Job Summary
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- Job posted on: 8th Feb 2021
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Do you want to contribute to saving the environment, solving climate change and taking on the patriarchy in 2021?
This is an exciting opportunity to join a small, growing and passionate team taking on some big challenges - and doing it with a good sense of fun and personal sustainability.
Women’s Environmental Leadership Australia (WELA) is empowering, supporting and funding women’s leadership for our environment and climate action, in order to transform Australia’s response to our environmental and climate crises.
The WELA Community Builder will play a crucial role in the growth and success of this important work.
Reporting to and working with the Strategic Director, you’ll be responsible for delivering two core streams of work - growing our WELA Support Network, and launching a new WELA Giving Circle to fund women led advocacy and campaigns for our environment.
You’ll join a small but growing team, including the Strategic Director, Administrator, our Program facilitators and an active management committee. We embody a vibrant and caring energy where we know what we’re doing, but we certainly don’t have all the answers. Learning, reflecting and balancing risks informs our passion and drive.
As a small team, we support each other in our work so you’ll regularly be expected to jump in and help out wherever needed. Likewise, you can count on the support of the team however you need it.
You’re passionate about our environment, and the important role of women’s leadership in creating a genuinely sustainable future in which people and the planet thrive.
You love working with people, building strong relationships, and have experience working in and leading networks, communities or collaborations, along with demonstrated experience working with and managing volunteers.
You have excellent communication skills, written and verbal, and are experienced delivering quality communications to target audiences. You’re creative, and show initiative in the way you spot opportunities and make things happen.
You don’t mind getting your hands dirty, and you’ll do what it takes to get the outcome needed - from stuffing envelopes, coordinating meeting logistics and agendas, through to designing and leading a national event for hundreds of people.
WELA is committed to creating a diverse and thriving community of women working for our environment and climate action. Women and gender diverse people from Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander communities, communities of colour, or culturally and linguistically diverse communities are encouraged to apply.
Women’s Environmental Leadership Australia (WELA) is empowering, supporting and funding women’s leadership for our environment and climate action, in order to transform Australia’s response to our environmental and climate crises.
Overwhelmingly, our existing political, business and societal leadership has failed to adequately address the climate and environmental crises at hand.
It’s time for leadership change. Put simply, we will not get out of this by relying on the same leadership that got us into it. Instead, leadership styles that are strongly networked, collaborative, and responsive to communities will be essential in the transition to a sustainable future. Qualities we see in abundance in women’s leadership. We need more of it.
Our three year plan is the first step towards making this possible.
For a discussion about the position, please contact WELA Strategic Director Victoria McKenzie-McHarg at [email protected], using the subject line: Community Builder enquiry via EthicalJobs.
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