Country: Brazil
Closing date: 31 Aug 2016
350.org is looking for an experienced digital campaigner to help make the anti-fracking campaign in Brazil and Latin America louder, stronger, and more diverse. This is a 5 days per week, full time position, that can either be done from our office in Curitiba, or remotely from within Brazil or Latin America.
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.
About the Senior Digital Campaigner position
We’re looking for an experienced digital campaigner to help make the anti-fracking campaign in Brazil and Latin America louder, stronger, and more diverse. The digital campaigner will help engage the public in climate activism, primarily by telling compelling stories about our anti-fracking campaign and the broad grassroots movement working to break the links between our institutions and the fossil fuel industry. This person will also create digital campaigns to enlarge the movement and make the campaign stronger.
Main responsibilities are:
- Develop, implement, monitor and evaluate digital campaign plans and strategies, taking into account 350.org’s campaign goals;
- Use digital strategies and tools to pressurise campaign targets and achieve campaign goals;
- Establish and manage cyber-activists and organizers leadership teams to meet 350.org’s national-level campaign objectives and build a broader, deeper and more committed movement;
- Facilitate digital campaigning workshops and leadership development for climate change campaigners;
- Content production, management and updating of the Portuguese website and Brazilian and Latin American blog of 350.org;
- Manage and monitor all social media channels, publishing engaging and compelling content, in relation to campaign plans.
Required Qualifications
- Minimum 4 years of experience on issue advocacy, online organising and/or political campaigns – whether as part of non-governmental organisations, grassroots networks, or other groups
- Strategic thinking and knowledge of digital tools
- Ability to strategically apply digital tools
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in Portuguese and Spanish
- Ability to communicate comfortably in English
- Ability to communicate relatively complex stories in a simple and easy to understand way, and to build/strengthen narratives
- Experience in developing an online communications strategy
- Proven ability to work both independently and in close coordination with a team working remotely
- Demonstrated experience in cross-cultural international communications.
Desired (but not required) skills and experiences
- A global perspective on climate change and current events
- Relevant experience in social media and online organising
- Experience with coalition and/or multi-stakeholder campaign planning and implementation
- Online-to-offline strategy development skills
- Front-end web development skills -- HTML and CSS
- Knowledge of databases and SQL language
- Graphic design skills and competence with Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign
- Video production or editing skills, especially with Final Cut Pro or Adobe Premier
- Coaching, training, facilitation
We are looking for someone who is comfortable working both independently and in teams, highly responsive, and able to lead initiatives as well as take direction from others.
Position Type: full time
Application Deadline: We hope to begin the interview process by 31 August, 2015, but this position is open until filled.
Start Date: Flexible
Compensation: competitive compensation based on experience
Location: Preferably the South region of Brazil. We have an office in Curitiba, but this position can be performed remotely with some travel to Curitiba.
350.org wants 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 workplace where everyone’s 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 its 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 women, people of of any ethnic background, people of any age, Indigenous people, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer people, disabled people, and other under-represented communities in our kind of organisations – including communities most impacted by climate change or impacted by other kinds of environmental, social, and economic injustice.
If you have suggestions for us on how to do this better, we really value your input and strongly encourage you to write to us atjobs@350.orgwith the subject line ‘Hiring Feedback’.
How to apply:
To apply, please submit a cover letter and resume or CV at this link.