Managing Director Jobs in Oxfordshire

Campaigner (Maternity Cover)

Working Arrangements: Remote working, permanent, regular or ad hoc (with frequent travel to London if not London-based). Please note that we also have approximately 3-4 team retreats per year which could be located anywhere nationally.

Closing date: Thursday 20th February at 9am.

Reporting to a Campaigns Manager, the Campaigner is responsible for delivering a range of critical aspects of both our long term campaigns and our reactive work, mobilising 38 Degrees’ supporters into action on the issues that matter to them and the country.

In this fast-paced role, the Campaigner will implement activities such as: writing and building high-quality supporter emails, often under tight timeframes; developing campaign tactics; optimising content; working on organisational critical projects; and monitoring and evaluating the outcomes achieved from campaigns.

Your background and experience
This job is for you if you’re passionate about making the country fairer, more respectful, and more sustainable – and if you have the skills and drive to run creative, impactful, people-powered and digital first campaigns to make it happen. We’re looking for someone with experience at running campaigns – in particular, email driven campaigns – that engage huge numbers of people and make meaningful change. The right candidate will have a proven track record of making skillful use of technology to achieve this.

There are no formal education requirements for this role. As long as you can show us that you have the skills we don’t mind where you got them from! To be successful in your application you must answer the questions below, which are part of the selection criteria.

Without completion of this task your application cannot be considered.

About us
38 Degrees is one of the UK’s biggest campaigning communities, involving over a million supporters who campaign to make the UK a better place. We’re united by a shared vision to create a fairer and more respectful UK and a more sustainable world.

In the space of a week, millions of supporters could be campaigning on anything from protecting our NHS and stopping cuts to Universal Credit, to saving local green spaces and protecting our democracy.

38 Degrees is fiercely independent. We are primarily funded by small donations from hundreds of thousands of members of the public from all over the UK. This independence means we never have to hold ourselves back from taking on those with power and can truly listen to our supporters.

Full Job Description

Why you’ll want to work here

The 38 Degrees culture is honest, kind, supportive, courageous, and respectful. We move fast, and frequently change plans to respond to events. We work hard but we also have fun. We regularly enjoy team away days and social hours.

Benefits include:
27 days holiday per year (plus bank holidays); Office closure between Christmas and New year; 9-day fortnight (office closed every other Friday); 4pm closure on the alternate Friday; Flexibility to work 90 days per tax year (30 day maximum per travel in any location as per approval process); one month paid sabbatical leave after 5 years of service; Employer pension contribution; 24 hour employee assistance programme; Enhanced family leave policies; Cycle to work scheme; employer paid annual flu vaccination; Rental deposit loan; Contribution to eye tests/glasses; Learning and development budget.

Our commitment to Diversity & Inclusion
We’re especially keen to hear from people who’ll bring lived experience of the issues we work on and who’ll make our team more diverse as a result. So if you’re Black, Asian or from any other minority ethnic group, if you’re disabled, LGBTQIA+, or if you’re from a working class home, your application will be especially welcome. And thanks to our flexible home working approach and network of offices, we have a staff team that is increasingly based across the UK. We’re keen to continue diversifying geographically, so that we’re rooted in our supporters’ communities.

To make sure that we are able to reach our goal of a diverse team we have equal opportunities monitoring requirements. Your application will not be complete without the equal opportunities monitoring form.

38 Degrees is committed to inclusive working practices, so during the application process we commit to:

• Paying for childcare whilst you’re at 38 Degrees interviews or tasks
• Paying for your travel costs to the office and back – and for overnight accommodation if you’re travelling from a long distance for an interview although at present the majority of interviews are held online using zoom.
• Making any reasonable adjustments – for example ensuring we have a BSL interpreters organised in advance if you’d need one
• If there anything else you’re concerned about or think we could provide, please let us know.

To be successful in your application you must meet the essential requirements for this role and answer the questions below which are part of the selection criteria. Without completion of this task your application cannot be considered.

The successful candidate must have the right to work in the UK at the time of appointment.

1. What attracted you to apply for this role at 38 Degrees?
2. As a Campaigner, you will be responsible for writing and building high-quality supporter emails, developing campaign tactics, and optimising content for digital-first campaigns at 38 Degrees. Can you tell us about a campaign tactic or piece of content you have delivered in the past? How did you make sure that the content you created was of a high quality?
3. Please give an example of a successful campaign that you were responsible for. What was your role? What made the campaign successful in your view?
4. Please tell us about a great campaign you’ve seen in the last year which was primarily driven through social media channels, and what lessons that campaign has for 38 Degrees.