• Position: Campaigns Manager
• Direct reports: Temporary staff and consultants as required
• Reports to: Campaigns Director
• FTE: Full time (1.0) (part-time considered), 12 month fixed term contract, parental leave backfill role
• Location: Melbourne - other locations and virtual/hybrid work arrangements will be considered
• Salary: $99,110 excluding super
• Award: Manager, Level 1 (FYA Salary Framework) SCHADs Award Equivalent Level 5 Pay Point 2

Role summary

You will lead on supporting youth-led groups to win campaigns, and build their power and capacity to create change. You will produce campaign content, run training sessions, help roll out tactics and facilitate strategy discussions to maximise impact.

You’re perfect for the role given your passion for young people driving change on their own terms, your lived experience of injustice, and your hands-on experience working with communities facing structural oppression.

What you’ll do

• Campaigning: Lead support of youth-led groups to create change through campaigning and movement building, such as recruitment, mobilising, digital campaigning, rolling out tactics, providing advice on policy reform asks and organising practices, hands-on support with event organising. Campaigns you’ll be working on include voting rights for 16 and 17 year olds, and Palestine solidarity.
• Strategy development: Support youth-led groups with strategy development through coaching conversations and designing strategy discussion spaces and reflection workshops with young changemakers.
• Coaching and training: Identify, draft and deliver group training and 1:1 coaching to meet campaigning needs of youth-led groups, including creating resources, and running workshops
• Learning and evaluation: Regularly collect quantitative and qualitative data, evaluate and report on the impact of FYA’s partnerships with youth-led groups, and work with your team to actively seek opportunities to improve our partnership practices and offerings.
• Relationship building: Build relationships of trust and care with young activists, with a particular focus on those facing injustice and structural disadvantage. Support a people and community-based approach to creating change.
• Teamwork & collaboration: Work collaboratively as part of a team to (with support) implement FYA’s strategies for backing youth-led campaigns and movements.
• Wellbeing and safeguarding: Work with the team to ensure our projects support the wellbeing of young activists, from project design, trainings and workshops, and day-to-day coaching conversations.

Who we’re looking for

We’re looking for someone with a passion for young people driving change on their own terms, and hands-on experience working with campaigns led by communities with lived experience of injustice.

• Experience supporting campaigns that have led to systemic change for impacted communities, demonstrating a range of skills from field organising and mobilising to digital campaigning.
• Experience coaching, motivating and supporting activists from diverse backgrounds to take sustained action on campaigns and make strategic choices.
• Experience designing coaching and training modules

We do not require specific educational qualifications. We value paid and unpaid campaigning experience equally.

Our work is guided by a commitment to beating injustice. We strongly encourage applications from First Nations people, young people, people of colour, women, people with disability, people from LGBTIQA+ communities, and people with lived experience of economic injustice.

Other important things

• Working with Children Check is a mandatory requirement of this position; we’ll help you with this if you are successful.
• Applicants for this role must have a valid, legal right to work in Australia.

Click apply now and follow the application process.

• You will be asked two questions in your application in which you’re required to provide brief answers (no more than 500 words each).
  • Please give a description of yourself and what excites you about this role and working for FYA
  • How does your experience fit with who we're looking for?
  • We are open to receiving this as a video, audio or written piece e.g. poetry or essay (no more than 500 words written or five minutes recording for each question), For video or audio applications please send your responses to [email protected]
• Candidates making it to the next stage will be called for an interview in the week of July 27th 2024.

For more information or a confidential discussion about the role contact:

Pablo Brait, Campaigns Director

[email protected] 

For more information about the recruitment process:

Shulah Orloff, People + Culture Coordinator (FYA)

[email protected], using the subject line: Campaigns Manager enquiry via EthicalJobs.