YouMove Senior Campaigner - Consultant

Location: Anywhere in EU 

About us

WeMove Europe is an independent and values-based organisation that seeks to build people power to transform Europe in the name of our community, future generations and the planet. We are people from all walks of life, who call Europe our home – whether we were born in Europe or elsewhere.

Our job is to mobilize the 900,000+ WeMove members across Europe on issues that matter - including the climate emergency, immigration, workers rights, better governance, and more. We know this number of people also needs to grow and diversify so we can represent a critical mass across Europe. 

We work in a decentralised structure, with staff rooted in many countries who connect digitally every day and in person occasionally as well. 

About YouMove Europe

YouMove Europe is a space to run online petitions. Directed at NGOs and movements, YouMove is there to galvanise people power. It is supported by a multilingual pan-European team. 

About the role

You will work with the YouMove Senior Campaigner and Campaign Director on the YouMove vision, strategy and promotion. You will support organisations reaching out to us in their campaigning to improve the quality of petitions and maximise their political impact while securing our membership growth and engagement. You will communicate with petition initiators on a daily basis, providing editorial and technical support for their petitions.  You will help us to bring in many more potential partners across Europe who currently do not know that we exist.

Your tasks will include:

  • Promoting YouMove to NGOs and movements: individually, through outreach to existing partners and networks, at public events and through online promotion;

  • Working with organisations in developing and improving their campaigns to maximise impact;

  • Working closely with the YouMove Senior Campaigner to identify campaigning opportunities and deliver campaign promotion and support in a timely way;

  • Supporting organisations and movements in publishing, translating and editing their petitions. 

  • Collaborating with WeMove’s social media team to promote YouMove petitions on Facebook, Twitter and other platforms

  • Working closely with WeMove’s tech team in resolving technical problems reported by the platform users

  • Evaluating learnings and best practices and sharing with the team (and petition initiators);

  • Supporting the development of a vision, a short-term and longer-term strategy to grow YouMove depending on different funding scenarios;

About you

You are able to think and do, strategise and deliver. You love being part of fast-paced campaigning for a better Europe. You are tech-savvy and able to set up an online campaign but can also think about the bigger strategic picture. 

  • At least 5 years of professional online campaigning experience; experience working for a distributed campaigning platform will be a plus; 

  • Passionate about the causes we campaign on;

  • A good communicator, you love working with partners and helping them improve their campaigns;

  • Strong tech skills, ability to set up an online campaign, manage databases;

  • You have very good writing skills, you are able to edit texts and write a social media post in English; 

  • Commitment to accuracy, while working in a fast-paced environment;

  • A collaborative working style;

Languages:

  • You are fluent enough in English that you can work in an English-speaking environment (communicate with your fellow WeMove Europe staff members and YouMove petition initiators ), edit petition texts and write social media posts.

  • Strong preference for candidates who can work in multiple European languages especially the language we communicate in (English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Polish, Portuguese and Dutch). 

Bonus experiences :

  • Dutch language is a bonus and would increase the contract hours to help manage our Dutch community communications

  • Training, facilitation

  • Good with data analysis and spreadsheets.

  • Experience with advocacy, social change work and/or organising. 

  • Basic graphic design/photo editing. 

Terms and conditions

This is a 20h a week short term consultancy contract for 6 months to start as soon as possible, ideally by June. Possible expansion of the YouMove team might provide further job opportunities after the end of the contract. 

As we are building a virtual organisation, this position will be based at a home office or co-working space of your choice. We offer a competitive salary within the sector. 

We are striving towards a good gender-balance in our team. In order to enhance the diversity of our team we encourage applicants of all origins, ages and diverse backgrounds.

How to apply

If you are interested in this position, please send an application in English before midnight on 24th May midnight to jobs@wemove.eu (max. 10 MB). Please include

  • motivation letter. Please include mention of your experience with voluntary political activism, and provide contacts for 3 references.
  • CV Including your language skills in your first language, English and other languages according to a scale from A1 to C2.

Any questions can be directed to jobs@wemove.eu.

Next steps

Recruitment consists of three steps:

  1. Evaluation of applications

  2. An online exercise for chosen candidates

  3. A job interview online for those scoring best in the exercise 

Ideal start time is as early as possible in June