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Head of Campaigns

Grata Fund
  • Parental Leave Position – Full Time – 12 months

Grata Fund is seeking a full-time Head of Campaigns for a parental leave cover position.

The Head of Campaigns will work in collaboration with the Executive Director and Head of Strategic Litigation to implement Grata Fund’s vision and strategy for a robust public interest litigation culture in Australia by:

  • Articulating Grata Fund’s values, priorities, and mission across multiple initiatives, advocacy campaigns, and platforms—print, broadcast, and digital
  • Guiding strategy and planning for all external Grata Fund communications, including developing and executing strategies to increase Grata Fund’s presence and influence in the nonprofit and legal sectors and galvanise support for Grata Fund initiatives among the Grata Fund community and the public at large.

Job Responsibilities

This is a 12-month fixed-term contract role based in Sydney with remote work options available for the right candidate. The Head of Campaigns reports to the Executive Director and is responsible for:

  1. Campaign development and implementation: Develop and execute creative, multi-faceted campaign strategies designed to protect and extend wins inside the courtroom or leverage losses to achieve change in people's lives. Campaigns will be run in line with Grata’s adherence to principles of self-determination using appropriate levels of resourcing according to the Campaign Matrix. Campaigns will be run using the appropriate mix of strategies which could include digital, media, messaging, coalition building, government relations, mobilisation and community organising.
  2. Strategy: Support and contribute to Grata’s organisational strategy further Grata Fund’s goals and mission and grow Grata Fund’s influence and effectiveness at the national level. Identify specific organisational communications, campaign and advocacy goals in line with Grata’s organisational goals and work collaboratively with the team to develop and implement long- and short-term plans to reach them, and measure progress, for example adverse costs reform or building Grata’s reputation and influence among legal and political elites.
  3. Messaging and Brand: Shape the language, images, and multimedia that represent Grata Fund and its positions carefully, compellingly, and convincingly. Ensure that consistent, clear messaging follows through all modes of communications, for a range of audiences, and across all Grata Fund initiatives. Manage development, distribution, and maintenance of digital and print collateral. Provide editorial and design direction, handle quality control and proofreading, guide production, and implement distribution plans. Oversee brand management and design of promotional materials.
  4. Media Relations: Handle all aspects of media relations, at times with the support of a media agency, including developing and implementing planned campaign media strategies and carving out an influential role for Grata Fund in the media landscape on issues related to strategic litigation, the law, democracy, human rights and climate; field media requests; pitch stories to reporters; write and disseminate press releases; manage a media database; draft talking points; give interviews and make public statements; and arrange and prepare for interviews with Grata Fund spokespersons.
  5. Supporter engagement: Develop and implement long and short-term plans to grow and build the capacity of the Grata Community to meaningfully take action to support campaigns through the organisation’s use of email, social media, web, video and emerging communications technologies. Manage the online presence of Grata and proactively explore innovative methods for presenting Grata Fund work to a wider audience. Continually develop and manage posting of content to Grata Fund’s digital channels, including website, social media and email to subscribers. Responsible for generating and managing Grata Fund photo and video content.
  6. Relationships and ‘movement lawyering’: Build and maintain strong relationships across civil society and aligned movements to build literacy and encourage the use of strategic litigation in Australia. Work collaboratively with partners to identify shared goals and implement campaigns that achieve change as part of strategic litigation campaigns or broader democracy campaigns.
  7. Internal Communications & Supervision: Work collaboratively and respectfully with colleagues. Recruit and manage communications staff, volunteers and interns. Work with vendors and contractors to design and produce communications materials as needed.
  8. Administrative & other duties: Create and maintain administrative resources such as media lists and protocol to enhance strategic planning.
  9. Other work as reasonably directed.

Qualifications

The ideal candidate will be an exceptionally talented and hard working strategist, with an eye for identifying the impact potential of communications and advocacy campaigns, and a deep personal belief in social justice and the rule of law. They will be committed to getting results in a fast-paced environment and will be able to handle a significant workload without dropping the ball.

This position is an opportunity to help Australians hold governments and corporate leaders accountable through the courts when they are unwilling or unable to act to preserve and promote human rights and democracy.

We’re seeking a highly motivated, organised, and skilled professional with demonstrated communications experience to join our team.

  • At least five years’ relevant experience and demonstrated success in communications, preferably in legislative or political communications.
  • Familiarity with and demonstrated interest in Grata Fund issues—including strategic litigation, Indigenous justice, gender equality, climate change, and democratic freedoms.
  • Excellent research, writing, and editing skills. Strong organisational and time management skills. Meticulous attention to detail and ability to produce clear, concise materials on tight deadlines, manage multiple projects simultaneously, and respond rapidly to significant developments.
  • Ability to communicate persuasively and professionally, in writing—including via press releases, email alerts, and social media—as well as verbally, to a variety of media and stakeholder audiences. Proven ability to transform complex topics into exciting and useful messages, and disseminate information to targeted audiences through the most appropriate channels. Experience working with national media outlets a plus.
  • Substantial experience in planning and executing media or advocacy campaigns strongly preferred, including experience creating earned media, developing and placing paid media, and using social media and other web-based communication in support of political or organising campaigns.
  • Experience overseeing the design and production of print materials and publications.
  • Creative aptitude and familiarity with interactive design, website and social media management, and email marketing strategy.
  • Proficiency with computers, database management, and various web platforms. Proficiency with Nationbuilder a plus.
  • Highly developed interpersonal skills and an ability to work effectively with others in a fast-moving and collegial team environment. Commitment to equity and inclusion and a personal approach that values all individuals and respects differences in regard to race, ethnicity, age, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, religion, ability, and socio-economic circumstance. Ability to work with diverse individuals within the organisation and the broader community.
  • Ability to work irregular hours, including evening and weekend events as necessary.

Salary: $105k-115k plus 9.5% super and 6 weeks leave with salary packaging options.

Approx. 12 month parental leave cover position. Start date ~ 1 September 2021 (negotiable).

Grata Fund is fully committed to diversity and inclusion. Applications are strongly encouraged from First Nations people; people living with disability; people who identify as LGBTIQ+; and those from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.

We will be assessing applications on a rolling basis, so please apply as soon as possible.

About Grata Fund

Grata Fund is an innovative nonprofit organisation whose mission is to enable Australians to hold governments and corporations accountable via litigation on human rights, democratic freedoms and climate change.

We launched in 2016 by supporting Doctors for Refugees and Fitzroy Legal Service to successfully overturn draconian gag laws in the Border Force Act which threatened doctors with 2 years in prison for reporting abuse in offshore detention centres. Since then, we’ve worked to support cases ranging on issues from remote Indigenous housing rights, to climate change risk, to technology and human rights.

Grata Fund works closely with the legal sector, campaigners and academia to develop and fund critical public interest litigation. Based at the UNSW Law Centres Precinct in Sydney, we plan to grow our young organisation into the leading strategic litigation incubator in the country.

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