350.org is looking for a passionate campaigner to lead our team and guide our work in France. This is a full-time role based anywhere in France.

About 350.org

350.org is helping build a global grassroots movement to solve the climate crisis. Our online campaigns, grassroots organising, and mass public actions are led from the bottom up by thousands of volunteer organisers in over 188 countries. 350.org works hard to organise 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 catalyse transformation around the world. The values that guide and drive our work are listed here.

Our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion

We recognise that the climate crisis strikes unequally, and hits the hardest among working class people, women, non-binary and gender non-conforming people, trans people, black people, indigenous people, people of colour, disabled people, people from the Global South, LGBTQIA people, people with mental health conditions. We believe those communities must be centred in the work we do, and we also note that they are currently underrepresented in the climate justice movement and want to do what we can to correct this. We therefore strongly encourage applications from people with those identities or who are members of other communities impacted disproportionally by environmental, social, and economic injustice.

About the France Team Leader

We are looking for an experienced and committed campaigner, with strong people and program management skills, to lead 350.org’s work in France.

Leading our small staff team in France and in collaboration with our team in Europe and partner organisations, you will be responsible for steering our work to achieve ambitious campaign goals. You will identify emerging threats and opportunities in France and Europe, and work in partnership with others to develop strategies and tactics to respond to them. You will be providing management support as well as directly delivering elements of the team’s plans yourself.

This is a list of the responsibilities of the role:

Strategic leadership

• Develop an overarching national campaign strategy, relevant to the country context, and aligned with agreed regional and global priorities (including the priorities of other national/regional teams, especially in the global south). This incorporates different thematic campaigns and different functional areas (e.g. organising, mobilisation, digital, media etc)
• Monitor and evaluate progress, adapting plans accordingly
• Actively contribute to the development and delivery of regional and global strategies as required

Oversight and Direct Delivery of Strategic Campaigns and Communications

• Oversee the development and execution of campaign plans. This includes direct delivery of some elements, and supporting others to deliver the rest.
• Oversee the development and execution of organising plans in line with overall strategy
• Working with communications staff on the team oversee the development and delivery of strategic communications products and projects in line with overall strategy
• Oversee the development and execution of digital campaigns in line with overall strategy
• Oversee the effective development and use of digital assets (e.g. website, social media, email) to increase the scale and impact of our campaigns and organising

Team Coordination, Leadership and Management

• Ensure strong internal coordination, communication and shared planning within the team to maximise impact
• Lead regular team meetings; support and plan annual face to face team retreats
• Offer first-class direct management and support to members of the team in France to enable them to deliver to their full potential, including ensuring strong performance management
• Identify support, training and resource needs across their team, and work with others to address these.
• Recruitment and selection as and when vacancies arise in the team
• Promote and model a positive sustainable working culture in the team that provides a healthy work environment for all staff
• Be a pro-active and collaborative member of 350.org’s wider Europe and global teams

External Representation and Partnerships

• Build, strengthen, and manage key external partnerships
• Convene and contribute to effective coalitions
• Represent work on climate change externally amongst partners, media, volunteers and public audiences.
• Attend key external meetings on climate change and other relevant issues

Business and Resource Management

• Oversee operations, financial management, and compliance functions in France

• Identify and mitigate risks to programmes, staff, and partners

  Required qualifications

• A proven track record of developing and delivering impactful campaigns
• Experience of managing complex projects and project teams, including in a multicultural environment
• Strong strategic campaigns and communications experience
• Excellent proven people management skills, with ability to unleash the potential of staff, and provide support and guidance
• Comfortable working both independently and in teams, highly responsive, and able to lead initiatives as well as take direction from others
• Comfortable working remotely with colleagues in multiple time-zones and in multicultural groups, through online tools
• Extensive experience and knowledge of current political-economic realities and cultural diversity in France.
• Strong ability to build and nurture partnerships.
• Experience of external representation across multiple audiences
• Fluent in French and able to work in English

• Must embrace the principles of justice, diversity and inclusion, applying these in their approach to management and ensuring they are central to the team’s work

  Desired (but not required) qualifications

• Experience working on climate change or other issues of environmental, social or economic justice
• A strong understanding of energy/climate trends at both a regional and international level
• Experience of grassroots organising
• Experience of digital campaigning
• Experience of working with the media

• Experience of working within a global network, aligning strategic aims from France with the opportunities of regional and global collaboration

  Position type: Full-time employment.

Start date: February 1, 2024 (flexible).

Compensation: €71,573

Location: This role is based anywhere in France.
Applicants must have the legal authorization to work for any employer in their country of residence. We are unable to sponsorship or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.

Application process

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

1. Why are you applying to this role and what makes you a good fit for it? (max. 200 words)
2. Make a list of the "Required qualifications" that you meet and, for each, provide 2-3 sentences of explanation describing how you meet them. If you fail to meet any of the required qualifications, provide a paragraph of explanation for why you think your application should be considered anyway.

3. 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.

   The deadline for applying is January 7, 2024.

   After applications for this position have closed, we will let you know as quickly as possible if you’re through to the next stage. If you do get shortlisted, there will be a chance to have a short phone call with us, which we’ll use to get a better sense of whether we think you’re right for the role, and which will give you a chance to find out more about the role, the team and the organisation too. After that, there will be a skills test and a panel interview for the shortlisted candidates.

   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.

   If you have questions for us, or suggestions on how to improve our hiring process, we really value your input and strongly encourage you to write to us at [email protected] with the subject line ‘Hiring Feedback’.