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At Uniting, we believe in taking real steps to make the world a better place. We work to inspire people, enliven communities, and confront injustice. 

Accordingly, this role is an identified position. We would like Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and cultural and linguistically diverse peoples or any intersection of these identities to apply for this role. We believe social justice issues disproportionately affect marginalised communities such as First Nations people and people of colour and we seek to better meet the needs of these communities in our campaigns.

What's the gig?

Ultimately your new permanent full-time role is responsible for the coordination and implementation of advocacy campaigns to support the smooth delivery of our campaign goals and outcomes. We have timeframes to keep to as we communicate across a variety of platforms to engage and inform campaign supporters, coalition supporters and internal and external stakeholders.

Uniting's strong commitment to social justice and advocacy is reflected in the campaigns we are active like our Fair Treatment campaign for drug law reform, Climate Change, First Nations Justice, People Seeking Asylum, Affordable Housing and Aged Care advocacy. You would be part of an exciting organisation that strives to accelerate, amplify, lift, and action campaigns in an impactful way.

You would also have the opportunity to be part of Democracy in Colour’s Senior Placement Program (link).

Your new team: 

Uniting's Advocacy team can't wait for a new teammate (YOU?) to join us, you are so passionate about social justice and creating positive change! We are bonded by shared values, we are a warm, dedicated, and inclusive team, with a willingness to be visible in what we do. We use creative and adaptive thinking to develop innovative and new approaches as we work. We don't sweat the small stuff in our team, we look at the bigger picture and what it will take to win change.

At Uniting we value flexibility and offer a combo work model of home and office.

About you and what we would like you to bring to the role

• Experience in implementing and monitoring of advocacy campaigns for social change (volunteer or paid capacity)
• An understanding of policy, media and government related campaign coordination
• Ability to present research and policy in a wholly engaging way to all audiences
• Superb communication, interpersonal, and great written skills to boot!
• High EQ and situational awareness
• Motivation to work self directed to the campaign strategy, there is no checklist!
• Love to bounce ideas around, we value all ideas and suggestions
• Demonstrated commitment to social justice

You are a fan of all things digital, experience in digital communication using platforms like Canva, Mailchimp and Wordpress would be awesome.

Keeping up to date on current issues that affect ALL communities and landscapes, understanding what is going on in our world is important to you.

• Amazing extra talents you may have would be experience in event planning and the organisation of events, in person and on-line

Why work with us?

At Uniting our people connect to our purpose of inspiring people, enlivening communities, and confronting injustice.

We live our values of Compassionate, Respectful, Imaginative and Bold in our interactions and through our everyday work. 

We offer:  

• Competitive salary range  - $82k - 93k incl. Salary Packaging + Super  
• NFP salary packaging (potential $15,900 as a tax free benefit)
• Genuine flexibility in working hours and the opportunity to work regularly from home
• Supportive, collaborative, passionate and connected team environment
• Ongoing Professional development
• Employee discounts and benefits
• Career development opportunities
• Wellbeing programs
• Access to our Employee Assistance Program 
• Paid parental leave 

Create a better future with Uniting, don't wait, please send us a short snippet of why this gig is the one for you, and your CV please. Questions? No problem, please ring Louise Massie on 0422 154 242 or email [email protected], using the subject line: Social Justice Advocate enquiry via EthicalJobs.

To review the Position description please click on the link below PD - Social Justice Advocate .docx

As part of Uniting’s commitment to increasing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander employment within its workforce, we strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander candidates or candidates with a demonstrated experience working within diverse and inclusive workplaces, particularly supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander employees. 

We also recognise the migrant experience is different for people of colour, who experience structural racism at every step of the process. Similarly, people of colour who are citizens on this continent experience vilification, criminalisation and harassment compared to white people. We aim to be representative of the communities we work with. Therefore, we also encourage people from culturally diverse or migrant communities with lived experience of the issue at hand to apply.