350.org is building a global grassroots movement to solve the climate crisis. Our online campaigns, grassroots organizing, and mass public actions are led from the bottom up by thousands of volunteer organizers in over 188 countries. 350.org works hard to organize in a new way—everywhere at once, using online tools to facilitate strategic offline action. We want to be a laboratory for the best ways to strengthen the climate movement and catalyze transformation around the world. The values that guide and drive our work are listed here.
350.org is an equal opportunity employer. 350.org strives to be an inclusive and collaborative group of people who bring a variety of approaches to the work we do. We’re committed to the principles of justice, and we try to build a safe workplace where everyone is treated fairly and enjoys working together. We value new perspectives, ideas of all sorts, and different ways of working. Diverse perspectives and experiences improve the way 350.org carries out our work – including what we decide to work on and how creatively/effectively we do that. We do our best to make staff positions accessible to all potential team members, regardless of race, national origin, ethnicity, age, disability, assigned gender, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation or identity, religion or creed, veteran status, marital or parental status, and genetic information. We also strive to include team members in communities most impacted by climate change or impacted by other kinds of environmental, social, and economic injustice.
About the Africa Digital and Communications Specialist
The Africa Digital and Communications Specialist is someone with demonstrated experience in developing, planning, implementing, and coordinating multi-platform digital and communications campaigns to get results, including innovative use of online tools and strategies. Someone who is well-organized, able to retain information and someone who can help the team with some administration tasks. Most importantly, we’re looking for a visionary person who knows how to inspire and innovate while dealing with healthy constraints
This role will sit within the 350Africa.org Team and will report directly to the Africa Digital Campaign Manager.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Digital Support
- Implement social media plans for events, days of actions and campaigns;
- Write email blasts, blog posts, social media updates
- Regularly post and facilitate online conversations in social media that helps the organizations’ social media fans, friends and followers transition from being an audience to a campaign stakeholder.
- Coordinate and implement a variety of web and design projects
- Implement and monitor digital strategy/digital organising strategy to support regional campaigns
- Monitor national petitions created and managed by volunteers and/or partners on 350 campaigns platform, and support them to increase sign-on and implement strategic deliveries.
- Monitoring, supporting, training and managing activities on our AfrikaVuka platform to ensure that these communities are thriving both online and offline
- Coordinate live coverage and report back of campaign events
- Manage campaign websites, and update 350Africa websites with relevant information about Africa campaigns.
- Update internal 350 channels with information about climate activism, current events, and climate campaigns in Africa.
Communications Support
- Feed national, regional campaign stories into global communications and narrative
- Draft press releases, media statements, articles such as opinion pieces with the support from the comms manager.
- Coordinate photographers and videographers to produce high-quality multimedia for campaigns
- Support rapid-response communications work in response to climate impacts and campaign developments across Africa and linking this to media outputs.
- Help expand existing contact databases by tracking media hits and collecting press and regional communications consultants’ contact information.
- Coordinate responses to traditional media requests from African journalists
- Help track and measure communications deliverables in Africa
Additional Responsibilities:
- Understand 350.org’s history, campaigns, and theory of social change, and keep current with basic climate science and policy. From time to time, use this knowledge to represent 350.org’s perspective in varied public venues based on geographic location and areas of expertise.
- From time to time, contribute work towards 350.org’s overall mission that is outside of standard responsibilities and instead relies solely on geographic location or work capacity.
Competencies:
- Self-Management: Ability to set professional boundaries. Resilient and able to manage self and keep composure in times of stress. Able to work independently with minimum supervision.
- Communication: Effectively craft and deliver concise and informative communications. Ability to listen to and address concerns of others, and to transfer and translate information from one level or team of the organization to another.
- Justice and Equity: Must embrace the principles of workplace justice, diversity, and inclusion and apply them to day-to-day work.
- Others: Organized, detail-oriented, and accurate. Able to create work plans and anticipate deadlines. Be comfortable juggling multiple priorities with competing deadlines. Must believe and embrace 350.org’s vision, mission, and progressive values.
Required Skills and Experience
- 3 years of experience in digital advocacy, media or campaign work.
- Fluent written and spoken French and English.
- Strong knowledge of various online campaign strategies and tactics. Ability to clearly articulate and operationalize campaign strategies and plans. Ability to compile a campaign baseline, monitor progress and evaluate the effectiveness of online campaign activities.
- Strong online storytelling skills, including creating content that appeals to multiple target audiences. Ability to expand and grow 350’s audience in Africa.
- Must embrace the principles of workplace justice, diversity and inclusion and apply them to day-to-day work. Must believe and embrace 350.org’s vision, mission and progressive values.
- Organised, detail oriented and accurate. Able to create work plans and anticipate deadlines. Be comfortable juggling multiple priorities with competing deadlines.
- Ability to set professional boundaries. Resilient and able to manage self and keep composure in times of stress.
Desired (but not required) skills and experiences
- Previous experience in climate change or environmental role.
- Previous experience doing administration work.
- Previous experience developing media and communications outputs
- Interest and passion for climate justice, racial justice, women’s rights, LGBTQIA rights, human rights and other social justice issues.
- Familiarity with the digital tools used by 350.org (ActionKit, Action Network, NewMode, ControlShiftLabs, WordPress, Slack, Salesforce, SurveyMonkey).
- Experience working in a multilingual context, especially with managing a multilingual digital presence.
We are looking for someone who is comfortable working both independently and in teams, highly responsive, and able to lead initiatives as well as take direction from others.
Position Type: Full time – 40hrs per week
Application Deadline: This position is open until filled
Compensation: Level 1.3
Location: Remote. Must be based in Africa.
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