Work Remotely from Anywhere Globally & Get Up to £1,200 per month Working 10hrs a Week at Chayn.
Chayn is growing, which means, alongside our fabulous team of volunteers, we’re building a team of staff members and contractors from across the world.
Multilingual trauma-informed therapist partners
Communications and Community Coordinator
⚓ Location: Remote
Your usual hourly rate for therapy. Please quote your fee in your application to us.
️ Duration: Until December 2024, with possibility for extension
⏲️ DEADLINE: rolling, applications are assessed on a continuous basis
We are running a service that connects survivors of sexual assault and abuse with trauma-informed therapists. We’re looking for multilingual therapists to partner with us and deliver remote, short-course therapy to survivors according to your own schedule.
You will need to be confident delivering therapy in one of the following languages:
If you partner with us, you will be delivering short-term therapy to survivors of gender-based violence across the world, at no cost to the survivor.
Chayn is an award-winning, global charity that leverages open-source technology to help every survivor heal and thrive. Chayn started in 2013 to provide survivors of abuse with accurate, diverse and accessible information. Over the past 7 years, 360,000 people have viewed our award-winning work online, generating 1.2 million page views. Our digital services, Little Window (a chatbot that helps survivors of gender-based violence search for information) and Soul Medicine (a micro-course platform) are examples of our innovative approach. Last year, we launched YSM – Your Story Matters – a groundbreaking web app providing safe and timely support for survivors of sexual assault. It is a transformative solution to the complex social challenge of providing a stigma-free environment for survivors to access support they can trust to begin their journey of healing; instead of going to multiple information sources to find relevant local support, YSM brings it all under one roof.
We have created Bloom: a free, online, trauma support service for survivors of gender-based violence.
Bloom provides a variety of course options designed to inform and empower survivors. By combining learnings from the science and study of trauma (without any pseudoscience!) with tips, tools, and techniques to support healing, Bloom provides space for survivors to recover from trauma. During each course, we offer support via regular messages; scripted course videos; and a one-to-one chat service between participants and facilitators. Bloom is led by a global team of full and part-time facilitators.
You will be connected to Bloom users for short-term therapy paid for by us. A specific subset of Bloom users are referred to us by external clients and will subsequently gain access to a platform where they can select one of our therapy partners. Users will have the opportunity to access up to six therapy sessions. Therapy is currently offered in English, Spanish, Hindi, Portuguese, French, and German.
If you partner with us, you will be delivering short-term therapy to survivors of gender-based violence across the world at no cost to the survivor.
We’re looking for trauma-informed therapists who are excited about the work we do at Chayn and wants to partner with us!
As you will be working with survivors around the world, global indemnity insurance is required for this partnership. This includes insurance to work with therapy clients in North America.
Because this insurance and accreditation with a regulatory body is a prerequisite for this work, we will ask you to complete a questionnaire before moving forward with the process. This questionnaire will ask for:
We require these details in order to carry out due diligence checks and we will only contact references if we move forward with our partnership.
Given the nature of our courses and our audience, we encourage applications from mental health professionals who have either grown up in the Global South (or Majority World) and/or have completed professional training there.
It’s important that all our partners have an understanding of intersectionality and systems of oppression and an affinity with Chayn’s aims and organisational values which can be found **here.**
It is up to you when and where you do your therapy sessions! We ask that therapists have between 4 to 6 sessions (of one hour) available to book in their calendars per week. This is so that therapy users have a selection of times to choose from. We can limit how many sessions are booked with you per week as per your needs.
Payments will be made in monthly instalments on receipt of an invoice. In the event of a late cancellation or missed appointment (i.e. less than 48-hours notice), Bloom therapists will still be compensated at your usual rate. If this happens, therapists will use the time to review and advise on Bloom course content.
It is important to note that we are not a direct employer for the therapy project – we facilitate matching you with survivors for short-term therapy and ensuring you get paid for your work!
To apply, please send the following to jobs@chayn.co with “Multilingual Bloom Therapist Partner” in the subject line.
We welcome applicants from all walks of life. We encourage applications from women of colour and non-binary people.
Interviews will be held on a rolling basis, with applications assessed continuously.
⚓ Location: Remote
Salary: £1,200 per month
⚙️ Type: Contractor (10 hours per week).
️ Duration: 9 months (with strong possibility for extension, based on funding)
Accountable to: Head of Communications
⏲️ DEADLINE: 4th May 2025
Chayn has a mission to reach 1 million survivors of gender-based violence with our resources, products and services. We’re looking for someone to work alongside our Head of Comms to deliver social media and comms support in line with our brand new comms strategy.
This role is ideal for a social media and/or comms professional with a global lens, has a passion for engagement with survivors of gender-based violence, and thrives in a fast-paced, mission-driven environment. You will be responsible for repurposing content, producing high-quality social media posts, and supporting community-building efforts.
As the Comms and Community Coordinator at Chayn, you will focus your efforts on creating survivor-centered, survivor-led content for social media that helps drive engagement, reach and most importantly helps survivors find our content.
The primary platforms you will coordinate will be Instagram, TikTok and Facebook with some support with Twitter, LinkedIn and Medium.
Your responsibilities will include:
We are looking for an experienced comms and/or social media professional who is passionate about survivor-led comms and bringing our resources to a global audience.
It’s important that all team members have an understanding of intersectionality and systems of oppression and an affinity with Chayn’s aims and organisational values which can be found here.
Chayn is an award-winning, open-source collective that leverages technology to empower women against violence and oppression so they can live happier and healthier lives. Chayn started in 2013 to provide survivors of abuse with accurate, diverse and accessible information.
Since our beginnings, over half a million people have accessed our award-winning work online, generating 1.2 million page views. Up to 70% of our volunteers are survivors of abuse which means not only are our projects user-centred–they are user-led. We are experts in trauma-informed work and have developed trauma-informed design principles that we apply at every level of the organisation from HR through to user research, through to UX/UI. We are one of the few feminist technology projects tackling gender-based violence while creating and maintaining openly-licensed products and code.
While we’ve been going for 10 years, Chayn was entirely volunteer-led until 2020 when we started to grow our team of paid staff. We are now a core team of 13, with up to 10 supporting contractors working together remotely from all over the world.
Some examples of the products and services in our universe:
Products and services for survivors
Bloom – ****A remote trauma support service, offering video courses and reflective webchat that combine the insights of survivors globally with therapeutic practices to heal from trauma. We currently have partnerships with Bumble and Badoo where we offer their users bespoke Bloom programmes of support.
Manipulation is abuse – A guide for survivors and allies, to help identify manipulative situations and offer suggestions on ways to deal with them.
How to build a domestic abuse case without a lawyer – A practical guide to collecting and presenting evidence for divorce, criminal cases and/or child custody. Available in English, Arabic, Urdu, Italian, and Portuguese.
Research and thought leadership
Orbits: a guide on how we can design interventions to tech abuse that are intersectional, survivor-centred, and trauma-informed. Co-created with thinkers, practitioners, and survivors from around the world, the guide focuses on three areas that are vital for effectively tackling tech abuse: technology, research, and policy. It explores how systems are failing survivors and how we can advance a different approach that leaves no survivor behind.
Trauma-informed design: One of the many write-ups of our design principles.
Products and services for organisations
️ Bloom for Bumble and Badoo programme is an industry-first partnership where Chayn is providing a customised version of our remote trauma support service Bloom to their community.
️ Training for organisations on vicarious trauma for their staff. This is especially useful for humanitarian workers, frontline gender-based violence organisations, customer support staff and content moderators.
Changing media narratives
Our CEO is a media spokesperson and regularly talks to broadcast and print media about stories to do with gender-based violence and online safety. You can see some recent examples here: LBC, BBC News, HuffPo, BBC, Vice and Forbes.
This work will be undertaken on a freelance basis, we are unable to sponsor visas.
In addition to compensation, Chayn offers:
At Chayn, inclusion and accessibility are at the core of our work. We welcome applicants from all walks of life. Given the nature of our courses and our audience, we encourage applications from those who grew up in the Global South (or Majority World).
We also encourage applications from people of colour, LGBTQ+ people (we are a trans-inclusive organisation), people with disabilities, and people who have experienced other exclusion or marginalisation. Up to 70% of our team members are survivors of abuse so if you are one too and are thinking to apply, know that you will be in a safe and affirming space.
We have tried to make this recruitment process as accessible as possible, but know that there might be more that we can do, particularly if you have experienced exclusion, disadvantage or discrimination, or if you have particular accessibility needs. We would be happy to provide any further support that you may require – please get in touch with us at jobs@chayn.co, and we can think together about how to make this process easier for you.
To apply, please send the following to jobs@chayn.co with “Communications and Community Coordinator” in the subject line. Please read this document and give it some thought before applying to work with us.
By the end of 4th May 2025 (wherever you are), please send us:
Recruitment stages:
We intend to respond to every applicant for this role to inform them of the outcome of their application, but we are a small team with limited capacity and may only contact applicants who are invited to interview. If you don’t hear from us by the end of xx then please assume we will not be inviting you to an interview.
