About

Fair Agenda is a growing community of 43,000 campaigning for a future where we can all live with safety, security and agency over our lives and bodies – no matter our gender.

We are seeking an experienced campaigner and strategist to join our team as a Campaign Manager. The successful applicant will drive campaigns to address gendered violence; mobilise tens of thousands of Australians for safety, equity and justice; and help persuade political, corporate and community decision-makers to implement policies for a more fair, equal and safe future.

They will join a small but mighty team and drive campaigning in a nimble, impact-focused and multi-issue gender equity organisation, with a strong focus on issues of gendered violence.

The details

Loading: We are seeking expression of interest in an ongoing role, which is available on a 0.8 - 1 FTE basis.

Location: Fair Agenda has desk space in Melbourne, but we have team members working remotely in Melbourne and NSW; and we welcome expressions of interest from candidates willing to work remotely from other parts of the country.

Flexible work: We provide flexible work options, including remote work, and flexible start/finish times.

Leave: We care about the wellbeing of team members, and offer 14 days personal leave pro rata, as well as paid domestic and family violence leave, cultural and ceremonial leave and gender affirmation leave.

Salary: The indicative salary range for the role is $92,000 - $96,000 per annum, pro rata. Starting salary and salary increases will be determined in line with a matrix for the role. The matrix and assessment will be made available for discussion and transparency, and the successful applicant will have an opportunity to review and feedback on that matrix before the starting salary is set.

Start date: Negotiable.

About Fair Agenda

We leverage rapid online, social and media campaigning tactics to put issues of gender inequity on the agenda for decision-makers. We deliver our campaigns in partnership with service providers, policy experts, and people with lived experience to change the policies that change women’s lives.

To date our campaigning has positively impacted the lives of over 1 million women in Australia, including:

• Breaking the story on the Government’s harmful respectful relationships content, namely the ‘Milkshake Consent’ video, in partnership with End Rape on Campus Australia
• An additional $150 million of federal funding to improve responses to family and domestic violence,
• The decriminalisation of abortion in Queensland, New South Wales 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, and
• Securing $4 million of additional funding for domestic violence hotline 1800 RESPECT to ensure thousands of women’s calls weren’t left unanswered.

We anticipate our campaign priorities as an organisation over the next six months include (but are not limited to):

• Influencing the first 100 days of the next federal parliament,
• Improving legal and institutional responses to survivors of gendered violence - which could include work to expand the pathways for response (from carceral-focused responses),
• Securing action for a safer parliament, through implementation of the Sex Discrimination Commissioner’s Set the Standard recommendations,
• Improving the prevention of gender based violence - including through proper funding of expert-led respectful relationships education.

About the Campaign Manager role

The Campaign Manager will develop and drive strategies on new and existing Fair Agenda campaigns, including those with a focus on improving legal responses to sexual and domestic violence.

The Campaign Manager will be responsible for managing some campaigns from start to finish; contributing to campaigns across the organisation; and will deliver tactics to mobilise tens of thousands of Australians, and persuade political, corporate and community decision makers to improve the policies that shape our lives.

The Campaign Manager will work closely with colleagues (Executive Director, Senior Campaigner and another Campaign Manager) and partner organisations to develop campaigns and innovate tactics to influence change.

Specifically, the Campaign Manager will be responsible for:

• Managing the planning and delivery of a number of campaigns,
• Developing and delivering a broad range of tactics to win campaigns,
• Maintaining stakeholder relationships,
• Developing and executing rapid response campaigns,
• Engaging Fair Agenda members with campaigns and actions, including:
  • Supporting and training Fair Agenda members to participate in or lead campaign activities,
  • Developing video and visual content to engage members with campaigns,
  • Writing and editing action emails to Fair Agenda members,
• Contributing to fundraising for the organisation, including:
  • Developing and delivering tactics for member fundraising,
  • Maintaining relationships with some mid-tier donors (with support from the Executive Director),
• Testing new approaches to grow the impact and size of the Fair Agenda community,
• Developing media strategies, writing press releases, pitching stories and organising media actions, including acting as a media spokesperson,
• Fostering productive working relationships amongst the team, and applying organisational values to the work,
• Other ad hoc activities as discussed with the Executive Director.

As the Campaign Manager your week might involve things like:

• Managing a media response to a development in your campaign area,
• Conceptualising and developing video or visual content to engage members with an issue on social media,
• Writing and editing action emails to Fair Agenda members,
• Running a huddle with colleagues to brainstorm a response to a Government announcement,
• Deep diving on data analysis to understand opportunities to improve Fair Agenda’s performance in different areas, and making recommendations for changes,
• Jumping on the phone to identify opportunities for intervention with a collaborating organisation.

Skills and experiences you’ll need to bring as a Campaign Manager

There are no formal education requirements for roles on the Fair Agenda team – but we anticipate a successful applicant for Campaign Manager will draw from experience working across a number of different campaigns.

The key skills and experience for this role are:

• Experience developing and delivering a variety of campaign strategies and tactics,
• Experience advocating to influence a range of decision-makers,
• Experience leading at least one campaign from end to end,
• Excellent copy writing and communication skills – including experience preparing quotes and pitches to media, and
• An ability to develop communications and campaign actions relating to gendered violence,

Additional skills and experiences considered valuable:

• Interest and/or understanding of gender equity issues in Australia, including gender-based violence
• Understanding of and/or training in intersectionality, feminist principles and anti-oppression,
• Proven ability to work appropriately and safely with partner organisations and with survivor advocates,
• Experience working productively with decision-makers from across the political spectrum,
• Proven ability to secure media coverage,
• Experience using Nationbuilder to deliver communications, create webpages, manage members, and experience in SEO/SEM
• Experience creating videos or visual campaign assets in Canva or other software,
• Proven ability to achieve fundraising results through online member donations, mid-tier donors and grant writing
• Experience maintaining or growing an online membership,
• Experience managing brand and campaign risks.

We’d love to hear from people who:

• Bring a can-do attitude, ability to learn new skills and adapt to new contexts quickly, and to drive your own areas of work,
• Are comfortable working to rapid response timelines in key moments
• Are eager to grow their skills, experience and the organisation’s impact - and able to give and apply feedback;
• Bring a strategic focus and ability to prioritise for impact,
• Are able to show leadership internally – by identifying areas for growth, opportunities for testing and innovation,
• Are able to bring attention to detail to key pieces of work,
• Bring a dedication to fighting for justice and equity.

Working with Fair Agenda

As an organisation are core 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 intended beneficiaries.

We know that representation is a cornerstone of justice and seek to build a team that draws from lived experience in challenging patriarchy as well as the intersecting oppressions that increase barriers to safety and justice. We expect all team members to take responsibility for co-creating a safe and equitable team environment, and we invest in trainings and advice from experts to ensure our board and staff team are continually improving and evolving our approach to challenging oppression.

While Fair Agenda itself has a small staff team, we’re part of a broader campaigning community through Australian Progress (and have access to shared co-working spaces used by other social justice organisations). We also have a very active Board, and staff are invited to participate in the monthly Board meetings.

A position description is attached.

Information on the recruitment process

Candidates shortlisted for the role will be asked to complete a short practical task.

We will then invite final candidates to interview.