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350.org is looking for a driven and experienced communicator with a strategic mindset and an empathetic and goal-oriented management style. Full professional proficiency in both English and French is essential.

About 350.org

350.org is building a global grassroots movement to solve the climate crisis. Our online campaigns, grassroots organizing, and mass public actions are led from the bottom up by thousands of volunteer organizers in over 188 countries. 350.org works hard to organize in a new way—everywhere at once, using online tools to facilitate strategic offline action. We want to be a laboratory for the best ways to strengthen the climate movement and catalyze transformation around the world. The values that guide and drive our work are listed here.

350.org is an equal opportunity employer. 350.org strives to be an inclusive and collaborative group of people who bring a variety of approaches to the work we do. We’re committed to the principles of justice, and we try to build a safe workplace where everyone is treated fairly and enjoys working together. We value new perspectives, ideas of all sorts, and different ways of working. Diverse perspectives and experiences improve the way 350.org carries out our work – including what we decide to work on and how creatively/effectively we do that. We do our best to make staff positions accessible to all potential team members, regardless of race, national origin, ethnicity, age, disability, assigned gender, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation or identity, religion or creed, veteran status, marital or parental status, and genetic information. We also strive to include team members in communities most impacted by climate change or impacted by other kinds of environmental, social, and economic injustice.

About the Africa Communications Manager

This role is about building up 350Africa.org’s communications presence, bringing our work to life for audiences across Africa and leading a small but effective team of communicators.

You will lead our communications and media outreach efforts in Africa, and work with the regional team, the global communications team, local groups and partners to develop innovative and effective communications strategies that can help shift the conversation on fossil fuels, the just transition and low-carbon development regionally and in key target countries.

This role entails (but is not limited to):

  • Managing regional communications staff
  • Setting communications strategies to support 350.org’s relevant regional campaigns
  • Building and growing partnerships both with the media and allies to further spread our key messages and help grow the climate movement in Africa
  • Empowering and building up the communications capabilities of the local groups and partners we work with, through trainings, workshops and guidance
  • Speaking on behalf of the organization
  • Handling media relations and developing key content (traditional and digital)

This is a fast-paced job and you’ll be expected to cover a lot of ground. We need someone who is dynamic, creative, strategy-oriented and a smart manager who keeps calm under pressure.

Required Qualifications

  • At least 5-7 years of experience in a media relations or communications position for an NGO or advocacy campaign
  • Experience with developing and implementing complex communications strategies and campaigns, including running PR and communications for large-scale events or protests
  • Proven experience with effectively managing projects and teams
  • Strong writing and editing skills in English and French
  • An understanding of regional and country-level media landscapes, including key publications and outlets for environmental and climate change related news

Desired (but not required) skills and experiences

  • Interest in and understanding of global climate, energy and development debates
  • A good network of media contacts, especially journalists covering climate, energy, and the environment across Africa
  • Experience leading communication trainings and/or coaching spokespeople and media liaisons.
  • Ability to manage developers of digital and multimedia content
  • Proficiency in French and/or African languages
  • Background in journalism
  • Willingness to be available non-traditional hours as needed to ensure results
  • Willingness to travel, sometimes at short notice
  • Strong email communication, comfortable working remotely with colleagues in multiple time-zones via conference calls and other online tools
  • Experience and competency working in multicultural groups

We are looking for someone who is comfortable working both independently and in teams, highly responsive, and able to lead initiatives as well as take direction from others.

Position Type: Full time

Application Deadline: Although we hope to begin interviews during the week of May 13th, this job is open until filled, or the hiring manager determines that they can no longer accept applications.

Start Date: 1st of July (flexible)

Compensation: competitive compensation based on experience

Location: Anywhere in Africa

If you have suggestions for us on how to do this better, we really value your input and strongly encourage you to write to us at [email protected] with the subject line ‘Hiring Feedback’.

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350.org is an international environmental organization encouraging citizens to action with the belief that publicizing the increasing levels of carbon dioxide will pressure world leaders to address climate change and to reduce levels from 400 parts per million to 350 parts per million. It was founded by author Bill McKibben with the goal of building a global grassroots movement to raise awareness about human-driven climate change, to confront climate change denial, and to cut emissions of carbon dioxide in order to slow the rate of global warming. 350.org takes its name from the research of Goddard Institute for Space Studies scientist James E. Hansen, who posited in a 2007 paper that 350 parts-per-million (ppm) of CO2 in the atmosphere is a safe upper limit to avoid a climate tipping point

350.org is building a global climate movement. Our online campaigns, grassroots organizing, and mass public actions are coordinated by a global network active in over 188 countries.

The number 350 means climate safety: to preserve a livable planet, scientists tell us we must reduce the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere from its current level of 400 parts per million to below 350 ppm.

We believe that a global grassroots movement can hold our leaders accountable to the realities of science and the principles of justice. That movement is rising from the bottom up all over the world, and is uniting to create the solutions that will ensure a better future for all.

350.org was founded by a group of university friends in the U.S. along with author Bill McKibben, who wrote one of the first books on global warming for the general public.

When we started organizing in 2008, we saw climate change as the most important issue facing humanity — but climate action was mired in politics and all but stalled. We didn’t know how to fix things, but we knew that one missing ingredient was a climate movement that reflected the scale of the crisis.

So we started organizing coordinated days of action that linked activists and organizations around the world, including the International Day of Climate Action in 2009, the Global Work Party in 2010, Moving Planet in 2011, and Climate Impacts Day in 2012. We held the “world’s biggest art installation” and “the most widespread day of political action in the planet’s history.” We figured that if we were going to be a movement, then we had to start acting like one

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0 USD South Africa, Central African Republic CF 3201 Abc road Full Time , 40 hours per week 350.org

350.org is looking for a driven and experienced communicator with a strategic mindset and an empathetic and goal-oriented management style. Full professional proficiency in both English and French is essential.

About 350.org

350.org is building a global grassroots movement to solve the climate crisis. Our online campaigns, grassroots organizing, and mass public actions are led from the bottom up by thousands of volunteer organizers in over 188 countries. 350.org works hard to organize in a new way—everywhere at once, using online tools to facilitate strategic offline action. We want to be a laboratory for the best ways to strengthen the climate movement and catalyze transformation around the world. The values that guide and drive our work are listed here.

350.org is an equal opportunity employer. 350.org strives to be an inclusive and collaborative group of people who bring a variety of approaches to the work we do. We’re committed to the principles of justice, and we try to build a safe workplace where everyone is treated fairly and enjoys working together. We value new perspectives, ideas of all sorts, and different ways of working. Diverse perspectives and experiences improve the way 350.org carries out our work – including what we decide to work on and how creatively/effectively we do that. We do our best to make staff positions accessible to all potential team members, regardless of race, national origin, ethnicity, age, disability, assigned gender, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation or identity, religion or creed, veteran status, marital or parental status, and genetic information. We also strive to include team members in communities most impacted by climate change or impacted by other kinds of environmental, social, and economic injustice.

About the Africa Communications Manager

This role is about building up 350Africa.org’s communications presence, bringing our work to life for audiences across Africa and leading a small but effective team of communicators.

You will lead our communications and media outreach efforts in Africa, and work with the regional team, the global communications team, local groups and partners to develop innovative and effective communications strategies that can help shift the conversation on fossil fuels, the just transition and low-carbon development regionally and in key target countries.

This role entails (but is not limited to):

  • Managing regional communications staff
  • Setting communications strategies to support 350.org’s relevant regional campaigns
  • Building and growing partnerships both with the media and allies to further spread our key messages and help grow the climate movement in Africa
  • Empowering and building up the communications capabilities of the local groups and partners we work with, through trainings, workshops and guidance
  • Speaking on behalf of the organization
  • Handling media relations and developing key content (traditional and digital)

This is a fast-paced job and you’ll be expected to cover a lot of ground. We need someone who is dynamic, creative, strategy-oriented and a smart manager who keeps calm under pressure.

Required Qualifications

  • At least 5-7 years of experience in a media relations or communications position for an NGO or advocacy campaign
  • Experience with developing and implementing complex communications strategies and campaigns, including running PR and communications for large-scale events or protests
  • Proven experience with effectively managing projects and teams
  • Strong writing and editing skills in English and French
  • An understanding of regional and country-level media landscapes, including key publications and outlets for environmental and climate change related news

Desired (but not required) skills and experiences

  • Interest in and understanding of global climate, energy and development debates
  • A good network of media contacts, especially journalists covering climate, energy, and the environment across Africa
  • Experience leading communication trainings and/or coaching spokespeople and media liaisons.
  • Ability to manage developers of digital and multimedia content
  • Proficiency in French and/or African languages
  • Background in journalism
  • Willingness to be available non-traditional hours as needed to ensure results
  • Willingness to travel, sometimes at short notice
  • Strong email communication, comfortable working remotely with colleagues in multiple time-zones via conference calls and other online tools
  • Experience and competency working in multicultural groups

We are looking for someone who is comfortable working both independently and in teams, highly responsive, and able to lead initiatives as well as take direction from others.

Position Type: Full time

Application Deadline: Although we hope to begin interviews during the week of May 13th, this job is open until filled, or the hiring manager determines that they can no longer accept applications.

Start Date: 1st of July (flexible)

Compensation: competitive compensation based on experience

Location: Anywhere in Africa

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If you have suggestions for us on how to do this better, we really value your input and strongly encourage you to write to us at [email protected] with the subject line ‘Hiring Feedback’.

2019-06-17

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