12 month Fixed Term Contract

Regional based: £34,190 to £36,190 per annum

London based: £37,270 to £39,270 per annum

We are looking for an experienced Campaigner lead our political work on plastic pollution!

As a Campaigner with us you will work with others to deliver great campaigns for Friends of the Earth - building our supporter base and grassroots strength.

We’re looking for someone who can demonstrate strategic thinking in developing and delivering campaign strategies. You will have the ability to identify what sort of pressure for change is needed, and where and when it should be applied to achieve our campaign goals. 

Understanding of how change happens politically and socially is also required, along with experience in mobilising people to effect change.

Closing date: Monday 31st August 2020 (23:59)

We offer a competitive range of benefits, good work/life balance, excellent learning and development opportunities and a vibrant organisational culture.

We are an equal opportunities employer and are especially keen to encourage applications from people currently under-represented in the environment movement.

Friends of the Earth is an international community dedicated to protecting the natural world and the wellbeing of everyone in it. We lead campaigns, provide resources and information, and drive real solutions to the environmental problems facing us all.

Contract: Two years (with possibility of extension) 

Salary: £25,021 pro rata 

Location: London / Birmingham / Leeds (or York) / Bristol (or Bath); working from home for foreseeable future

Hours: Near full time but flexible: either 4, 4.5 or 5 days per week depending on preference. Exact working hours negotiable around e.g. caring responsibilities.

Deadline: 9am, Tuesday 1st September

Interviews: 7th-18th September

About the role: Car Free City Campaigners will be working with local people and organisations to develop and promote a private car-free vision for your city, as well as helping design and deliver bottom up, street level changes to reduce traffic in the short term.  Your day to day will involve forging alliances within your city and local communities, building support for creative initiatives and practical projects to improve the public realm to help tackle climate change, air pollution, congestion and road danger. 

Possible is committed to providing equal opportunities for all applicants regardless of their background. We value diversity whilst also acknowledging that people from certain backgrounds are underrepresented in our organisation. We are keen to correct this, so particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic people; people who identify as disabled; people from LGBTQIA+ communities; people who have mental health problems and people who identify as working class (or have done in the past). If you’re not sure about applying, please do get in touch with us for a chat – we’d love to talk to you!

US: Hi, we’re Possible – we bring people together to create bold, beautiful solutions in response to the climate crisis. Whether that’s connecting the world’s first solar railway, mining renewable heat from underneath parks, leading calls for a televised election climate debate or launching a ground-breaking employer scheme to incentivise clean holiday travel - we’re always thinking of new ways to cut carbon that involve and benefit the public. 

YOU: Are you someone with a passion for tackling local injustice and environmental problems in a way that gets everyone involved? Are you an active member of your community with a drive to make your city a fairer, safer, healthier and greener place to live? Are you excited by the chance to create local solutions to global challenges like climate change? Are you ready to bring people together behind positive change, even if it means challenging received wisdom about how things should be done? If so, we should talk.

Possible have secured funding for a major new campaign to reduce private car dominance in cities, showing how achieving the big reductions in motor traffic needed to meet climate change targets will also dramatically improve health outcomes and quality of life for people living in cities, particularly in the most polluted areas. The ‘new normal’ post-covid cannot be one where people shun public transport for private cars, or our climate goals will be impossible to meet - and gridlock and toxic air will continue to blight life in Britain’s towns and cities.

Now we are putting together a crack team to make change happen from the bottom up in Birmingham, Leeds & York, Bristol & Bath, and London. Working with local community changemakers as well as city authorities, councillors and other civil society groups, our Car Free Cities campaigners will play a key role in co-producing plans for traffic reduction and urban greening schemes - and in puzzling out how we get to a future where nobody in cities has to depend on owning a car to get around. We will particularly focus on neighbourhoods where few people own cars, yet congestion and pollution levels are sky high. Come and join us - let’s do amazing things together! 

+ About the role

You’ll be a member of an exciting new Car Free Cities team, based across London, Bristol & Bath, Leeds & York, and Birmingham - working alongside the three other local car free cities campaigners, and our new Head of Car Free Cities. The role will be based in London / Bristol or Bath / Leeds or York / Birmingham, and will be a work from home position in the city you live in (office space available in London and Bristol). The car free cities project will run for a minimum of two years from October 2020, and all four community campaigner roles come with a complementary folding Brompton bicycle for those who can and want to cycle for work.

With the support of the Head of Car Free Cities, and your peer campaigners, you’ll be responsible for designing a campaign plan for your city/cities and building the strong local relationships and networks needed to make it happen. You’ll reach out to local communities in areas of low car ownership and high air pollution levels to undertake citizen science projects - supported by academics at the Universities of West England and Westminster - to map traffic flows through their streets. You’ll support communities to develop compelling local visions for low traffic neighbourhoods and urban greening - working closely with our in house transport planner, graphic designer and architectural visualiser - before facilitating the local organising needed to transform those visions into realities.

You won’t stop there - you’ll leverage these pioneering examples of local action to humanise streets, and the grassroots action networks you’ve helped forge to increase city-wide ambition and measures for reducing car dominance, in turn providing inspiration to communities in other towns and cities across the UK which are ready to improve quality of life and tackle climate change.

No mean feat, but across your work you’ll collaborate with and be supported by the campaigns, fundraising and comms teams to develop the most effective mobilisations techniques, tell inspiring stories to leverage change, and build resources to take further action.

At a time when everything is in flux, there is more energy and opportunity than ever to transform our towns and cities into places that put people first, return life to our streets and improve public and planetary health. Of course, there will be challenges too - and together with your teammates and the local networks you build it will be your job to turn this rapidly changing context to up our advantage and the pace of real change. 

As a member of the Possible team you’ll be part of a small, passionate, nimble, unique and positive organisation that cares about its people, its projects and, ultimately, the planet.

The Day to Day 

Indicative responsibilities could include:

• Weekly Zoom meetings with the Car Free Cities project team, and the wider Possible team

• Establishing and maintaining good working relationships with local stakeholders such as community and residents’ groups and leaders, civil society actors and academics, employers and business leaders, schools, councillors and council officers

• Setting up and hosting public meetings in priority communities

• Speaking at other public events about the need to cut traffic and pollution

• Researching statistics and other information sources on local travel patterns, pollution and accident hot spots, problem rat runs etc

• Researching and summarising status of local political action to address these issues, including key barriers to greater ambition

• Writing campaign content that is accessible and meaningful for local communities

• Carrying out local public opinion surveys

• Writing to local newspapers in support of traffic reduction schemes

• Coordinating community responses to official consultations

• Training volunteers to use monitors to carry out citizen science traffic surveys, and communicating findings to local stakeholders

• Liaising with the team’s transport planner to develop local community-led traffic reduction proposals

• Liaising with the team’s creatives to produce compelling visuals setting out problems and proposed solutions

• Advocating for these community-led visions in local and city-wide political fora

• Organising neighbourhood tours on bike and foot for local politicians

• Running competitions with schools to find the best ideas to re-purpose soon-to-be-obsolete petrol stations to meet the needs of local people

• Supporting residents to apply to convert on-street parking spaces to pocket parks, or to organise play streets etc

• Organising local competitions to name new protected cycle lanes

• Contributing to the national Car Free Cities campaign strategy and delivery as needed

• Coming up with your own ideas for creative local interventions to cut traffic

+ Person specification

Competencies can be demonstrated by both paid and voluntary experience.

Must haves

• Strong personal connection to the relevant city/cities

• Track record of being active in your community (or more widely) on social and/or environmental issues

• Strong people skills and experience of working with volunteers, colleagues and project partners

• Good standard of written and spoken communication skills

• Ability to take initiative and work independently, as well as part of a team

• Excellent organisational and time management skills

• Adaptability, enthusiasm, appetite for learning 

• Passion for working with the public to take action, and for helping increase the capacity of people to act and activate others around them

• Commitment to Possible’s positive approach to climate campaigning and passionate about achieving climate justice

Nice to haves

• Working knowledge of local and national climate and transport context and policy

• Experience of public meeting facilitation

• Experience of working with mainstream media and social media

• Event management experience

• Community organising experience

• Contacts in local government, community groups and residents associations, and existing networks of transport / environmental activists and NGOs active in your city

• Basic research skills

• Additional language skills relevant to local communities in your location

+ About Possible

Here at Possible, we have a vision for a low carbon Britain that has been built by and belongs to everybody.

To get there, we dream up projects, build tools and spread success stories to make sure everyone has the help and inspiration they need to play a role in tackling climate change. Our work cuts carbon, but because we work on cultural as well as technical levels, we get people talking about climate change action too. We want our projects to be infectious, so it is always about more than just a solar panel here, or an LED there - it’s about groups of people working together to change the world.

+ Our Values

Inclusivity  Trust and respect   Creativity   Shared ambition

Positivity  Caring and kindness  Integrity  Openness

Not just buzzwords to make us feel warm and fuzzy, these are the values we are guided by in our actions and our organisational culture. Away days help to keep these values alive and we work together to keep our team as supported, empowered and cared for as possible. We’re run by a team of directors rather than one single CEO, and we’re committed to reducing hierarchy wherever possible.

Workplace benefits include:

• 25 days paid holiday (+ bank holidays and three days at Christmas)

• Flexible working

• Paid volunteer leave

• Bike to work scheme

• Complementary Brompton bicycle (these roles only)

• Paid journey days for low carbon holiday travel 

• Childcare vouchers

• Good maternity and paternity leave

• Employer pension contribution

• Access to complementary Headspace account (mindfulness and meditation app)

Summary

SumOfUs is looking for three digital campaigners to help us win campaigns against corporations behaving badly. If you love fighting for change, if you are excited about global economic justice, and if you are hungry to experiment with technology to change the world, then this might be the role for you.

These roles will primarily focus on curbing the abuse of corporate power in the United Kingdom, France, Germany and at the EU level and will report to our regional campaigns leaders respectively. Our members power our work and we put them at the center of everything we do. These roles will be responsible for identifying impactful campaigns, developing winning tactics and leveraging our member’s power to create fundamental shifts in corporate behaviour and to reshape the global economy for the benefit of people and the planet.

Two of these roles require fluency (written and oral) in German or French. All of these roles require familiarity with the political and corporate landscapes in the UK, France or Germany, depending on the region you are applying to work within.

These positions are remote and can be undertaken by anyone between GMT -1 (North Africa) and GMT +2

A bit about us

SumOfUs is a global movement of consumers, investors, and workers standing together to hold corporations accountable for their actions and forge a new and sustainable path for our global economy. We are a movement of more than 15 million people, brought together by a global team of 35 campaigners, fundraisers, and operations staff who are passionate about creating a more caring, equitable society.

We are aiming to fundamentally reshape the global economy to put people and planet over profit, but we know we can not do it alone. We build partnerships with on-the-ground activists and organisers, and we follow their lead. We innovate, experiment and embrace professional and organizational growth. We invest in people and we invest in how we work, because our vision calls on us to build the most effective, global, diverse, and talented team possible.

We highly value a diverse team and an equitable work environment where every member of our team is set up to thrive. We have taken steps to nurture this environment including an Anti-Oppression Leadership Team that leads work to transform injustice within the

organization. We expect all team members to take responsibility for co-creating an equitable work community where everyone is able to do impactful, world-changing work. We offer benefits including additional sick days for parents and caregivers, flexible working hours, and professional development stipends. We review our policies and practices for equity frequently. We recruit and encourage people identifying with marginalized communities to apply.

What you’ll do as part of our team

• Identify, research and develop campaigns targeting corporations in your assigned region, across Europe and globally
• Write and edit (and/or translate) compelling emails to engage and mobilize our members to take action, fundraise, and build our power in Europe
• Lead on 2 campaigns at a time (on average) and collaborate within your regional team and with other campaigns teams, along with our fundraising and product teams
• Identify and develop fundraising opportunities to raise money to grow our movement and create real-world impact;
• Collaborate with partners and coalitions around campaign opportunities, manage relationships, and advance SumOfUs’s goals;
• Draft a press release and (with support and training) pitch reporters to cover our campaigns; and 
• Assist with managing our membership lists, including monitoring and interpreting how people engage with the emails we send, if the emails are effective in generating action or raising money, and if the email list is growing.

Skills and experiences you’ll need to bring:

We have no formal education requirements – if you can meet the responsibilities of the role and are willing to grow, that’s all that matters. 

All roles at SumOfUs require you to be:

• Dedicated to building a fairer and more sustainable global economy;
• Able to write 1-2 impactful and compelling emails to our English member list per week (English is our primary working language);
• Able to demonstrate a commitment to building a diverse, equitable and inclusive work community; and
• Able to work remotely (SumOfUs provides funds to set-up a home office or to work from a co-working space).

And, this role in particular will require you to:

• Be able to identify and develop inspiring and impactful campaigns;
• Have excellent writing and storytelling skills with a solid understanding of campaigning;
• Have an understanding of political process and how change happens on this level (particularly in the UK, France, Germany or European Union - you will likely have an understanding of 1 or 2 of these regions);
• Be keen to learn and develop new skills, be flexible and solutions oriented;
• Be fluent in either French or German (depending on the region you apply to work within).

Big pluses

We know that no one can possibly have all these skills and experiences - you will likely be able to bring 2 or 3 of the following to our team:

• Strong relationship building skills, able to forge and manage relationships with people and organizations working on similar issues or projects;
• Understand basic data analysis;
• Experience designing and running experiments and A/B tests;
• Experience in working with media (eg with writing press releases and doing interviews)
• Experience with market campaigns, shareholder activism, or corporate accountability issues;
• Experience in working with politics (decision makers).
   

Further details

Compensation is competitive and will be determined based on a combination of experience, seniority, and where you live. (For some context: this position in London would pay £33,491 - £38,779 and in Berlin would pay between €34,384 - €39,813 per year depending on experience and seniority; the compensation level will be adjusted in other regions based on cost of living.)

SumOfUs is a fully remote and distributed team, as such we offer stipends to offset cell phone and internet costs. We offer stipends to set-up home offices or to rent space in a coworking environment. We offer five weeks paid vacation (plus additional sick leave and all major public holidays off and 6 months paid parental leave), contributions to retirement, and the ability to work from home and work with a degree of flexibility outside our core hours of operation. We cover private health insurance premiums for employees and dependents who live in countries without public insurance. We are happy to answer any questions you have about our leave policies and other, similar benefits.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and are committed to racial equity and social justice.

Campaign Coach – My World My Home

Contract: Fixed Term Contract ending 31st July 2021           

Location: Cardiff (or home working from South Wales considered)

Are you a grassroots organiser and trainer with experience of working with young people and a demonstrable commitment to environmental justice? If so, then we would love to hear from you!

We have an exciting opportunity for a skilled organiser with experience working with young people to join the staff team as our South Wales and Bristol Campaign Coach. You’ll use your knowledge of working on environmental campaigns, and your experience in effective grassroots community organising to deliver high quality structured training, coaching and support to young people to develop their environmental leadership through carrying out a campaign that they chose, design and deliver.

You will be joining the project in the final year of the five years of funding. This means you will be working with the rest of the team to reflect and learn from the project in its current form and create a legacy for My World My Home.

Closing date: Monday 24th August 2020 (23:59)

Interview date: Thursday 3rd September 2020

For further information, please visit our website.

Please note: This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check

We offer a competitive range of benefits, good work/life balance, excellent learning, and development opportunities and a vibrant organisational culture.

We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons and encourage applications from people currently underrepresented in the environment movement, including BAME, disabled and LGBTQI+ people. We particularly welcome applications from those who have experience of further Education colleges in South Wales.

 Friends of the Earth is an international community dedicated to protecting the natural world and the wellbeing of everyone in it. We lead campaigns, provide resources and information, and drive real solutions to the environmental problems facing us all.

Purpose of job
To deliver election success in priority areas across Scotland, with a clear objective of putting “more gold on the map” – be it Lib Dem MPs, MSPs, Lib Dem-led Councils and Lib Dem councillors.

Key Responsibilities
1. As directed by your Head of Campaigns & Elections (Scotland), deliver the party’s agreed seat support programme to develop the skills of volunteers and staff, build party capacity, and win elections;
2. As directed by the Head of Campaigns & Elections (Scotland), deliver targeted wins in strategically important elections – directly managing campaigns where needed;
3. Increase the take up of national campaigns and messages that grow the Liberal Democrat brand and movement;
4. Undertake personal development with the long-term ambition of becoming a recognised expert in a particular field of party campaigning;
5. Ensure good communications and relationships between the Campaigns & Election Directorate and key stakeholders – including the Scottish Party, candidates, local parties and campaign teams.

PERSON SPECIFICATION
We are looking for a strong campaigner who can deliver campaign and election success for the Liberal Democrats.
The heart of this role is working closely with local staff and volunteers to support the development of local campaigning in key areas through our seat support programme.

You’ll be a confident person, with strong leadership and communication skills and the ability to build strong working relationships.

You’ll be a person at ease with the latest online and offline campaign techniques.
Ideally you will have been part of multiple successful election campaigns and will have a strong understanding of what it takes to win.

You will be able to demonstrate a record of election, fundraising and capacity-building success, with an instinctive sense of what makes an effective political message. You will have sound political judgement, an in-depth understanding of voters, and will know what it takes for candidates to cross the winning line.

You will be well organised and able to work without supervision in a challenging environment. A good temperament that allows you to deal with the unexpected is a must. You will need strong leadership and communications skills, and must also show a willingness to innovate, experiment, and share best practice.

This role will suit someone who enjoys variety in their work and working with teams with differing needs and levels of development.

Essential Skills and Experience
1. Campaign management experience
2. Strong political messaging, graphic design in the political context
3. Excellent organisational and planning skills
4. The ability to inspire and develop the skills of volunteers and staff
5. Strong verbal and written communication skills
6. A clear understanding of how to engage with members and voters
7. Confidence with data, CRM and digital campaign tools
8. Experience working with volunteers
9. A full clean driving licence and access to a vehicle 10. Sympathy with the aims and values of the Liberal Democrats
Desirable Skills and Experience
11. Experience of management, including remote management
12. Experience of fundraising
13. Experience of using Nationbuilder, Lib Dem Connect and Page Plus and/or Affinity Publisher
14. Experience of delivering training, coaching and mentoring
15. An understanding of the politics of devolved Governments, in particular Scotland

Digital Campaigns Officer

Your writing engages and inspires. You have experience in e-mail marketing, are looking to develop your career in digital marketing, and are passionate about animal rights. If this sounds like you, PETA would love to hear from you.

Position Objective:

To prepare and deliver the digital assets to support PETA's campaigns, including by overseeing e-mail marketing

Term of Employment:

Full-time

Reports to:

Digital Marketing Manager

Location:

PETA UK’s office near King's Cross, London

Primary Responsibilities and Duties:

• Inspire millions of people to take positive actions for animals by writing and revising compelling advocacy copy, including petitions, e-mail appeals, letters to politicians and other decision-makers, progress reports, and other campaigning materials
• Deliver PETA UK's online campaigns by creating web content, including blog posts, features, action alerts, and mobile app updates, and carry out regular analysis of and reporting on web performance
• Oversee PETA UK's e-mail marketing efforts in order to engage supporters with our campaigns and animal rights issues, including by writing, building, and sending e-mail marketing messages; segmenting audiences; and conducting split-testing campaigns
• Track and report on e-mail campaigns in order to guide improvements, including by increasing open and click rates and ensuring compliance with current e-mail best practice
• Monitor planning proposals for new factory farms, and coordinate campaigns to support local people in objecting to such facilities in their communities
• Assist the digital marketing manager with e-mail list management, hygiene, and growth
• Coordinate the UK delivery of international affiliate investigations, providing input on strategy and conducting research related to campaigns
• Work as part of the digital marketing team to ensure that online campaigns are as effective as possible
• Work closely with other teams to ensure the accuracy of digital content
• Perform any other duties assigned by the supervisor

Qualifications:

• Strong writing skills, analytical experience, and an understanding of what will resonate with people online
• Strong work ethic with a focus on efficiency, patience, exceptional attention to detail, a positive attitude, and innovative ideas
• Previous experience in e-mail marketing, marketing automation, and reporting using web analytics
• Intermediate knowledge of HTML
• Intermediate knowledge of photo editing and/or web design
• Experience with e-campaigning tools such as Engaging Networks preferred
• Knowledge of the latest digital marketing trends
• Knowledge of animal rights issues and PETA campaigns
• Adherence to a vegan lifestyle strongly preferred
• Ability to advocate the organisation's positions on issues to the public in a professional manner
• Commitment to the objectives of the organisation

Purpose of job
To deliver election success in priority areas across the West Midlands, with a clear objective of putting “more gold on the map” – be it Lib Dem MPs, Lib Dem-led Councils, Lib Dem Mayors or Lib Dem PCCs.

Key Responsibilities
1. Working in partnership with the Regional Party and LDHQ, ensure there is an up to date Regional Development Plan in place covering every local party in the Region, and maintain a rolling overview of its delivery, advising the Region on resource deployment to achieve its goals;
2. Deliver the seat support programme agreed between LDHQ and the Regional Party to develop the skills of volunteers and staff, build party capacity, and win elections;
3. Deliver targeted wins in strategically important elections – directly managing campaigns where needed;
4. Increase the take up of national campaigns and messages that grow the Liberal Democrat brand and movement;
5. Ensure good communications and relationships between the LDHQ Campaigns & Election Directorate, the Regional Party and key stakeholders – including candidates, local parties and campaign teams.

PERSON SPECIFICATION
We are looking for a strong campaigner who can deliver campaign and election success for the Liberal Democrats.
The heart of this role is working closely with local staff and volunteers to support the development of local campaigning in key areas through our seat support programme.

You’ll be a confident person, with strong leadership and communication skills and the ability to build strong working relationships.

You’ll be a person at ease with the latest online and offline campaign techniques.
Ideally you will have been part of multiple successful election campaigns and will have a strong understanding of what it takes to win.

You will be able to demonstrate a record of election, fundraising and capacity-building success, with an instinctive sense of what makes an effective political message.

You will have sound political judgement, an in-depth understanding of voters, and will know what it takes for candidates to cross the winning line.

You will be well organised and able to work without supervision in a challenging environment. A good temperament that allows you to deal with the unexpected is a must.

You will need strong leadership and communications skills, and must also show a willingness to innovate, experiment, and share best practice.

This role will suit someone who enjoys variety in their work and working with teams with differing needs and levels of development.

Essential Skills and Experience
1. Campaign management experience
2. Strong political messaging and graphic design in the political context
3. Excellent organisational and planning skills
4. The ability to inspire and develop the skills of volunteers and staff
5. Strong verbal and written communication skills
6. A clear understanding of how to engage with members and voters
7. Confidence with data, CRM and digital campaign tools
8. Experience working with volunteers
9. A full clean driving licence and access to a vehicle 10. Sympathy with the aims and values of the Liberal Democrats
Desirable Skills and Experience
11. Experience of management, including remote management
12. Experience of fundraising
13. Experience of using Nationbuilder, Lib Dem Connect and Affinity Publisher (or the predecessor package Page Plus)
14. Experience of delivering training, coaching and mentoring

Mind in Harrow is an award-winning mental health charity based in NW London, just three minutes from Harrow Metropolitan line station. Our dynamic and creative team of 40 full/part-time staff and 100 volunteers are driven by a strong user empowerment ethos. We offer family-friendly working practices including home-working and flexible working days, enabling staff to have a fulfilling career alongside any caring responsibilities.

The postholder has an exciting role, working with a successful and active mental health service user group of trained Service User Representatives (Reps). You will collaborate with NHS and other public sector staff on the frontline as well as engaging with senior decision-makers and local politicians to influence change.

We are seeking a self-motivated team member with experience of empowering people with mental health problems and working in a multi-cultural environment. You will have an excellent understanding of co-design and strong communication skills to engage social excluded groups to participate in the project.

It is essential that you have lived experience of mental health issues yourself or caring for someone close to you. The successful applicant will be required to complete an enhanced Disclosure & Barring service application (DBS).

More details, including the Job Description and Person Specification, can be downloaded in the application pack available on our website.

Closing date for applications: Sunday 6th September at midnight

Interviews: 1st stage 17th September, 2nd Stage 18th September

We are actively working towards equal opportunities. We welcome people from ethnic minorities, LGBT+ and people who have used mental health services.

Jubilee Debt Campaign is recruiting a Senior Policy and Campaigns Officer to take forward our work on global South debt. This is a new, key role in the organisation and crucial to the success of our campaigns. You will be joining at a time when international debt is gaining in prominence as an issue, and it is crucial we campaign for a just response in the midst of the Covid-19 crisis and the climate emergency.

We are looking for someone with strong research and policy analysis skills, a strong campaigning mindset, experience of advocacy and statistical analysis, and a passion for social justice. We are not expecting you to already be an expert in all aspects of the role, but are looking for someone with the potential to develop quickly under the guidance of our Head of Policy.

We strongly value diversity and welcome applications from applicants from all backgrounds. We particularly encourage applications from people with a Black, Asian or minority ethnic (BAME) background.

The is a permanent role being offered on either a full-time basis or four days per week (35 or 28 hours). We offer pension contributions of up to 7.5% of your salary plus 1% of the average organisational salary, an annual leave entitlement of 30 days per year per annum plus bank holidays, and flexi-time working arrangements outside the core hours of 10am-4pm.

The deadline for applications is 9am on Monday 24 August. Interviews will be held in September (date to be confirmed).

Please see the recruitment pack for further details and information on how to apply.

About Us

Our office is located in Hatfield, Herts, however, like many organisations we are all currently working from home due to the coronavirus pandemic, although previously we were largely office based.  Due to the experience we have gained during this period, consideration will be given to requests for working from home arrangements.

This role is full time (35 hours), however, due to the effect the pandemic has had on the charity we have had to ask our staff to reduce their hours to 80% and our full time employees are currently working 28 hours per week. We will be returning to full time working as soon as we can, but no later than January 2021.

The role

We have an exciting opportunity to join our Marketing, Communication & Digital team as a Campaigns Project Coordinator. 

You’ll work to support and assist the Communications team in delivery of the Charity’s campaign work to engage key audiences and support the ambitions of the strategic plan. You'll support our award-winning campaign Not Every Disability is Visible - challenging public perceptions of disability and our It Takes Guts campaign - empowering people with tools and confidence to start conversation about their conditions.

About you

With proven experience of working on successful media campaigns and generating high-quality, effective media coverage, you will also have a working knowledge of digital media, including social media, video and graphics.  Strong interpersonal skills and professionalism in working with both journalists, agencies, supporters and colleagues but especially when working with case studies when you also need to understand GDPR requirements.  Our priority is always helping those living with IBD so experience of reporting on media campaigns and showing their impact and a commitment to the Charity aims and values are essential.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Work with the support of the Campaigns Manager to deliver the new campaign plans for Not Every Disability is Visible and It Takes Guts. Work confidently and closely with agencies and internal stakeholders to lead on small defined projects within the campaign plans.
2. Work with case studies to create content (blogs, website articles, social media posts etc) for our campaigns work. To include interviewing over the phone or via email, writing copy and obtaining consent and appropriate sign-off.
3. Write engaging and accurate external facing campaign copy tailored to our various social and digital channels including, but not limited to, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn and the Crohn’s & Colitis UK website and microsites.
4. Be aware of other charities information, community support and income raising ideas and share this knowledge, feeding into the delivery of and where required the development of our new campaigns and comms plan.
5. Write engaging copy for our internal audiences to ensure they are aware of and engaged with the charity’s campaign and comms objectives. Internal channels include, but are not limited to, all staff news site, trustee’s intranet, and Local Network Snapshot.
6. Support in the development of ideas, sourcing stories and writing copy for our new bi-weekly e-newsletter and campaigner emails.
7. Ensure brand language is accurate throughout internal and external comms.
8. Maintain and update the It Takes Guts website to ensure relevant content from across the charity is uploaded to best support the community talking about their conditions. Update our main website with news items and blogs, where required.
9. Monitor the Campaign email inbox and Not Every Disability Is Visible (NEDIV) email inbox, responding to enquires with support of Campaigns Manager.
10. Assist in the preparation and dissemination of campaign briefings and supportive materials for relevant staff and volunteers.
11. Assist the Campaigns Manager in monitoring, analysing and reporting on the impact of our campaigns.
12. Work in conjunction with Campaigns Manager to ensure campaign liaison cross other teams and departments, specifically, the Fundraising, Knowledge and Evidence, Digital and Comms team.
13. Attend meetings and events when required, necessitating travel within the UK, occasionally working outside of regular hours and with occasional overnight stays (on hold currently because of the pandemic).

If this sounds like it could be the role for you then we would love to hear from you.

Shelter Cymru is the people and homes charity in Wales and works for the prevention of homelessness, the improvement of housing conditions, and the right of everyone to a safe, suitable and affordable home.

We are now looking to recruit for the following position to join our team.

If you want to help end homelessness in Wales, we would love to hear from you.

Head of Campaigns

South Wales

35 hours per week

£42,735 - £44,735 per annum

Shelter Cymru’s reputation as an innovative campaigning charity at the forefront of leading and delivering change for people in housing need, is well known across Wales. The Charity has one of the highest public profiles among the public and is respected and listened to by decision makers at all levels.

We are now looking for a Head of Campaigns who will lead our campaigns strategy and contribute to the overall leadership of our organisation.

Working as part of the Senior Management Team you will play a key role in ensuring that our reputation and influence is maintained throughout Wales and will strive to gain support for change that will see an end to homelessness in Wales.

Shelter Cymru offers generous terms and conditions, including 29 days annual leave for full time members of staff plus 2 concessionary Shelter Cymru days.

CLOSING DATE: 20 July 2020

Shelter Cymru challenges discrimination in all areas of its work and employment practices.

Registered Charity No: 515902

Shelter Cymru yw'r elusen pobl a chartrefi yng Nghymru sy’n gweithio i atal digartrefedd, gwella amodau tai, a hawl pawb i gael cartref diogel, addas a fforddiadwy.

Rydym am recriwtio rhywun ar gyfer y swydd ganlynol i ymuno â'n tîm.

Os hoffech chi helpu i ddod â digartrefedd i ben yng Nghymru, byddem wrth ein bodd yn clywed gennych.

Pennaeth Ymgyrchoedd

De Cymru

35 awr yr wythnos

£42,735 - £44,735 y flwyddyn

Mae enw da Shelter Cymru fel elusen ymgyrchu arloesol sydd ar flaen y gad o ran arwain a chyflawni newid i bobl mewn angen tai, yn adnabyddus ledled Cymru. Mae gan yr Elusen un o'r proffiliau cyhoeddus uchaf ymhlith y cyhoedd ac mae'n cael ei barchu a gwranadewir arni gan y rhai sy'n gwneud penderfyniadau ar bob lefel.

Rydym nawr yn chwilio am Bennaeth Ymgyrchoedd a fydd yn arwain ein strategaeth ymgyrchoedd ac yn cyfrannu at arweinyddiaeth gyffredinol ein sefydliad.

Gan weithio fel rhan o'r Uwch Dîm Rheoli byddwch yn chwarae rhan allweddol wrth sicrhau bod ein henw da a'n dylanwad yn cael ei gynnal ledled Cymru ac yn ymdrechu i ennill cefnogaeth ar gyfer newid a fydd yn dod â digartrefedd i ben yng Nghymru.

Mae Shelter Cymru yn cynnig amodau a thelerau hael, gan gynnwys 29 diwrnod o wyliau blynyddol i aelodau staff llawn amser yn ogystal â 2 ddiwrnod ychwanegol Shelter Cymru.

DYDDIAD CAU: 20 Gorffennaf 2020

Mae Shelter Cymru yn herio gwahaniaethu yn ei holl feysydd gwaith ac arferion cyflogaeth.

Rhif Elusen Gofrestredig: 515902

Want to make positive change for disaffected individuals? If so, join our team as a Campaign Officer to challenge unjust immigration policies

We are looking for an experienced Campaign Officer to drive forward our advocacy work with migrants and their families disadvantaged by Home Office refusals for indefinite leave to remain (ILR), and the subsequent impact for those with protected characteristics e.g. disabilities.

This exciting role will suit a candidate with the confidence and zeal to work alongside those with the lived experience to centre their voices, and with a range of stakeholders including legal professionals, and parliamentarians to move the campaign forward

The successful candidate will have a track record in policy/ research, political engagement and community engagement, and excellent interpersonal skills.

The charity is looking for exceptional candidates with:

• Commitment to upholding and advancing the rights of all migrants

• Real vision as to how this can be done in the current political, social and economic climate 

• Readiness to work with all groups and individuals who support the MRN mission, values and vision

This is a part-time post (3 days per week), funded by the Baring Foundation, provisionally beginning in August/September 2020 and running for 12 months. The salary will be  £30,507 per annum pro-rata.  In addition, MRN contributes 6% of salary to pensions.

Closing date for applications: 9am, 10 August 2020

Date for candidate interviews: 17 or 18 August 2020

Starting Salary: £39,396 - £40,745 p.a.

Position Description

Job Profile

(Previous applicants need not apply)

Working as part of CAFOD’s Campaigns team, you will play a pivotal role in planning and delivering hard-hitting campaigns that tackle the root causes of global poverty and injustice. You will lead on engaging CAFOD supporters with our campaigning activities and keeping key audiences fully informed and updated on the issues we are campaigning on. You will also play a central role in engaging Parliamentarians as part of our campaigns, ensuring that our supporters are having a meaningful impact on decision makers. 

Key Responsibilities

Developing and overseeing campaigns engagement strategies

• Develop and deliver campaigns engagement plans which form part of CAFOD’s campaigns strategies.
• Ensure that CAFOD’s supporters play an active role in winning campaigns and influencing decision-makers.
• Develop and deliver supporter journeys for new and existing supporters.

Managing supporter communication outputs

• Ensure that public campaigning materials and tactics are being used effectively to bring about political change in support of CAFOD’s campaigns.
• Ensure supporters receive regular updates about CAFOD’s campaigns, including management of the Campaigns Updates and Campaign E-alerts.
• With the Campaigns Manager, lead on the production of regular communications content for campaigners (print and online), both writing content directly and overseeing the delegating and outsourcing of communications materials for CAFOD campaigns.

Engaging Parliamentarians with CAFOD’s campaigns

• Support CAFOD’s engagement with parliamentarians to ensure that supporters are having an impact on decision makers. Including, but not limited to, organising political events and attending lobbying meetings or parliamentary events.
• Oversee CAFOD’s relationship with the Parliamentary Friends of CAFOD All Party Parliamentary Group, ensuring the group are utilised to help win CAFOD campaigns.
• Work with the Campaigns Manager to coordinate the CAFOD’s MP Correspondents programme.
• Coordinate and record CAFOD’s engagement with Parliamentarians

Managing audience development & oversight of key supporter groups

• Work closely with the Catholic community to maximise their engagement with CAFOD’s campaigns.
• Ensure the Campaigns team has a clear understanding of our key audiences in the Catholic community and that this knowledge is applied to campaign strategies.
• Develop and maintain clear profiles for these audiences to ensure they are effectively engaged.
• Ensure that input from key Catholic audiences feeds into planning, development and implementation of campaigns.

Representing CAFOD in external meetings

• Play an active role in NGO coalitions to ensure the best ways of reaching CAFOD’s supporters are included in any coalition plans.
• Work with the wider sector to maximise supporter engagement in campaigns.
• Act as a spokesperson for CAFOD on our campaigns with supporters or the media.

Managing the Campaigns Outreach Co-Ordinator and other staff as required

• To provide effective management for the Campaigns Outreach Co-ordinator in line with CAFOD standards.
• This list of duties and responsibilities is by no means exhaustive and the post holder may be required to undertake other relevant and appropriate duties as required. This job description is subject to regular review and appropriate modification.

Person Specification

*We appreciate that any one candidate might not meet all eight criteria, but do require candidates to meet a minimum of five of the below criteria*

• Proven experience of working on successful campaigns for social change, ideally on international issues.
• Strong grasp of international development and global justice issues, including an understanding of the causes of global poverty and inequality.
• Familiarity with the UK Parliamentary system and knowledge of how to influence decision makers, including experience working with UK Parliamentarians and/or civil servants.
• Understanding of the Catholic church and knowledge of the Catholic community in England and Wales.
• Proven written and spoken communications skills, including the ability to translate complex ideas into accessible materials for a wide variety of audiences.
• Track record of bringing creative ideas to campaigns and communications outputs.
• Excellent inter-personal skills with experience of working with multiple stakeholders, and as part of a team.
• Leaderships skills, with experience of project-management and/or people management.

Safeguarding for Children and Vulnerable Adults

CAFOD recognises the personal dignity and rights of children and vulnerable adults, towards whom it has a special responsibility and a duty of care and respect.  CAFOD, and all its staff and volunteers, undertake to do all in our power to create a safe environment for children, young people and vulnerable adults and to prevent their physical, sexual or emotional abuse.  CAFOD is committed to acting at all times in the best interests of children and vulnerable adults, seeing these interests as paramount.  Any candidate offered a job with CAFOD will be expected to adhere to CAFOD’s Safeguarding policy and sign CAFOD’s Code of Behaviour as an appendix to their contract of employment and agree to conduct themselves in accordance with the provisions of these documents.

Come and join us and help make a real difference in the lives of the world’s poorest communities.

CAFOD is an equal opportunities employer. Recruitment and selection procedures reflect our commitment to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults.

We're looking for a Communcations and Campaigns Officer to join our enthusiastic and dedicated team to manage our internal and external communications systems and to develop our social media presence.

Main responsibiliites will be in the following areas:

• Managing internal communications 
• Managing external communications including social media and website content
• Collating, editing and circulating the bi-monthly newsletter to Member Agencies
• Developing our social media prsence and creating website content relevant to survivors and our Member Agencies
• Supporting creative and strategic planning of campaigns
• Managing media requests

Person specification

Our ideal candidate will:

• Demonstrate commitment to TST's ethos, mission and values
• Have excellent ability to research, analyse and present information
• Be familiar with social media and digital campaign concepts
• Be an effective and compassionate communicator
• Be confident in using MS office
• Be flexible in their approach to team and project work

An understanding of gender based violence and the work of specialist rape and sexual abuse support services will be an advantage.  Work experience, particularly in a communications or campaigns focussed role in the specialist sexual violence voluntary sector or general voluntary sector will be regarded as relevant and important as much as education or specific qualifications.

Location

Our offices are based in Rugby, Warwickshire.  We are currently working remotely and will only return to the office when it is appropriate to do so.  We appreciate that the appropriate time to return to the office may be different for some people.   There may in future be travel requirements to support events.