facilitation and follow-up for community research and engagement activities

• Ensure that community members are supported to participate in ways that are accessible, safe, meaningful and respectful of lived experience

• Support the development and delivery of pilot interventions that respond to community-generated evidence and address barriers to health access, trust, representation, leadership and culturally competent care

• Coordinate practical programme activity, including organising sessions, booking spaces, tracking budgets, liaising with participants, preparing materials, tracking attendance and supporting smooth delivery

• Support community members, volunteers, peer workers or sessional staff involved in programme activity, ensuring they have the information, support and clarity they need

• Contribute to outcome learning, community-facing outputs, reports, briefings and other materials that communicate what the programme is learning and changing

• Support lived-experience involvement structures, ensuring community voices meaningfully influence programme direction

• Work with NHS providers, local authorities, community organisations and other stakeholders where needed, supporting engagement between community knowledge and institutional change

• Champion equity, intersectionality, lived experience and community leadership across all aspects of the programme

• Ensure programme activity is delivered within organisational policies, safeguarding standards, data protection requirements and ethical practice

• Contribute to wider team meetings, reflective practice, programme planning and organisational learning

The skills and experience you’ll need: 

• Lived experience of and deep connection to one or more of the programme’s key communities (Black, Middle Eastern, East Asian, and South Asian queer and transgender communities) with strong understanding of the strengths, needs, experiences and diversity within those communities

• Understanding of how health inequalities are shaped by structural racism, migration status, homophobia, transphobia, stigma, exclusion and wider social determinants of health

• Experience of coordinating projects, events, workshops, outreach, community engagement or participation activities

• Ability to organise activity effectively, including managing logistics, timelines, communication, records, follow-up actions and competing priorities

• Experience of working with community groups, grassroots organisations, volunteers, peer workers, services or informal community networks

• Ability to communicate clearly and sensitively with a broad range of people, including community members, colleagues, partners and external stakeholders

• Ability to document and share community insight, feedback and emerging themes in ways that support learning and programme development

• Ability to work collaboratively as part of a programme team, taking direction where needed while also showing initiative and ownership

• Understanding of safeguarding, confidentiality, data protection and ethical practice in community-based work

• Commitment to The Love Tank’s values, including community leadership, transparency, accountability, intersectionality and evidence-informed action

The annual salary for this 1.0 FTE post is £38,800. We pay 3% employer pension contributions, provide monthly staff support grants towards well-being (e.g. therapy), and 33 days of paid leave per year including statutory bank holidays. 

To apply for this post, send a CV (please do NOT include a photograph on your CV) along with a two-page cover letter demonstrating how you meet the skills and experience required for this post.

In addition, please outline in no more than 200 words your lived experience of the communities reached by this post. 

Please email the above to hello@thelovetank.info by midday of the closing date - 17 August 2026. Applications received after this time will not be accepted.

If you require more information about this role please email hello@thelovetank.info.

Please do NOT contact other staff members for informal discussions about this post.

Please visit www.thelovetank.info/vacancies/#next to understand the processes The Love Tank follows during recruitment of paid posts.