Job Summary
- $80,000 - $84,999 per annum
- Applications close:
- Job posted on: 5th Aug 2022
- Melbourne > Collingwood
Friends of the Earth (FoE) Melbourne is a not-for-profit community-based organisation working for a socially equitable and environmentally sustainable future for more than 45 years. Friends of the Earth Melbourne is an anti-hierarchical organisation and a local member group of the national federation known as Friends of the Earth Australia, which in turn is the country member of Friends of the Earth International. The broader FoE International network has over 5,000 local branches across the globe and is the world's largest grassroots environmental network with over 2 million members and supporters around the world.
FoE campaigns from the local to the global on today's most urgent environmental and social issues; challenging the current model of economic and corporate neoliberal globalisation, and promoting solutions to create environmentally sustainable and socially just societies.
The Act on Climate community organiser is based at Friends of the Earth and would help to implement a campaign strategy designed by the Act on Climate collective, alongside campaign coordinator Anna Langford.
The organiser will work to raise public awareness of the Victorian government’s process to set a state Emissions Reduction Target for 2035 - the first target for 2035 in the country. They will build community power to pressure the Victorian government to set a 2035 Climate Target that aligns with the latest climate science.
Part of this work will involve building momentum by inserting the 2035 Climate Target into the political agenda in Victoria. This will involve working with the Act on Climate collective to advance Friends of the Earth’s overall climate policy platform and put it front and centre for all political parties in the state election build up.
The organiser will work with Friends of the Earth supporters, collective volunteers, ally organisations, community members, and other stakeholders such as unions, to build momentum and pressure around the campaign goals.
The organiser will:
The organiser will be accountable to the Friends of the Earth Act on Climate collective and FoE Strategy Collective.
The worker will be supported on a day-to-day basis by the Act on Climate campaigns coordinator, Anna Langford.
The organiser would be employed under the Friends of the Earth Melbourne workers agreement. Friends of the Earth Melbourne has a policy of wage equity and as such all workers are paid at the same hourly rate.
The current pay rate for this position is $80,912.00 per annum, pro rata, plus superannuation and entitlements.
There is potential for the role to be extended beyond the 10-month period, subject to funding.
This is a 2 day a week position (0.4 EFT) for 10 months, with the aim of increasing it to 3 days (0.6 EFT) as funding becomes available. At Friends of the Earth Melbourne we consider a working day to be 8 hours, with the option of flexible time within a working week.
Young people and People of Colour are strongly encouraged to apply.
A position description is attached.