350Africa.org is looking for a highly motivated Regional Campaigner to lead and coordinate our support for renewable energy campaigns that have a positive impact on communities.
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 volunteer organizers 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 to strengthen the climate movement and catalyze transformation around the world. The values that guide and drive our work are listed here.
350.org is an equal opportunity employer. 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.
About the Africa Communications Manager
We are looking for an experienced campaigner to work with staff, partners, and volunteer groups in Africa organising, advocating, and promoting community-led solutions seeking broader and ambitious policy changes by addressing key barriers to scaling renewables in a just, fast, and equitable way, with the support of regional organisers, the communication and digital campaigners.
The ideal candidate is a strategic thinker working in Africa to develop and implement tailored regional and national campaigns. The candidate must be able to develop relevant relationships and partnerships and identify strategic commonalities and best practices to be shared between regional struggles for sustained inspiration for action.
The Regional Campaigner will drive, facilitate, and coordinate the regional campaigning work while at the same time leading and supporting specific single African campaign efforts that allow a broad regional engagement.
A successful campaigner will contribute to achieving the organisational and team’s goals through running high-profile campaigns across the region, maintaining strong relationships with all partners, ensuring the campaigns are receiving attention from targets, the media, and growing interest from our supporters and partners.
The role reports to the Africa Regional Director and is part of the Africa Regional Team, and 350.org’s Global Programme Team.
Responsibilities:
- Implement and extend the REPower Afrika campaign strategy together with 350.org regional and global teams through research, power analysis, and strategic partnerships
- Ensure that all campaigns are relevant to the African context, and at the same time align with related campaigning moments at regional and global levels;
- Lead and coordinate the implementation of campaigns and key moments at a regional level, drawing on the support of regional campaign groups and partners;
- Staying up to date with campaign news by reading widely on climate change in general, and the campaign issues in particular and by attending partner’s meetings and conferences
- Work with staff, regional campaign groups, and volunteers to assess the specific campaign needs and address them accordingly;
- Help campaign groups and partners to develop strong campaigns with clear targets and strategies;
- Raising the profile of regional campaigns, and looking for campaign opportunities with partners and likely and unlikely allies at regular partner meetings, conferences, and events, and through supporting the work of partners.
- Identifying new partners and collaboration potential for the organisation as a whole.
Required Qualifications:
- At least 5 years of relevant technical work experience as a campaigner on the continent implementing social justice campaigns for change with civil society and grassroots actors
- Experience in developing and delivering campaign strategies in a regional context
- A strong leader; well developed soft influencing skills and a true ‘listener’ to diverse perspectives
- Proven ability to identify strong campaigning opportunities and build creative connections between geographic struggles.
- Experience of working within African contexts; an understanding of the opportunities and challenges that brings.
- Experience in leading and coordinating regional, remotely based staff around the continent
- Working knowledge of and keen interest in the current global debates on climate change, renewable energy, and climate justice
- Experience in managing projects as well as coordinating multiple teams and stakeholders.
- 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.
- Excellent written and spoken English.
Desired (but not required) skills and experiences
- Excellent written and spoken French (strong advantage)
- Solid campaign research skills
- Strong working knowledge of traditional and social media
- Experience working remotely, ideally in an international context
- Experience working in a non-governmental organisation or the non-profit sector
- Experience and competency working in multicultural groups
- 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.
Position Type: Full Time
Application Deadline: September 6 2024
Start Date: As soon as possible
Compensation: 3.1 with the annual compensation being: Benin: XOF 20,324,356 Kenya: KES 4,802,125 Senegal: XOF 19,994,448 South Africa: ZAR 750,676
Location: Remote within Senegal, South Africa, Benin, Kenya,
Applicants must have the legal authorization to work for any employer in their country of residence. We are unable to sponsor or take over the sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.
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