We are looking for 3 talented organisers to join our team to help support grassroots groups and build strong action networks around the UK. 

Location: We are looking for 2 organisers: one based in the South West and one in the Midlands. This remote work can be done from anywhere within the nation/region specified for each role. Occasional travel required. The candidate must reside in the UK and have permission to work in the UK 

Contract:  7 hours (1 day) 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 in the weeks of 20th and 27th 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 in your region or nation. 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 for climate justice. 

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.

Key responsibilities

• Support 3 groups to develop a local campaign strategy with a winnable demand through tactics accessible to their community. This will include community organising, Momentum based organising, training and direct support
• 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 within your region with logistics support, training, guidance and resources, particularly around key moments (eg. fossil fuel and financial companies Annual General Meetings (AGMs), COP27, Youth Strike, climate impacts)
• Support campaigners to come together in powerful networks, including through organising or collaborating with other groups and organisations to deliver regional events
• Support groups through campaign and communications training and support to challenge UK narrative that it is a climate leader in the lead up to COP27 and articulate what real leadership that centres care and repair would look like

You will join a thriving and growing new organisation as part of our Organising Team with organisers based in Scotland, the North West, North East and London & the South East. As an intentionally small and flexible new 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.
• A commitment to climate justice and building a movement centred on care, equity and liberation.
• 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