• Responsible to: National Program Manager
• Location: Work from home and/or shared office arrangement with one of our local partners in Brisbane. (*BYOD encouraged)
• Work Type: Full time - 38hrs per week, 1 year contract with potential for permanent position
• Hours: Flexible, including evenings and weekends
• Salary: $60,150 p.a. plus super
• Start date: August, 2021

This is an exciting opportunity for a person with passion, commitment and drive to make a big difference to the way Queensland (and Australia) responds to climate change.

We strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander people, people of colour, women, people with a disability and members of the LGBTIQA+ community.

We’re looking for someone with all the attributes to succeed in the role, even if you don’t have previous experience as a community organiser, facilitator or team leader. A passion and drive to make a difference and strong interpersonal communication skills will go most of the way. Any skills and experience you have in facilitation and training, mentoring others, supporting volunteers and networking will be a bonus.

About Climate for Change

Climate for Change (C4C) is a volunteer-powered, not-for-profit organisation on a mission to create the social mandate in Australia for effective action on climate change.

Our flagship program, Climate Conversations, uses the party plan model made famous by Tupperware® to facilitate discussions about climate change in people’s homes, among friends. This model of engagement is unique within the climate movement and has proven extraordinarily effective in engaging new audiences at both depth and scale.

Our goal is to encourage enough peer-to-peer conversations about climate change that we shift the public conversation. We’ve grown rapidly since our humble beginnings six years ago, engaging 10,000 people in Climate Conversations and reaching thousands more through our campaigns and other programs. We have even bigger plans for the future - and we'd love you to be a part of them.

Further information is available at our website: www.climateforchange.org.au.

About the role

Team Leaders provide tailored support to volunteer facilitators as part of the Climate Conversations Program. We are looking for someone with exceptional interpersonal and leadership skills to step into this role, build a community of volunteers and support the continued growth of the Queensland climate movement and C4C, focussed in the Federal electorate of Ryan. In the position, you will recruit, train, mentor and guide facilitators and other volunteers along a strategic pathway of activity and engagement. You will facilitate some Climate Conversations yourself as well as deliver workshops and training for members of the public.

Because the role is to support volunteers, the work hours will include evenings and weekends, and will be spread across each fortnight according to demand, and your availability.

This role is crucial to ensure scores of volunteers are engaged to deliver hundreds of Climate Conversations, expanding the overall reach and impact of the program.

Climate for Change has created a strategic plan for the next three years to help build multi-partisan support for climate action leading into and beyond the 2021/22 federal election. We will build strong and vocal support for climate action. Our communities will engage and pressure their MPs as potential climate champions, creating the political space for a shift towards climate action from all candidates. In Queensland, we will initially focus our activities in the seat of Ryan, using this election to build a scaffold for long term growth across the state. The recruitment of this position in Brisbane is an essential part of our strategy and we are investing into it for the long term.

Over the next three years we have set a target to reach 16,000 Conversation attendees through our activities across Australia. This includes a goal to engage more than 2,500 people within the next 12 months in our focus areas in Queensland. To do this, we will need to recruit and train over 140 new volunteer facilitators in Brisbane, and support at least 95 of them to get started. Are you ready for that?!

Key responsibilities

• Community organising and facilitator recruitment
• Connecting with community groups and partner organisations
• Recruiting a team of volunteer facilitators
• Seeding and recruiting new mentor facilitators from within your team
• Support and empower volunteer facilitators to take action on climate change

Facilitation and training

• Facilitating Climate Conversations and delivering workshops for the general public
• Training volunteers to take on the role of facilitator
• Training volunteers to lead MP Engagement Groups

Mentoring

• Mentoring new facilitators as they get started
• Providing feedback on the Mentor Program

Leadership

• Fostering an inclusive and positive community amongst volunteers
• Engaging and supporting your team to reach monthly goals
• Attending and leading monthly Ongoing Facilitator Training sessions
• Mentoring any mentor facilitators within your team, and attending quarterly mentor meetings
• Offering support to facilitators outside your team, if required

Administration and Evaluation

• Completing any administration and evaluation required for each aspect of the role
• Executing and reporting on monthly KPIs to the National Program Manager

Key Selection Criteria

Attributes

• Passion for and commitment to Climate for Change’s mission and work
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills (developing rapport; listening and questioning skills)
• Goal-oriented
• Good time management
• Ability to take initiative, work independently and self-evaluate

Skills and experience

• Facilitating, training and engaging groups
• Public speaking
• Networking and community organising
• Mentoring others (giving and receiving feedback; compassionately challenging; understanding how to motivate/engage a team)
• Working with volunteers
• Adept in the use of computers and related technology
• Administration and database management skills
• Experience with Google Suite, Airtable and NationBuilder (preferred, but not essential)

Please direct any enquiries to our National Program Manager of the Climate Conversations Program, Mike McEvoy (he/him), at [email protected] using the subject line: Queensland Team Leader enquiry via EthicalJobs.

*BYOD = Bring Your Own Devices: Climate for Change encourages staff and volunteers to bring their own devices (mobile phone/computer) to work and use personal internet and phone plans. However, this should not present an additional cost to you. In that case, C4C will provide the necessary equipment for work.