Job Summary
- $74,622.00 per annum, pro rata
- Applications close:
- Job posted on: 16th May 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.
This role is being partly funded by the Public Transport Users Association (PTUA). The PTUA is a non-profit volunteer organisation, representing passengers of all forms of public transport in Melbourne and Victoria. Founded in 1976 as the Train Travellers Association, the PTUA lobbies governments and public transport authorities in the interest of all users of public transport, works with other bodies and through the media to promote public transport and educate the community about the benefits of sustainable transport policies, and undertake research into transport policies which will improve services and make Melbourne and regional Victoria a better place to live.
The PTUA is committed to a sustainable economy, a healthy ecology and an equitable society, in which Victorians can go anywhere, anytime, using a community-controlled public transport system that is convenient, efficient and safe.
The Sustainable Cities community organiser is based at Friends of the Earth and would implement a broad campaign strategy designed by the Sustainable Cities collective (a team of staff, transport experts, and volunteers). The organiser will work with Friends of the Earth supporters, existing organisations, community members, and other stakeholders in the western suburbs to demonstrate strong public support for an improved bus service.
The organiser will implement a strategy to build community support for a state government commitment to improved frequency and reliability of buses in the western suburbs; upgrade the 25 worst Public Transport connection points; and full electrification of the state’s bus fleet by 2030.
The organiser will:
The organiser will be accountable to the Friends of the Earth Sustainable Cities collective and FoEM Strategy Collective.
The organiser will be supported on a day-to-day basis by the FoE campaigns coordinators, Leigh Ewbank and Cam Walker.
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 commencing pay rate for this position is $35.90 per hour or $74,672.00 per annum, pro rata, plus superannuation and entitlements. The organisation pay rate will be increased from 1 July 2022 to $38.90 per hour or $80,912.00 per annum, pro rata, plus superannuation and entitlements.
It is hoped the role will continue beyond the initial nine month period, subject to funding.
This is a 4 day a week position (0.8 EFT) for six months and a 2 day per week position for three months (December onwards). At Friends of the Earth Melbourne we consider a working day to be 8 hours (including 1 hour paid lunch break), with the option of flexi time within a working day.
Essential:
Desirable:
For any further information please contact Leigh Ewbank on 0406 316 176.
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A position description is attached.