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Digital Campaign Specialist

Employer
ActionAid
Location
London (Central), London (Greater)
Salary
£34,496 - £35,539
Closing date
29 Jul 2018

Job Details

Do you want to use your deep knowledge of digital engagement to win campaigns for systemic change? If so, join ActionAid as a Digital Campaign Specialist.

 

ActionAid UK has embarked on an exciting new strategy to end violence against women and girls all over the world.

We are now recruiting for a Digital Campaign Specialist to help take our campaigning to the next level, growing and deepening the engagement of our campaigner base, and finding creative new ways to engage people online.

You’ll be passionate about campaigning for social change and committed to women’s rights and intersectional feminism. You’ll really understand what makes people tick online and be enthusiastic about the potential of digital organising.

You’ll learn to use new software quickly, be a dab hand at supporter emails, and have a great eye for what’ll go far on social media. You’ll be able to think strategically and be someone who spots new opportunities and can’t wait to share them.

You’ll have good experience using supporter databases/CRMs and be committed to meaningful monitoring and analysis. You’ll be able to work well in cross-organisational teams and with colleagues in other countries and be ready to champion campaigns across the organisation.

You’ll follow politics and have a good understanding of how organising and mobilising campaigners can help bring about political change.

ActionAid is an international charity that works with women and girls in poverty. Working here isn’t about delivering a restrictive operational plan. It’s about thinking how we can achieve systemic solutions to systemic problems – whether that’s as ActionAid or as a catalyst for others. Come join us.

Please note that interviews will be held on the 2nd of August.

Company

ActionAid is an international development charity which works in 45 countries across Africa, Asia and Latin America. Founded in 1972, ActionAid is an international federation and has offices in Johannesburg, Nairobi, Rio de Janeiro, Bangkok and Washington DC, as well as London.

ActionAid UK is part of the international federation and almost all of the people and partners who run ActionAid programmes are from the developing world. This means its staff are on the ground, experiencing poverty at first hand. They see day-to-day how poverty affects people’s lives, and are uniquely placed to give a voice to the women and children who suffer most.

ActionAid’s work has several different components, unified by a commitment to place women and girls at the centre of its work. The charity aims to end hunger by giving millions of people in extreme poverty the skills they need to grow sustainable food, and campaigns to address the causes of hunger.

ActionAid also responds to emergencies and conflicts. It provided emergency assistance to more than 600,000 people in 2015 and trained nearly 46,000 others to protect lives and prepare for emergencies. In total the charity responded to 27 emergencies around the world last year.

Improving access to education is another facet of its mission. 59 million children, more than half of them girls, were out of school in 2013. ActionAid works with more than 5,000 schools across Africa, Asia and Latin America to help over a millions girls and boys get the free, quality education they are entitled to.

Women’s rights and gender equality informs all of ActionAid’s activities. The charity works with communities against female genital mutilation, gender-based violence and forced early marriage.

ActionAid also campaigns for tax justice, fairer wages and more effective aid which can tackle the roots causes of poverty. It estimates that poorer countries lose around $200 billion a year from tax dodging by companies.

A variety of different roles are available at ActionAid including policy adviser, fundraising offer and HR manager. Employee benefits are plentiful, encompassing the opportunity to develop new skills, a pension scheme, childcare vouchers and free advice services.

ActionAid also supports selected UK employees to travel to host countries in order to gain first-hand experience of its in-country work. Frequent secondments, whereby employees work, for a period, in another department or different country in the federation, take place. The charity encourages job shares.

Company info
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Telephone
020 3122 0561
Location
33-39 Bowling Green Lane
London
EC1R 0BJ
GB

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