South Africa Senior Campaigner

350.org seeks a Senior Campaigner in Johannesburg, South Africa, to lead campaigns against fossil fuel funding and promote renewable energy. The role involves developing and implementing campaign strategies, coordinating with the local team, and ensuring high-profile campaigns gain media attention. The position emphasizes inclusivity and collaboration, aiming to strengthen the climate movement through grassroots organizing and strategic actions.
350.org is looking for a campaigner to lead our campaigns to stop funding fossil fuels and ensure a just transition to renewable energy in South Africa.
• 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 South Africa Senior Campaigner role

The South Africa Senior Campaigner works on campaigns run in South Africa. This includes developing the campaign strategy and objectives, and implementing the campaign, with the support of the South African team (Organiser, Communications and Digital staff). A successful campaigner will ensure 350Africa.org is running high-profile campaigns in South Africa that are receiving attention from targets, the media and interest from our supporters and regional groups, and ultimately achieving our organisational goals. The South Africa Senior Campaigner reports to the South African Team leader, is part of the Africa Regional Team, and 350.org's Global Programme Team.
• Duties and Responsibilities
- Developing campaigns- Develop a campaign strategy together with the 350.org team that is aligned with 350.org and regional objectives through research, power analysis and consideration of our resources.
- Developing campaign plans that are consistent with the campaign strategy and objectives, exploit our strengths and available resources and are clear and accessible to others in the organisation.
- Staying up to date with campaign news by;
- Reading widely on climate change in general, and the campaign issues in particular.
- Attending conferences and meetings.
- Developing a budget for the campaign.
- Implementing campaigns- Implementing campaign plans together with the 350.org team, by consulting with them, delegating tasks and responsibilities, and coordinating their work.
- Employ a variety of tactics including negotiation with targets, collaboration with partners, public campaigning (both offline and online) and engagement with the media to reach campaign goals.
- Monitoring the campaign budget and flagging any issues.
- Networking- Raising the profile of the campaign, 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.
- Representing 350.org- Understand 350.org's history, campaigns, and theory of social change, and keep current with basic climate science and policy. Use this knowledge to represent the organisation in public, both in engagement (interviews, etc) with the media and speaking to various audiences about the campaign issues and climate change in general.
- Answering partner requests for information and collaboration in trainings, presentations and other events.
- Coordinating research- Working with external consultants and research groups to develop campaign materials.
- This extends to the use of the materials - making sure that research that is developed is audience appropriate and accurate.
- Assisting the wider team
- From time to time, working with the wider African and organisational team on different projects. Presenting our work, representing our perspectives and assisting in the success of colleagues work.
• Competencies
• Essential knowledge, skills and abilities
- Campaign strategy- Clearly articulate SMART objectives and a campaign strategy.
- Coordinate team input.
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