Campaigns Coordinator

Position: Campaigns Coordinator

Based: EJF offices in London or Bath

Contract: Full-time, permanent. Hybrid working arrangements are in place, and flexible working arrangements can be considered.

Salary range: £38,000-48,000 dependent on experience

Benefits: Private healthcare package, generous pension and annual paid leave (30 days including bank holidays, increasing subsequently each year and additional paid leave over Christmas), cycle-to-work scheme (more details below)

Reporting to: CEO

The Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) exists to protect the natural world and defend our basic human right to a secure environment.

We believe in equity and justice and a need to respect, defend, and empower communities most at risk from habitat loss, biodiversity collapse and global heating.

We campaign for environmental justice and work internationally, presenting investigative findings to high-level decision-makers to shape systemic, durable reform. We expose abuses and support environmental defenders, Indigenous peoples, independent journalists and communities on the frontlines of environmental injustice.

With over 115 staff in 16 countries, our campaigns are outcome-focused, presenting findings from our investigations, research and films to decision-takers and media to secure policy changes and high-impact results for environmental justice. Key campaigns include:

Ocean: Defending precious marine biodiversity and protecting coastal communities whose human rights depend on marine habitats. EJF campaigns to protect the ocean from climate change, destructive and illegal fishing, deep- sea mining and plastic pollution, and to end ‘seafood slavery’.

Climate: Campaigning for legal protection and assistance for climate refugees and those on the frontlines of climate change; and to protect Nature’s carbon stores, including wetlands, forests and ocean biomes.

Environmental Defenders: Providing targeted training and equipment, guidance and support that enables grassroots activists, Indigenous peoples, and independent journalists to document, expose and end threats to their natural world and human rights.

The role:

This is a unique and exciting opportunity for a highly motivated and experienced person to coordinate the delivery of EJF’s portfolio of cutting-edge campaigns, which bring about critical impacts for both people and the planet. We seek an outstanding, confident professional to support the Directors in coordinating our campaigns, projects and programmes globally. You will report directly to the CEO and play a key role in ensuring our growing advocacy teams deliver meaningful impacts to protect people and our planet. You will be exposed to a diverse range of campaigns across four continents and gain invaluable experience effectively administrating a growing charity and international organisation. The post will not manage projects, campaigns or programmes but ensure the most efficient and effective co-ordination.

The successful candidate will work across all EJF campaigns and operations, taking responsibility to:

• Develop a monitoring and evaluation framework to track progress against campaign strategies. This will include ensuring that all projects and campaigns have a plan with precise, measurable outcomes, outputs, activities, roles and responsibilities, timelines and budgets pre-agreed with the programme lead and CEO.
• Ensure staff regularly and thoroughly update progress and challenges in delivering outcomes and outputs activities and that the CEO is kept full briefed.
• Assess, in detail, which projects are progressing on schedule, within budget, and delivering planned outcomes.
• Deliver constructive, critical impact evaluation as measured against pre- agreed metrics.
• Track and update major campaign activities and outputs in one accessible, calendarised central location for the Directors and Senior Management Team.
• This will include significant campaign initiatives, key advocacy meetings, and relevant third-party dates/events.
• Ensure the compilation and submission of progress reports and other updates to funders.
• Work closely with the CEO and Senior Management Team (SMT) to ensure global teams coordinate fully and share information on cross-cutting or mutually beneficial projects.
• Work with the communications team to ensure the entire team network stays updated with the latest campaign developments and has an overview of EJF's work across different jurisdictions.
• Assist in producing detailed external communications, primarily to donors on behalf of the Directors.
• Propose simple, effective and use-friendly systems to be used by the global team to share information and intelligence
• Support team leads in ensuring their staff work efficiently, flagging and helping identify swift resolution to any issues or challenges.

Skills and experience

This challenging, fast-paced and varied role demands meticulous attention to detail, creative thinking, an ability to grasp new issues quickly, and a ‘can do’ attitude. The Campaigns Coordinator will have superb organisational and interpersonal skills and a proven ability to coordinate projects, ideally in international environments and across diverse teams.

Essential skills and attributes

• Outstanding project or programme management experience (of at least three years), including coordinating campaigns and projects on time and within budget, and with knowledge in output, outcome, and impact monitoringframeworks.
• Strategic and pragmatic thinker with proven experience leading campaign strategy development, planning, delivery and evaluation.
• Excellent, collaborative working style with proven experience in leading, convening and inspiring action in a cross-cultural environment and across diverse and dispersed teams.
• First-class communication skills, with the ability to communicate complex information verbally and in writing clearly and simply to staff and relevant external audiences (e.g. funders).
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build effective working relationships.
• Excellent organisational skills, self-motivated and able to prioritise workloads and balance multiple work streams.
• You can work independently and effectively collaborate with colleagues and partners overseas. You are reliable, determined, creative, positive, and resourceful.
• You have a solid commitment to EJF’s mission, values, and vision—you want to change the world for the better.

Desirable skills and experience:

• A strong understanding of environmental and human rights issues.
• Experience working in a third-sector organisation.
• Proficiency in other languages.

Applications: If you think you are a strong candidate, even if you don’t meet every requirement listed, please send your CV and a cover letter to the email address provided. 

Closing date for applications: 20 September 2024. First interviews will occur on a rolling basis as applications are reviewed, and the successful applicant may be found before the closing date.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Candidates must have the legal right to live and work in the UK.

EJF is an equal opportunities employer committed to diversity within the workplace.

Benefits:

Starting Leave: 22 days plus all bank holidays

Additional Leave: Leave entitlement increases further with time of service up to 45 days, inclusive of bank holidays.

Holiday Closure: EJF’s offices close between Christmas and New Year, giving additional paid leave.

Hybrid Working: Discretionary option to work two days each week from home

Flexible Working: Flexible start and end times and the possibility of further flexible work arrangements to allow for childcare and other caring responsibilities

Remote Working: Employees can book up to two weeks per year remote working from any location

Office space: Attractive offices in Farringdon, London and Bath city centre

Progression: Opportunity for career development, rapid progression and learning new skills working for an effective, inspiring international environmental organisation.

Insurance: Private healthcare package and comprehensive travel insurance

Pension: Employer’s contribution to pension starts at 3% and increases to 10% with time of service, plus additional pension contribution for ethical investments

Cycle to Work scheme: £300 towards the purchase of a bike and safety equipment