Climate Campaigner

Abstract

• Be part of a small, rising organisation and have an outsized affect
• Employees member supporting wider volunteer-based organiser group
• 37.5 hours every week with common in individual night and weekend work, break day in lieu
  equipped in the course of the week
• Versatile working obtainable
• Wage: £33,000 every year
• 1 yr contract with chance of extension
• Location: Dwelling working with frequent in-person commitments in London
• Sadly, candidates have to be legally entitled to work within the UK.
• Stories to: Director
• Employees advantages:
  • 25 days vacation plus financial institution holidays,
  • 5% employer pension
    contribution,
  • coaching,
  • welfare help,
  • break day in lieu,
  • some flexibility over hours.
• Full
  time function, break up between 4 weekdays and night and weekend work.
• Deadline: seventh Could 2024 10am

Function description

We’re in search of a versatile, organised candidate with good consideration to element and who shares
our dedication to local weather justice, to help Fossil Free London with:

• campaigning on carbon bombs – Rosebank and presumably EACOP 
• campaigning on fossil finance – Barclays and presumably different targets
• supporting our committee of volunteers to organise towards the fossil gasoline business

We’re looking for a candidate with appreciable expertise of campaigning, organising or activism
over a minimum of 2 years. Each paid and unpaid expertise will probably be thought of.

It’s essential that the candidate is a proactive self-starter and in a position to work below route. 

We want somebody extremely organised, in a position to juggle a number of competing priorities, and who is in a position
to think about the smaller particulars whereas engaged on the larger image.

You’ll want to be completely happy to work each independently and with route in a start-up type,
fast-paced, dynamic surroundings.

The candidate ought to have prior expertise of working in a quick paced surroundings
and speaking adeptly over shared work to make sure environment friendly completion of duties. An adept
facilitator of conferences with sturdy interpersonal expertise, who’s assured in utilizing a spread of
media to attain marketing campaign targets. 

The candidate ought to be versatile, with availability on some evenings and weekends every week to
host conferences and attend demonstrations.

Candidates should reside in, or have easy accessibility to, London, and have to be legally entitled to work
within the UK.

Our organisation

Fossil Free London is a grassroots activist group which opposes the presence of fossil gasoline
firms and fossil gasoline finance in our metropolis, and explores what London might be with out them. 

We’re presently going by a interval of development and growth, and the function gives area to
develop and be taught new expertise, in addition to take duty for work strands. If there are different
areas that you’re excited by exploring as a part of the job then inform us!

Obligations

Protest organising 

• Coordinate protests at strategically agreed instances to help marketing campaign targets and in line
  with funding targets
• Plan, host, and take clear motion factors at conferences to plan protests
• Encourage a variety of group members to facilitate conferences to organise actions –
  occasions, demonstrations and marketing campaign moments 
• Delegate and encourage to make sure: group members develop expertise in organising, our targets of
  sharing organising by the group and empowering group members are met, and the workload
  stays sustainable
• Have a transparent sense of activist safety and encourage a tradition of safety inside the
  group
• E book photographers and videographers for demonstrations and provides them clear briefs
• Write and contribute to artistic plans for demonstrations
• Help members to observe and consider protests in keeping with group targets
• Preserve a diligent report of motion protection on social media and within the press
• A particular marketing campaign focus could also be developed (Shell, Rosebank, Barclays and so forth.)

Volunteer help

• Develop and preserve constructive, skilled and supportive relationships with Fossil Free
  London volunteers
• Facilitate their empowerment to take lead roles in organising particular demonstrations and
  taking initiative to counsel marketing campaign targets and form organisational targets.
• Organise occasions with volunteers
• Assist introduce volunteers into the group, presumably by welcome talks 

Budgeting

• Preserve cautious notice of bills and receipts
• Submit bills in a well timed method
• Preserve monitor of spending with Director

Funding

• Assist the Director to make sure we meet funding targets

Community

• Creating and sustaining relationships with different teams and organisations
• Representing the organisation in exterior occasions and conferences

On-line communications

• Use Consciousness of how social media channels resembling Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and Tiktok
  can be utilized to attain marketing campaign targets 
• Occasional content material creation for social media in keeping with branding tips
• Preserve web site on WordPress
• Create occasions on Motion Community, Eventbrite and preserve the shared calendar up to date
• Preserve members updated on our actions by often updating them through communication
  channels, principally Sign and e-mail at the moment
• Ship newsletters, at the moment through Motion Community
• Capability to get key messages throughout in a artistic format (as e.g. banner slogans, social
  media posts, motion concepts)

Key expertise and expertise 

We recognise that nobody will meet all of those standards exactly. If you happen to really feel you agree with
our targets, have helpful expertise to share and suppose you might be useful for our improvement,
apply! 

Important:

• Ardour for environmental motion
• A transparent understanding of the urgency of the local weather disaster
• Good written and verbal communication expertise
• Robust understanding of local weather points, together with hyperlinks to social and racial justice
  struggles
• Expertise of organising protests or demonstrations
• Understanding of related logistics and safety points
• Expertise of organising and facilitating conferences of activists or volunteers,
• Expertise welcoming, onboarding and supporting volunteers
• A historical past of environmental or related campaigning 
• Robust workforce participant

Fascinating:

• Utilizing social media as a campaigning device, together with Twitter, Insta and FB
• Web site upkeep
• Talking on digicam and in social media movies
• Expertise of writing activism, marketing campaign or organising emails, updates and social media
  content material, both professionally or as an unpaid activist or organiser. 

We actively encourage purposes from marginalised communities, resembling ladies and folks
of color, recognising that the environmental motion thrives when it’s extra various.

Learn how to apply

To use, please submit:

• a CV of most 2 pages in font 12
• a canopy letter of max 2 pages in font 12

setting out why you have an interest on this function and the way you meet the important and desired
standards.

Moreover, within the cowl letter please embrace 2 – 3 examples of your earlier work (e.g. as
hyperlinks or hooked up paperwork) that are acceptable to the place (e.g. an instance of copy
you’ve written, a briefing you’ve produced, a recording of you doing public talking) and an
clarification of your precise function in creating them.

Ship your utility through e-mail to robin [@] fossilfreelondon.org with the function title because the
topic line. 

Accessibility

We’re completely happy to contemplate any affordable changes that candidates might have in the course of the
recruitment course of. If there are extra lodging you’d wish to request, please
contact Robin robin [@] fossilfreelondon.org 

Course of

The construction of the interview course of will probably be: a flair check of a few of the important
expertise listed above, which will probably be executed remotely, a doable Zoom interview after which, if
related, an roughly 45 minute interview nose to nose in London asking about your
curiosity within the function, examples of your expertise and expertise and the concepts you’ll carry. 

We do our greatest to make the interview a pleasant and constructive course of – we aren’t right here to
catch you out. Some prime tricks to put together for an interview could be discovered here.

• Please ship us your utility by seventh Could at 10am
• We’ll reply to all candidates by tenth Could

We will probably be conducting competency checks and interviews seemingly between the thirteenth to seventeenth Could
though we’ll affirm precise dates quickly by updating our web site.