Please also keep an eye out for our voluntary UK and US placements, for which we recruit on a rolling basis.

Amicus provides representation for those facing the death penalty in the US.  We believe capital punishment is imposed disproportionately on the most vulnerable in society, violating their right to due process and to equal justice before the law.  Our aims are to provide better access to justice and to raise awareness of potential abuses of defendants' rights.

We are not primarily a campaigning organisation; rather, we believe we can make the greatest difference through frontline work, including via our extensive network of casework teams working on a variety of projects.


TRUSTEE & TREASURER

Volunteer role (once a week); immediate start

Deadline for applications: Friday 13th March 2026

Following the planned retirement of our current Treasurer, we are seeking a new person to join the Board of Trustees to fulfil this role. Our current Treasurer has had a very positive impact on the Charity by overseeing the implementation of Xero, supporting the streamlining of our financial and accounting processes and developing enhanced financial insights for the Board.

This is an opportunity to build on his excellent work. We have six members of staff (including a Finance Officer), led by the Executive Director, who perform the Charity’s day-to-day operational functions. Collectively, Trustees are responsible for setting strategy and for providing oversight of Amicus’ work. As we are a small charity, however, each Trustee also supports the staff in a particular area of expertise.


Application process:

Please submit your application via email to:

by providing your CV and a (maximum one-page) covering letter, highlighting how your skills and your experience meet the role’s needs. 


Key Responsibilities

Specific responsibilities of the Treasurer include:

  • Providing accountancy expertise to the Board of Trustees and to the Executive Director.
  • Reporting to the Board of Trustees at regular intervals (mainly at the four scheduled meetings a year), ensuring that the Board is monitoring effectively the financial standing of the Charity and the management of its finances.
  • Working with the Charity’s Company Secretary (a fellow Trustee) and the Executive Director on Amicus’ ongoing budgeting and cash flow forecasting.
  • Liaising with the Executive Director and the Finance Officer regarding the management and performance of Amicus’ finances, such as ensuring that the Charity’s financial controls and creditors’/debtors’ positions are in order and reviewing our bookkeeping.
  • Supported by the Executive Director, overseeing the preparation of the Charity’s statutory financial statements and the financial review in the Annual Report, including managing/supervising the liaison with our independent examiners and the provision to them of supporting workings as applicable.
  • Coordinating with the Executive Director and the Company Secretary to ensure that the Charity’s Annual Report is filed on time.
  • To be one of the on-line counter-signatories (shared with other Trustees) on outgoing
    payments (monthly payroll payments, plus others averaging around five a month).


Skills and Experience

Essential Experience:

  • Qualified accountant
  • Ability to work as part of a team and willingness to take collective responsibility for the governance of the Charity
  • Strong communicator

Desired Experience:

  • Experience of using Xero or a similar cloud-based accounting system
  • Familiarity with relevant tax rules applicable to a charity (eg., Gift Aid and payroll taxes) and with pension auto-enrolment
  • An interest in human rights
  • Experience in fundraising, corporate matching, and grant-making


Time Commitment

  • To be able to spend 30 minutes to 1 hour per week on specific Treasurer responsibilities
  • To be able to attend four 3-hour Trustee meetings a year (outside office hours, held on weekday evenings or on Saturday mornings), with the majority held online but, but one, or sometimes two, a year held in-person in Central London.


Why apply?

Being a Trustee for a small charity requires a degree of hands-on involvement, but it is extremely rewarding. You will be able to make a tangible and immediate difference to our work. You will also gain experience on a professionally-run and successful Board of Trustees.

This is an opportunity to use your existing skills, and some of your time and passion, to support an organisation doing frontline work. Our Trustees each help to shape the vision and the strategy of the Charity, and this presents a great opportunity for you to play a part in defining our future. We achieve concrete results from the work that we do: Amicus saves lives.

We are fortunate to have a good financial position today, but the current economic climate is presenting a fundraising challenge for all charities, so good financial management will be critical to our continued success.


Please note that applications without a covering letter will not be considered.

Please visit our website (www.amicus-alj.org) for information about the Charity and about our activities before applying. We also suggest you watch this short film to gain further understanding of our work.


If you wish to have an informal discussion with someone at the Charity ahead of the deadline for applications, please email our Executive Director: margot@amicus-alj.org

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    

CASEWORK & TRAINING LEAD OFFICER

Applications for this role are now closed.

Full-time (35 hours); initial one-year contract; £28-35K dependent on experience, immediate start

Deadline for applications: 25th May 2025

We’re seeking a Lead Officer to play a central role in the busy Amicus team, with the position’s focus being on casework and on training.  The role offers a great deal of variety: coordinating our busy casework programme of projects, including supporting caseworkers and teams; and leading in the delivery of training and educational events, especially those aimed at our casework teams.

You will be part of a small team, which means we all pitch in to help each other when necessary. Workload will be demanding at times, an ability to work across multiple tasks and to prioritise will be essential.  Given the critical and highly sensitive nature of our work, attention to detail, meeting deadlines and quality of work all are a high priority.  You will be interacting with law firms and volunteers all around the world, making communication skills essential for the role.

This is a hybrid role; there will be a requirement to be in our central London office, generally Thursday and Fridays, as well as for casework briefings at law firms as required within the working day, alongside some remote working. Office hours are Monday to Friday 10am to 6pm with an hour lunch break. We run two major training events each year that would require weekend working. We would consider part-time/job-share working for the right person/people.

This is a wonderful opportunity to join our Amicus family and to help make a difference to the lives of under-represented individuals, through practical action.  If you’re passionate about human rights or social justice and believe in proactive action, then we can offer you a supportive environment where both your career and your passion can thrive.


Application process:

Please submit your application via email to:

by providing your CV and a (maximum one-page) covering letter, highlighting how your skills and your experience meet the role’s needs. Applications must be received by 6pm on 25th May 2025.

  • Successful applicants will be offered an in-person written assessment and panel interview

Please note that applications without a covering letter will not be considered.

Please visit our website (www.amicus-alj.org) for information about the Charity and about our activities before applying.

Key Responsibilities

Support of busy casework programme:

  • Working closely with the Casework & Training Senior Manager, other staff and volunteers
  • Coordinating with US defence teams, and with the academics involved in many of our projects 
  • Supporting student casework projects
  • Briefing teams of casework lawyers from the UK offices of international affiliate teams
  • Keeping close links with the US affiliate capital punishment firms
  • Support in recruiting new casework volunteer teams and in-house volunteers
  • Taking a lead role in driving casework-focused training
  • First point of contact for general casework enquiries
  • Monitoring casework teams; updating teams on the progress of cases; keeping the casework database up-to-date; and producing reports

Amicus operational work:

  • Biannual training programme: Supporting directly the delivery of this programme, especially in relation to the casework-focused elements
  • Presentations and talks: Co-ordinating, and (in time) sometimes fronting, for firms and for student groups
  • Events: Assisting with the preparation, planning and logistics of awareness-raising events (often arranged around visiting experts conducting training) and of fundraising events
  • Website and social media (Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, LinkedIn and X/Bluesky): Casework-focused content and checking content is appropriate and in line with our policies
  • Assisting the Executive Director and the Casework & Training Senior Manager with ad hoc tasks and work as required


Skills and Experience

Essential experience:

  • Experience in a legal and/or corporate environment
  • Experience of large volume data management
  • Working in a small team
  • Demonstrable presentation skills; public speaking
  • Experience of managing events

Desired experience:

  • Social media experience
  • Demonstrated experience working in charity
  • Understanding of the fundraising process
  • Demonstrated commitment to, and passion for, human rights

Competencies

  • Ability to prioritise a demanding and varied workload
  • Strong oral and written communication skills
  • Attention to detail, even under high pressure
  • Excellent written professional English
  • High level of IT competence, particularly in MS Office (Excel, Word); knowledge of Salesforce, Canva and Mailchimp would be great but not essential