Job Title: Engagement Officer (Romani-speaker)

Position available: Temporary part-time position (16 hours per week) until end of March 2026.

Salary: £12,948.48 pro rata (£30,348.00 FTE)

Closing date: 3^rd October 2025

Interview date: Interviews will be held week commencing 6^th October 2025

Is this you?

We are looking for a candidate who can speak English and Romani. The ability to speak Romanian is also beneficial.

Experience of working with vulnerable people is an advantage.

The Role:

This is a unique, exciting and rewarding role, allowing the successful candidate to make a significant contribution to tackling exploitation. You will be involved in a variety of activities, including (but not limited to):

• Improving our cultural awareness when working with Roma women.
• Visits to sex work locations throughout the West Midlands
• Support for victims
• Involvement in BCWA’s FCDO-funded Romania Project, aimed at tackling the trafficking of women from Romania to the UK

If you are interested in applying for this position, please complete an online application form, providing examples/evidence for each of the criteria in the person specification and return to recruitment@blackcountrywomensaid.co.uk. Please see full job description for more information.

Informal enquiries can be made with Louise Brown, CeAnEx’s Director. Please contact louise.brown@blackcountrywomensaid.co.uk to arrange a call.

CVs will not be accepted.

An application pack can be found below:

JD Engagement Officer, CeAnEx (Romani) September 2025

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Important information for all positions

Black Country Women’s Aid is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable adults, children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

All posts are subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975. It will be necessary for an enhanced disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service for details of any previous criminal convictions.

Occupational Requirement under Schedule 9 (part 1) of the Equality Act 2010 applies. The post holder must be female.

Employment checks

As a responsible employer we adhere to safer recruitment practice and all our employees are subject to the following recruitment checks:

Right to work in the UK

Under Section 8 of the Asylum and Immigration Act, as a responsible employer, we need to ensure that we do not employ anyone illegally. To avoid discrimination we treat all job applicants equally.

We therefore ask all candidates selected for interview to bring original documentation to show their Right to Work in the UK. A copy of these will be taken. Once the successful candidate has been appointed the unsuccessful candidates’ documents will be destroyed confidentially. You may be refused an interview if you do not bring the correct documents with you.

References

Following your interview, two employment references will be sought. One of these should be your current or most recent employer.

If you have finished full time education and you have no employer reference, we will accept a reference from:

• a professional from your centre of study, for instance a teacher, lecturer or headteacher
• GP or health visitor
• a character reference from a person who knows you
• a civil servant from a government agency
• a bank manager

DBS

All positions are subject to DBS checks at the relevant level.