Digital Campaigner Germany (m/f/d)

About the Role

• Position: Digital Campaigner (Germany)
• Location: Remote within Germany
• Preferred Start Date: 1st September / as soon as possible
• Application Deadline: 18th August midnight

About the Role

WeMove Europe is looking for a Digital Campaigner (Germany) who is able to think, do, and deliver. Someone who loves being part of fast-paced digital campaigning for a better Europe and can also think about the bigger strategic picture.

Most importantly in the digital world: online campaigning and innovative digital tactics excite you, and you are keen to learn more about this field. Data analysis and data driven decision-making is not a frightening concept to you, on the contrary.

As a Digital Campaigner, your tasks will include:

Digital, Creative, Comms

• Identify European campaign opportunities and develop and lead campaigns from the planning phase to execution, pulling out the creative digital tactics in between
• Storytelling – Write strong, compelling copy that results in our members taking action on various issues, including for email and social media platforms
• Tailor our emails and messages to the German context 
• Manage email communications with our German members, including setting up and sending emails using our online campaigning tools (currently, ActionKit) and analyzing data and user engagement
• Run ads in your country to optimize our campaigns for growth and impact
• Stay up-to-date with digital campaigning and marketing trends and find innovative ways to apply them at WeMove Europe
• Fundraise from individual donors in Germany
• Organize “offline” actions such as demonstrations, petition handovers, etc. With a part-time Digital Organiser to help manage the German community

Partnerships

• Build and maintain relations with partners in NGOs and movements in Germany and EU-wide.
• Help us understand the political dynamics in Germany by keeping connected to local movements, alternative thinking, and researching policy processes within your national context as it connects to the EU-level

Other

• Travel nationally and EU-wide for team meetings, retreats, stakeholder and partner meetings, and petition deliveries.

​​​About you – Who are we looking for?

We are seeking a passionate and dedicated Digital Campaigner (Germany) who brings these qualities to the table:

• You are comfortable with and excited by helping people understand their own power and becoming agents of change
• You understand the power of words and stories to make change, and you write great copy and have great writing skills in English and German.
• You are driven by results and crave more data. You are keen to run tests that are backed by statistical significance and are always looking to improve your work. 
• You excel at finding visuals and creating engaging graphics and video content for campaigns.
• You are comfortable with new software, online tools, and digital things.
• You are deeply committed to working in Germany and Europe for bold, structural change and believe in empowering the people around you to do the same.
• You have some experience with nonpartisan political campaigning, and it’s an added bonus if that experience is online and digital.
• You have a strong understanding of Germany’s political and social context and some of the European context.
• You are fluent in English to the degree that you can work in an English-speaking environment and can translate from English into German.
• You are happy with travel in Europe. 
• You look forward to working in a team where we all strive to learn from each other to have the biggest possible impact.

Bonus Skills and knowledge

While we understand that no one possesses all these skills and experiences, we would encourage you will bring 2 or 3 of the following to our team:

• Digital Marketing
• Digital Fundraising
• Great writing skills in English
• Statistics / Data analytics
• Additional European languages
• Street actions & protests
• You are well-networked nationally and regionally in activist circles
• Strong understanding of one or more other European countries gained from personal or professional experience.

Why us?

Terms and conditions

• Working hours: Full-time position (40hrs/week); 
• Employment type: 1-year employment contract based on the German labor code, starting with a probation period.
• Salary range: 45,000€ – 49,000€ gross year salary, depending on experience level
• Location: Remote within Germany 
• Benefits: home office setup and co-working space of your choice, 30 vacation days, individual training budget, salary step-ups based on WeMove experience developments, yearly salary indexation based on the national inflation rate in your country.regular team calls, team retreats in person with the whole team and sub-team meetings 1-3 times yearly, and much more…! 

We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive workplace, which is why people from communities that experience discrimination based on race, ethnicity, women, people with disabilities, and LGBTQ+ people are especially encouraged to apply. 
We do not share the implicit belief that online campaigners necessarily have to be very young, and we encourage people who have left their twenties and thirties behind to apply.

Next steps

If you are interested in this position, please send an application in English by August 18th. Please include the following:

• Motivation letter. Please include a mention of your experience with voluntary political activism
• CV. Including your language skills in your first language, English, and other languages according to a scale from A1 to C2.
• Relevant samples of your work (if applicable)

Our recruitment process involves the following stages:

• Evaluation of applications
• Online task assessment 
• 1-2 round interviews (online and in-person)
• Final decision

[Ensure that your CV and motivation letter are in English. Applications in other languages will not be processed]

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