Senior Campaigner
Location: Flexible in UK - This role is a flexible role with the option of working 'hybrid' at one of our offices as well as from home.
Salary: £32,022.00 - £34,377.00 Per Annum
Benefits: Pension, Life Assurance and Annual Leave
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full-Time, 37.5 hours per week
Do you have the passion and skills to tackle some of the biggest challenges facing nature and climate? Many of these challenges are complex and long-term, and our systems change campaigning function works with colleagues across the RSPB to tackle them head on. We are recruiting for a Senior Campaigner in our Campaigning & Mobilisation department.
What’s the role about
Our systems change campaigns work tackles big, complex problems facing nature and climate over the long-term. The current focus is to drive systemic change that creates the right conditions for nature-friendly farming to prosper. You will focus campaigning pressure wherever it can be exerted to best effect – and not always at governments, but also at other key actors. Through the campaigns you develop you will help us realise large-scale positive change for nature and climate that builds and builds.
The campaigns you help develop will have multiple elements, offering our phenomenal supporters a range of ways to get involved. Their supporter journey will deepen engagement and empowerment of individual campaigners over time, equipping them to tackle these complex problems in their own way.
As part of a dispersed team, you could be based anywhere in the UK, so long as you’re able to travel to central locations to get together with colleagues, and on occasion to meet with colleagues in Cardiff, Belfast, Edinburgh and Birmingham.
Key Activities:
* Co-creating and delivering systems change campaigns on behalf of the RSPB, working collaboratively with colleagues across the organisation.
* Responsibility to roll out systems change campaigns in two of the four countries of the UK (with another Senior Campaigner covering the other two).
* Recruiting and line managing professional volunteers to provide expert guidance or deliver campaigns.
* Building key internal and external relationships to support development and delivery of systems change campaigns.
* Maintaining technical expertise and analysis of external context relating to the current campaign and challenges facing nature.
* Ensuring compliance with legal, Charity Commission, and internal policy on campaigning standards.
What we need from you:
* A passion for nature, addressing climate change and campaigning!
* Relevant experience to effectively deliver the responsibilities and tasks of this role, including demonstrable campaigning experience.
* Ability to see the big picture, understand and simplify complex systems affecting nature.
* Ability to understand where, when and how to apply campaigning pressure for maximum impact.
* Ability to drive forward work in a complex, large organization and through a four-country operating model.
* Excellent time management skills to focus own time on the highest priorities.
General information:
* From time-to-time, and particularly at the start of a new campaign, you will be expected to come together with others working on that campaign, and co-locate face-to-face for a few days. There will be some meetings together, and also the opportunity to work side by side on the project for a short period. The RSPB will subsidise any required accommodation or travel as per our Expenses Policy.
* Everyone in the RSPB has a role to play in creating an inclusive culture and we want our people and their behaviours to show this. As part of your role, it is your responsibility to work in a way that reflects our commitment to inclusion, with colleagues, external partners or the public.
Closing date: 23:59, Mon, 11th Nov 2024
We anticipate Interviews will take place on 25th November 2024.
Interested?
If you would like to find out more, please click the apply button. You will be directed to our website to complete your application for this position.
The RSPB is an equal opportunities employer. This role is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. The RSPB is a licenced sponsor. This role is not eligible for UK Visa Sponsorship - the successful applicant will need to have a pre-existing Right to Work in the UK in order to be offered an employment contract.
No agencies please.
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