Sunday, March 27, 2011

Campaign Directors

About All Out:

All Out (www.allout.org) is a new international online movement working to accelerate the move toward full equality for LGBT+ people around the world. We bring people together in every corner of the planet and of every identity—lesbian, gay, straight, transgender and all that’s between and beyond—to support the full range of rights and privileges that come with true equality for LGBT people.

Our board of directors are among the founders of Avaaz.org, the world’s largest online movement with more than 7 million members operating in 13 languages, and created Australia’s GetUp.org, an internationally-recognized political phenomenon with more members than all that country’s political parties put together.

The core of our work will involve executing rapid-response campaigns that combine our members' energy with media tactics to target individuals and institutions in government, business, media, or public leadership positions. We will also design and run aspirational and cultural campaigns and interventions, taking advantage of moments of crisis and opportunity to push the cultural needle on LGBT issues.

Campaign Director Position:

We're hiring for several senior Campaign Director positions to help us execute this work. Staff will be located in various regions around the globe including the US, Brazil, India, South Africa, Philippines, and Europe, among others.
We need brilliant campaign strategists with significant online organizing experience and a commitment to building an informed, powerful base of LGBT people and their allies to push progress faster, and to change politics and culture at every level.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and execute high-impact, opportunity driven campaign strategies combining online tactics, media expertise and strategic partnerships

• Identify strategic opportunities for AllOut.org advocacy campaigns

• Research priority issues, targeted officials

• Write persuasive email outreaches and supporting materials

• Monitor international and grassroots campaigns in our key issue areas, and communicate constantly with LGBT activists on the ground to identify opportunities for AllOut.org members to act.

• Represent AllIOut.org to partner organizations

• Support the development of campaign and media strategies with a focus on human rights abuses against LGBT communities, celebrating and bolstering local victories, and challenging legal, cultural and social systems of exclusion and discrimination.

• Identify, recruit and build relationships with allied individuals and partner organizations on various issue campaigns when strategically smart to do so.

Qualified candidates must have:

• 3+ years experience in leading *online* organizing campaigns for social change

• International work experience

• Fluency in verbal and written English and *at least* one other language

• Ability to write quickly, persuasively and on deadline a must. Excellent written and oral communication skills

• Proven success engaging the media around politics, and in particular issues of social change

• A desire to work in a high impact, campaign team of dedicated hard-working organizers and technologists

• Entrepreneurial, self-motivated, organized, and deadline obsessed

• A commitment to strengthening the voice of LGBT people as a path toward progressive change

Several positions are available at a competitive salary commensurate with experience and full benefits package. Women, people of color, and international applicants are especially encouraged to apply.

To apply, please email your CV and cover letter to jobs@allout.org with the subject line “Campaign Director”.

PLEASE ALSO CUT AND PASTE YOUR CV INTO THE BODY OF THE EMAIL.

No calls please.

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