About Wage Peace

Wage Peace provides strategic messaging and digital support for campaigns and groups disturbing war and militarism in Australia.

We organise and mobilise to dismantle the military-industrial complex. Over the last few years since inception, we’ve helped activists all over Australia to challenge military companies' presence at universities, to protest the US military base at Pine Gap, to end public investments in weapons and to put an end to our US military dependence. 

We help amplify activists' messages by working together, finding intersections across our movements and providing strategic advice. 

Wage Peace is a project of Australian Nonviolence Projects.

About the role

We are seeking a talented individual with experience coordinating activist campaigns to develop and lead a strategy to confront weapons manufacturers doing business in Australia. 

This role will require you to think politically and creatively as you work with others to identify strategic objectives to oppose and demonstrate alternatives to US weapons manufacturers and their influence on government spending and foreign policy. 

The first 6 months of the role will involve supporting with the Make West Papua Safe campaign as they expose and oppose Australia’s involvement in training the Indonesian military and propping up their violent occupation of West Papua. 

Following this, the role will be focused on developing a campaign around the increasing presence of weapons manufacturers in Australia. 

Key Selection Criteria

Essential: 

• Demonstrated experience working on advocacy campaigns for progressive social change
• Excellent written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate a variety of stakeholders to achieve change
• Investigative research skills
• Ability to work independently and manage competing priorities
• Experience working alongside and managing volunteers
• Commitment to the values of Wage Peace
• Current Driver’s licence

Desirable:

• Experience with consensus-based decision-making  
• Experience using Nationbuilder
• Studies in/ knowledge of foreign policy

Conditions

• One-year contract, further employment subject to funding
• Six-month probationary period
• Salary $68,666 per annum, pro-rata at 0.5 FTE
• 9.5% Superannuation
• Flexible part-time, 0.5 FTE
• Work from home, allowance for office equipment if required
• Sydney or Brisbane location preferred

Any questions about the role can go to Margaret Pestorius 0403 214 422, [email protected], using the subject line: Weapons Campaigner enquiry via EthicalJobs.