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Campaign Lead: Transforming Peace and Security at Medact
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Campaign Lead: Transforming Peace and Security at Medact
Medact is looking for an experienced campaigner and organiser to lead our work advocating for a justice-centred approach to securitisation and peace work.
Online / United Kingdom | 10 Aug 2026
About the Role
The Transforming Peace & Security Campaigner will lead Medact’s campaigning for healthcare spaces which truly centre health and health justice, not surveillance, profiling and policing, in addition to providing ongoing strategic support to members organising against war and nuclear threat.
This role will lead on our strategic priority area of ending state violence: anti-militarism and abolitionist approaches to health. The campaigner will implement campaign strategy focused on targeted organising to build coalitions and solidarity with marginalised communities, continuing our campaign against the Prevent duty in health, and supporting our Medact Abolitionist Approaches to Health Group. They’ll also work with our established Nuclear Weapons group to promote disarmament and encourage investment in nonviolent responses to conflict. The role involves maintaining and deepening existing partnerships with external organisations, grassroots groups and institutions.
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Key Responsibilities
- Lead Medact’s campaigning for healthcare spaces which centre health and health justice.
- Provide ongoing strategic support to members organising against war and nuclear threat.
- Focus on targeted organising to build coalitions and solidarity with marginalised communities.
- Continue the campaign against the Prevent duty in health.
- Support Medact Abolitionist Approaches to Health Group.
- Work with the Nuclear Weapons group to promote disarmament.
- Encourage investment in nonviolent responses to conflict.
- Maintain and deepen partnerships with external organisations, grassroots groups and institutions.
Requirements
- Experience in campaigning and organising.
- Strong understanding of power and how to work with others to create pressure for change.
- Great communication skills to build trusting relationships with Medact members, academics, partner organisations, and community groups.
- Understanding of how digital communications compliment campaigning.
- Eye for a good media story and the know-how to get it out into the world.
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About Medact
Medact’s mission is to support health professionals from all disciplines to work together towards a world in which everyone can truly achieve and exercise their human right to health.
We do this through research and evidence-based campaigning for solutions to the social, political and economic conditions which damage health, deepen health inequalities and threaten peace and security.
Opportunity details
Type
Full Time
Level
Lead
Online
Available online
In Person
United Kingdom
Compensation
£40,495 per year
Closes
10 Aug 2026
Organisation
Medact
Health workers for health justice. We bring the health community together to change the system.
Read the full job description and person specification before you apply.
The Medact office is in London. Staff work from home or from the office; we all work together in the office one day per week, and staff based outside London come in at least once a month. Applications from outside London are welcomed.
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