350 Australia is seeking a number of new Board Directors to support our grassroots movement to grow and continue to deliver powerful climate justice campaigns. These are Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Identified roles. These are volunteer roles, with a sitting fee available to increase accessibility of the role and support the participation of Directors.

Location: Anywhere in Australia

Your commitment: 2-5 hours per month

About us

350 Australia is a national grassroots movement. We are part of the global 350 movement, which has mobilised people in 188 countries. Our vision is a fairer world where communities can thrive and we are all safe from the impacts of climate change, and our purpose is to grow a grassroots movement to end fossil fuels and create community-led solutions to the climate crisis.

Responsibilities of the Board of Directors

The 350 Australia Board of Directors is responsible for:

• Protecting the mission and charitable purpose of 350 Australia;
• Ensuring long term strategy is in place, including supporting the staff team to develop, monitor and evaluate the organisation’s strategic plan;
• Overseeing, managing and holding responsibility for risk management and reviewing risk on a regular basis;
• Supporting strong financial planning and management of the organisation, including ensuring the organisation uses its resources in a sustainable and impactful way;
• Ensuring organisation oversight, including: approving major strategic and financial decisions;
• Ensuring the organisation remains compliant to regulatory bodies;
• Selecting, supporting and reviewing the performance of the CEO; and
• Providing expert and strategic advice to the CEO and the staff team as required.

Selection criteria

350 Australia is committed to maintaining a strong volunteer Board, with a broad range of lived experience, to support our diverse movement and staff team. We are currently seeking to fill First Nations identified roles. 350 Australia is able to offer a modest sitting fee (of up to $3,000 per year) to increase accessibility of the role and support the participation of Directors.

We’re searching for individuals who:

• Are passionate about climate justice, and believe in building a grassroots movement.
• Have lived experience, networks, or professional experience to support 350 Australia’s work.
• Can attend approximately six 2-hour board meetings over Zoom throughout the year, and in addition work with the rest of the Board, CEO, and staff for a few hours a month.

In particular, we are looking for Directors who can add any of the following experience to our Board:

• Organisational management and HR experience;
• Philanthropic experience and networks;
• Communications experience, including the ability to support the organisation’s media and digital engagement strategies;
• Fundraising and/or finance experience, especially managing and modelling individual giving programs;
• Previous or current experience as part of the 350 grassroots network; or
• Experience and capacity to play a leadership role on the board as deputy chair, with a view to taking on a chair or co-chair role.

About 350 Australia

350 Australia is a national grassroots movement. We are a registered charity and our charitable purpose is to inform and educate the general public about climate change, its impact on the natural environment, and the need to reduce fossil fuel emissions and adopt renewable energy solutions

We support leaders in their communities to engage the public, tell their stories, create art, and advocate to politicians and corporations. We ground our work in climate science and a commitment to climate justice. We will always call for what the science tells us is needed, act in solidarity with communities hit hardest by the climate crisis, and work towards solutions that create a fairer world.

Through community organising and strategic campaigning, we have:

• Supported a Torres Strait Islander-led movement, Our Islands Our Home, to hold the Australian Government accountable.
• Pressured the Albanese Government to cut hundreds of millions of dollars of Morrison-era subsidies for gas projects.
• Shifted Australia’s biggest banks to reduce lending to fossil fuel projects.
• Led the divestment movement which has seen $12 trillion dollars taken out of fossil fuels globally.
• Worked with 13 NSW councils to take steps towards going 100% electric and banning gas appliances in new buildings.