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Vacancies
Full time, permanent (35 hours per week)
Based in London
Salary on a scale starting at £61,669.12
30 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays and Christmas office closure
Defined Benefit Pension Scheme
Equity recognises Unite as the staff group union
Equity
Equity is the UK trade union for professional performers and creative practitioners. Equity is respected as one of the most powerful entertainment unions in the world, and at the heart of the UK trade union movement. We are a growing union of around 50,000 members, proud of our strong organising and campaigning record. Our members are mostly freelance - with many working in greenfield and emerging areas in audio, videogames, dance and the light entertainment sectors. By contrast, most British TV, film and theatre are made on union agreements with minimum terms driving forward industry standards on everything from pay to dignity at work. The Union has a team of staff in offices across the UK who have a wealth of experience and expertise when it comes to advice and representation. They are able to deal with the issues raised by members working in all areas of the industry whether it be a major feature film, a theatre in education show, radio voice overs, a circus act or any other live or recorded work.
Equity is committed to equal opportunities and welcomes applications from all who believe they fit the essential requirements for the job.
The Role
Equity is hiring a new Policy Officer (Workforce Rights and Research) within the Policy & Public Affairs section. They will work under the direction of the Head of Policy and Public Affairs to coordinate, support and deliver the policy and research work of the union. This role is focused primarily on Equity’s work on employment rights, equality and health and safety issues.
Their day-to-day responsibilities will include developing Equity policy on their brief, advising our officers, members and staff, responding to consultations, conducting research and analysis and working with external partners. This role is an essential part of a team working together on wider political and communications outputs. It will also further support the union's activity within the broader trade union and labour movement, including the TUC, relevant think tanks and campaigning organisations.
The role is based in Equity’s London office. Occasional travel will be required to our National and Regional offices and to support and engage with our network of branches, committees and activists around the UK.
Strong candidates will be able to demonstrate success in using their analytical, writing and research skills to effect change. As well as being able to assess statistics, policy and legislative developments, they will also be able to communicate their ideas clearly and with a view to empowering members and activists to take action in support of the union’s campaigning and industrial objectives. Effective team working experience and strong interpersonal skills are highly desirable as well as an ability to work at pace across a portfolio of projects. Quantitative and qualitative research skills are also desirable.
How to Apply
Please send your completed application and equalities monitoring form to jobs@equity.org.uk. Each document should be titled “[YOUR NAME] – POLICY OFFICER – [application/EMF]”. Please do not submit a CV or a cover letter separate to the application form as they will not be read. Only Word-compatible files or PDFs will be accepted.
Job Description and Person Specification
Application Form
Equalities Monitoring Form
The closing date for applications is 23:59 on 31 March 2026.
Interviews are scheduled to be held on 15 April 2026.
For further information about the role, please contact Tom Peters (Head of Policy & Public Affairs) at tpeters@equity.org.uk.
Unfortunately, we are unable to provide feedback to all applicants. Therefore, if you haven’t heard back from us by the advertised interview date, your application has been unsuccessful.
Full time, permanent (35 hours per week)
Based in London
Salary on a scale starting at £46,911.24
30 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays and Christmas office closure
Defined Benefit Pension Scheme
Equity recognises Unite as the staff group union
Equity
Equity is the UK trade union for professional performers and creative practitioners. Equity is respected as one of the most powerful entertainment unions in the world, and at the heart of the UK trade union movement. We are a growing union of around 50,000 members, proud of our strong organising and campaigning record. Our members are mostly freelance- with many working in greenfield and emerging areas in audio, videogames, dance and the light entertainment sectors. By contrast, most British TV, film and theatre are made on union agreements with minimum terms driving forward industry standards on everything from pay to dignity at work. The Union has a team of staff in offices across the UK who have a wealth of experience and expertise when it comes to advice and representation. They are able to deal with the issues raised by members working in all areas of the industry whether it be a major feature film, a theatre in education show, radio voice overs, a circus act or any other live or recorded work.
Equity is committed to equal opportunities and welcomes applications from all who believe they fit the essential requirements for the job.
The Roles
Assistant Organiser, Greenfield Organising
Under the direction of the Head of Greenfield Organising, you’ll work at the forefront of a growing union, helping Equity expand into new areas, recruit members, drive up density and help win strong collective agreements and protections for our members.
As an Assistant Organiser, you’ll play a vital role in one of the UK’s most influential creative industries, covering commercials, audiobooks, voiceover, and video games. Working alongside a team of Officials and Organisers, you’ll engage with members and non-members, visit workplaces, and drive campaigns that build union density and strengthen our bargaining power. From political education to workplace organising, you’ll help protect the dignity and rights of our members.
We’re looking for someone with excellent organisational skills and a passion for empowering workers. Supported by Officials you’ll map workplaces, assist members with queries on contracts and pay at work, liaise with members' agents, support the union's democratic structures, and help prepare casework to win financial claims on behalf of members.
Assistant Organiser, Recorded Media
Under the direction of the Head of Film & TV, you’ll work at the forefront of one of Equity’s most established and influential organising areas where the vast majority of British film and television production is made using an Equity collective agreement. You’ll help strengthen and expand this foundation by supporting members, increasing density, and ensuring our agreements deliver real protections for performers and supporting artists.
Working alongside a team of Officials and Organisers, you’ll engage with members and non-members on set and in production spaces, building relationships that support recruitment, organising campaigns, and the long-term development of our industrial strength.
A key part of your role will be assisting in the enforcement of collective agreements through casework. Supported by Officials, you’ll help members with straightforward queries about contracts, rates, working hours, and conditions; support the preparation of casework aimed at securing compliance and winning financial claims; and help ensure that Equity agreements are upheld across productions.
You’ll also contribute to workplace mapping, the union's democratic structures, and political education initiatives that empower members to take an active role in shaping their union. We’re looking for someone with excellent organisational skills, strong attention to detail, and a passion for empowering performers and defending their rights at work.
How to Apply
Please send your completed application and equalities monitoring form to jobs@equity.org.uk clearly marked as [FULL NAME – ASSISTANT ORGANISER]. CVs sent in isolation will not be considered and only Word-compatible files or PDFs will be accepted.
Job Description and Person Specification
Application Form
Equalities Monitoring Form
The closing date for applications is 23:59 on 19 February 2026.
Interviews are scheduled to be held on 5 March 2026.
For further information about the role please contact Louise McMullan (Deputy General Secretary) at lmcmullan@equity.org.uk.
Unfortunately, we are unable to provide feedback to all applicants. Therefore, if you haven’t heard back from us by the advertised interview date, your application has been unsuccessful.
Our Vision, Mission, and Values
This is Equity’s proud statement of the world we want to build. It is this vision which drives our whole reason for being – whether it be organising in our industries, or participation in the worldwide trades union movement.
Equity’s members have been told, at best, that resilience to the industrial and political choices which underpin the arts and entertainment industries is admirable. At worst, they have been told to put up and shut up with the inevitable precarity of working in the industries where we organise. The products of their labour have been treated as luxuries or frivolities instead of serious industries underpinning social and economic progress.
The consequence is low pay, precarity, poor health and safety, harassment, bullying, and a mental health crisis. This is systemic and deep rooted – unlike most closed shop unions in the UK and elsewhere in the world (even in our own industries) we have inherited not a high basic pay, but a low one from the attitudes which prevailed from within the union and the industry. Where most unions achieved a 5 day week in the Edwardian era, the six day basic week remains a feature of most members’ working lives.
For a long time, under the closed shop and beyond, the union was viewed as, and sometimes acted like, a regulator rather than a negotiator. This has the legacy of a confused mixture of pride in Equity agreements, but an association of blame with the union for the persistence of bad terms – rather than the bosses who enforce them. Moreover, the union is often an ‘other’, not an organisation where the membership has ownership of its actions, but an organisation which does things to them.
As a union it is our role to collectively shift members’ consciousness and their organisation to a place where they are actively resisting, in every workplace, attacks on their terms and conditions.
Industrial
All action by staff or activists has a clear and conscious industrial outcome. Equity will always place blame on the bosses, and not attempt to behave like a regulator for poor behaviour within the industry. We will not expect government, funders, regulators, HMRC or other third parties to deliver outcomes, but sincerely believe that our industrial processes have the power to. Industry events, benefits for members, and the union’s democratic structures, must be singularly focused on where the union has power.
Accountable
That members and staff have a shared agenda. Equity’s members are the union, and should be those who drive our demands at work, and deliver the outcomes by their organising and campaigning. Members at work or seeking work steer our industrial agenda from survey to strike.
Collective
To resolve individual problems with collective answers. Every member will be treated with compassion and courtesy. Solutions to problems will always initially be industrial, through our advice or agreements. Legal support will be a secondary option, but used in an activist way to further the collective good. Most contractual, employment, equalities, and other workplace disputes will be dealt with by the union’s staff, following the strategies and using the leverage of Equity’s members.
Aspirational
That staff and activists raise the industrial aspirations of the membership.