We are looking for an experienced Organiser to join our team to support grassroots groups taking action against the UK banks and other finance institutions funding the climate crisis.

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:   21 hours / 3 days per week contract until March 2023 initially, with scope to increase hours and renew contract annually based on funding. 

Start date:   ASAP.  Interviews will take place from 13th June. We aim to bring several new team members together for onboarding by July 2022.

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 (pro-rata) per annum, regardless of role or level of experience.. 

Our generous Care and Compensation package is one of the ways Tipping Point puts 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.  
• a 4 day week with 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. 

About the role

You will be directly supporting local grassroots climate groups and networks to build power across the UK. Through training, network-building and hands-on support you will help groups to organise and engage their communities effectively, take powerful actions, tell powerful stories and win strategic campaigns to cut off finance for fossil fuel projects and win climate justice. 

You will be a key member of the team supporting the Defund Climate Chaos coalition, drive the development of a movement hub to support grassroots finance campaigners, and support distributed local action across the UK.

This is an exciting opportunity to support a growing collective and use your skills, contacts and passion to build grassroots power and transform the UK’s approach to the climate crisis.

We encourage everyone to read our Organising Principles  before applying. 

Key responsibilities

• Building relationships and engaging with grassroots campaigners to identify their needs and help them grow their groups and win campaigns.
• Building a Movement Hub – using powerful organising tools to support movement growth, coordinated action and better communication with a network of grassroots organisers and fossil finance campaigners.
• Support groups to tell powerful stories, form nourishing relationships and nurturing, accountable structures that balance purpose and belonging to sustain organising momentum, and bring new people into the movement
• Facilitate peer-to-peer collaboration, support and learning through networks, resources and events
• Support grassroots campaigners and groups to organise days of distributed action around key moments, and finance campaigns, as part of the Defund Climate Chaos coalition.
• Connect frontline communities affected by the climate crisis and fossil fuel extraction with grassroots groups in the UK to strengthen international solidarity campaigning.
• Support campaigners to come together in powerful networks, including through organising or collaborating with other groups and organisations.

You will join a thriving new organisation as part of our Organising Team with organisers based around the UK. As an intentionally small and flexible team, Tipping Point has done away with traditional management hierarchies and embraced self management – a way to provide a clear structure for decision-making, without requiring a boss, and drawing on the collective intelligence of everyone in the organisation, without being bogged down by consensus processes. You will be encouraged and supported to play an active role in the running and evolution of the organisation.

We are looking for someone who has:

• A strong affinity with Tipping Point UK’s aims, organising principles and organisational values.
• Great communication skills and the ability to build rapport with a wide range of people. 
• A commitment to climate justice and belief in building grassroots power to transform the UK financial industry.
• Ability to understand and support the needs of grassroots organisers
• Ability to think strategically and have a constructive, problem-solving approach
• Experience of grassroots campaigning or community organising or network development
• Experience of combating oppression in all its forms
• A talent for using online organising spaces (eg.. Slack, WhatsApp, Signal, Discord, Mattermost) to build community and collaborative working between individuals and groups
• Ability to coordinate and support distributed days of action
• Comfort with working autonomously and independently, using own self-initiative