Tipping Point UK is looking for an experienced campaigner to co-lead our Bank Better campaign, supporting grassroots groups that want their organisations to stop using fossil-fuel financing banks.
Bank Better supports bank campaigners by:
- Connecting them with each other and creating supportive communities for them
- Helping them to plan their campaigns and build pressure
- Advising them on basic bank-related issues (you will be trained in this, prior knowledge welcome but not expected)
- Creating materials for them, e.g. guides, templates, petitions, leaflets, etc
- Generate media coverage for actions and campaign victories
- Communicating directly with campaign targets and training campaigners to do the same
To date, Bank Better has supported campaigners in health, faith groups, sports, local authorities, higher education, and the culture sector.
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, permanent. We welcome job share applications: if you are applying as a job share, please indicate who your proposed job share partner is and submit two separate applications.
Application deadline: Monday, 20th May, 23:59
Start date: ASAP. Interviews will take place from 27th May.
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.
- Tipping Point UK is a not-for-profit worker cooperative. After a 6 month probationary period you will be given the option to put yourself forward as a full member of our cooperative.
Main responsibilities
Campaign Management & Strategy
- Responsibility for developing and setting strategy for the Bank Better campaign, in consultation with partners and colleagues.
- Support a distributed network of groups across the UK campaigning for charities, business, churches and other organisations to boycott fossil fuel funding banks.
- Developing and maintaining strategic external relationships and representing Bank Better in coalitions, external conferences etc.
- Produce and monitor annual plans and budgets for a campaign.
- Developing and maintaining systems of monitoring and evaluation for the campaign.
Campaign Delivery and Project Management
- Develop and project manage campaign strands.
- Plan and deliver campaign events and actions and ensure community groups are supported to put on their own actions and events.
- Generate media coverage, reactively and proactively, and support local groups to gain media attention, across traditional and social media.
- 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.
- Design and deliver training for local groups on the campaign
- Speak at Tipping Point events and externally.
- Liaise with other social justice movements targeting UK banks and connect our bank boycott campaign to their struggles.
Fundraising and participation in organisational development
- Dedicate 0.25-0.5 days per week toward organisational development. This includes participation in our Funding Working Group as well as other full team internal meeting spaces.
- Obtain and build financial support for Bank Better.
- Contributing to the organisational budget setting and monitoring income and expenditure monthly/quarterly.
- Identifying opportunities and securing funding for Defund Climate Chaos’s work and our Campaigns and Communications work in particular through writing funding grant applications.
- 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 the ability to persuade, build rapport with others and negotiate effectively.
- Ability to work autonomously. This role requires an ability to prioritise and self-direct your work as it relates to the Bank Better campaign’s overall objectives.
- 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 good time management and the ability to prioritise effectively and coordinate with 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 in working with activists and grassroots organisers
- Experience in developing and implementing long-term campaign strategies
- Experience in distributed organising and campaigning.
- Experience working in an autonomous environment. Tipping Point is a not-for-profit worker’s co-op where staff are given a high level of trust and autonomy.
- Experience using online organising spaces (e.g. Signal, WhatsApp, Action Network) to build community and collaborative working.
- Experience in organising direct 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.
- Ability to work autonomously and independently, using self-initiative.
Desirable Criteria
- Experience in either fossil finance or boycott campaigning.
- Experience with digital campaigning and tools such as Action Network.
- Experience in national press work.
- Experience in fundraising successfully, particularly in writing successful grant funding applications.
- Experience in maintaining and developing excellent relationships with funders, preferably including writing reports to grant funders.
How to Apply
We ask everyone to read our Organising Principles before applying. Please complete this application form.
We also ask all candidates to complete a separate and confidential Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Form
If you have any questions, please reach out to [email protected]