• This is a one year position with a 3mth probationary period. Full-time preferred, 0.8 negotiable. The role will require preparedness to work outside of normal working hours at times
• Salary: Range of $94,139.88 - $104,311.42 plus superannuation (11.5%) and five weeks leave, plus leave loading

Purpose

A Senior Campaigner is a multi-talented generalist, responsible for devising, coordinating and delivering strategies, campaigns and projects as new opportunities arise and existing initiatives develop. This role will provide creativity and leadership in developing and implementing engaging campaigns, and ensure the dynamism, ambition and successful coordination of all aspects of a given campaign or project. This role will engage with stakeholders at senior levels, create effective communications and mobilise people to win campaigns and grow the organisation.

About Environment Centre NT

The Environment Centre NT is the peak environmental organisation in the Northern Territory (NT). We have been working to protect the NT environment since 1983.

ECNT is an exciting and dynamic organisation, with an extraordinary impact locally and nationally. We have undergone a period of growth in recent years, and we are now leading some of the most important campaigns in the country.

We are the trusted, independent, voice on environmental issues in the NT and we fearlessly hold governments and industry to account in pursuit of our vision. We have expanded rapidly in the last few years in response to escalating environmental threats (including the climate and extinction crises). We are currently running a number of cutting-edge campaigns across our key strategic work themes: mining, climate, freshwater and biodiversity that require a sophisticated and multi-layered communications strategy. For more information, please visit our website: www.ecnt.org.au.

ECNT acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the unceded lands and waters upon which we work and their role in caring for country for millennia, now, and into the future.

Nature Campaign

The Northern Territory is currently facing unprecedented pressures on the Territory’s iconic nature and rivers landclearing, water extraction and biodiversity loss.

ECNT works with local communities, organisations and individuals to lead the development and implementation of a campaign designed to protect land, rivers & biodiversity in the NT.

The Environment Centre NT is recruiting for a role designed especially to campaign to protect the vast intact savanna ecosystem and spectacular free-flowing rivers that define the Northern Territory. The Northern Territory’s nature is exceptional on a national and global scale, but is facing unprecedented threats from fracking, the expansion of the cotton industry and the climate and biodiversity crises.

The senior campaigner will lead ECNT’s nature team, and utilise and develop their policy know-how and place-based organising skills to stop threats to the Northern Territory’s nature, and advocate for better policy outcomes that protect our precious nature and respect the knowledge traditions and governance systems of Traditional Owners.

Role Requirements

Knowledge

• Strong understanding of power from a political and business point of view
• Understanding of policy and how this can shape real world outcomes
• Knowledge and/or experience in national or international campaigning
• Understanding of social research and marketing for environmental and social change
• Ability to assess points of intervention/leverage to achieve outcomes
• How to use research, insights and analysis to develop campaign strategies

Skills

• Strategic analysis
• Intellectual ability to understand dynamic scientific, social and political issues
• Intellectual ability to understand legal issues necessary for the job
• Problem solving skills, and the ability to create clear, simple solutions
• Adapting communication for a range of audiences
• Proven copywriting skills
• Demonstrable experience of communication strategy development
• Demonstrable ability to work effectively with the media
• Risk (legal, reputational) assessment skills
• Demonstrable budgeting (preparing, presenting, monitoring) skills
• Presentation and reporting skills
• Exceptional interpersonal and negotiation skills
• Project management, planning and organising, including the ability to effectively adjust plans to rapidly changing circumstances

Experience

• At least five (5) years’ experience in a Campaigns/Organising role or similar relevant experience (including management)
• Experience in the development of winning strategy
• Proven experience in speaking to the public and media
• Proven ability to build and maintain strategic relationships

We are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants. We actively encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from Culturally & Linguistically Diverse backgrounds, LGBTIQA+ people, a diverse range of genders, people with disability and others who have diverse experiences of our world to apply for this opportunity.

Initial enquires to the Executive Director, by e-mail to [email protected] using the subject line: Senior Campaigner - Nature enquiry.

A position description is attached.