Join Open Briefing as a Collective Care and Community Wellbeing Consultant, supporting activists and movements at risk. This flexible remote consultancy role focuses on collective care, psychosocial support, and wellbeing resilience.
In late 2025, Open Briefing concluded a 12-month collaboration with the Exile Hub to strengthen access to grassroots-led mental health and wellbeing support for human rights defenders and journalists in exile from Myanmar, living in Thailand and along the border.
In our latest quarterly newsletter, our founder and CEO reflects on Open Briefing’s deep commitment to partnership and collective action - and how we’re working with allies across civil society to strengthen the ecosystems that protect and sustain grassroots activists around the world.
In our latest quarterly newsletter, our founder and CEO reflects on how Open Briefing is expanding our team and strengthening support for grassroots activists in the face of growing challenges and shrinking civic space.
Journalists in Haiti work under incredibly dangerous conditions marked by political instability and the pervasive threat of organised criminal gangs. To address these challenges, the Fondation Connaissance et Liberté (FOKAL) asked Open Briefing to provide safety and security training to a cohort of Haitian journalists. Through co-designed workshops, our team equipped the journalists with practical skills and fostered a new security mindset. The partnership of Open Briefing’s holistic security expertise and FOKAL's country knowledge and networks formed the perfect foundation from which to navigate Haiti's volatile security environment successfully.
For rights defenders and grassroots activists, wellbeing is not just personal - it is a collective asset. PFA builds an individual’s resilience to traumatic events, strengthening their ability to recover and sustain their activism.
A just and equitable world where communities and ecosystems can thrive is possible. But social injustice, democratic backsliding, and the climate crisis threaten us all. The courageous people and communities daring to speak out face attacks and reprisals from powerful vested interests. Many pay the ultimate price.
Open Briefing is a vital part of the response. We build resistance and resilience among the people and communities challenging power. And we are answering more calls for assistance across more countries than ever before. Last year, our international team provided over 4,600 hours of direct support to activists and advocates under threat of physical, digital, and psychological harm across 93 countries.
Alongside this local support, we provide consultancy and advisory to help nonprofits and foundations supporting and resourcing grassroots change to take the right risks. We ensure that these international partners are equipped and empowered by enhancing their security risk management, information security and data protection, and staff care and wellbeing. Our work in this area frequently involves being both a trusted ally and a critical friend.
Our team protects many high-profile activists and well-known organisations. But much of our work is behind the scenes, with ordinary people and communities who are targeted for challenging power. For 13 years, we have worked together towards a better future. And we are just getting started. We are expanding our diverse, inspired, and purpose-driven team; will you join us as our new wellbeing and resilience coordinator?
You will play a key role in coordinating our wellbeing and resilience team’s internal and external efforts to deliver our strategic objectives. Your primary responsibilities will include:
We are remote first and digital-nomad friendly. This is a home-working role; however, Open Briefing may cover the cost of a suitable co-working space or hot desk at its discretion. This is a full-time, employed role. Your line manager will be Camille Gallie, our director of wellbeing and resilience.
We offer a remuneration package made up of fair pay, sector-leading benefits, and progressive leave policies, including:
As part of our duty of care, it is our policy to identify and communicate any risks associated with specific roles and set out how we mitigate them. We have identified the following risks associated with this role:
These risks are mitigated through effective line management and our wellbeing framework, which includes the provision of welfare counselling and unlimited professional coaching.
In order to ensure that we comply with local laws and regulations, Open Briefing staff based outside the United Kingdom are contracted locally through an employer of record (EOR). Wherever possible, we apply the same terms and conditions of employment to all staff, whether employed directly or through an EOR. Where there are differences due to local laws and regulations, we will apply the better of the provisions set out above or the local statutory requirements.
Open Briefing values diversity. We are committed to being equitable and inclusive, and to being a place where all can be their authentic selves. We therefore encourage applications from all who may meet the person specification and particularly from candidates who are from historically-marginalised groups that are underrecognised in our team. This currently includes Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour; people from countries in the global majority; and women and/or non-binary people. Please read our diversity, equity, and inclusion policy for more information.
Open Briefing is neuroinclusive, positive about mental health, and a Disability Confident Employer. We welcome applications from all candidates who meet the person specification. Please let us know in your cover letter how we can be the recruiter and employer that you need us to be.
We are an accredited Living Wage employer. The pay ratio in our organisation is currently only 2.4 : 1. We follow the gender pay gap reporting guidance from the UK government. We have also checked the text of this advert using the Gender Decoder tool.
To apply, please email your CV to our office manager, Lauren Smith, at [email protected]. Please also include a cover letter of no more than two pages setting out:
Please note the following dates:
Please let us know in your cover letter if any of these dates are problematic and we will try to accommodate. The successful applicant will need to complete a reasonable vetting process before engagement.
Open Briefing is seeking qualified and experienced Dari, Pashto, and Burmese speaking counsellors and psychologists to join our remote team.
