Tipping Point

Tipping Point’s mission is to help foster, scale and support grassroots networks championing the transition beyond fossil fuels to 100% clean energy. We believe that climate change disproportionately hurts the most marginalised people in society — including people of colour, people from working class backgrounds, women and LGBTQI people. We believe that these communities must be centered in the work we do. Hence, we strongly encourage applications from people with these identities or who are members of other marginalized communities. We are a national project of Friends of the Earth Australia. For more information: www.tippingpoint.org.au.

This Role

In response to escalating climate impacts and an unprecedented bushfire season, the grassroots climate movement is exploding in size and power with multiple major mobilisations, organising and political opportunities arising over the coming months.

Tipping Point is looking for a skilled mobiliser to work with grassroots movements to create and respond to moments of momentum that scale the breadth, depth and power of the climate justice movement.

This role will see require you to work closely with diverse partners and volunteers across movements to:

• Help scale existing mobilisations and/or moments of momentum
• Build project plans, teams and processes to pull off large and/or distributed events
• Manage risks associated with large and/or distributed events and public actions
• Identify opportunities to build grassroots skills and capacity through collaborative projects
• Work with allies to develop powerful plans to absorb people into sustained action off the back of public events and actions

About You

The best fit for this role is someone who:

• Is committed to climate justice
• Is self motivated and works well under pressure with competing deadlines.
• Has experience coordinating large and/or distributed events including the risks associated with this.
• Has strong project management experience
• Is always looking for opportunities to build the leadership capacity and skills of grassroots movements
• Is fantastic at working productively with diverse groups of people and partners and liaising with authorities.
• Is great at working remotely to supported distributed networks of leaders and groups.

Time Commitment

This is a full-time position for 3 months, ideally commencing Monday 9th March and ending Friday 29th May. We are open to exploring part-time arrangements or job sharing.

Location

This role can be based anywhere but will require communicating and working with other people across the country, and therefore a high volume of online communication and calls.

Remuneration

This is a short term employment contract with Friends of the Earth Australia at a salary of $72,000 per annum.