We’re looking for a Campaigner to join the Fair Agenda team!

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 seeking an enthusiastic and motivated change maker to join our team as a digital campaigner. They will play a critical role in campaigning in a nimble and impact-focused organisation.

The successful applicant will have the opportunity to be involved in driving campaigns, mobilising tens of thousands of Australians for gender justice and persuading political, corporate and community decision makers to implement policies for a more fair, gender equal and safe future. We anticipate that they will work across a range of issues, including: addressing gender-based violence, improving access to reproductive healthcare, fighting for economic security and our agency over our lives and bodies.

The details

We are seeking expression of interest in a fixed-term 12 month role, which will be made available on a 0.8 FTE - full time basis.

• 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, including provision for reproductive healthcare (4 days above the award level). We also offer domestic and family violence leave, cultural and ceremonial leave, 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 Campaigner role is $67,750 - $81,250.
  • We anticipate hiring somebody to start in the role at the equivalent of level 2 of the SCHADS award (salary range: $67,750 - $74,000).
  • After 9 months there will be provision for promotion into level 3 (salary range: $75,750 - 81,250) in line with progress against the salary matrix.
  • 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. 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 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:

• Have a can do attitude, ability to learn new skills and adapt to new contexts quickly,
• Bring an approach of care and collaboration,
• Have an appetite for data and analysis, and are able to reflect on and evaluate their own work, test theories, implement feedback, and evolve their approach over time,
• Who would be comfortable driving your own areas of work, and flourish in a self-directed work environment, with guidance and support
• Are comfortable working to rapid response timelines in key moments, for example in responding to a news story,
• 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

The Campaigner will have the opportunity to:

• Develop and deliver tactics to win campaigns on gender equity issues;
• Write and edit campaign communications - including action emails to Fair Agenda members,
• Develop content to engage members with campaigns (this might include image design or video editing using tools like Canva)
• Deliver on Fair Agenda’s social media strategy, and engage supporters on social platforms,
• Engage Fair Agenda members - including supporting and training Fair Agenda members to participate in or lead campaign activities,
• Set up campaign actions and resources on platforms like Nationbuilder, Do Gooder, Raisely or Squarespace,
• Test, evaluate and make recommendations in key areas of internal work (for example member engagement, or social media)
• Manage and analyse data and information about members and supporters,
• Develop and deliver tactics for member fundraising, including planning events, and writing fundraising emails,
• Contribute to press releases and media actions,

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:

• Writing an email to tens of thousands of Fair Agenda members, to engage them to take a campaign action,
• Scripting a video to explain a campaign issue to our members on Facebook,
• Working alongside a Campaign Manager to plan tactics on a major campaign,
• Analysing data about member engagement with emails or social media, to understand what is resonating, and to advise other team members on outcomes of tests.
• Helping to deliver an event to Fair Agenda members briefing them on issues in the headlines.

Recruitment criteria

There are no formal education requirements for roles on the Fair Agenda team – but we anticipate a successful applicant for Campaigner will draw from previous experience advocating for social change.

Required:

• Excellent writing and communication skills - including the ability to communicate issues in a compelling way and motivate people to take action,
• Experience participating in multiple campaigns, and ability to help deliver a range of campaign tactics,
• The ability to create content for social media
• A basic understanding of issues relating to gender equity and gender-based violence;
• A can-do attitude, enthusiasm for learning new skills and the ability to adapt to new contexts,
• An ability to pay attention to detail,
• Comfort working in a digital-first organisation and utilising digital tools and social media to achieve outcomes
• A dedication to building a fair and equal future, and excitement about working for a future where we can all live safely, with security and agency over our lives and bodies - no matter our gender.

Any of these additional skills and experiences would also be considered valuable:

• Lived experience of the issues Fair Agenda is advocating on;
• Understanding of and/or training in feminist principles or anti-oppression,
• Proven ability to work appropriately and safely with partner organisations and with survivor advocates,
• Experience using Nationbuilder to deliver communications, create webpages or manage members, or experience in SEO/SEM
• Experience engaging with media,
• Experience engaging productively with political decision-makers from across the political spectrum,
• Ability to work appropriately and safely with partner organisations and with survivor advocates,
• Experience creating videos or visual campaign assets in Canva or other software,
• Experience maintaining or growing an online membership,
• Experience managing brand or campaign risks.

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.

We anticipate that there will be significant opportunity for growth in this role, and don’t require applicants to already be able to perform all the relevant components of the role before applying.

Any successful applicant will have the opportunity for significant internal professional development; including participating in strategy and planning meetings for campaigns, as well as one-on-one meetings with the Executive Director about their work and growth plan. The Campaigner would also receive coaching and mentoring support from colleagues.

Further information

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

The role can be available at 0.8 FTE - full time basis (loading will be finalised in discussion with the successful applicant).

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 inequality 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.