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Coal Action Network seeks a Communications & Digital Campaigns Manager for its Boycott Bloody Insurance campaign. The role would lead communications for the campaign to protect the Coral Triangle as part of Insure Our Future’s network, and support communications for the team's wider campaigns for Palestine liberation and migrants' justice. 

Boycott Bloody Insurance is a campaign challenging the insurance industry's role in enabling fossil fuel expansion, arms production, and human rights abuses. We are looking for a creative, strategic and politically engaged Communications Manager who can help build public pressure on insurance companies, mobilise supporters and turn complex issues into compelling campaigns.

The ideal candidate will combine strong communications skills with a campaigning mindset, an understanding of grassroots movements and the ability to deliver bold, creative communications that reach beyond existing activist audiences.

The role involves building public awareness of how insurance props up a deadly financial system, and mobilising supporters to action through targeted, engaging, multi-channel content.

Role Overview

• Job Title: Communications & Digital Campaigns Manager

• Core Purpose: Plan and deliver high-impact communications and public-facing digital campaigns that shift attitudes, influence decision-makers, and raise the profile of Sama Sama: Together for the Coral Triangle, and wider Boycott Bloody insurance campaigns.

• Part-time: 3.5 days a week

• Salary: £37,473 FT, £26,231 3.5 days

• Location: UK-based, working remotely or in-person in London, with occasional in-person responsibilities.

• 1 year with possible extension subject to further funding

Key Responsibilities

• Communications Strategy: Lead the development and delivery of Boycott Bloody Insurance's communications strategy, ensuring it supports wider campaign objectives, builds public engagement and increases pressure on target insurers.

• Social Media Management: Manage and grow Boycott Bloody Insurance's social media presence across Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, X/Twitter, Bluesky and TikTok, developing engaging content tailored to different platforms and audiences.

• Content Creation: Write compelling copy and create engaging visual content for social media, email updates and campaign action alerts. Film, edit and publish short-form videos and reels to amplify protests, campaign activities and research findings.

• Creative Campaigning and Storytelling: Develop bold, original and engaging communications ideas that make the campaign more visible, memorable and widely shared. Use humour, satire, visual storytelling and creative collaborations to challenge corporate narratives, expose contradictions and reach new audiences.

• Campaign Messaging: Work closely with campaigners, researchers and action designers to turn complex insurance issues into clear, accessible and emotionally compelling content. Ensure communications are consistent with agreed campaign narratives and messaging.

• Digital Campaigning and Mobilisation: Develop and coordinate creative digital campaigns that complement in-person actions and mobilise supporters. This could include mass email actions, coordinated phone calls, social media mobilisation, petitions and other forms of digital activism.

• Influencer Engagement and Audience Development: Identify, approach, and build relationships with relevant influencers, content creators, and communities who can help amplify campaign messages and reach new audiences, particularly within the diving, marine conservation, and environmental communities.

• Network Communications Support: Collaborate with partner organisations across the Insure Our Future network, providing communications support, content and coordination to strengthen collective campaigning and increase pressure on insurers to rule out underwriting new fossil fuel projects in the Coral Triangle.

• Monitoring and Evaluation: Monitor social media analytics, audience engagement and digital campaign performance. Use insights to improve content, strengthen communications strategies and assess progress towards campaign objectives.

• Organisational Responsibilities: Participate in team meetings, contribute to shared organisational tasks and work in accordance with Coal Action Network Ltd.'s policies, values and collaborative ways of working.

Essential Requirements & Skills

1. Strategic campaigning and communications

• Experience developing and delivering communications strategies that support campaign objectives and contribute to tangible change.

• Ability to translate complex political, financial and corporate issues into clear, accessible and compelling public messages.

• Understanding of how communications can build public pressure, influence corporate decision-makers and mobilise collective action.

• Ability to identify powerful narratives, campaign opportunities and moments for public intervention.

• Experience adapting messaging for different audiences, including the general public, activists, journalists and decision-makers.

2. Digital campaigning and social media

• Proven experience managing social media channels and producing engaging content across platforms such as Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, LinkedIn and Bluesky.

• Strong copywriting skills, including the ability to produce persuasive, accessible and attention-grabbing content.

• Video production and editing skills, including short-form video for social media. 

• Experience creating digital content that drives engagement, sharing and meaningful action.

• Graphic design skills and experience using tools such as Canva, Adobe Creative Cloud or similar. 

• Understanding of social media algorithms, audience development and digital campaigning trends.

• Ability to monitor performance, interpret analytics and adapt communications accordingly.

3. Creative storytelling and content production

• Excellent storytelling skills, with an ability to communicate complex issues through powerful human stories, striking visuals, humour and creative framing.

• Experience producing or commissioning graphics, videos, photography and other digital content.

• Ability to develop bold, distinctive and memorable campaign identities and messages.

• Confidence using creative communications to challenge powerful institutions and expose contradictions between corporate claims and actions.

• Ability to brief and collaborate effectively with designers, artists, filmmakers and other creative contributors.

4. Supporter engagement and mobilisation

• Experience producing compelling email communications, campaign updates and calls to action.

• Understanding of how communications can recruit, engage and retain supporters.

• Ability to create accessible communications that encourage people to participate in protests, boycotts and other collective actions.

• Experience supporting grassroots organisers and amplifying local campaigning activity.

• Commitment to building inclusive and participatory campaigns that empower people to take action.

5. Organisation and project management

• Excellent organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple communications projects and competing deadlines.

• Experience planning and delivering communications calendars around campaign milestones and actions.

• Ability to work independently, take initiative and deliver high-quality work with limited resources.

• Experience coordinating freelancers, volunteers or external creative collaborators.

• Strong attention to detail, including fact-checking, proofreading and maintaining consistent messaging.

Essential knowledge and values

• A strong commitment to climate justice, Palestine liberation and migrants' rights.

• An understanding of how corporate power operates and how public campaigns can challenge it.

• An appreciation of the role of insurance and financial institutions in enabling environmentally and socially harmful industries, or a willingness to develop this knowledge quickly.

• An understanding of grassroots organising, nonviolent direct action and people-powered campaigning.

• Commitment to anti-racism.

Desirable Skills & Experience:

• Political Understanding: a strong understanding of anti-imperialist, decolonial, anti-capitalist politics and the financial system.

• Experience with email campaigning platforms, supporter databases and CRM systems, such as Action Network.

• Experience campaigning against financial institutions, insurance companies or fossil fuel corporations.

• Experience of working in solidarity working with frontline communities.

• Experience developing communications around protests, creative direct actions and public stunts.

• Experience working with artists, cultural organisations, influencers or other partners to reach new audiences.

• Knowledge of the UK insurance industry, Lloyd's of London or the wider financial sector.

• Knowledge of narratives and messaging around Palestine liberation, climate, and migrants' justice.

About Boycott Bloody Insurance

Boycott Bloody Insurance is a campaign run within the Coal Action Network. Boycott Bloody Insurance grew out of our success in pressuring insurance companies to cut off coverage to Adani’s Carmichael coal mines in Australia. 

Boycott Bloody Insurance is an organisational boycott campaign targeting the worst-performing insurance companies based on how they underwrite harmful industries. Our current team of five researches the insurance industry, grades insurers on their complicity in the climate crisis, Israeli genocide, and migrant abuse; puts on protests, supports local groups, and helps organisations move their cover away from the worst offenders.

The boycott calls on educational institutions, churches, mosques, small businesses, and employers in the UK to move their policies away from insurers that support fossil fuels, weapons manufacturing, and systems of detention and surveillance, and instead choose providers that demonstrate more ethical practices.

Boycott Bloody Insurance focuses on cutting off insurance to three strategic targets: 

• Climate Justice: LNG expansion in the Coral Triangle, the most marine-biodiverse region on Earth. Our work includes coordinating UK and international actions for Insure Our Future’s work in Sama Sama: Together For the Coral Triangle, in collaboration with frontline campaigners at CEED in the Philippines and communities building pressure on the ground across the region.

• Palestine Liberation: Elbit Systems, Israel's main arms provider - a key player in the genocide in Gaza.

• Migrants Justice: Serco Group, the UK's largest immigration detention and border surveillance company responsible for dehumanising and highly abusive incarceration conditions.
   

Boycott Bloody Insurance LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/boycottbloodyinsurance 

Coal Action Network was established to end coal mining in the UK by connecting communities affected by mines and using diverse tactics to challenge their development and expansion. The insurance campaign emerged as part of Stop Adani, preventing approval for 8 out of 9 coal mines proposed in Australia.

At Coal Action Network, all employees are expected to:

• Work within the UK in order to attend in-person meetings.

• Work primarily within 9 am - 5 pm working hours to maintain communication with the rest of the team.

• Participate in meetings, collaborate, share and rotate responsibilities in a non-hierarchical organisational structure.

• Read and work in line with organisational policies.

• You will also be required to undertake operational duties to maintain the smooth running of the organisation. This may include fundraising, HR, finance, and maintaining good governance. As such, you are also encouraged to hold the position of Director of Coal Action Network to help safeguard it for the future, alongside others on the staff team.

Perks of working at Coal Action Network include:

• Liberty within a non-hierarchical structure to participate in decision-making and manage your own work.

• An annual budget for training.

• Flexible working.

• Desk space at Pelican House, a hub in London for grassroots organising.

• Radical welfare and wellbeing provisions for people with disabilities, mental health conditions or ailments that create barriers to work.

• Strong anti-racism and equality policies and culture.

• A competitive salary above the living wage that accounts for inflation rises.

How to apply

Please share a CV, Cover Letter, and 2 references, one of which must be your most recent employer (giving their email address and phone number).

Successful Coal Action Network candidates will be invited to attend an interview which may take place in-person in London, or online subject to your location.

You must have the right to work in the UK.

All completed applications are private and confidential and will only be made available to those directly involved in the recruitment and selection process.

What to Include in Your Cover Letter

In your cover letter, please include:

• Why you would like to work for the Boycott Bloody Insurance campaign; how it aligns with any previous work, including voluntary work, and causes you care about.

• Experience, skills and knowledge that demonstrate your ability to fulfil each of the key responsibilities and essential requirements - laid out in a way that directly references each of the essential criteria.

• Any experience, skills and knowledge that show you meet the ‘desirable’ criteria.

• Links to any previous comms work or a portfolio with an explanation of how you contributed to each piece of work.

• How you imagine yourself working in the non-hierarchical structure of Coal Action Network, where we are all expected to contribute to the overall running of the organisation.

Equality & Diversity

Please specify whether you wish to declare any disabilities, and whether there are any reasonable adjustments needed. All applications with a disability who meet the essential criteria for a job will be interviewed and considered on your merits.

Coal Action Network seeks to recruit employees on the basis of their ability and the requirements of the post. 

To meet this commitment, Coal Action Network’s recruitment process will align with its equality and diversity policy.

Coal Action Network will ensure that no job applicant receives less favourable treatment than another on the grounds of disability, gender, race, religion or belief, age, sexual orientation, marital status, parental status, or caring responsibilities, and that no applicant is placed at a disadvantage unjustifiably by requirements or conditions which have a disproportionately adverse effect on a particular group.