About the role
This position is with the Global Strategic Communications Council (GSCC), a global network of communications professionals in the field of climate, energy and nature. GSCC is a programme hosted by the Meliore Foundation.
We're looking for an innovative Senior Campaigner with a unique combination of skills who wants to play a major role in tackling climate change.
You’ll be joining our Integrated Campaigns team, part of the wider Europe team. This is a new team established to enable GSCC's Europe team to respond more swiftly and effectively to emerging developments across the continent. It enhances strategic capacity for national campaigns during crucial moments, such as the passage of significant climate-related legislation or other pivotal events.
We are looking for a smart campaigner with extensive experience in strategising, executing and optimising integrated campaigns. Our ideal candidate will have experience in commissioning and using polling and insight to form the basis of their strategies, a keen eye for the most politically relevant moments and audiences, and the ability to craft sharp messaging that resonates with specific target audiences.
We believe that the most successful campaigns are genuinely integrated and channel-agnostic. The successful candidate should excel at planning and executing campaigns across a range of channels, commissioning and briefing agencies and freelancers, setting budgets and optimising paid media throughout the course of the campaign. Previous experience working in/on climate is not a must, but working in a field with transferable skills (e.g. politics, advocacy) would be a benefit.
If this sounds like you, we'd love for you to apply.
How you’ll contribute
- Identify campaign opportunities and moments for influence;
- Conduct political horizon scanning, influence- & power-mapping to form the basis of campaign strategies;
- Shape and implement smart campaign strategies with a clear theory of change
- Craft audience and campaign-specific messaging;
- Commission, interpret and explain audience insight and polling products, working closely with our Audience Insight team;
- Plan and execute integrated campaigns across a range of channels including (but not limited to) earned media/PR, social media, broadcast, programmatic, DOOH, influencers;
- Oversee the creation of campaign materials, ensuring alignment with the network's messaging and quality standards;
- Identify potential risks in campaign plans and develop mitigation strategies to ensure successful execution;
- Ensure all campaign activities comply with legal requirements and organisational policies, in collaboration with our Legal team;
- Convene and lead ad-hoc teams of diverse communications specialists from across the continent;
- Manage campaign budgets, ensuring resources are allocated efficiently and expenditures are tracked accurately
- Work closely with the Europe Director, Europe Managers, and other Europe communications staff to ensure campaigns are planned and executed in an integrated and holistic way;
- Stay informed about the latest trends, tools, and best practices in campaigning and strategic communications, introducing innovative ideas to enhance campaign impact;
- Develop strong working relationships and create opportunities for impactful collaborations with key partners in Europe;
- Support campaigns with impact assessment and reporting, working closely with the Audience Insight and Measurement & Evaluation teams, and the Analytics Function.
Our ideal candidate has
- Demonstrated expertise in 360° campaigning, with the ability to design and implement fully integrated campaigns across multiple channels and platforms, ensuring cohesive messaging and maximising impact
- Demonstrated knowledge in campaigning beyond strategic communication, including grassroots mobilisation, community organising, coalition building, and direct engagement with stakeholders to drive meaningful change
- Several years proven experience creating and implementing effective strategies to shift an audience and achieve a real-world outcome, closely tied to key moments of influence
- Experience of developing and commissioning deep audience insights and using them to inform campaign strategies and messaging;
- Demonstrated ability to manage campaign budgets effectively, ensuring efficient allocation of resources
- Strong skills in content creation and oversight, ensuring all materials align with our network’s messaging and quality standards
- A highly proactive and solution-oriented approach;
- Experience in pitching to journalists, and a keen eye for what makes a strong and eye-catching headline;
- A genuine curiosity about the changing media landscape, the way people get their news and information, and an appetite for trialling new platforms and tools;
- Experience of and ability to manage a project involving multiple stakeholders, providing leadership, strategic guidance and project management;
- Solid project management skills and can drive projects to completion efficiently;
- A proactive, outcomes-driven approach and experience in starting and completing their own projects, bringing others on board where needed.
- Fluency in written and spoken English, our working language; additional languages are an asset.
- A genuine interest in and passion for addressing climate change.
- The disposition to work generously with colleagues in a high-trust global community of peers.
- The versatile and adaptable skills necessary to flourish in a fast-paced and wide-ranging work environment and work across time zones using tools such as Zoom, Slack and email (Google Workspace).
- A commitment to an inclusive and empowering approach to facing climate change.
Why join us?
- Be part of a remote-first, international network of professionals working on climate, energy and nature. We offer coworking access in some locations.
- Work with a bunch of dynamic, culturally diverse individuals who combine their passion to make a difference with a rigorous and results-oriented approach to work.
- Enjoy regular opportunities to connect and collaborate with colleagues around the world.
- A full-time position with an employment contract. Only candidates with the right to work in their location will be considered.
Your future workplace
Through our work, we aim to contribute to a world with a safe and stable climate for current and future generations. We hope to build broad support for just, inclusive, and equitable solutions to the climate crisis. Our philanthropically funded work focuses on media debate and public discourse at the global level and in major economies across Asia, Europe, Africa, Australia and the Americas. We support a diverse range of partners across sectors and geographies, helping them add their voices, views and insights to the conversation.
A place to thrive!
We’re an international network that values genuine diversity. We know that tackling the climate emergency will need all of society and we want our network to be reflective of the richness of that society. We are looking for people who bring their best, most professional and effective selves to work. People who are respectful, kind and have a sense of fun. If that sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you.
Your ideas, perspectives, and lived experiences are key to how you go about your work. We encourage people from historically disadvantaged or underrepresented groups to apply.
