Reference: 77915
Date Added: 30 March 2021
Closing Date: 16 April 2021
Job Title: Advocacy & Campaigns Assistant
Working For: Positive Money
Location: London
Salary: £24,000 gross per annum + 8% pension contribution
Length of Contract: Permanent
Job Details
About you:
You are passionate about fighting for progressive change, particularly in regards to the financial system and environmental breakdown. You are driven to seek out opportunities to promote a fairer, more democratic and sustainable economy. You are intellectually curious and are able to quickly absorb lots of new information about often complex issues. You have excellent communication skills, and are able to digest and concisely convey key developments across a number of issues for the rest of the team.
Positive Money is a small team that works closely together, so you will enjoy getting involved in different aspects of the organisation, chipping in where’s needed, juggling multiple projects and supporting your colleagues. You could come from any background or walk of life, and share our commitment to an inclusive and diverse team, and money and banking system.
Roles and responsibilities:
- Monitoring and digesting developments relevant to Positive Money across the media, Parliament and civil society
- Forward planning to help identify upcoming opportunities in the media, in Parliament, and amongst other influential institutions and stakeholders
- Tracking and logging media coverage and Parliamentary interventions
- Updating lists of key journalists and politicians
- Assisting in the management of social media, particularly Twitter
- Support in broadcast pitching, op-ed pitching and writing, and reactive press
- Helping Positive Money engage with legislation
- Supporting in the production of briefings and evidence for inquiries and consultations
- Helping to produce a range of communications, including press releases, pitches and videos
- General support for Positive Money’s advocacy and campaigns activities as needed
- Support the team to embed issues of race, class and gender into our press work, parliamentary engagement and social media, and apply an intersectional lens to all of our messaging and communications
Closing Date: 16 April 2021
Interview/Start Dates
Closing Time for applications: 9am
Interviews will take place on Friday 23rd April
(interviews will take place online)
Application Details
To apply for this exciting new opportunity further information and an application form can be downloaded from our website here: https://positivemoney.org/vacancies/advocacy-campaigns-assistant/
Website: https://positivemoney.org/