SUMMARY
* Digital Action is looking for a Campaigns Adviser on democracy and
technology to help bring people and ideas together in collaborations
to challenge the power of Big Tech.
* The successful candidate can be based anywhere in a time-zone that
is Central European Time +/- 2 hours.
* Application Deadline: Sunday **Apply on the website**th June
**Apply on the website**.
* Digital Action values diversity. We have developed a recruitment
process that we hope will be inclusive, for instance we share our
budget information for the role, use ?blind? shortlisting, and
ensure diverse interview panels. We are constantly striving to learn
and improve in this regard.
* Digital Action is a new project, formed in **Apply on the
website**. We receive funding from Luminate, Unbound?Philanthropy and
the Ford, MacArthur and Open Societies Foundations, and are fiscally
sponsored by the New Venture Fund (NVF).
ABOUT DIGITAL ACTION
WE BRING PEOPLE AND IDEAS TOGETHER TO STRENGTHEN DEMOCRACY IN A
DIGITAL AGE.
Democracy and human rights can thrive in the digital age, but only if
we work together to ensure it is the people writing the rules, not
unaccountable Big Tech.
In this digital age, the rules and norms of democracy are being
transformed, and it is Big Tech that is rewriting them, not the
people. These companies, with staggering power and little
accountability, are reshaping the way democracies work, simply to
boost their advertising revenues. The result is a democratic
experience, particularly online, that is toxic and unreliable,
inflaming divisions and intensifying inequalities.
But we are not powerless in this. Together, we can build a new era of
accountability.
OUR CONTRIBUTION IS TO HELP PEOPLE WORK TOGETHER, UNLEASHING THE
COLLECTIVE POWER AND INGENUITY WE NEED TO MAKE CHANGE HAPPEN
We work as a catalyst and convenor in support of those fighting for
reform. Our contribution is not to be the experts or the spokespeople:
it is to unlock collaboration. Like wiring an electrical circuit, we
make connections that maximise the power surging through them.
We organise strategically, building collective power around the bold
ideas that will cut to the heart of decision-making and strengthen
democracy in the digital age
WE BUILD COLLECTIVE POWER IN THREE AREAS:
* We help tell stories which highlight the urgency. We ensure
decision-makers are aware of the real harm done to real people. We
shift power towards marginalised communities harmed by the status quo
to ensure they have the platforms to share their stories, make the
case for change, and inspire new allies to join the movement.
* We support civil society to develop, test, and share bold ideas to
strengthen democracy and human rights for the digital age. We catalyse
the hard, collaborative work of designing policy and product
responses, then get the work into the hands of those making decisions
about our democracies.
* We coordinate campaigns which help the community seize moments of
opportunity. Bringing together disparate - and sometimes opposed -
areas of civil society, to act together with shared purpose and set
radical precedents.
WE ARE COMMITTED TO SERVING THE MOVEMENT, WORKING BEHIND THE SCENES AS
AN HONEST BROKER TO ACHIEVE COLLECTIVE CHANGE.
As a strategic convenor, Digital Action works in the service of those
who entrust us to help them achieve impact. Constantly seeking to
strengthen our contribution as an honest broker for collective action,
we centre the work and stories of people, communities and
organisations we collaborate with; we do not promote our own policy
agenda, and we do not seek a public profile. Fundamentally, it?s not
about us, but about the change we help others bring about.
RESPONSIBILITIES OF ROLE:
Your role boils down to this: as part of a small, dynamic campaigns
team, you will play a key part in collaborative processes of strategy
consultation and design, and work with campaign leads on delivering
tactics with a diverse range of collaborators, including civil society
and grassroots organisations, think tanks, journalists, and
technologists. Your responsibilities will include:
* Engaging and convening collaborators to listen to their priorities,
concerns and ambitions, and build the trust necessary for joint
campaigns
* Working with the team and collaborators in the development of
inclusive and impactful campaign strategies.
* Delivering campaign tactics while maintaining the ?opt-in? of
a diverse range of collaborators. You could support the delivery of
outputs ranging from advocacy letters to creative media to toolkits
for public mobilisation
* Building and/or maintaining an intersectional understanding of
policy and power as it relates to Big Tech and democracy
* Supporting in the running and development of a small, dynamic
organisation. As a new organisation, everyone pitches in with a range
of tasks that will change over time, including some administrative
work and maintaining contact databases
PERSON SPECIFICATION:
Below are the skills and experience we?re looking for. Please
consider this as a menu, not a list of requirements: we do NOT expect
any one candidate to have ALL of these covered. What we will be
looking for as we evaluate applications is demonstrable experience in
at least some of these, and evidence of capacity to build skills in
other areas. So, if you see yourself in SOME of these descriptions,
then we encourage you to apply.
* YOU UNDERSTAND HOW CHANGE HAPPENS in holding governments and
companies to account ? including formal and informal levers of
influence. This could encompass regulation, peer pressure, elite
networks, or pressure from clients, workers, investors, or civil
society. And you understand how to build strategies to pull these
levers and learn from the process and results.
* You are driven by purpose, not personal glory: you recognise the
power and privilege of working for social justice and democracy, and
strive for the most impact, comfortable with running with ideas that
come from other people and allowing others to get the public credit.
* YOU BRING PEOPLE TOGETHER: you have high emotional intelligence,
you are inclusive, and you have demonstrated this through community
organising, building coalitions, or managing networks to have impact.
You can build good relationships, whether with subject matter experts,
experienced campaigners, or people whose voices are?systematically
marginalised.
* YOU ARE A TEAM PLAYER AND YOU ARE SELF-SUFFICIENT: you take the
initiative not to chase the spotlight but to have impact; and you are
comfortable performing the full range of tasks necessary in a small
organisation, from drafting text for coalition products to chairing
video conferences to supporting colleagues? resilience.
* YOU HAVE RELEVANT CONNECTIONS with potential collaborators,
journalists, or engaged community groups. We are particularly
interested in connections in continental Europe, the Middle East and
North Africa, or Sub-Saharan Africa. (We do NOT expect you to have
connections in all of these areas!)
* YOU UNDERSTAND THE DEBATES AND DILEMMAS AROUND TECH POLICY AND
DEMOCRACY and you are open-minded about the best way to resolve these
dilemmas to strengthen democracy.
PRACTICALITIES OF THE ROLE:
* Your location: given that our current team is located in Beirut,
Cardiff, Dublin and London, you must be based in a time zone that is
+/- 2 hours of Central European Time.
* Travel: Once travel restrictions are eased, you must be willing to
travel up to one week every couple of months. (Local government advice
will be applied to all travel decisions).
* Reporting: This role will report to a Senior Campaigner. You may
have the opportunity to manage an intern.
* Salary range: We have a budget of US$**Apply on the
website**,**Apply on the website** for this post. However, this must
cover any hiring costs as well as local social contributions. We would
hope to keep the hiring costs as low as possible so that we can offer
the employee a favourable package of salary and benefits.
The employment package for this role will include a pension
contribution and **Apply on the website** days of annual leave.
Depending on your location, we will also seek to provide access to an
employee assistance programme, offering remote counselling and
well-being support. To assist with salary expectations, we have
calculated indicative gross salaries for 3 sample countries: UK
?**Apply on the website**,**Apply on the website**; Germany
?**Apply on the website**,**Apply on the website** and Kenya
Ksh3,**Apply on the website**,**Apply on the website**.**Apply on the
website**. (Note: this does not imply that these are the only 3
countries from which we wish to receive applications).
* Contract duration and type: **Apply on the website** months
initially. It may be extended, funding dependent. Because we are
currently a fiscally-sponsored project of US-based New Venture Fund,
team members hired outside of the US are typically employed through a
Professional Employment Organization (PEO) engaged by NVF.
* Digital Action is open to flexible working arrangements and will
provide you with the equipment you will need to work remotely.
However, if you are based in Beirut, Dublin or London, you will be
able to share the co-working space along with your team members.
RECRUITMENT PROCESS
* Please complete the application form here: ROLE: CAMPAIGNS ADVISER
SUMMARY
* Digital Action is looking for a Campaigns Adviser on democracy and
technology to help bring people and ideas together in collaborations
to challenge the power of Big Tech.
* The successful candidate can be based anywhere in a time-zone that
is Central European Time +/- 2 hours.
* Application Deadline: Sunday **Apply on the website**th June
**Apply on the website**.
* Digital Action values diversity. We have developed a recruitment
process that we hope will be inclusive, for instance we share our
budget information for the role, use ?blind? shortlisting, and
ensure diverse interview panels. We are constantly striving to learn
and improve in this regard.
* Digital Action is a new project, formed in **Apply on the
website**. We receive funding from Luminate, Unbound?Philanthropy and
the Ford, MacArthur and Open Societies Foundations, and are fiscally
sponsored by the New Venture Fund (NVF).
ABOUT DIGITAL ACTION
WE BRING PEOPLE AND IDEAS TOGETHER TO STRENGTHEN DEMOCRACY IN A
DIGITAL AGE.
Democracy and human rights can thrive in the digital age, but only if
we work together to ensure it is the people writing the rules, not
unaccountable Big Tech.
In this digital age, the rules and norms of democracy are being
transformed, and it is Big Tech that is rewriting them, not the
people. These companies, with staggering power and little
accountability, are reshaping the way democracies work, simply to
boost their advertising revenues. The result is a democratic
experience, particularly online, that is toxic and unreliable,
inflaming divisions and intensifying inequalities.
But we are not powerless in this. Together, we can build a new era of
accountability.
OUR CONTRIBUTION IS TO HELP PEOPLE WORK TOGETHER, UNLEASHING THE
COLLECTIVE POWER AND INGENUITY WE NEED TO MAKE CHANGE HAPPEN
We work as a catalyst and convenor in support of those fighting for
reform. Our contribution is not to be the experts or the spokespeople:
it is to unlock collaboration. Like wiring an electrical circuit, we
make connections that maximise the power surging through them.
We organise strategically, building collective power around the bold
ideas that will cut to the heart of decision-making and strengthen
democracy in the digital age
WE BUILD COLLECTIVE POWER IN THREE AREAS:
* We help tell stories which highlight the urgency. We ensure
decision-makers are aware of the real harm done to real people. We
shift power towards marginalised communities harmed by the status quo
to ensure they have the platforms to share their stories, make the
case for change, and inspire new allies to join the movement.
* We support civil society to develop, test, and share bold ideas to
strengthen democracy and human rights for the digital age. We catalyse
the hard, collaborative work of designing policy and product
responses, then get the work into the hands of those making decisions
about our democracies.
* We coordinate campaigns which help the community seize moments of
opportunity. Bringing together disparate - and sometimes opposed -
areas of civil society, to act together with shared purpose and set
radical precedents.
WE ARE COMMITTED TO SERVING THE MOVEMENT, WORKING BEHIND THE SCENES AS
AN HONEST BROKER TO ACHIEVE COLLECTIVE CHANGE.
As a strategic convenor, Digital Action works in the service of those
who entrust us to help them achieve impact. Constantly seeking to
strengthen our contribution as an honest broker for collective action,
we centre the work and stories of people, communities and
organisations we collaborate with; we do not promote our own policy
agenda, and we do not seek a public profile. Fundamentally, it?s not
about us, but about the change we help others bring about.
RESPONSIBILITIES OF ROLE:
Your role boils down to this: as part of a small, dynamic campaigns
team, you will play a key part in collaborative processes of strategy
consultation and design, and work with campaign leads on delivering
tactics with a diverse range of collaborators, including civil society
and grassroots organisations, think tanks, journalists, and
technologists. Your responsibilities will include:
* Engaging and convening collaborators to listen to their priorities,
concerns and ambitions, and build the trust necessary for joint
campaigns
* Working with the team and collaborators in the development of
inclusive and impactful campaign strategies.
* Delivering campaign tactics while maintaining the ?opt-in? of
a diverse range of collaborators. You could support the delivery of
outputs ranging from advocacy letters to creative media to toolkits
for public mobilisation
* Building and/or maintaining an intersectional understanding of
policy and power as it relates to Big Tech and democracy
* Supporting in the running and development of a small, dynamic
organisation. As a new organisation, everyone pitches in with a range
of tasks that will change over time, including some administrative
work and maintaining contact databases
PERSON SPECIFICATION:
Below are the skills and experience we?re looking for. Please
consider this as a menu, not a list of requirements: we do NOT expect
any one candidate to have ALL of these covered. What we will be
looking for as we evaluate applications is demonstrable experience in
at least some of these, and evidence of capacity to build skills in
other areas. So, if you see yourself in SOME of these descriptions,
then we encourage you to apply.
* YOU UNDERSTAND HOW CHANGE HAPPENS in holding governments and
companies to account ? including formal and informal levers of
influence. This could encompass regulation, peer pressure, elite
networks, or pressure from clients, workers, investors, or civil
society. And you understand how to build strategies to pull these
levers and learn from the process and results.
* You are driven by purpose, not personal glory: you recognise the
power and privilege of working for social justice and democracy, and
strive for the most impact, comfortable with running with ideas that
come from other people and allowing others to get the public credit.
* YOU BRING PEOPLE TOGETHER: you have high emotional intelligence,
you are inclusive, and you have demonstrated this through community
organising, building coalitions, or managing networks to have impact.
You can build good relationships, whether with subject matter experts,
experienced campaigners, or people whose voices are?systematically
marginalised.
* YOU ARE A TEAM PLAYER AND YOU ARE SELF-SUFFICIENT: you take the
initiative not to chase the spotlight but to have impact; and you are
comfortable performing the full range of tasks necessary in a small
organisation, from drafting text for coalition products to chairing
video conferences to supporting colleagues? resilience.
* YOU HAVE RELEVANT CONNECTIONS with potential collaborators,
journalists, or engaged community groups. We are particularly
interested in connections in continental Europe, the Middle East and
North Africa, or Sub-Saharan Africa. (We do NOT expect you to have
connections in all of these areas!)
* YOU UNDERSTAND THE DEBATES AND DILEMMAS AROUND TECH POLICY AND
DEMOCRACY and you are open-minded about the best way to resolve these
dilemmas to strengthen democracy.
PRACTICALITIES OF THE ROLE:
* Your location: given that our current team is located in Beirut,
Cardiff, Dublin and London, you must be based in a time zone that is
+/- 2 hours of Central European Time.
* Travel: Once travel restrictions are eased, you must be willing to
travel up to one week every couple of months. (Local government advice
will be applied to all travel decisions).
* Reporting: This role will report to a Senior Campaigner. You may
have the opportunity to manage an intern.
* Salary range: We have a budget of US$**Apply on the
website**,**Apply on the website** for this post. However, this must
cover any hiring costs as well as local social contributions. We would
hope to keep the hiring costs as low as possible so that we can offer
the employee a favourable package of salary and benefits.
The employment package for this role will include a pension
contribution and **Apply on the website** days of annual leave.
Depending on your location, we will also seek to provide access to an
employee assistance programme, offering remote counselling and
well-being support. To assist with salary expectations, we have
calculated indicative gross salaries for 3 sample countries: UK
?**Apply on the website**,**Apply on the website**; Germany
?**Apply on the website**,**Apply on the website** and Kenya
Ksh3,**Apply on the website**,**Apply on the website**.**Apply on the
website**. (Note: this does not imply that these are the only 3
countries from which we wish to receive applications).
* Contract duration and type: **Apply on the website** months
initially. It may be extended, funding dependent. Because we are
currently a fiscally-sponsored project of US-based New Venture Fund,
team members hired outside of the US are typically employed through a
Professional Employment Organization (PEO) engaged by NVF.
* Digital Action is open to flexible working arrangements and will
provide you with the equipment you will need to work remotely.
However, if you are based in Beirut, Dublin or London, you will be
able to share the co-working space along with your team members.
RECRUITMENT PROCESS
* Please complete the application form here:
We need : English (Good)
Type: Permanent
Payment:
Category: Others
