• Location: Melbourne
• Salary: $95,000 p.a. + super
• Term: Full time until December 2023, with a view to renewal dependent on performance and funding availability
• Position reports to: Executive Director

ABOUT MARKET FORCES

Since 2013, Market Forces has been working to redirect finance away from activities that harm the environment and into those that protect and enhance it. We focus on the role that banks, superannuation funds and other investors, insurance companies and governments play in financing environmentally risky and damaging activities. We strongly focus on climate change and the essential energy revolution the world needs to undertake if we are to secure a stable long-term climate. Our team delivers and supports campaigns on the most egregious examples of fossil fuel polluters, extending that support to partners in Asia and beyond, wherever we can make the best interventions to shift finance away from dirty fossil fuels.

ABOUT THE ROLE

In addition to direct campaigning, this role provides the strategic direction and day-to-day operational guidance needed to ensure our Australia-focused campaign teams continue working in a collaborative and coordinated manner towards our campaign driving finance and investment away from environmentally damaging activities. As a coordinator, you’ll need to be an effective communicator, project manager and team leader, while as a campaigner, you’ll need to be a researcher, strategist, community organiser, spokesperson, diplomat, prosecutor, logistician and marketer all in one.

A campaign coordinator is someone who facilitates and does what is needed to deliver real, measurable change in the world and if that sounds like you, keep reading.

ABOUT YOU

You are an experienced, focused campaigner, coordinator and leader who wants nothing more than to protect our climate by preventing finance for dirty fossil fuels. You’re a creative and deep thinker adept at understanding complex economic and political systems, and identifying strategies and points of intervention that can lead to meaningful, lasting change. Most of all, you love sharing these insights with those around you.

You thrive when working with others and relish the opportunity to work across multiple teams. You’re always looking for opportunities to bring teams together in service of common goals, and to build a greater sense of collaboration within the organisation. You are a great person to be around, whether it’s as a direct colleague, leader of a movement, or partner in a coalition. You’re able to balance a deep determination for getting results with a calmness resilient to rapidly changing circumstances, pressure and at times uncertainty.

SUMMARY OF KEY TASKS AND DUTIES

• Develop and deliver strategies and tactics that enable the achievement of agreed objectives.
• Conduct research relevant to understanding of advocacy topics, and produce briefings and reports as required.
• Conduct quality control of the work intended to be published or otherwise publicly delivered by other members of the team, as directed.
• Publicly represent Market Forces as required, including to media outlets and at public events.
• Writing and production of communications material including social media content
• Conduct outreach and network with community groups and institutions to strengthen and support Market Forces’ campaigns.
• Recruit and manage volunteers and employees as required.
• Manage resources related to Market Forces’ campaigns delivered in Australia
• Coordinate activities delivered in the service of Market Forces’ Australian-based campaigns.
• Ensure effective coordination between Australian-based campaigns and the needs of the wider organisation.
• Design and organise activities and events to bring people power to bear on financial institutions and companies as part of Market Forces campaigns.
• Engage, motivate and grow Market Forces’ supporter base to maximise the number of people taking action as part of its campaigns.

SELECTION CRITERIA (ESSENTIAL):

• At least 5 years’ experience with an advocacy organisation.
• Deeply held passion for protecting the environment and solving the climate crisis.
• Extensive demonstrated experience in campaign design and execution.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
• High degree of empathy and ability to appreciate others' perspectives.
• Demonstrated capacity to motivate and coordinate teams in a dynamic, fast-paced environment, including providing direction on high level strategy and day-to-day operations.
• Demonstrated capacity to work both autonomously and collaboratively on a range of varied tasks and projects.
• A demonstrated capacity to conduct and compile high quality research or analysis for campaigning purposes.
• Experience conducting quality control of others’ work with a view to ensuring the final product is of exceptionally high quality.
• Knowledge of climate change and energy issues and/or the workings of financial institutions.

SELECTION CRITERIA (DESIRABLE):

• A background in commerce, business, economics, finance or related discipline.
• Proficiency using financial platforms including Refinitiv Eikon, IJGlobal, Bloomberg Professional and BvD Orbis.

LOGISTICS AND EXPENSES

Our main office is in Melbourne, where we can provide office space for the successful candidate.

Market Forces will cover costs incurred as a result of campaign work (e.g. travel, accommodation) but these are always to be agreed beforehand with the employee’s direct report.