Global Senior Campaigns Manager

Job Type: Fixed term until 31st March 2024 – Full Time, with possibility of extension dependent on funding. 

Salary: £35,000 to £41,000 UK based  (Depending on experience) *

Location: Hybrid flexible working in one of Compassion’s offices (Godalming, UK, Paris, Brussels, Warsaw, Bologna, Nijmegen) or fully remote in UK, France, Spain, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Netherlands, Poland.

Compassion in World Farming International is a leading global farmed animal welfare organisation campaigning to bring an end to factory farming and to shift to regenerative farming. 

We lead a growing worldwide movement of people concerned about how industrial agriculture mistreats animals, devastates our natural resources and drives significant global warming of the planet. 

With headquarters in the UK and offices in France, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Belgium and the USA, we are the leading animal environmental organisation working towards a nature positive, compassionate and free of animal cruelty world. Our campaigns focus on fixing the broken food system, ending factory farming, and delivering a world that is nature positive for animals, people and planet. Our supporters and partners throughout the world help us deliver on our mission. 

Time is running out for the world to remain within global warming of 1.5oC. That is why Compassion is building a movement of activists, NGOs, citizens, consumers and business leaders to help us end factory farming and reduce the world’s consumption of meat, fish, eggs and dairy. Our campaigns look to cutting-edge investigations, highly impactful political advocacy at national and international levels and public activism to bring about radical change – we are at the forefront of political debate on the urgent need to change farming to end animal cruelty and to transition to more nature-friendly farming working with companies and world leaders to bring about change. 

With our new 3-year strategy in place, this is an exciting time to be joining Compassion. We are looking for an experienced, organised and highly creative campaigner who will work across our exciting aquatic campaigning programme, joining our creative and impactful campaigns and policy team. Note: you don’t need experience working on fish, but that would be a bonus!

OVERALL OBJECTIVE(S) OF THE POST

Tasks will include cutting edge investigations, coordination of highly impactful political advocacy strategy at national and international levels and EU and global public campaigns to bring about radical change for fish and the conservation of the aquatic life in the oceans.

This role will contribute by leading, planning, communicating, coordinating and successfully implementing effective campaigns across all of Compassion’s country offices, with the goal of stopping the exploitation of aquatic animals. 

POSITION IN ORGANISATION

• Reports to Global Head of Campaigns and to the Head of Fish Policy. 
• Provides direction and supervision of fish campaigns. 
• Develops strong and effective working relationships with the Rethink Fish team, all members of the Campaigns team, the Fundraising team, the Food Business team, the mainland European and International offices and coalition partners in order to be able to plan and conduct successful public affairs campaigns.  
• Develops strong relationships with third party agencies and suppliers as relevant to campaign delivery e.g. communications agencies.
• Builds and maintains good working relationships with other stakeholders (e.g. NGOs, industry representatives, celebrities). 
• Liaises effectively with the relevant Supporter Engagement Team staff to ensure that we provide an excellent service to our supporters at all times.
• Develops and nurtures good working relationships with volunteers, interns and active supporters.  

SCOPE OF JOB

• Strong contribution to departmental strategic planning.
• Management of entire campaign/project, or certain aspects of large scale, cross departmental campaigns. Plan, develop and manage campaigns on aquaculture and wild fish fished for feed (with assistance from the Head of Campaigns). Responsibilities include oversight of website material, social media activity and video productions.
• Able to meet deadlines, very well-organized person with project management skills
• Develop opportunities for getting across CIWF messaging on aquatic animals to all forms of media plus other external stakeholders (with the assistance of Compassion’s Media team).
• Support delivery of Campaigns team objectives
• Stakeholder relationship building and management

DIMENSIONS & LIMITS OF AUTHORITY

• Responsible for creating and expanding our campaigns work on aquatic animals globally, in the EU and the UK.
• Responsible for administration and development of assigned campaign budgets.  
• Responsible for provision of regular campaign reports for dissemination to other staff, directors etc. to contribute to the Board reports, monitoring and evaluation of the assigned campaigns projects.  
• May periodically manage a direct report and/or short-term consultants. 
• Will work closely with video designer, fish policy team, food business team and fundraising team

Applications:

Closing date: 08th March 2023

Please complete the online application form to upload your CV and a covering letter outlining how you meet the Person Specification detailed in the job description.

Please note that we reserve the right to commence interviews on a rolling programme.

To comply with legal requirements, as part of our selection procedure, we ask all potential employees to prove their eligibility to work in one of the listed countries: UK, France, Spain, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Netherlands or Poland.