Save British Industry Organiser
Location: Congress House
Salary: £52,683 per annum rising incrementally plus London weighting of £6,216
Job type
Full-time, 12-month fixed term contract with possibility to extend.
Hours
35 hours per week (open to job share applications, happy to talk flexible working).
Can you help workers build a campaign to protect jobs, upgrade industry and win change?
The TUC is looking for a dynamic Organiser to take a lead role in growing, shaping and scaling our new Save British Industry campaign.
Save British Industry is a new TUC campaign led by workers to protect jobs, upgrade industry and pre-empt divisive politics.
In this role, you’ll work directly with industrial workers to build and grow local workplace and community campaigns, grow the number of workers taking action, and help shape a distributed organising approach that can scale participation across England and Wales. You’ll help deliver digital campaigning alongside local organising, including Megaphone actions like Save Welsh Industry.
You’ll be based in the TUC’s Organising Team and work closely with colleagues in the Industry, Climate & Energy team, as well as with our campaign partner New Economy Organisers Network.
What experience, skills, knowledge and understanding do you need?
* You’ll have experience organising workers, activists or communities to take action together
* You’ll write clearly and persuasively, and know how to engage people in practical ways
* You’ll be confident using digital tools to support campaigning and organising You’ll be passionate about the power of workers to shape a better future
* You’ll be ambitious and have vision for scaling up a powerful campaign that wins
If this sounds like you, please see our job description and person specification.
TUC staff enjoy a good benefits package including final salary pension scheme and other benefits. The TUC values a diverse workforce and welcomes applications from all sections of the community and from within and outside of the trade union movement.
We welcome applications from any candidate but are particularly keen to receive applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, who are underrepresented at this grade in the TUC. If this applies to you and you’re interested in the post, we invite you to join an online BAME lunchtime briefing at 1 pm, on Thursday 14 May 2026 about the post, to hear about the TUC and ask questions of the recruiting manager.
If you’d like to attend the briefing, please email TUC no later than 2 pm Monday 11 May 2026. You don’t need to attend the briefing session to apply.
The closing date for completed applications for this post is 12 noon, Tuesday 19th May 2026. Interviews are scheduled for 2nd/3rd June 2026.
The TUC removes candidate names and institutions attended from all applications before shortlisting.
We are open to secondments from unions or progressive organisations.
Click on the link to apply
Closing date: 19th May 2026
Shortlist date: 20th Mayl 2026
Interview date: 2nd/3rd June 2026