Europe Communications Specialist (Temporary)

350.org is looking for a motivated and experienced communications specialist to coordinate media outreach in Europe around 350’s next global day of action this November.

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 Europe Communications Specialist Role

This role will be based in the Europe Team. It will focus on developing and delivering a European communications and media plan for 350’s next global day of action (November 2023). This means working with local organisers, country teams, regional and global teams to coordinate the delivery of impactful messaging and stories across key media outlets in the European region.

The main responsibilities for this role:

• Develop media materials and content such as press releases, media packs, blogs and opinion articles
• Coordinate translations as needed with 350’s Translations Team
• Pitch stories and articles to media and file media requests
• Maintain media lists and send press releases
• Support with the development and delivery of communications plans around the global moment
• Liaise with 350 staff internationally to coordinate and ensure alignment on messaging
• Work with digital staff to highlight and amplify content from actions across Europe including curation of photos and videos
• Work with country and digital teams, photographers and videographers as required to obtain high-quality visuals to share with journalists
• Support country staff and local partners in their media work
• Pitch spokespeople to broadcast media and provide spokespeople with messaging and support
• Daily media monitoring, tracking and sharing coverage, media evaluation

Required Qualifications

• Desire to support and promote marginalised, progressive voices within the media landscape
• Respect for the needs of organisers and local groups in particular
• Alignment with 350.org’s core values, in particular the ability to develop messaging with a focus on social justice
• Excellent written and oral communication skills in English
• Experience working with journalists (whether in a professional or grassroots context) or journalistic experience
• Strong skills writing press releases and ability to communicate complex stories in ways that are engaging and easy to understand
• Familiarity with the European media landscape

Desired (but not required) Skills and Experiences

• Additional European languages, especially German and/or French
• Engaged in issues relating to climate justice and social movements

We are looking for someone who is comfortable working in a fast-paced online collaborative environment under time pressure. You will be comfortable working both independently and with a remote team; able to lead initiatives as well as take direction from others.

Position Type: Full-time and part-time employment. Full-time at 350 is 36 hours per week, or lower depending on national legislation. Part-time (from 60%) is considered for the first months of the contract, but we expect that in the weeks around the mobilisation itself the work will be full-time.

Application Deadline: Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis

Start Date:  As soon as possible

Duration: The Communications Specialist will be engaged in this role until early/mid November, 2023

Compensation: Level 1.3 (click here to view the table of annualised salaries)

Location: Remote in  Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom

Application Process

Instead of writing a traditional cover letter, attach your answers to these questions:

1) Can you briefly describe how climate mobilisations in 2023 have an important role to play and how you would pitch the positive impacts of climate mobilisations to the media? (max. 200 words)

2) Please share one writing sample (eg. blogs, op-eds, press releases) or draft an example press release for an upcoming climate mobilisation.

3) Make a list of the “Required qualifications” that you meet and, for each, provide 2-3 sentences of explanation describing how you meet them. Otherwise, please provide a paragraph of explanation for why you think your application should be considered anyway.

4) Make a list of the “Desired (but not required) qualifications” that you meet and, for each, provide 2-3 sentences of explanation describing how you meet them.

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

This position is currently open. We will begin interviews as soon as applications and writing samples are received. The position will remain open until filled and we aim to have someone in place as soon as possible.

Let us know if there’s any reasonable adjustments you’d like us to make in any or all of the stages of the hiring process in view of a disability or health issue.

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