Senior Digital Campaigner (UK)

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Job Title: Senior Digital Campaigner (UK)

• Location: Remote, must be capable of working closely with colleagues in European Time zones.
• Contract: Freelance, with future opportunity for permanent employment

• Start Date: October 31st or as soon as possible.

• Application Deadline: rolling deadline until filled

About the job:

WePlanet is about to embark on an incredible project that will revolutionise our organisation and help us build a truly global community of progressive ecomodernists dedicated to driving change on our issues.

As a Senior Digital Campaigner United Kingdom, you will report to the Campaign Director, and day-to-day the Digital Mobilisation Director.

As Senior Digital Campaigner UK, your tasks will be:

• Identify campaign opportunities mainly in the United Kingdom, and globally.
• Campaign development: Test and develop campaigns (in conjunction with the Digital Mobilisation Director and Campaigns Leadership Team) that grow our communities, increase our supporter fundraising, and advance our mission.
• Social media advertising and growth: Create and run social media advertising to grow our community of supporters in the USA, and beyond.
• Email Communications-Write compelling campaign and fundraising copy that will inspire people to take action on our issues and campaigns, including email communications and fundraising copy, in conjunction with the Online Fundraising Manager and Digital Mobilisation Director.
• Work alongside other national campaigners and our campaigner directors on our long-term 'impact' campaigns on energy, food, land and development.
• Use a range of digital tools and platforms
• Translation and tailoring of global or centrally produced content to suit the German context.
• Liaise with WePlanet staff, and network when required.
• Help us understand the political dynamics in the USA by keeping connected to local movements, alternative thinking, and researching policy processes within your national context.
• Travel nationally and occasionally internationally for team meetings, retreats, stakeholder and partner meetings, and petition deliveries.

Requirements

About You.

We are looking for someone passionate about bringing about change on the issues we care about based on our core principles and values. We are looking for someone who has the following attributes, skills and experience:

• You are pragmatic, believe in science and data-led decision-making, are proactive, curious, and, importantly, impatient for change in climate, environment, and development.
• You support WePlanet's core values based on ecomodernist principles.
• You have a clear understanding of how progressive change happens and what makes for a good campaign
• You are excited about connecting people across geographies, finding ways to engage and inspire them to build a global community for change.
• You are passionate about going to where the people are, using digital mobilisation and engagement strategies to build a community for action.

Key qualifications and experience:

• You have a strong understanding of USA's political and social context.
• You must be an English native speaker or C2+
• You look forward to working in a team where we all strive to learn from each other to have the biggest possible impact. You have experience in writing for digital audiences whether social media content, email communications, websites or blog posts, either personally or professionally.
• You have an eye for an opportunity and can demonstrate how you've captured a moment to engage audiences or advance a campaign.
• You have some experience managing a community of supporters via email, social media, and Discord and are comfortable with how to engage and excite them.
• You feel comfortable using new technology, tech tools and platforms.
• You make data-led decisions and love to understand how to improve your content. You are keen to run tests backed by statistical significance and are always looking to improve your work.
• You can work cross-culturally and comfortably understand differences in working styles and needs.

Extra skills and knowledge

This is a generalist position so we do not expect applicants to have all of these, but if you do have 2 or 3 one of these extras you would be benefited.

• Email marketing or writing for campaigns
• An activist or campaigning background
• A science or technical background
• Video editing or other digital media
• Coding experience or product development

Next steps

If you are interested in this position, please send to work@weplanet.org an application in English, including the following:

• A brief covering letter (no more than 2 sides) outlining your motivation to apply, highlighting your experience in meeting the job requirements

• CV - no more than 2 sides. Including your language skills in your first language, English, and other languages according to a scale from A1 to C2. De not include a picture of yourself.

• 2 Relevant samples of your work
• 2 Referees (no contact will be made without prior notice)

We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive workplace, which is why people from communities that experience discrimination based on race, ethnicity, women, people with disabilities, and LGBTQ+ people are especially encouraged to apply.

Our recruitment process involves the following stages:

• Evaluation of applications
• Online task assessment for a shortlist of applicants
• 1-2 round interviews (online and in-person)
• Final decision

About us

WePlanet is a global grassroots movement of citizens, scientists, experts and activists campaigning to defend science-based solutions to climate change, biodiversity loss and development. We are solutions-agnostic, going where the evidence takes us to advocate for technology, policy changes and outcomes that deliver our core objectives in the fastest, fairest and broadest ways possible. We are a progressive community that is explicitly non-partisan and non-party political. We draw on the philosophy of Ecomodernism whilst actively challenging powerful vested interests that dominate global environmental systems. We are entirely funded by philanthropic foundations and small donors and we do not accept corporate donations.

Our core objectives are:

• A fast exit from fossil fuels

• Radically reforming land use to feed the population while sparing land for rewilding

• Accelerating global south prosperity in a fair and equitable way

This means we are specifically campaigning to:

• Preserve and expand nuclear energy as a means to rapidly advance both de-carbonisation, and increase carbon-free prosperity around the world, especially in the Global South.
• See a rapid transition away from animal proteins to alternative proteins like plant-based proteins, precision fermentation and cultivated meats and dairy.
• Support yield increasing innovations such as CRISPR-Cas9 to feed a growing population whilst reducing agricultural chemical use.

Supporting these aims is a core requirement working with us.

The WePlanet network is made up of individual national organisations and is supported by a central secretariat which has secured funding for an exciting new programme of public supporter development and digital fundraising. The building of this new movement provides an opportunity to break from old-fashioned attitudes towards the environment, to defend science, elevate humanity and liberate nature.