Deadline: 27 February 2026
Racial Justice Network (RJN) is a UK registered charity (number 1165804) working to end racial injustice and address colonial legacies through holistic economic, spiritual and cultural repair. As a Black and migrant-led organisation, we operate through five core programmes, using a tri-sectoral approach that connects academics, activists and artivists.
Programme Context
The Knowledge Production Programme decolonises knowledge systems and legitimises non-Western knowledge with emphasis on collective and community epistemologies. We challenge extractive scholarship whilst producing counter-hegemonic knowledge centring Black and racialised communities.
Key Responsibilities
Decolonial Practice
- Apply decolonial theory to all knowledge production and scholarship.
- Challenge extractive research models by centering non-Western knowledge systems.
- Validate and uplift diverse ways of knowing and being within the work.
Archiving & Documentation
- Lead projects that document community resistance and grassroots knowledge.
- Develop accessible methods to preserve community histories and collective memory.
- Create sustainable resources for long-term community learning and archiving.
Requirements
Lived experience of being racialised
Knowledge, Skills, and Experience in:
- In-depth understanding of decolonial knowledge, experiences, and practices
- Competent in research and generating publications
- Comprehensive understanding of knowledge production, knowledge holders, and how to uplift and centre non-Western knowledge systems
- Ability to centre Black, racialised communities’ perspectives in knowledge production
- Building relationships with academia, activists, and artivists on decoloniality
- Supporting and platforming artists, writers, musicians, and other cultural workers
- who are creating new expressions of liberated consciousness.
- Archiving and documentation
- Competent in written and verbal communication skills.
- Training and facilitation.
- Ability to work as a team and adhere to set guidelines.
RJN is committed to equality of opportunity and welcomes applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly encourage applications from Black, brown, and racialised people, and people with lived experience of the issues we work on.