Senior Campaigns & Communications Strategist, Change.org
£75.5k
2-3 days a week in office
Social change platform
Be an early applicant
Social change platform
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
£75.5k
2-3 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower people everywhere to create the change they want to see.
Role
Who you are
- Strategic mindset, with innovative ideas around how to use digital campaigning to power local and national campaigns
- Strong understanding of how to organise large-scale campaigns for social change and getting the attention of decision-makers
- Expert knowledge of landing media coverage, including top-tier digital, print and broadcast outlets
- Existing connections with civil society, decision makers, journalists and influencers who could help tell the story of the people who come to Change.org to take action
- Extremely strong written and oral communication skills, with experience writing press pitches, marketing emails and social content
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, rapid response environment
- A strong sense of the campaigns that will perform well on social media
- Willingness to work across differences, including providing support to policy-compliant campaigns that you may not agree with, but that align with Change.org’s commitment to being an open platform
- 5+ years working in strategy, campaigning, communications or media — with demonstrable experience of digital campaigning
- Expert social media mobilisation skills are a plus
What the job involves
- Change.org is searching for an experienced Senior Campaigns & Communications Strategist or Manager to support our petition starters and drive some of the biggest media and social media moments dominating the conversation in the UK
- You will report to our UK Senior Communications Manager
- As a key member of the UK Team, you’ll identify strong campaigns for email, social media and press; stay abreast of compelling issues and news stories for campaign selection and escalation; draft mobilising emails for a wide audience; use media to drive campaign impact; negotiate with decision makers and organise newsworthy petition deliveries
- Routinely drive some of the biggest Change.org campaign moments, centring our amazing petition starters
- Dominate the media and social media with stories around petition starters and their campaigns
- Organise and publicise petition deliveries and other campaign stunts, and engage with some of the most important elected officials and decision makers in the UK
- Grow awareness of Change.org and the campaigns on our platform among media and decision makers across the UK
- Engage Change.org’s email audience with high-performing content
Application process
- 30 min Recruiter Screen
- 45 min Hiring Manager Screen
- Timed Take Home Assessment
- Virtual Team Interview
- Exec Interview
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Change.org is a global online website that has hosted millions of petitions since it launched in 2007, including dozens of notable cases that have led to significant worldwide change. Of interest, too, is its voluntary 2021 recognition of its staff’s labor union; at the time it was the largest tech company to do so.
Change.org remains the leading player in online petitions, generating revenue from petition promotions and subscription memberships. This revenue has raised some eyebrows - but Change.org has successfully withstood skepticism about its legal status as a business rather than a non-profit. It has demonstrably facilitated speed and scale for the social change platform and has allowed the company to comfortably retain salaried employees.
The company has become the world's largest nonprofit-owned tech platform after it transitioned to 100% nonprofit ownership following donations of equity from its investors including Reid Hoffman, Bill Gates, and Richard Branson. However, Change.org has not been immune from the global economic crisis, and in response, it aims to innovate its platform by updating its internal tools and engineering capabilities. Regardless, the company is here for the long run and is used in around 200 countries, with over 70,000 campaigns launched on its platform each month.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-22% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
May 2017
$28.5m
SERIES D
Dec 2014
$25m
SERIES C
Total funding: $70.5m
Company benefits
- Benefits for you and your family - medical, vision, dental, disability, Life, EAP, and more
- 100% baseline monthly healthcare costs covered for each employee
- Mental health benefits provide our employees with 9 free therapy and 10 free career coaching sessions
- Flexible and generous vacation and holidays
- 5 Recharge Days throughout the year that allow for collective time off across our global workforce
- Global year-end paid company holiday closure
- Minimum 18 weeks global paid parental leave
- Consistently applied compensation standards
- Commitment to a culture of feedback through quarterly engagement surveys
- Focus on your growth and development through quarterly performance management check-ins
- Work where you need to work
- Join our in-person events to build connection
- Win an Impact Award and travel to a dream city
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Ben Rattray
(Executive Chair)Studied at LSE, and Political Science & Economics at Stanford.
Share this job
View 4 more jobs at Change.org