Digital Campaigner – Growth & Engagement

Short term contract, 6 months with a possibility to extend

About Avaaz

Avaaz is an international campaigning and advocacy organization that provides its global membership of almost 70 million people with opportunities to make our world a better place.

We’re one of the world’s largest online global campaigning movements, with people from every corner in the world taking action to close the gap between the world we have and the world most people everywhere want. This includes protecting human rights worldwide, supporting indigenous struggles, saving our planet from climate change and other threats, and fighting to stop disinformation and other cyber threats from undermining our democracies. 

Our model enables people to channel their voices into a powerful collective force at tipping point moments to impact the pressing global challenges of our time, from climate and ecological collapse to human rights abuses and the dismantling of democracy. Avaaz is funded through small donations from individual Avaaz members, no big money from governments or corporations. This keeps us independent and allows us to keep a laser focus on doing what the world needs.

Position overview

We are currently seeking an exceptional digital campaigner to join our “Growth and Engagement team” at Avaaz and lead it to success. This is a 6 months contract with a possibility to extend.

Your and your team’s main goal will be to run rapid response campaigns on key issues – from defending threatened species to protecting brave activists from death row while monitoring the news daily for new opportunities to engage – and inspire people across the world to take action and help build a strong, buzzing Avaaz movement.

Part of your role will also be to innovate ways of spotting and developing campaigns through the latest and emergent technologies, and finding new ways to engage citizens across the world. This new and exciting role reports directly to a Senior Campaigns Director, who is leading this flexible, fast and impact focused new team.

Responsibilities

• Monitoring national and world events to identify opportunities for strong engagement campaigns
• Building strong networks of partners and experts to develop campaigns and cooperate in creating impact on key issues
• Drafting compelling campaigns emails and and other engaging content
• Setting up, monitoring and evaluating ads on social media
• Testing dozens of campaigns a week (if needed), with an excitement for analysing stats and improving campaigns to increase engagement and impact
• Testing, publishing and editing online content;
• Correspondence and consultation (e.g. polling) with members;
• Working with Campaign Directors in organizing campaign actions and logistics, from ad buys to public petition deliveries
• Having point responsibility/function on individual growth and engagement campaigns
• Innovate ways to engage citizens and experiment with new ways beyond petitions, including leveraging the power of AI language models
  

Experience & Qualifications

Successful candidates could have a range of professional backgrounds, but will likely have strong experience in digital campaigning, online activism, social media or other innovative and exciting positions preparing you for this exceptional challenge and opportunity.

The following list of qualifications is what we believe gives you the experience required to work in our environment and deliver on the responsibilities listed above. You should apply for this role if you feel you have the necessary experience, even if you don’t meet all the requirements below:

• Passion and commitment to global justice, citizen empowerment, and social change
• Expertise in digital campaigning, online activism, social media engagement campaigns
• Enthusiasm for a wide range of global issues, and a readiness to move swiftly between them, while being able to rapidly focus in on the details of each
• Excitement both to create impact in the world as well as building a strong online movement to ensure long-term impact
• High skilled writer of compelling action-based communications, including campaigns, and/or social media, copywriting or similar products.
• An excitement for analysing stats and swiftly drawing the right conclusions to improve the campaign
• Solid tech understanding and skills needed to publish, test and iterate online content as well as a hunger to try out new AI language models and see how we can leverage them
• Strong teamwork skills, comfortable in a highly collaborative team culture and a hierarchical team structure
• A growth orientation and a desire to challenge yourself
• High professionalism, self-motivation, efficiency and results-oriented delivery on short timelines
• Ability to adjust quickly to changing conditions and requirements
• Creativity, strategic thinking and campaign planning skills
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Highly proficient in spoken and written English, skill in other languages is desirable

Location

Avaaz is a virtual organization, with most of our work done online. Our staff are based all over the world. For this position, the candidate would ideally be based in the UK, although other locations may be considered.

Compensation and Benefits

Salary varies with location and experience, and is highly competitive with leading international nongovernmental organisations. The full-package salary for this position ranges from GBP 61,000 – GBP 78,000. Candidates will be provided with an accurate range in local currency.

The development of our employees is paramount. To support this, we include these benefits, which are prorated accordingly for part-time and temporary contracts:

• 5 weeks paid vacation per year
• 10 paid holidays per year
• GBP 2,300 for training and development per year
• GBP 1,150 for language development per year
• Out-of-Home Workspace Rental

Application Timeline

We are reviewing applications on a rolling basis, and encourage all candidates to submit applications as soon as possible. 

Avaaz’s Commitment to Equity and Inclusion

As a global organization with millions of members around the world, it’s important to us that our team reflects the diversity needed to lead a movement of people from across the planet, rising to meet some of the most complex challenges humanity has ever faced. We believe we can only succeed by building a diverse team full of fresh perspectives and original ideas, and we are committed to creating a working environment in which everyone has an equitable opportunity to fulfill their potential.

Our team includes speakers of English as a first or second language, the self-taught and university educated, people with all sorts of professional backgrounds. If doing the job you just read about would make you excited to come to work every day, if you’re talented, hard-working and committed to making a difference – we want you to apply. Avaaz does not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, colour, ancestry, language and accent, national origin, citizenship, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, family/parental or marital status, religion, socioeconomic class, caste, disability or any other characteristic protected by law.

We’ll provide reasonable accommodations for qualified applicants with disabilities or special needs to participate in the application process, so please let us know if you have such a request when you apply.

Please do not send your application via email. Only applications received via the form online will be considered. Thank you.