Change.org is seeking a Senior Campaigner to join and play a leadership role within our crack team of campaigners and communicators. The Senior Campaigner will create, develop, support and execute high impact social change campaigns on the world’s fastest growing online platform for social change.
Change.org offers the world’s most powerful campaigning tools to every potential citizen-activist and NGO. We currently empower over 7 million members around the world to start, join and win campaigns for social change on the issues they care about every day -- and we’re growing by 800,000 members globally every month.
Change.org Australia launched in August 2011, and has already grown to more than 150,000 active members after a number of high profile campaigns. The Senior Campaigner will help build our advocacy and campaigning efforts across Australia - crafting and executing rapid-response campaigns across dozens of issues and helping thousands of activists start and run their own local campaigns.
Specifically you will:
- Research and identify opportunities for creating effective grassroots campaigns around critical social, economic and environmental issues - and much more.
- Work with campaigns team and the Campaigns Director to design and execute rapid-response social change advocacy campaigns with the potential for explosive growth and swift victories.
- Identify promising grassroots campaigns started by activists on Change.org, and help these campaigns win by providing strategic advice, conducting media outreach, and promoting them across the web and to our members via email.
- Connect with networks of activists and NGOs, to initiate and then support campaigns run in partnership.
- Lead on multiple campaigns spanning dozens of issues.
The ideal candidate should have the following:
- Innovative ideas for how to use online organising to win local, state and national campaigns.
- A deep commitment to our mission of empowering people everywhere to win campaigns on the critical issues of our times.
- Extremely strong written and oral communication skills.
- An agile skill set and attitude, capable of working on issues ranging from animal rights to human trafficking, environmental destruction to LGBT rights and much more.
- A strong interest in aiding local, member-driven online organising campaigns and developing member capacity for ever larger campaigns.
- A history of online public mobilisation for grassroots social change.
- A strong grasp of politics, the political process and current social justice, economic and environmental issues within Australia and globally.
Candidates must be driven campaigners excited to join an ambitious, fast moving organisation working for social change.
Change.org is an exceptionally fast-paced agile and collaborative work environment. Your co-workers are high-impact, low-ego, and have a deep respect for our members. We expect you to be the same.
We prefer applicants living in or prepared to move to Melbourne, Australia, but are flexible on location if the right person requires it. For the right folks, the salary and benefits are extremely competitive.
We’re an equal opportunity employer, and strongly encourage any interested parties to apply - regardless of gender, race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, age or physical disability.
Applications close 24th February.