Digital Campaigner - Growth & Engagement

About Avaaz

Avaaz is one of the world’s largest online campaigning movements, with nearly 70 million people from every country in the world. 

Our movement launched in 2007 with an ambitious but simple mission: using the connectivity of the internet to empower people of all nations to act together to close the gap between the world we have and the world most people everywhere want.

Our model enables people to channel their individual voices and resources into a powerful collective force at tipping point moments to impact the pressing global challenges of our time, from climate and ecological crises to human rights abuses and the dismantling of democracy. The organisation is deeply mission focused, and has achieved a broad range of victories over the last 15 years that you can read about here. 

At this pivotal point in human history, Avaaz is delivering an ambitious 2030 strategic plan to seize key victories in the crucial next decade -  to secure ecological survival, defend democracy and human rights, and build healthy and resilient cultures.

The Avaaz team of around 100 staff are spread across 6 continents, campaign in 21 languages, and is 100% funded through small donations from individual Avaaz members, with an annual revenue of $25-30m.

Position overview

We are currently seeking an exceptional digital campaigner to kickoff our brand new “Growth and Engagement team” at Avaaz and lead it to success.

Your and your team's main goal will be to run rapid response campaigns on key issues - from defending threatened species to protecting brave activists from death row while monitoring the news daily for new opportunities to engage - and inspire people across the world to take action and help build a strong, buzzing Avaaz movement.

Part of your role will also be to innovate ways of spotting and developing campaigns through the latest and emergent technologies, and finding new ways to engage citizens across the world. This new and exciting role reports directly to the Digital Campaign Director, who will lead this flexible, fast and impact focused new team.

Responsibilities

• Monitoring world events to identify opportunities for strong engagement campaigns

• Building a strong networks of partners and experts to develop campaigns and cooperate in creating impact on key issues

• Drafting compelling campaigns emails and and other engaging content

• Testing dozens of campaigns a week (if needed), with an excitement for analysing stats and improving campaigns to increase engagement and impact

• Testing, publishing and editing online content;

• Correspondence and consultation (e.g. polling) with members;

• Working with Campaign Directors in organizing campaign actions and logistics, from ad buys to public petition deliveries

• Public speaking and media (if needed)

• Localizing and rewriting communications in other languages, depending on fluency

• Having point responsibility/function on individual growth and engagement campaigns

• Innovate ways to engage citizens and experiment with new ways beyond petitions, including leveraging the power of AI language models

• Helping to shape the overall strategic direction of the organization, and at times supporting other tasks of the organisation including recruitment, team building and management, and special projects.

Experience & Qualifications 

Successful candidates could have a range of professional backgrounds, but will likely have strong experience in digital campaigning, online activism, social media or other innovative and exciting positions preparing you for this exceptional challenge and opportunity.

The following list of qualifications is what we believe gives you the experience required to work in our environment and deliver on the responsibilities listed above. You should apply for this role if you feel you have the necessary experience, even if you don't meet all the requirements below:

• Passion and commitment to global justice, citizen empowerment, and social change

• Expertise in digital campaigning, online activism, social media engagement campaigns

• Enthusiasm for a wide range of global issues, and a readiness to move swiftly between them, while being able to rapidly focus in on the details of each

• Excitement both to create impact in the world as well as building a strong online movement to ensure long-term impact

• High skilled writer of compelling action-based communications, including campaigns, and/or social media, copywriting or similar products.

• An excitement for analysing stats and swiftly drawing the right conclusions to improve the campaign

• Solid tech understanding and skills needed to publish, test and iterate online content as well as a hunger to try out new AI language models and see how we can leverage them

• Strong teamwork skills, comfortable in a highly collaborative team culture and a hierarchical team structure

• A growth orientation and a desire to challenge yourself

• High professionalism, self-motivation, efficiency and results-oriented delivery on short timelines

• Ability to adjust quickly to changing conditions and requirements

• Creativity, strategic thinking and campaign planning skills

• Excellent written and oral communication skills

• Highly proficient in spoken and written English, skill in other languages is desirable

 Location

Avaaz is a virtual organization, with most of our work done online. Our staff are based all over the world. For this position, the candidate would ideally be based in the EU/ Africa/ MENA timezone, although other locations may be considered.

Start Date

October 1st, 2023 or as soon as possible.

Compensation and Benefits

Salary varies with location and experience, and is highly competitive with leading international nongovernmental organisations.The full-package salary for this position ranges from 39,801 EUR - 72,926 EUR. An accurate range in local currency will be provided to candidates.

The development of our employees is paramount. To support this, we include these benefits, which are prorated accordingly for part-time and temporary contracts:

• 5 weeks paid vacation per year

• 10 paid holidays per year

• $3,000 USD for training and development per year

• $1,500 USD for language development per year

• Out-of-Home Workspace Rental

 Avaaz’s Commitment to Equity and Inclusion 

As a global organization with millions of members around the world, it’s important to us that our team reflects the diversity needed to lead a movement of people from across the planet, rising to meet some of the most complex challenges humanity has ever faced. We believe we can only succeed by building a diverse team full of fresh perspectives and original ideas, and we are committed to creating a working environment in which everyone has an equitable opportunity to fulfill their potential.

Our team includes speakers of English as first and second language, the self-taught and university educated, people with all sorts of professional backgrounds. If doing the job you just read about would make you excited to come to work every day, if you’re talented, hard-working and committed to making a difference - we want you to apply.

Avaaz does not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, colour, ancestry, language and accent, national origin, citizenship, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, family/parental or marital status, religion, socioeconomic class, caste, disability or any other characteristic protected by law.

We are committed to ongoing learning, so if you have suggestions for us on how to better put these values into practice in our hiring process, we’d value your input. Please write to us at recruitment@avaaz.org with the subject line ‘Hiring Feedback’. Please do not apply for this position via email. Follow the procedure on our website.

We’ll provide reasonable accommodations for qualified applicants with disabilities or special needs to participate in the application process, so please let us know if you have such a request when you apply.