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We currently have three vacancies

Campaigns Director

Deadline: Monday 20 February 2012
First Interview: Tuesday 28/Wednesday 29 February 2012
Salary: £40 - £43k (negotiable for exceptional candidates)
Apply: Cover Letter and CV

In our first two years we’ve cut 750k tonnes of carbon, received over 10 front page press stories, pioneered new campaigning technology, launched a crowdfunding platform for renewable energy and grown campaigns in over 40 countries. Now we’re seeking an outstanding Campaigns Director to lead our campaigns into 2012 and beyond.

Working closely with the Executive Director as part of the senior management team, you will manage our team of four campaign staff. To thrive you’ll need to be an exceptional campaign strategist, with a proven track record, comfortable inspiring both staff and our 120,000 supporters with 10:10’s ambitious, positive and practical approach to carbon cutting.

Easily able to read the political climate, you will feel comfortable taking the reins of our existing projects from the core 10% work through to Solar Schools and political campaigns such as Lighter Later, as well as overseeing our international campaigns. You will be at ease making tough decisions about which campaigns to grow, retire and reinvent to fit the current context.

To succeed you will need an understanding of the delicate interplay between online activism and practical on-the-ground action, working alongside our celebrated web team in building our pioneering new action platform. This will combine the best of online campaigning and community building, and is due to begin roll-out in early 2012.

Comfortable representing our work to external audiences and funders of all kinds, you will be an excellent promoter of 10:10’s identity, ethos and reason for being. You will ensure that there is high impact, consistent delivery and promotion of the brand, along with coherent communications, across all our campaigns. You will understand 10:10’s appeal and have a good sense of which partners we should be working with from regional beer brewers to national media organisations.

For the right candidate this is an exceptional opportunity to build on the work of a young, vibrant and effective organisation ready to change the narrative around climate change.

Duties

  • Manage 10:10’s small but effective campaign team (currently 3.5 FTE)
  • Develop overall campaigns strategy (including our political and international campaigns)
  • Devise and manage new campaigns
  • Make public appearances across all media channels on behalf of our campaigns
  • Manage 10:10's campaigns budget
  • Work with the fundraising director to secure large donations

Requirements

  • Minimum six years campaign experience, preferably more and with experience of leading on international climate change campaigns
  • Experience developing and delivering successful campaigning strategies
  • Strong focus on external relations, communicating an organisation’s brand and achievements
  • Ability to lead and manage a strong team of campaigners
  • Good knowledge of pertinent climate change issues and the international political situation
  • Experience leading practical carbon cutting projects (such as Solar Schools)
  • Strong financial, fundraising and donor relationship management ability
  • Ability to bake and a good sense of humor

How to apply

Please send a CV and Covering Letter, preferably as two separate attachments, to jobs@1010uk.org. Please detail your previous employment history, relevant experience and academic qualifications, and why you would be particularly well suited to the role. 

Special Projects Intern

Salary: £10 per day stipend
Location: Camden Town, London
Hours: Full time

10:10 is about joining together to take practical and positive action on climate change. The 10:10 community is made up of tens-of-thousands of individuals, businesses, schools and organisations all cutting carbon and proving that, together, we can make a difference.  

As part of that, we run a variety of innovative “special projects” which aim to cut carbon while taking conversations about climate change to new audiences. The projects encompass everything from high profile political policy campaigning like Lighter Later to the community focused renewables project Solar Schools. While we will ask you to muck in with day-to-day jobs around the office, this position will be focused primarily on helping our campaign teams co-ordinate existing projects and develop exciting new plans for the months ahead.

This practical experience, combined with weekly intern training sessions and a dedicated line manager, will help you build your CV and develop new skills in every aspect of campaigning – from communications and press to relationship management, research and strategy:

Skills/experience

The special projects team here is a versatile one, we look for the same in an intern. We need someone who is flexible, enthusiastic, hard-working and willing to pitch in and learn and in return we aim to provide an opportunity that is as beneficial to you as you are to 10:10.

Essential

  • Excellent phone manner and interpersonal skills.
  • Strong, lively writing style with excellent spelling, punctuation and grammar.
  • Excellent time management and an ability to juggle workloads.

Desirable

  • Experience of working with a content management system e.g. Wordpress, Drupal etc.
  • A basic understanding of online social networking and other prominent content sharing sites e.g. Facebook, Flickr, YouTube etc.
  • A good understanding of, and interest in, the UK news media.
  • Familiarity with current debates in the world of climate change, carbon-cutting and renewables.

How to apply

Please send a CV and Covering Letter, preferably as two separate attachments, to jobs@1010uk.org. Please detail your previous employment history, relevant experience and academic qualifications, and why you would be particularly well suited to the role.

Deadline

Applications must be received by Monday 6th February and successful applicants need to be available for interview that week.

Duration

The Internship will last for 10 weeks, with a view to starting on the 13th February 2011 and finishing on the 22nd April.

 

Communications Intern

Salary: £10 per day stipend
Location: Camden Town, London
Hours: Full time 

As 10:10’s communications intern, you’ll help us produce bold, beautiful content for the website, mailing lists and social media channels, and build relationships with people in the wider 10:10 community.

This practical experience, combined with individual or small-group training and a dedicated line manager, will help you build your CV and develop new skills in every aspect of online communications and content production, including:

  • Research, e.g.interviewing 10:10ers, getting your head around a new technology or policy, hunting down the best energy-saving tips
  • Writing and editing, from tweets and quick blog updates to long-form case studies and in-depth how-to guides.
  • Design, layout and image sourcing, working with in-house designers or agencies to make sure everything we produce is clear, compelling and beautifully illustrated.
  • Promotion and maintenance – making sure our content is accurate, up to date and finding its way to all the right people.
  • Community-building – from debating electric cars on Twitter, to providing one-on-one phone support to a small business.
  • Strategy: you’ll join meetings, and contribute to strategy and messaging decisions.

Skills/experience

The successful applicant will be a confident, versatile all-rounder with creative flair, technical ability and plenty of enthusiasm.
 

Essential

Strong, lively writing style with excellent spelling, punctuation and grammar.

Confidence in working with images, and a good eye for layout.

An understanding of online social networking and other prominent content sharing sites e.g. Facebook, Flickr, YouTube etc.

Good phone/email manner.

A willingness to learn and be challenged.

Desirable

  • Experience of working with a content management system e.g. Wordpress, Drupal etc.
  • Basic HTML and CSS.
  • Experience of writing for publication (e.g. student newspaper).
  • Experience of editing (and being edited!)
  • A good understanding of, and interest in, the UK news media.
  • Familiarity with current debates in the world of climate change and carbon-cutting.

How to Apply

Please send a CV and Covering Letter and a sample of your writing (detailed below), preferably as separate attachments, to jobs@1010uk.org. Please detail your previous employment history, relevant experience and academic qualifications, and why you would be particularly well suited to the role.

Your writing sample should be a non-technical writing sample aimed at a general audience (i.e. a blog or comment piece rather than an academic essay). This should be included with your application email.

Duration

The Internship will last for 10 weeks, with a view to starting on the 13th February 2011 and finishing on the 22nd April.

 

 

Thanks to www.stopdodo.com and www.environmentjob.co.uk for helping us recruit the best carbon-cutting campaigners in the world.