Fraser Electorate Campaign Manager

Job Status

• 1 FTE (4 days / week)
• Part time or job share available by negotiation. Fixed term contract,
• with some evening and weekend work as required.

Starting Salary

• Professional Staff Level 4-5 $75,597 – $83,156 plus 11.5% super

Hours

• Full-time four day work week, 32 hours

Location/s

• Australian Greens State Office (Queen St, Melbourne)
• And Electorate Campaign Office (TBC Footscray or Sunshine)
• And from home by negotiation

Position Begins

• Late September 2024

Position Ends

• Four weeks after the Federal Election

Optional:

Fraser Campaign Recruitment Information Session

6pm – 7pm, Thu 12 Sept 2024, Borderlands Cooperative

30A Pickett Street Footscray

ABOUT THIS ROLE

The Victorian Greens are looking for a Campaign Manager to build and lead a winning campaign in the Federal electorate of Fraser. You’ll be working closely with our candidate, team of staff, and volunteers to execute our Fraser ‘25 Campaign strategy & plans.

We’re looking for someone who has connections to the electorate, with excellent skills in project and team management, and who loves working with grassroots volunteers from all walks of life.

This isn’t your average job: you’ll often work weekends and evenings instead of weekdays, and you’ll need to be self-motivated and flexible. If you enjoy working with people and are passionate about building a progressive future, you’ll love this job.

Our growing base of volunteers have been campaigning for over 10 months, and with our star candidate, Fraser is more winnable than ever. The next Federal Election could happen anytime between August 2024 and May 2025. This election presents a crucial opportunity to activate the working class, multifaith, multicultural communities of the west and put the Greens in the balance of power in the lower house.

The Victorian Greens strongly encourage people with diverse lived experience to apply, such as First Nations People, women of colour, LGBTQIA+ folks, disabled people and people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, even if you feel your professional experience doesn’t match all of the selection criteria.

The Greens recognise that structural barriers make it difficult for some people to obtain roles in progressive movements. When assessing candidates we look at more than just the jobs you’ve been paid to do but the range of ways you’ve picked up skills and knowledge throughout your life.

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES

You will be responsible for:

• Project management of the electorate campaign: develop the strategy to win and build the high-performing team to help execute it. You’ll be responsible for project managing the delivery of key campaign tactics, budget management and ensuring we’re tracking for success.
• Internal communication: you’ll be responsible for managing communication and successful working relationships with team members and other key internal stakeholders.
• Team management: you’ll be responsible for managing and leading a team staff in your electorate and coordinating with the central office to hire and manage additional campaign staff.
• Advise and assist the candidate: on campaign strategy developments, campaign activities, rapid response opportunities and the campaign’s performance against its goals. You’ll support the candidate to use their limited time strategically, recognise and respond to risk and build crucial connections throughout the community.
• Advertising coordination: you’ll be responsible for working with the National Advertising Manager to coordinate the delivery of the advertising strategy across outdoor, digital and mail within the electorate.
• Communications: ensure the translation of the national communications strategy into the local context across email, social media and print.
• Field integration: you’ll work with local field organiser/s to build and scale voter contact activities and integrate them with the wider campaign strategy.
• Donor engagement and fundraising: you’ll make sure the campaign is on track to meet its fundraising goals and manage the relationships with key campaign donors.
• Risk management: help to protect the campaign from risk, ensuring financial viability and working closely with staff, volunteers and the candidate to manage risks to the campaign.
• Other work as needed: as a part of a diverse and agile local campaign team, you will be asked to contribute to other work from time-to-time to ensure effective delivery of the Fraser Campaign.

SELECTION CRITERIA

We encourage you to apply even if you don’t have all of the relevant skills. We’re looking for someone organised and thorough and with passion for our movement and winning, which we prioritise over formal education or qualifications.

We believe there is strength in diversity and in supporting the right person to thrive in this role. For a confidential conversation about this role or the recruitment process, please contact James Temple at [email protected], using the subject line: Fraser Electorate Campaign Manager enquiry via EthicalJobs.

Key selection criteria

• Values alignment: commitment to the Greens policies, charter and core values – ecological sustainability, grassroots participatory democracy, social justice and peace and non-violence – and a passion for our movement.
• Relationship-building and team management: strong rapport-building and relationship skills, and experience managing and skilling up staff, volunteers and/or interns. You can quickly build and maintain relationships of trust.
• Stakeholder management: experience dealing with a broad range of stakeholders and differing or competing interests. Experience in working in various teams, including working well with others, having a friendly attitude in difficult conversations and a readiness to build the capacity of others.
• Organisation: outstanding organisational skills and experience managing logistics and projects to tight deadlines – you thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic work environment, love managing an event or complex process. You have attention to detail and ensure we learn as a movement what works or doesn’t, and how we can do better in future.
• Strategic thinking skills: you can identify the tactics required to meet a goal and adapt them to changing circumstances to achieve results. Commitment to discretion, confidentiality and sound political judgement.
• Exceptional communication skills: being able to write and produce copy from scratch as well as working with existing resources for your local context.

Bonus points for

• Lived experience or connections to First Nations justice, racial justice, LGBTQIA+ justice, disability justice or gendered justice movements, and / or to our communities in the Fraser Electorate.
• Working with volunteers: Experience in a volunteer- or member-led organisation, especially in grassroots, community or union organising
• A proven interest and understanding: of the Australian political landscape and election campaigning.
• Donor engagement: and delivering successful fundraising campaigns.
• Systems experience: Experience using systems such as contact databases and mass email tools, including Drupal, CiviCRM and Rocket (or similar).

WHY WORK FOR THE GREENS?

We offer a friendly, flexible and supportive workplace, with:

• A four day work week for full time pay.
• Making a meaningful contribution to the political movement fighting for people and the planet.
• Flexibility to negotiate working hours and some work from home.
• Four weeks of annual leave a year, bonus leave between Christmas and New Years Day, and flexible leave for cultural holidays.
• Above-average personal leave, including additional paid provisions for mental health and domestic and family violence leave.
• Access to our Employee Assistance Program and wellbeing support.

HOW TO APPLY

To apply for this role, we ask for your resume and for you to answer a few questions about your past experience. There is no need to prepare a cover letter or selection criteria response. Applications are accepted through the form via the Apply Now link.

A position description is attached.

After applications close, we will shortlist candidates for interviews which can be held over a video call or in person at our Melbourne office. If there is a large volume of applicants, we may organise an initial phone interview to find out more about your experience or ask you to prepare a brief task to help us better understand your experience. If you are not shortlisted for this role, we will contact you via email to let you know.

If you have questions about this role, the recruitment process, or if you have any accessibility needs for your application, please contact James Temple at [email protected], using the subject line: Fraser Electorate Campaign Manager enquiry via EthicalJobs, ASAP. Please use the subject line “Fraser Electorate Campaign Manager” in your email.