Victorian Community Campaigner

Job Title:
Victorian Community Campaigner

Employer:
The Wilderness Society Victoria Inc.

Work Location:
The Melbourne Campaign Centre, level 2, 288 Brunswick St Fitzroy

Salary:
$52,208.64 per annum pro rata + superannuation

Hours:
0.6 FTE or 3 days per week on a 1 year contract, with the possibility of extension, subject to performance review and funding availability.

Conditions of employment: 
As set out in The Wilderness Society Vic Inc employment agreement

Tenure:
One year fixed term contract

Accountable to:
The Wilderness Society Vic Campaign Manager and The Wilderness Society Vic Committee of Management.

The Position

The purpose of the Victorian Community Campaigner is to lead the community engagement and volunteer coordination component of our Victorian Forest Campaign by:
1.    Implementing strategies to raise community support for the protection of Victoria’s native forests, through forums, events, presentations and creative actions.
2.    Recruit, promote and coordinate volunteer engagement in Victorian forest campaign by providing a range of strategically beneficial avenues for people to get involved.

The Victorian Community Campaigner position will be based at the Melbourne Campaign Centre and will be required to regularly undertake activities in different locations throughout Melbourne. The successful applicant will need a current driver’s licence and access to private transport.

This position will work in collaboration with the Victorian campaigns team and in particular with the other Victorian Community Campaigner.

Primary tasks and responsibilities:

1.    Work as part of the Victorian campaigns team to develop and implement strategies and activities to stimulate community support for the protection of Victoria’s forests.
2.    Ensure that The Wilderness Society Victoria is proactively engaged regularly and effectively with the wider community through a program of information stalls, displays, presentations and public meetings.
3.    Take the lead role in organising the volunteer coordination components of the Victorian forest campaign, including facilitation and organisation of the weekly Wilderness Action Group (WAG) meetings; and the recruitment and training of new volunteers and activists.
4.    Utilise social media tools such as Twitter, Facebook and MySpace to further raise the Victorian forest campaign profile.
5.    To organise forums and other events to generate public and stakeholder engagement and information exchange on how to advance protection of Victoria’s old growth forests.
6.    To maintain and build on The Wilderness Society’s network of contacts which include a diverse variety of like-minded community organisations.
7.    To assist in the development of communications materials in advocating for conservation, including writing content for volunteer and supporter updates.
8.    To assist with day to day duties in the office such as responding to requests for information and database maintenance.
9.    To participate in the Community Campaigns Working Group.

Essential selection criteria:

-    Passion for The Wilderness Society’s mission
-    Self motivated with strong sense of initiative and ability to work unsupervised
-    Demonstrated experience in recruiting, motivating, coordinating and allocating tasks to a diverse group of supporters
-    Excellent oral and written communication skills
-    Experience in public speaking
-    Intermediate to advanced computer skills and web literacy
-    Experience in mass marketing, networking and e-communications
-    Ability to quickly educate oneself to a base level of understanding of the issues involved in the Victorian forest debate
-    Ability to work under pressure, with good time management skills
-    Ability to work flexible work hours, including weekends.
-    Driver’s licence and access to a vehicle.

Position Applications:

Applicants for the position must provide a CV and address each of the ‘Essential selection criteria’ with the ‘Primary tasks and responsibilities’ in mind, including relevant examples.

Applications should be emailed to melbourne@wilderness.org.au

or by mail to:

Administration
The Wilderness Society Victoria Inc
Suite 15, 2/288 Brunswick Street
Fitzroy, 3056

Further enquiries about this position can be directed to Gavan McFadzean on (03) 9038 0810 or email: gavan.mcfadzean@wilderness.org.au

Applications close COB Monday 30 November 2009

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Background on The Wilderness Society

The Wilderness Society (TWS) is a leading Australian not-for-profit conservation organisation dedicated to the protection, restoration and promotion of natural areas and ecological processes across Australia. See:  www.wilderness.org.au

TWS is actively engaged in implementing our ‘WildCountry’ vision: a continent-wide, science-based conservation plan for protecting Australia's native flora and fauna, their habitats, and ecological processes for the long term. See: wilderness.org.au/campaigns/wildcountry

The Wilderness Society is committed to working collaboratively with the Indigenous Traditional Owners of Country to ensure that conservation outcomes have the consent of, involve and benefit Indigenous communities.  In relation to the Great Western Woodlands, a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) has recently been signed by TWS and the Goldfields Land and Sea Council to guide our work together on the Great Western Woodlands.

The Wilderness Society is an equal opportunities employer and places great importance on its organisational values including commitment to open and participatory decision making processes, belief in the power of people to bring about change, dedication to innovation, and passion for our organisational purpose.

The Wilderness Society Organisational Purpose

Protect, promote and restore wild places and natural processes across Australia for the survival and ongoing evolution of life on Earth.

The Wilderness Society Organisational Values

1) Passion for our purpose (courage, strength of conviction, determination)
2) The power of people to make change
3) Organisational independence and integrity
4) Compassion (valuing and supporting people, respecting and having integrity in dealing with others)
5) Commitment to success in protecting the environment and achieving long term change.