The Fair Agenda movement is supported by a small but mighty staff team who support our 41,000 members to mobilise for a gender equitable and just future.

We are expanding our team (currently four staff), to bring on a new Campaign Manager!

The successful applicant will have the opportunity to: drive campaigns that promote systems change on gender justice issues; engage and mobilise tens of thousands of people in high opportunity moments; and help persuade political, corporate and community decision-makers to implement policies for a more fair, gender equal and safer future.

The details

Loading: We are seeking expression of interest in a permanent role, which will be made available on 0.9 FTE basis (we’re also open to applicants interested in 0.8 FTE loading).

Location: Negotiable. Team members currently work remotely in Vic & NSW.

Flexible work: We provide flexible work options. Right now members of the team start and finish between 8am/10am and 4pm/6pm Eastern time.

Leave: We offer 14 days personal leave pro rata (4 days above the award level), including provision for reproductive healthcare leave.

We also offer domestic and family violence leave, cultural and ceremonial leave and gender affirmation leave. We provide 18 weeks paid parental leave.

Annual leave is provided at 4 weeks pro-rata, with additional gratis leave provided during the office closure period between Christmas and New Years public holidays.

Salary: The salary band for a Campaign Manager is: $109,000 - $114,000.

Salary will be set in line with a skills matrix for the role. The assessment of your position in the matrix will be made available to you for transparency, with an opportunity for input and feedback.

Start date: We’re ideally seeking someone to start in the role in early November 2024.

Travel: Please be aware there is an expectation the successful candidate would be able to travel – i.e for tri-annual team planning meetings, and key campaign events (like lobbying days at parliament). We have a travel policy in place (including meal budget) to support this.

Vicarious trauma support: Our team has processes in place to support staff wellbeing and sustainability in campaigning around issues of gender-based violence. This includes provision of vicarious trauma/self-care counselling every six months, and access to ad hoc counselling debriefs - both provided by trauma-informed professionals.

About Fair Agenda

Fair Agenda’s staff team supports our 41,000 members to mobilise on issues of gender justice when and where it can have the most impact.

We drive strategic campaigns that keep a spotlight on problems that need solving, and build momentum behind expert-backed solutions. We do this by leveraging online, social and media campaigning tactics to pressure decision-makers to change the policies that shape our lives.

We combine the people-power of our 41,000 strong movement with that of policy experts, service providers, survivors and other advocates to win change.

So far our movement has helped win changes that benefit more than a million women, including:

• Securing commitments from Education Ministers to address sexual violence in universities by mandating national oversight, monitoring, transparency and accountability. This includes creating a National Student Ombudsman.
• Improving respectful relationships and sexuality education, including the removal of the ‘milkshake consent’ video from government resources.
• Securing legislative reforms to decriminalise abortion and provide for safe, legal and compassionate access to abortion care in Queensland, NSW and South Australia.
• Blocking cuts to working parents’ time to care for their newborns that would have hurt 79,000 working families a year,
• Working with partner organisations and survivor advocates to help stop $34 million of scheduled cuts to Community legal Centres, which would have hurt tens of thousands of women affected by family violence.

Working with Fair Agenda

Our organisation’s values are:

• We are impact focused,
• We adopt a feminist approach – that means we challenge patriarchal power structures and norms, recognise that oppressions intersect and interact; and our approach to challenging them must account for this; and working with integrity and being responsible in our use of power
• We are bold and strategic, building a force to be reckoned with
• We are collaborative
• We value our people
• We’re constantly evolving our work.

Fair Agenda’s feminism is inclusive – and we explicitly support the inclusion of trans and gender diverse people in our vision of a gender equitable future, and in our movement.

We know that representation is a cornerstone of justice. We seek to build a team that draws from a range of lived experiences in challenging patriarchy and the intersecting and compounding oppressions that shape its impacts.

We expect all team members to take responsibility for co-creating a safe and equitable team environment, and we invest in training and advice from experts to ensure our board and staff team are continually improving and evolving our approach to challenging systemic oppression.

About You

We’d love to hear from people who:

• Bring a strategic focus and ability to prioritise for impact,
• Have a can do attitude, ability to learn new skills and adapt to new contexts quickly,
• Bring an approach of care and collaboration,
• Are able to reflect on and evaluate their own work, test theories and implement feedback, and evolve their approach over time,
• Are able to respond to shifts in the media cycle and decision-making environment quickly,
• Are able to bring attention to detail to key pieces of work,
• Bring a dedication to fighting for justice and equality, and alignment with the values and objective of Fair Agenda’s advocacy.

About the role

Role Responsibilities

• Driving the development of all parts of strategy in your areas of campaign responsibility – including political engagement, decision-maker influence strategies and complex theories of change,
• Managing the planning and delivery of a number of campaigns,
• Developing and delivering a broad range of tactics to win campaigns,
• Contributing towards achieving relevant organisation-wide goals (inc. impact, member engagement and fundraising)
• Cultivating and managing relationships with decision-makers (inc. influential stakeholders in political contexts, like Ministerial advisors or Department officials)
• Cultivating and managing peer stakeholder relationships – like peak bodies, policy advisory groups, service providers and lived experience advocates.
• Driving the development and execution of rapid response campaign strategies,
• Engaging Fair Agenda members with campaigns and actions, including:
  • Writing and editing emails that effectively engage Fair Agenda members to take actions,
  • Supporting and training Fair Agenda members to participate in or lead campaign activities,
  • Utilising digital tools and social media platforms to engage members with campaigns
  • Developing video and visual content to engage members with campaigns,
• Contributing to fundraising for the organisation, including:
  • Contributing to the development and delivery of tactics for member fundraising across the organisation,
  • Driving fundraising appeals for your areas of campaign responsibility,
  • Driving preparation of grant applications for your areas of responsibility
  • Driving development of report back and acquittal content for your areas of campaign responsibility
  • Cultivating and maintaining relationships with specific donors as required (with support from the Executive Director)
• Developing media strategies, writing press releases, pitching stories and organising media actions - including acting as a spokesperson, and supporting others to speak to media
• Fostering productive working relationships amongst the team, and applying organisational values,
• Driving testing and evaluation of different approaches to grow the impact and size of the Fair Agenda community,

Other ad hoc activities as discussed with the Executive Director

What your week could look like

As a Campaign Manager your week might involve things like:

• Jumping on the phone to identify opportunities for action with a collaborating organisation,
• Convening a team meeting to strategise and plan a rapid response action in response to a breaking news story,
• Reaching out to an advisor in federal parliament to get insights into the political context impacting your campaigns,
• Providing a journalist with quotes on a development in your campaign area,
• Writing and editing an action email to Fair Agenda members sharing the latest development in your campaign and letting them know how they can impact what comes next,
• Facilitating a team call to refine tactics or messaging for your campaign
• Conceptualising and developing video or visual content to engage members with an issue on social media,
• Deep diving on data analysis to understand opportunities to improve Fair Agenda’s performance in different areas, and making recommendations for changes to test.

Recruitment criteria

Required:

• Experience leading at least one campaign to influence a political or corporate decision-maker from end-to-end,
• Experience developing and delivering a variety of campaign strategies and tactics,
• Experience advocating to influence a range of decision-makers and an understanding of whether or not (and why) previous approaches did or did not work as expected,
• Excellent copy writing and communication skills – including experience preparing quotes and pitches to media,
• A commitment to fighting for justice and equality, and alignment with the values and objectives of Fair Agenda’s advocacy.

Additional skills considered valuable:

• Proven ability to cultivate productive and collaborative working relationships with partner organisations;
• Experience engaging productively with decision-makers from across the political spectrum,
• Understanding of, and relationships with, other organisations and stakeholders in the gender justice sector
• Understanding of and/or training in anti-oppression,
• Proven ability to drive impact through previous campaigns,
• Proven ability to work appropriately and safely in collaboration with lived experience advocates,
• Proven ability to secure significant and sustained media coverage,
• Proven ability to achieve significant fundraising results through online and/or major donor relationships,
• Experience maintaining or growing an online membership,
• Experience managing brand and campaign risks
• Experience creating videos or visual campaign assets,
• Experience using Nationbuilder to deliver communications, create webpages and manage members.

Please note: Fair Agenda believes in investing in the capacity of our team; and recognises the importance of building a team with strong potential as well as experience; so we encourage those who don’t yet have every skill, or strong experience in every area to still submit an application for consideration.

Further information

The role will commence from a negotiable start date in November.

The role is available on a 0.8FTE – 0.9 FTE basis. Loading may be able to be increased to full time next financial year, contingent on funding.

There is a preference for the successful applicant to be located in a major city on the east coast, but applications from people willing to work remotely from other locations will also be considered.

We note that Fair Agenda recognises that issues of gender injustice disproportionately affect people who are also marginalised for other reasons – including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people of colour, people from working class backgrounds, and LGBTQI people. We encourage people who are members of these and other marginalised communities to submit an application.

A position description is attached.