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350.org is looking for a leader for our Japan team who is a strategic thinker with campaigning and/or community organizing background and a handful of experience managing a dynamic and creative team.

About 350.org 

350.org is building a global grassroots movement to solve the climate crisis. Our online campaigns, grassroots organizing, and mass public actions are led from the bottom up by thousands of volunteer organizers in over 188 countries. 350.org works hard to organize in a new way—everywhere at once, using online tools to facilitate strategic offline action. We want to be a laboratory for the best ways to strengthen the climate movement and catalyze transformation around the world. The values that guide and drive our work are listed here.

350.org is an equal opportunity employer. 350.org strives to be an inclusive and collaborative group of people who bring a variety of approaches to the work we do. We’re committed to the principles of justice, and we try to build a safe workplace where everyone is treated fairly and enjoys working together. We value new perspectives, ideas of all sorts, and different ways of working. Diverse perspectives and experiences improve the way 350.org carries out our work – including what we decide to work on and how creatively/effectively we do that. We do our best to make staff positions accessible to all potential team members, regardless of race, national origin, ethnicity, age, disability, assigned gender, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation or identity, religion or creed, veteran status, marital or parental status, and genetic information. We also strive to include team members in communities most impacted by climate change or impacted by other kinds of environmental, social, and economic injustice.

About the Japan Team Leader

The candidate is expected to live in Japan with the flexibility of location. 

The Japan team leader is responsible for managing a team to generate pressure on financial actors in the country to stop investing in fossil fuel projects and institute sustainable financing policies. The team lead will coordinate the team to craft and execute a strategic campaign and volunteer organizing with solid online and offline tactics. This position would build and maintain crucial partnerships in Japan and internationally and contribute to regional and global strategy and processes. 

Duties and Responsibilities 

Staff management and team coordination

• Manage full- and part-time staff and consultants in the team, including performance appraisal.

• Strengthen team structure, including identifying needs and supporting professional development for staff as well as hiring processes. 

• Manage operational work in Japan, including budget management and grant reporting; supporting registration of 350.org in Japan; 

• Promote internal coordination and communication, striving to build a positive, sustainable working culture in the team that aligns with the team’s and 350.org’s values.

• Ensure compliance with organizational policies and procedures as well as applicable laws governing operational matters

Strategy

• Lead on developing and implementing the Japan strategy as part of the organizational global and regional strategy. 

• Identify emerging opportunities that could advance Japan's campaign goals that align with 350’s global strategy, regional strategy, and resources. 

• Contribute to the Asia regional program strategy and implementation as requested

• Develop and coordinate national campaigns

• Build and strengthen relationships with partners in the region

• Oversee the effective communication of our work in Japan; develop content for traditional and online media.

• Oversee the organising and provision of training/leadership/campaigning workshops and provide consistent support for grassroots leaders in Japan.

Movement Building

• Build and maintain partnerships and networks to further shape 350.org as an impactful, influential, and movement-generous actor in the Japanese climate movement, with the consideration of team capacity and partners’ relationships;

• Guide organizing works  in Japan, mainly through capacity building initiatives

Regional and Global:

• Play a pro-active role in the broader organisation and attend critical regional and international movement gatherings.

• Provide Japanese perspective with a broader Asian perspective and contributions to global strategies, campaigns, and processes

• Work with the Global and Asia Regional team to develop and implement the 350.org global strategy to increase the scale, strength, and effectiveness of the climate movement around the world.

• Ensure national and regional campaign stories are fed into global communications and narratives. 

• Fostering and maintaining strategic partnerships

Public Engagement

• Represent 350.org amongst partners, media, funders, volunteers, and public audiences with the consultation of Japan team Staff members.

• Understand 350.org's history, campaigns, and theory of social change, and keep current with basic climate science and policy. 

• From time to time, use this knowledge to represent 350.org's perspective in varied public venues based on geographic location and areas of expertise.

• From time to time, contribute work towards 350.org’s overall mission outside of standard responsibilities and instead relies solely on geographic location or work capacity.

Required Qualifications

• At least three years of experience as a campaign or program manager in Japan, including managing other staff

• Strong leadership ability, with well-developed soft influencing skills and a true “listener” to diverse perspectives, as a clear, constructive communicator.  

• An experienced manager of people, able to bring out the best in the team and support them to deliver excellent work

• Experience in coordinating and streamlining works in the following areas: campaigning, organizing, policy analysis and advocacy, online and offline communication works.

• Experience in organizing and mobilizing diverse groups of people

• Excellent, proven project management skill

• Proven ability to identify strategic campaigning opportunities 

• Basic knowledge of the Japanese political landscape and ability to learn and keep track of relevant policies.

• Ability to set clear boundaries and retain the flexibility to deal with campaign changes

• Able to work both independently and in close coordination and collaboration with a team working remotely

• Can juggle multiple responsibilities and can nimbly respond to unexpected opportunities

• Problem solver with a positive attitude

• Native in spoken and written Japanese and fluent in spoken and written English

• Able to travel 

Desired (but not required) skills and experiences 

• Expertise in the climate change arena and campaigning on climate finance issues 

• Training, coaching, and facilitation skills

• Experience in developing and delivering a decentralized-campaign strategy with high public engagement in a national context

• Experience in managing and working with remotely based staff in different time zones

• Strong skill in current technologies and an interest in staying on top of emerging development for technologies to enable effective remote working

We are looking for someone who is comfortable working both independently and in teams, highly responsive, and able to lead initiatives as well as take direction from others.  

Position Type: Full Time

Application Deadline: Although we hope to begin interviews during the week of April 18th,2022, this job is open until filled, or the hiring manager determines that they can no longer accept applications.

Start Date: July 18th, 2022 (or as soon as the chosen candidate is available)

Compensation: Level 3.2 (Competitive compensation)

Location: Flexible in Japan

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