Campaigns Officer - Individuals
Company Description
ShareAction
We are at a pivotal moment: the climate and biodiversity crises are deepening, and inequalities are even more marked in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. The global investment system has an oversized impact on many of these global challenges. We want to make sure that impact is positive. ShareAction punches above its weight, working with investors, policymakers and individuals to unleash the positive potential of the investment system. We aim to build a world where our financial system serves our planet and its people.
Team
You’ll be joining our Civil Society Engagement team which works to shift power to, and with, people outside the financial sector. We work across the spectrum of civil society, from individuals to organisations, focusing on education, coordination and community building. As part of our Individuals sub-team, you will work with individual people to leverage their power to affect change in the financial system, most notably through shareholder activism.
Position
This Campaigns Officer role is a unique opportunity to gain experience of a niche campaigning area, supporting individual people to use their voice and agency to influence powerful actors in the financial system.
Specifically, you will play a key role in coordinating ShareAction’s work to file shareholder resolutions. This is one of our trademark campaigning tactics, which sees individuals and investors come together to campaign for changes at the biggest companies. We’ve had significant success filing resolutions at HSBC, Sainsbury’s and Unilever, on climate, living wage and health topics respectively in recent years.
Alongside this, you will work on other projects throughout the year which support our work to maintain and build our community of engaged supporters and allies. This will include contributing to education/ training projects, supporting our broader AGM activism campaigning, and developing digital action and storytelling opportunities.
What the previous postholder says about the role:
‘This role allows you to get stuck in to one of the most important and high-profile campaigning tactics in the investment world, shareholder resolutions, and feel like you are making a crucial contribution to ShareAction’s work. Through the role, I developed my skills in engaging supporters and collaborating with partner organisations, as well as significantly improving my knowledge of the financial system. The team is a super friendly group of people, and I always felt very supported throughout my time in the role.'
What you’ll do (key responsibilities)
- Mobilise individuals to take part in shareholder resolution campaigns, by working with our Communications team to promote with new and existing supporters
- Coordinate the administrative aspects of filing shareholder resolutions, including guiding supporters through the process on our web platform
- Support the team’s broader AGM activism campaigning, and other corporate and policymaker campaigns that require engaging our supporter network
- With the oversight of the Campaigns Manager, monitor project deliverables, maintain management tools and operational systems (Salesforce, Sharepoint)
- Deliver training and manage communications with our network of supporters, including support by phone, email, and the production of campaign resources
- Build mutually beneficial relationships with partner organisations and grassroots campaigns, including promoting relevant opportunities and capacity building support
- Produce campaign blogs and digital content in collaboration with our Comms team, supporters, affected communities and allies.
Please note that this list isn’t exhaustive, and the role might change slightly from time to time and will be responsive to your own interests and development.
Requirements
What you’ll bring to the team
- Passion for people-led change
- Enthusiasm for ShareAction’s aims and objectives
- Excellent organisational skills and attention to detail
- Ability to handle multiple tasks, changing priorities and deadlines in a fast-paced environment
- Strong interpersonal skills with ability to work as part of a team and across teams
- Ability to communicate and build good relationships with external stakeholders with a high level of enthusiasm and professionalism
- Great written and oral communication skills, including presenting information to an audience and mass emailing
Not necessary but would be helpful if you have
- Any experience of campaigning for a social or environmental cause
- Any experience of delivering trainings, especially virtually
- Any project management training or experience
- Any community organising training or experience
- An understanding of and/or interest in how the corporate, banking and financial sectors impact on real-world health, work, biodiversity and climate issues
- Any experience of working with CRM systems, ideally Salesforce
- A basic knowledge of data protection regulations/ GDPR
What we will do for you
- You will get to work on high impact campaigns that attract international media coverage, connecting with hundreds of inspirational supporters from our network
- You will have access to internal and external training opportunities, from formal training courses to informal ‘lunch & learn’ sessions with visiting speakers. We will also provide you with any training you may need to use our systems.
- You will have access to our flexible office space in London (Aldgate), regular social events hosted by our social committee and an annual all-staff bonding retreat.
- Information on our flexible working policy is outlined in the ‘Other information’ section below
Other information
Contract type: Full-time, Permanent
Who it reports to: Campaigns Manager - Individuals, managing two members of staff
Salary: from £29,200-£30,735 dependent on experience + 8% pension contribution
Deadline for applications: 9am Wednesday 4 October
Interview dates: First round interviews 9th & 10th October, second round interviews between 12th and 16th October
Start Date: As soon as possible
ShareAction values and respects all differences in people (seen and unseen) and welcomes applications from all backgrounds, communities and industries. We are committed to having a team that is made up of diverse skills, experiences and abilities and so if you are not 100 percent sure that you meet all the requirements but believe you could excel in this role, we encourage you to apply and use the application questions to tell us about your experience and what you hope to bring to this role.
We have a London office, and actively encourage staff to work in ways that best suit their needs and our flexible working policy outlines many of the options available - such as part-time and term-time working, job sharing, home working and working compressed hours. Please talk to us at the interview about the flexibility you need. We can’t promise to give you exactly what you want, but we do promise not to judge you for asking.
ShareAction’s London office is based in vibrant Aldgate and a short walk from Aldgate East underground. Remote working will remain the norm for many ShareAction staff, with office space available as described in London for those who wish to use it.
Please note that to be considered for this post you must be legally eligible to work and live in the UK. Due to employment law and tax reasons, you must reside in the UK to be employed by ShareAction. We are unable to sponsor visas for this role.
Please refrain from using any AI tools to write your answers, as this will result in immediate disqualification for the role.
