Senior Campaigner, Palm Oil

Summary

SumOfUs is looking for a senior Campaigner, Palm Oil to help us win campaigns against corporations behaving badly. If you love fighting for change, if you are excited about global economic justice, and if you are hungry to experiment with technology to change the world, then this might be the role for you. This role will primarily focus on making corporations clean up their supply chain to rid them of deforestation, specifically in the palm oil industry. Our members power our work and they are at the center of everything we do. This role will be responsible for identifying impactful campaigns, developing winning tactics and leveraging our member’s power to create fundamental shifts in corporate behaviour and to reshape the global economy for the benefit of people and the planet.

This position is fully remote and can be undertaken by anyone located between GMT -5 (East Coast Americas) and GMT +7 (West Indonesian Time).

A bit about us

SumOfUs is a global movement of consumers, investors, and workers standing together to hold corporations accountable for their actions and forge a new and sustainable path for our global economy. We are a movement of more than 15 million people, brought together by a global team of 35 campaigners, fundraisers and operations staff. Our purpose is to challenge corporate power everywhere. We hold the biggest corporations in the world (and their political allies) to account by mobilising millions of people to take collective action.

We are aiming to fundamentally reshape the global economy to put people and planet over profit, but we know we can not do it alone. We build partnerships with on-the-ground activists and organisers, and we follow their lead. We innovate, experiment and embrace professional and organizational growth. We invest in people and we invest in how we work, because our vision calls on us to build the most effective, global, diverse, and talented team possible.

We highly value a diverse and inclusive team and an equitable work environment where every member of our team is set up to thrive. We have taken steps to nurture this environment including an Anti-Oppression Leadership Team that leads work to transform injustice within the organization. We expect all team members to take responsibility for co-creating an equitable work community where everyone is able to do impactful, world-changing work. We offer benefits including additional sick days for parents and caregivers, flexible working hours, and professional development stipends. We review our policies and practices for equity frequently. We recruit and encourage people identifying with marginalized communities to apply.

What you’ll do as part of our team

• Identify, research and develop campaigns targeting decision makers, corporations and financial institutions globally and regionally;

• Write and edit (and/or translate) compelling emails and campaign material to engage and mobilize our members to take action, fundraise, and build our power globally;

• Lead on 2 campaigns at a time (on average) and collaborate within your regional team and with other campaigns teams, along with our fundraising, communications and product teams;

• Identify and develop fundraising opportunities to raise money to grow our movement and create real-world impact;

• Collaborate with partners and coalitions around campaign opportunities, manage relationships, and advance SumOfUs’s goals;

• Draft press releases and (with support and training) pitch reporters to cover our campaigns; 

• Assist with managing our membership lists, including monitoring and interpreting how people engage with the emails we send, if the emails are effective in generating action or raising money, and if the email list is growing.

Skills and experiences you’ll need to bring

We have no formal education requirements – if you can meet the responsibilities of the role and are willing to grow, that’s all that matters. 

All roles at SumOfUs require you to be:

• Dedicated to building a fairer and more sustainable global economy;

• An excellent communicator in written and spoken English, this is our primary working language;

• Committed to building a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace culture;

• Able to work remotely (SumOfUs provides funds to set-up a home office or to work from a co-working space).

And, this role in particular will require you to:

• Be able to identify and develop inspiring and impactful campaigns;

• Have experience in using research tools to gather information and analyse data and present this in compelling formats, e.g. producing comprehensive reports to be used in advocacy; 

• Have excellent writing and storytelling skills with a solid understanding of campaigning;

• Have an understanding of political process and how change happens on a global level (particularly in North America, Europe, Australia, Indonesia and Malaysia - you will likely have an understanding of 1 or 2 of these regions);

• Be keen to learn and develop new skills, be flexible and solutions oriented.

Big pluses

We know that no one can possibly have all these skills and experiences - you will likely be able to bring 2 or 3 of the following to our team:

• Experience and understanding of supply chains and their impact of the environment, especially in the context of agricultural commodities such as palm oil;

• Strong relationship building skills, able to forge and manage relationships with people and organizations working on similar issues or projects;

• Experience designing and running experiments and A/B tests;

• Experience in working with media (e.g. with writing press releases and doing interviews)

• Experience with market campaigns, shareholder activism or corporate accountability issues;

• Experience in working with politics (decision makers);

• Understand basic data analysis;

• Fluency in Spanish, German, French, Bahasa Indonesia, Bahasa Malaysia.

How to apply

We don’t find cover letters particularly helpful in seeing the way you might fit with this job. Instead, use the form on our application page to upload your resume and your answers to the following three questions in English:

• Why are you applying for this job? (Suggested word limit: 200);

• Name two campaigns you think SumOfUs should be running (suggested word limit: 300 words each). One campaign should be something you think is going to engage all of our members around the world, and one campaign should be something related to palm oil. Make sure to include the target of the campaigns and the “ask”. Check out examples of our campaigns at sumofus.org/campaigns for inspiration;

• List which of the “Big Pluses” qualifications above you believe you bring to your work at SumOfUs, with a few words of explanation.

Applications close on November 29, 2021.

Further details

Compensation is competitive and will be determined based on a combination of experience, seniority, and where you live. (For some context: this position in the United States would pay $52,000 - $65,000 USD and in France would pay between €42,000 - €53,000 EUR per year depending on experience and seniority; the compensation level will be adjusted in other regions based on cost of living). 

SumOfUs is a fully remote and distributed team, as such we offer stipends to offset cell phone and internet costs. We offer stipends to set-up home offices or to rent space in a coworking environment. We offer five weeks paid vacation (plus additional sick leave and all major public holidays off and 6 months paid parental leave), contributions to retirement, and the ability to work from home and work with a degree of flexibility outside our core hours of operation. We cover private health insurance premiums for employees and dependents who live in countries without public insurance. We are happy to answer any questions you have about our parental leave policies and other, similar benefits in interviews.

SumOfUs is an equal opportunity employer. It is the policy of SumOfUs to provide equal employment opportunity to all applicants for employment and employees and not to discriminate because of race, color, sex, age, religion, national origin, disability, marital status, personal appearance, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, family responsibilities, matriculation, genetic information, or political affiliation. Equal employment opportunities will be provided in employment, recruitment, selection, compensation, benefits, promotion, demotion, layoff, termination and all other terms and conditions of employment.