Job Descriptions: Organiser

Event Coordinator

Employer: GetUp Australia 
Work Type/s: Contract, Full Time 
Classification/s: Advocacy & Campaigns, Volunteer Management,Project Management 
Sector/s: Not For Profit (NFP) 
Location: Sydney

Job posted on: 04 July, 2018.
Applications close: No Deadline – please apply as soon as possible
 

Do you want a job where you get to work with passionate, experienced and highly motivated campaigners, organisers and volunteers every day? One where you'll be working towards promoting an inspiring bold vision for Australia that could shake up the system and implement fair, sustainable, honest reform?

GetUp is looking for an Event Coordinator to join our Organising team.  

SCHADS Classification Level 4 salary range is $61,348.04 - $66,521 per annum (pro-rata) + superannuation, determined by relevant experience and qualifications.

This is a 4 month fixed term contract. This position is based in Sydney.

At GetUp, we know our capacity to drive progressive change is increased when our team has a diversity of backgrounds and experience. We are always actively looking for applicants from a diverse range of genders, cultures, language groups, abilities, and experiences to apply.

Who is GetUp

The GetUp movement is powered by the values and hopes of one million members, movement partners and a central team of expert strategists. Together, we do whatever it takes to make extraordinary impact.

We focus our campaigns on the areas our members care about most in the fields of Environmental Justice, Human Rights, Economic Fairness and Democratic Integrity. From making sure hundreds of thousands of people are able to vote in elections, to successfully stopping major projects threatening the Great Barrier Reef, or securing billions of dollars in new funding for mental health – we have a decade-long history of taking on powerful interests, and winning. 

Who are the organising team

The GetUp organising team spans five states and the ACT, working day in and day out to build and wield the people power to radically redefine what is politically possible in Australia. Together, we develop and support a network of dozens of volunteer action groups and volunteer organisers. They organise members and voters to target political and corporate decision-makers across the country. This is a huge mission, that is rewarding, demanding, challenging and creative. Our team is an open and collaborative crew who have clear goals, are accountable to each other and work in ways that foster creativity, honesty, learning and innovation. We are only going to win big things if we ask for big things. And it’s the only way to scale up our impact.

What will you be working on

Future to Fight For is GetUp’s bold new vision for Australia. The F2F4 Festival will for many be the moment GetUp’s vision goes mainstream – made up of flagship events, with world class speakers and activists, across multiple cities complimented by fringe events across multiple days for thousand of GetUp members and the public. The aim is to shatter consensus thinking, catalyse recruitment, and energise our membership on mass ahead of the upcoming federal election.

As an Event Coordinator you will:

• Assist in implementing a successful recruitment strategy across all events including producing a range of recruitment content such as emails, Facebook posts, and call scripts

• Champion attendee outreach and support by responding to member enquiries by phone and email
• Help to ensure that attendees have an excellent experience before, during and after the events
• Assist in developing the content and production of a full-range of event materials and collateral, ensuring all materials and collateral are produced by deadline and are high-quality

• Assist on any video products before and during the event
• Forge and manage productive relationships with key stakeholders and suppliers
• Help to secure, support and brief speakers, panelists, and facilitators
• Manage contractor relationships and key suppliers, and assist in supporting sponsor relationships
• Plan and manage stage production logistics including executing the plan to set up and set down each event
• Help ensure the event’s budget is on track, keeping the project financially on track

Some things you might do in a typical day:

• Produce high-quality member facing recruitment content such as drafting an eye catching Facebook post or sending an inspiring email
• Coordinate collateral to be delivered to event locations across the country
• Liaise with sponsors to ensure a smooth and productive partnership
• Work with committed GetUp members from Adelaide to Cairns ensuring their voices are being heard and the events bring our members along every step of the way
• Plan event logistics; who should be where when, how will the stage be set up, what’s the running order;
• Make recruitment calls and follow-up calls to attendees
• Develop a strategy to transform event venues into inspiring and evocative spaces on a small budget

You are someone who has:

• Demonstrated experience of managing event logistics, ideally multi-day conferences, summits or festivals
• Well-organised, and has strong attention to detail and a love of systems
• Strong communication skills, with experience in copywriting
• Flexible and positive; able to adapt quickly as things change with a spirit of “yes!”
• Passionate about fighting for a fairer Australia

Bonus points for:

• Experience in community organising and volunteer management
• Experienced in promotions and delegate recruitment – field organising, sales call centre, online advertising or event recruitment experience highly regarded
• Familiarity with a range of project management tools

If even a couple of these criteria speak to you, you could be the perfect person for the job. Formal education, qualifications and extensive experience matter less to us than excellence, initiative and drive.

Employer: GetUp Australia 
Work Type/s: Contract, Full Time 
Classification/s: Advocacy & Campaigns, I.T. & Communication Technology 
Sector/s: Not For Profit (NFP) 
Location: Sydney

Job posted on: 19 September, 2018.
Applications close: 15 October, 2018. 
 

GetUp is looking for a Data Organiser to join our Organising team.

This is a full time, fixed term role until the end of May 2019 based in Sydney.

SCHADS Classification Level 4 - 5 depending on prior experience, $63,495.12 - $76,709.88 per annum + superannuation, less applicable taxation.

At GetUp, we know our capacity to drive progressive change is increased when our team has a diversity of backgrounds and experience. We are always actively looking for applicants from a diverse range of genders, cultures, language groups, abilities, and experiences to apply.

Who is GetUp?

GetUp is one of Australia's largest campaigning communities, with over 1 million members. GetUp creates a thriving democracy by giving everyday people the chance to make extraordinary impact – online, across the airwaves, and in the streets. GetUp members want to create a country of active citizens, not passive consumers, and they set our movement’s agenda on issues they care about, in the fields of Climate Justice, Human Rights, Racial Justice, Economic Fairness and Democratic Integrity.

Who is the Organising Team?

The GetUp organising team spans five states and the ACT, working day in and day out to build and wield the people power to radically redefine what is politically possible in Australia. Together, we develop and support a network of dozens of volunteer action groups and volunteer organisers. They organise members and voters to target political and corporate decision-makers across the country. This is a huge mission, that is rewarding, demanding, challenging and creative.

Our team is an open and collaborative crew who have clear goals, are accountable to each other and work in ways that foster creativity, honesty, learning and innovation. We are only going to win big things if we ask for big things. And it’s the only way to scale up our impact.

About the role

This election we plan to make hundreds of phone calls and get thousands of GetUp members deeply engaged in the campaign. Data is crucial to our electoral effort. We need to make sure we're talking to the right people at the right time with the right message.

As the Data Organiser on GetUp's Organising team, you'll support the management of all data sources, ensuring that our voter contact program has the data that is needs to be successful, conceptualising and rolling out new data-management systems and processes, and helping other organisers and volunteers with their data needs.

Here are some things you might do in a typical day:

• Ensuring databases (NationBuilder, Tijuana, and calling and doorknocking systems) are functional, synced and up-to-date;
• Implementing processes and systems that allow the Organising team & volunteers to access and use their data efficiently;
• Working with Central Organisers to develop systems to target emails, calls, SMSs and other online communications to the right people;
• Training volunteers or staff to use our systems and processes;
• Supporting the organising team’s data needs by preparing and executing database queries based on specific needs;
• Writing and running SQL queries to efficiently and accurately source information from our database systems.

You will be someone who is:

• Passionate about creating change on progressive issues;
• Have experience working with data management and SQL;
• A team player who is always bringing off-the-wall, creative ideas to the table;
• An exceptional communicator who thrives in an extremely fast-paced team environment;
• Approach work with a spirit of “yes”; strike a positive tone; push work forward through obstacles and adapt quickly as things change
• Can work autonomously on a range of varied tasks and projects, and takes the initiative doing whatever it takes to get the job done.

If even a couple of these criteria speak to you, you could be the perfect person for the job. Formal education, qualifications and extensive experience matter less to us than excellence, initiative and drive.

Employer: The Australian Workers' Union (Qld Branch) 
Work Type/s: Full Time 
Classification/s: Unions & Workers Rights, Advocacy & Campaigns,Legal & Human Rights 
Sector/s: Not For Profit (NFP) 
Location: Regional QLD

Job posted on: 31 October, 2018.
Applications close: 16 November, 2018. 
 

The AWU Queensland Branch is currently seeking to employ a new full-time Organiser to assist members in gaining and exercising power in their workplaces, industries and communities.

There is one position available which is based in Cairns.

The role will:

• Identify strategic growth targets within your relevant industries and allocated workplaces;
• Develop and implement workplace plans to grow union membership, strength and activism;
• Co-ordinate and monitor the negotiation of enterprise agreements to ensure improved wages and conditions for members;
• Work with delegates, activists, and other AWU officials and organisers to implement industry and union-wide campaigns;
• To assist in representing the AWU and members at the Fair Work Commission and the Queensland Industrial Relations Commission.

Key Selection Criteria

To be considered for this role, you must have the following:

• Good knowledge of Union operations;
• Relevant employment history in the Industrial Relations field or Union movement, including previous experience as a delegate or workplace activist;
• Commitment to Union values and principles;
• Good knowledge of the Australian Industrial Relations system;
• Demonstrated experience in campaigning;
• Excellent time management and organisation skills;
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and negotiating skills;
• A current driver's licence;
• Computer skills;
• Capacity to obtain Right of Entry Permits (Fit and Proper)

Salary

A competitive remuneration package is available which includes a fully maintained vehicle.

Campact is looking for a Volunteer manager to build a full-time active network at the earliest possible moment in Verden / Aller and in the home office

Campact is a civic movement that fights with two million people for progressive politics. When important decisions are made, we turn to the people in charge with online appeals. We debate with politicians, forge alliances and take our protest to the streets with big demonstrations and local actions. This is how our campaigns advance social, environmental and democratic progress - for a world in which all people can live in peace and realize their freedom in equal measure.

Over the next few years, we want to motivate people more and more to organize campaigns in hundreds of locations as part of our campaigns, thereby creating pressure for concrete political change across the board. Volunteers should train and motivate other volunteers so that more and more people become politically active and organize actions on their own responsibility. Here we want to learn from the experiences of "Big Organizing" from the USA and Great Britain and bring them here. This is how a nationwide network of action is to emerge.

If, for example, members of the Bundestag visit their constituencies in future, they should realize that climate protection is an important issue for their voters on the ground. You will be surprised by visitor groups in the citizens' office hours, critical inquiries on events and creative actions in front of the constituency office.

For the development of the action network, we are looking for a volunteer manager at the earliest opportunity. The employment is initially limited to two years. The office is located in Verden / Aller, on three of five days a week home office in northern Germany or in the Greater Berlin is possible.

Your future tasks:

• You design and coordinate responsibly the structure of the action network. This means:

• As a team, you develop new impulses and ideas for the development and further development of our action network.

• In close coordination with our campaigners you translate the campaign strategies into action concepts that can be implemented by our supporters.

• In close coordination with our organizers, you prepare and carry out action days.

• You design training concepts and materials that empower Campact supporters to become active on the ground.

• You conduct video conferencing and online training with our supporters.

• You communicate regularly via newsletters, social media or chats and forums with our supporters.

Our requirements for you:

• You have experience in political campaigning, volunteering or in organizing interest groups.

• You have a social science degree or have comparable knowledge.

• You have a good sense of language and can write well.

• You also achieve good work results under stress and work well in a team.

• You are empathic, communicative and open to people.

• You explain facts to target groups and can inspire people.

• You are accustomed to keep track of many strands of a project at the same time and do not lose track of it.

Our offer:

• You make a direct contribution to the positive change of politics and society, to social justice, ecological sustainability, tolerance and equal rights.
• A full-time job, initially limited to two years (39 h / W).
• A remuneration based on the TVÖD pay group 13 and a variety of social benefits, eg. B. Child allowances and travel costs.
• A good balance between work and family through the possibility of home office on three out of five days of the week and the possibility to reduce the working time to 32 hours if the children are under 7 years old.
• You will meet 60 nice colleagues and a good working atmosphere in our beautiful offices in Ökozentrum Verden.
• A comprehensive training and many training opportunities.   
• International exchange via the OPEN network with partner organizations in 19 countries. They work in an NGO that operates independently of politics and economic interests.

Transparency is very important to us. Click here for the Transparency Report 2017.

At Campact you can expect flat hierarchies, short decision-making paths, a varied task and a colorful team that discusses openly, works together with appreciation and celebrates its successes together.

If you are enthusiastic about the concerns of Campact and want to actively contribute to our success with your work, then we look forward to receiving your application!

Please attach the following information to your application:

Instead of a cover letter, answer these three questions:

1. Why are you applying for this position? (max 150 words)
2. Describe your previous experiences in the field of organizing / volunteering, focusing on leadership, motivation, teamwork and communication skills. (max 250 words)
3. Which three skills do you qualify to fill in the position particularly well? Where could you prove this already? (about 200 words)

Grass roots organizer - Work description

The grass roots organizer has responsibility that Skiftet-actives [Skiftet call their members actives] deepens their engagement with special focus on doing stuff outside the computer/internet.

Skiftet believes that democracy gets better if more people can get their voices heard and the grass roots organizers mission is to secure and develop this engagement to deepen. Skiftet needs successful campaigns to make deep engagement happen, and the grass root organizer will work together with the campaign manager to make this happen.

Strategy for deeper engagement

Mandate:

• To develop strategy for deeper organizing and engagement. Must be confirmed by the administrative director.
• Call to meetings that will secure that the deeper organizing and engagement will happen.

Campaign planning - Launch - Development

Mandate:

• Suggest and take part of the creating of campaigns that are being launched, to reach the set engagement goals every month and the set goals for launched campaigns every week. Campaign manager’s or administrative director’s approval is required.
• Responsibility of Skiftets demonstrations are being planned, implemented, and reported back to our actives. Must be approved by Campaign manager or administrative director.
• Together with colleagues at the office propose and produce material for social media. Must be approved by Campaign manager or administrative director.
• Propose and secure that the part of organizing/mobilizing is a part of our campaigns. The concrete suggestions must by approved by Campaign manager or administrative director.

Economics

Mandate:

• To spend within the set budget for every month.
• And secure the deepened engagement over time is economically sustainable, and within this propose fundraising strategies to finance organizing and grasssroots mobilizing.

Swedish original

Gräsrotsorganisatören har ansvar att Skiftet-aktiva fördjupar sitt engagemang med en särskild tonvikt på att göra saker utanför datorn. Skiftet tror att demokratin blir bättre när fler får komma till tals och gräsrotsorganisatörens uppdrag är att säkerställa och utveckla att detta engagemang fördjupas. För att kunna få djupet krävs också att Skiftet kör framgångsrika kampanjer och gräsrotsorganisatören ska göra detta i samarbete med kampanjchefen.

Strategi för djupare organisering

Mandat:

• Att ta fram och utveckla strategin för djupare organisering och engagemang. Måste godkännas av kanslichef.

• Att kalla till möten som säkerställer att det ovan skrivna sker.

Kampanjplanering-lansering-utveckling

Mandat:

• Att föreslå och delta i skapandet av kampanjer som lanseras för att nå de fastställda engagemangsmålen varje månad och de fastställda målen för lanserade kampanjer varje vecka. Kampanjchef eller kanslichefens godkännande krävs.

• Att ha ansvar för att Skiftets aktioner planeras, genomförs och återrapporteras till Skiftet-aktiva. Måste godkännas av kanslichef eller kampanjchef.

• Att tillsammans med kollegor på kontoret föreslå och producera material för sociala media. Måste godkännas och kollas av någon annan i personalen.

• Att föreslå och säkerställa att biten om organisering/mobilisering finns i våra kampanjer. De konkreta förslagen godkänns av kampanjchef eller kanslichef.

Ekonomi

Mandat:

• Att spendera inom den fastställda kampanjbudget för varje månad. Att säkerställa att det fördjupade engagemanget är över tid ekonomiskt hållbart - i detta ingår att föreslå insamlingsinsatser för att finansisera organisering och gräsrotsmobilisering.