350.org’s Global Digital Organising & Campaigning Team is looking to bring on board a digital campaigning and organising specialist until February 2025. We’re looking for a candidate with experience and interest in digital campaigns, supporter engagement, online organising, and project management, keen to use digital tactics and tools to help grow the size and impact of the climate movement and win impactful campaigns.
About 350.org
350.org is building a global grassroots movement to solve the climate crisis. Our online campaigns,grassroots organizing, and mass public actions are led from the bottom up by thousands of volunteerorganizers in over 188 countries. 350.org works hard to organize in a new way—everywhere at once,using online tools to facilitate strategic offline action. We want to be a laboratory for the best ways tostrengthen the climate movement and catalyze transformation around the world.The values thatguide and drive our work are listed here.
About the Temporary Global Digital Campaigner
The Global Digital Campaigner will help 350.org’s global and regional teams meet our goals of growing, engaging and inspiring our network and supporters. They will use digital tools, platforms and tactics, to create supporter journeys and content, to help recruit and motivate people to take action for the climate. They will lead the development and rollout of online campaigns, test tools and tactics to optimise results, and support 350.org’s global and regional teams in their work to build the fair transition to 100% renewable energy for all.
The exact project and tasks will be defined together with the successful candidate, but might include the following: a focus on decentralised and distributed digital campaigns and organising; work on testing and rolling out our distributed petitions platform; supporting the development and strategy for using WhatsApp for organising and engagement; a focus on email-based campaigns and optimisation; designing and testing effective engagement strategies and tactics, and improving how we use data as part of digital campaign planning.
A person who will thrive in this role is someone who has experience in designing and delivering campaigns for change, including strategies that deepen the engagement of supporters and create lasting change using digital channels, tools and tactics. They will understand how digital technology helps movements to build our collective power. They are confident testing and iterating on tools and products, analysing data and troubleshooting. They are highly flexible, a problem-solver, have good time and workload management. They can manage projects with multiple stakeholders and stick to deadlines. We are looking for someone comfortable working both independently and in a small cross-cultural team, highly responsive, accountable, and able to lead initiatives as well as take direction from others.
Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and deliver on priority global digital projects, in line with our strategy and ways of working
- Lead or support work to optimise our use of tools and tactics for engagement and impact
- Collaborate with colleagues across 350’org’s global and regional teams on shared projects, offering input, advice and practical support on areas of work and expertise
- Coordinate the creation and dissemination of digital campaigning and engagement plans and content (websites, email, online actions, videos, social and multimedia content) for assigned projects and mobilisations.
Required Qualifications
- Proven relevant experience, including in developing and implementing digital campaigns for change, such as petitions, social media actions, mobilisations, or creative online disruption tactics, and managing supporter communities (such as large mailing lists, online groups, subscribers, social media followers, online activist spaces) in a non-profit or political context.
- Experience in managing projects and coordinating multiple teams and stakeholders.
- Knowledge of and ease in using digital campaigning or organising software, such as mass mailers, CRMs, databases, campaigning tools, in particular experience in collaborating with technical staff and developers on testing and optimising tech for its given purpose.
- Ability to explain complex ideas in a simple and easy to understand way, and solid content writing skills.
- Experience working in an international setting, across countries, regions and cultures, in a distributed, multicultural team, where work happens online and across different time zones.
- Self-awareness and commitment to anti-oppression and the principles of justice, equity, diversity and inclusion.
- At least a basic knowledge of climate justice issues, and a dedication to build the climate movement.
- Competencies and skills related to racial justice and equity
- Excellent written and spoken English.
- Flexible availability to be able to make cross-timezone project meetings.
Desired skills and experiences
- Familiarity with the digital tools used by 350.org (ActionKit, Action Network, NewMode, ControlShiftLabs, Wordpress, Slack, Salesforce, SurveyMonkey).
- Experience in mobile-first digital engagement, with distributed petition platforms or with digital organising and community management.
- Technical knowledge of HTML, CSS, Wordpress and SQL, or demonstrated ability to pick up similar skills quickly.
- Experience with data, analytics, AB testing and optimisation.
- Experience in social media engagement strategies and managing social media channels, in online member fundraising or with crowdfunding campaigns.
- Significant experience working in, or with partners from, the Global South.
- Experience working with marginalized communities deeply affected by climate change and fossil fuels, such as indigenous communities on the front lines of fighting the extractive industry.
- Working knowledge of additional languages beyond English.
We are looking for someone who is comfortable working both independently and in teams, highlyresponsive, and able to lead initiatives as well as take direction from others.
Position Type:Part time-80% FTE, 4 days/29h a week, flexible hours, fixed term until February 2025
Application Deadline:This job is open until filled, or the hiring manager determines that they can no longer accept applications.
Start Date:As soon as possible
Compensation:Salary tier 2.2 Click here to view the salary table
Location:this is a remote, home-based position
- In US:Remote: in the following states CA, CO,CT, GA, MD, MA, ME, MT, NJ, NY, NC, PA, UT, VT, VA, WI, WA, or Washington, DC
- Global: Remote within the countries 350.org currently operates. Current countries are: Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Benin, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Fiji, France, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Netherlands, Philippines, Poland, Senegal, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom
Applicants must have the legal authorization to work for any employer in their country of residence. We are unable to sponsorship or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.
Application Information
Please read the below application instructions carefully: to offer everyone the same opportunity, we will only consider candidates who follow these instructions. Please apply as soon as possible, we’ll be reviewing applications and contacting candidates on a rolling basis.
- Instead of a traditional cover letter, please make a list of the "Required Qualifications" and “Desired Qualifications”
- Provide short examples of your experience and explanations for each of them that you meet (50 words each max - please keep it short and to the point).
- In the same document, please let us know when you would be available to start work, and the time zone you would work from.
Note for candidates based in the US:
This position will be part of the 350PWU bargaining unit and subject to the terms and conditions of the collective bargaining agreement.350.org is an equal opportunity employer committed to workforce diversity.(i) as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, 350 employees are eligible to participate in the Federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Program.
350.org strives to be an inclusive and collaborative group of people who bring a variety of approaches to the work we do. We’re committed to the principles of justice, and we try to build a safe workplace where everyone is treated fairly and enjoys working together. We value new perspectives, ideas of all sorts, and different ways of working. Diverse perspectives and experiences improve the way 350.org carries out our work – including what we decide to work on and how creatively/effectively we do that. We do our best to make staff positions accessible to all potential team members, regardless of race, national origin, ethnicity, age, disability, assigned gender, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation or identity, religion or creed, veteran status, marital or parental status, and genetic information. We also strive to include team members in communities most impacted by climate change or impacted by other kinds of environmental, social, and economic injustice.
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