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38 Degrees is one of the UK’s biggest campaigning communities, with millions of members. We’re united by a set of shared values; to defend fairness, protect rights, promote peace, preserve the planet and deepen democracy. We come together to decide which issues we campaign on, and the actions we take.
38 Degrees puts power into people’s hands. We’re helping to strengthen democracy by giving 38 Degrees members a new way to be involved in politics. We want to be more than just voters and ensure our voices are heard all of the time, not just once every five years. We are a community of people who want positive change.
38 Degrees members have contributed to some incredible, people-powered victories since we started working together to make change happen. We helped stop the government’s cuts to tax credits and most recently we helped make the government u-turn on forcing schools to become academies.
The 38 Degrees office team pride ourselves on nimble, focused campaigns that we’re more likely to put together in two hours than two weeks. That means our team is decisive, ambitious and happy to take risks. We’re characterised by our energy and enthusiasm; we’d rather aim high and see what happens, than play it safe. We’re passionate about putting 38 Degrees members first – we believe democracy works better when more people get involved.
About the role
We are seeking experienced organisers to join our team on a permanent basis to fill a variety of roles.
As an Organiser, you will support and help 38 Degrees members to build a sense of a 38 Degrees community and help members campaign on a range of issues – channelling the time and money of our members in the most effective ways possible. Most of our team are currently generalists but we warmly welcome specialists who want to get involved in a bit of everything!
- Supporting members to organise offline and win campaigns locally and nationally
- Support members directly to build local organising capacity and bring key groups into 38 Degrees campaigns
- Create opportunities for affinity building between members as well as with 38 Degrees. Eg. Creating interesting events and opportunities to build a social bond between members. Film nights, book clubs, fundraiser parties etc.
- Identify and action opportunities to broaden 38 Degrees appeal with new audiences and different demographics.
- Identify and action potential partner opportunities to further these aims
- Organise campaign actions and logistics, from media purchases to public petition deliveries.
- Work with our team of campaigners to support the people who start petitions on our platform — providing strategic advice, conducting media outreach, and promoting them across the web and to our members via email.
- Build and maintain relationships with community members in key issue areas to facilitate the use of our platform for social change.
- Publish and edit online content. Consult and correspond with 38 Degrees members wherever possible.
- Help to shape the overall strategic direction of the organisation, and at times support other tasks of the organisation including recruitment, team building, management, and special projects.
Your skills and experience
These are challenging roles that require hard work, flexibility, good judgment, initiative and an ability to deliver results. You will have a deep commitment to our mission of empowering people everywhere to win campaigns on critical issues.
The role we are advertising require organisers with at least 2 years experience. This experience doesn’t necessarily need to come from paid work, it can be from work that you have done on a voluntary basis or in your own community.
Your core skills and experience could include:
- Identifying, designing, and winning a campaign with on or offline tactics
- Facilitation experience – this job will require working with lots of different members and experience in making sure everyone can participate is important
- Event management experience
- Training or teaching people
- Proven track record of working with community, university or other groups
- Professionalism, efficiency and results-oriented delivery on short timelines
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Passion and commitment to justice, citizen empowerment and social change
- Understanding of how civic advocacy and public campaigning function
- Strong teamwork skills, comfortable in a highly collaborative team culture and a hierarchical team structure
- Project management skills – this job requires timely and decisive project prioritisation and resource allocation
- Creativity for campaign tactics and strategies
- Tech savviness
- A willingness to take risks, fail and adapt
The job is often driven by a campaign cycle, so there are times that involve long ours and times that dont. Our culture recognises both the needs of campaigns and the need for rest and for our staff to have a life.
