The Defund Climate Chaos network is looking for an experienced Campaigner to join our team to support grassroots groups taking action against the UK banks and other finance institutions funding the climate crisis. Defund Climate Chaos is an organising  network that is nested within Tipping Point UK’s HR infrastructure and is fiscally hosted by Climate 2025. 

Location: Flexible, remote working from anywhere in the UK with occasional travel required. The candidate must reside in the UK and have permission to work in the UK.

Contract:   28 hours /4 days per week contract for 10 months initially, with scope to increase hours and renew contract annually based on funding. 

Start date:   ASAP.  Interviews will take place from 13th Aug.

Application Deadline: 6th August 2023

Compensation: 

All team members are contracted on the same terms and conditions and paid an equitable compensation rate equivalent to a full-time salary of between £40,000 and £45,000 per annum (pro-rata at 5 days per week), regardless of role or level of experience.. 

Our generous Care and Compensation package is one of the ways we put our values of Care, Equity and Liberation into practice and includes: 

• A social justice compensation model that determines salary band based on whether team members have children or dependents, and/or any inherited wealth, pro-rated by how many days a week you work.  
• Plenty of flexibility around working hours and location
• A workplace pension scheme with a 3% employer contribution. 
• 5.6 days annual leave for every day a week you work, plus up to 8 Public and Bank Holidays. 
• At least 2 extra days leave to take part in Training and Learning.  
• Up to £500 professional development budget each for training and learning. 
• Up to a year off from your role and work responsibilities when a new child comes into your life, with up to 6 months at full pay.  

Main responsibilities

Campaign Management & Strategy

1. Responsibility for developing and setting strategy for the Defund Climate Chaos’s fossil fuel bank boycott campaign, in consultation with partners and colleagues.
2. Support a distributed network of groups across the UK campaigning for charities, business, churches and other organisations to boycott fossil fuel funding banks. 
3. Developing and maintaining strategic external relationships and representing Defund Climate Chaos in coalitions, external conferences etc.
4. Produce and monitor annual plans and budgets for a campaign.
5. Developing and maintaining systems of monitoring and evaluation for the campaign.

Campaign Delivery and Project Management

1. Develop and project manage essential campaign activities (e.g. weeks of action)
2. Plan and deliver campaign events and actions and ensure local groups are supported to put on their own actions and events.
3. Generate media coverage, reactively and proactively, and support local groups to gain media attention, across traditional and social media.
4. Plan, write and produce accessible and well-designed campaign materials including action guides, newsletters, action cards, email updates, films and web stories which communicate the campaign in an accessible and engaging way.
5. Design and deliver training for local groups on the campaign
6. Speak at Defund Climate Chaos events and externally 
7. Liaise with other social justice movements targeting UK banks and connect our bank boycott campaign to their struggles.

Fundraising

1. Obtain and build financial support for Defund Climate Chaos.
2. Contributing to the organisational budget setting and monitoring income and expenditure monthly/quarterly.
3. Identifying opportunities and securing funding for Defund Climate Chaos’s work and our Campaigns and Communications work in particular through writing funding grant applications.
4. Develop and maintain good relationships with donors: enthusing them about our work and maximising the opportunities for future funding(includes writing reports, attending meetings and maintaining regular, informal contact)

Person Specification

Essential criteria

Skills and knowledge

• Excellent oral communication and presentation skills with ability to persuade, build rapport with others and negotiate effectively.
• Excellent written communication skills, particularly attention to detail and the ability to make written communications persuasive, accessible and engaging for a diverse range of audiences
• Excellent personal organisational skills with excellent time management and ability to prioritise effectively and coordinate others.
•  Ability to engage confidently and comfortably with a wide range of people, with proven ability to build productive partnerships and teams both internally and externally
• Ability to train, empower, and inspire people to take action for climate justice.

Experience

• Experience of developing and implementing long term campaign strategies 
• Experience of either fossil finance campaigning or boycott campaigning.
• Experience of distributed organising and campaigning.
• Experience of grassroots campaigning or community organising
• Experience of using online organising spaces (i.e. Slack, Discord, Mattermost) to build community and collaborative working
• Experience of organising campaign actions.

Personal attributes

• A deep understanding of the nature of oppression and how it manifests in society and a commitment to collective liberation and challenging inequality.
• Comfortable working autonomously and independently, using own self-initiative

Desirable Criteria

• Experience of digital campaigning and tools such as Action Network.
• Experience of national press work.
• Experience of fundraising successfully, particularly writing successful grant funding
• Applications.
• Experience of maintaining and developing excellent relationships with funders, preferably including writing reports to grant funders.