- Location
- Chippendale, Australia
- Sector
- Charity & Voluntary
- Salary
- Competitive
Join a team of people who believe human rights belong to everyone and shape bold and innovative campaigns that inspire people to take action.
- This is a leadership position, managing a team of Mobilisers and Organisers as well as an Activists Support Administator to achieve tangible impact.
- Flexible location, with some travel and some work outside usual office hours
Purpose of the position
As the Community Campaigns Manager, you champion people power and bring our AIA strategy and vision to life by embedding organising and mobilising in campaigns as core campaigning practices. You foster a culture of learning, creativity and professionalism to ensure that our campaigning efforts are driving increased impact for human rights and visibly demonstrating people power. Together with your team, you ensure that campaigns centre and amplify the voice of lived-in experience and drive the team to build partnerships, coalitions and networks with communities, institutions, movements and the social justice sector working towards a thriving human rights community in Australia.
You provide oversight across the breadth of campaigns to ensure that organising and mobilising is mapped within campaigns and bring staff and activists along.
Key Duties
Strategic Alignment + Collaboration
- Lead the campaigning team to develop, execute, and monitor cohesive community change strategies that deliver AIA's people-powered vision at depth and scale
- Collaborate with the Campaign Strategy + Advocacy Manager and Community Engagement Manager to ensure integrated campaign strategies and alignment on people-powered KPIs
- Drive integration and strategic coherence in the team and across the unit
Innovation + Movement Growth
- Foster a culture of creativity and experimentation to grow and energise the human rights movement in Australia
- Build a data-driven team that uses community mapping and audience insights to develop impactful, evidence-based tactics
- Leverage individual at-risk cases and global solidarity moments to support movement growth
Community Voice + Adaptive Campaigning
- Centre communities with lived experience in campaign strategy, ensuring their priorities and leadership shape our work
- Develop processes that enable autonomous campaigning and amplify community and movement demands
- Equip the team with adaptive strategies to navigate shrinking civic space effectively
Diversity, Inclusion + Wellbeing
- Embed diversity, inclusion, and wellbeing commitments into team practices and campaign design
- Foster an inclusive team environment that values lived experience as essential to effective campaigning
- Other tasks within your skills and competence as required
Qualifications + Experience
- Significant experience designing and leading community change or social justice campaigns with demonstrated results
- Experience working in partnership with communities of lived experience, including co-design approaches that centre their priorities and expertise
- Track record of building networks and coalitions to advance shared goals
- Experience leading and developing teams in a campaigning, advocacy, or community organising context
- Experience driving cross-functional collaboration and organisational alignment on strategic priorities
- Strong project management experience, coordinating multiple initiatives, manage competing priorities, and deliver agreed outcomes
- Experience designing and managing stakeholder consultation processes
Desirable
- Understanding of global and local human rights issues relevant to Amnesty International Australia's work
- Experience working within or alongside social movements
- Familiarity with digital campaigning tools, mobilisation platforms, and CRM systems.
Skills
- Self aware, open to feedback and growth
- Strong leader, building and sustaining high-performing, inclusive teams
- Collaborator, able to adapt to people’s backgrounds and, working collectively across functions
- Courageous change champion, leading transformational change with courage and adaptability.
Department: Community Campaigning, People Powered Campaigns (PPCU)
Location: Based in any Action Centre. The role may involve interstate/regional travel as required as well as some out of office hours work.
Employment: Permanent, full-time, Level 8
Reports to: Campaigning Director
Other Information: Must have full working rights in Australia
DIVERSITY, EQUALITY AND INCLUSION
AIA is committed to making reasonable adjustments for candidates with a disability or other access needs during the recruitment and selection process. If you require reasonable adjustments to be made during the recruitment and interview process, please email us at humanresources@amnesty.org.au.
AI Australia is committed to equal opportunities in all areas of our work, community and partner relationships. We want people to achieve their full potential, which will positively impact on our work and the communities in which we operate. At AI Australia, our values empower people to be themselves within an inclusive and supportive environment. We have a global, multicultural following and want to actively contribute to building a more diverse and inclusive team at AI Australia.
We are committed to equal opportunities in all areas of our work, community and partner relationships. We want people to achieve their full potential, which will positively impact on our work and the communities in which we operate. At AI Australia, our values empower people to be themselves within an inclusive and supportive environment. We are a movement of people from all walks of life around the world. We intend to actively contribute to building a more diverse and inclusive team.
DO YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL AUSTRALIA?
We are an independent, global movement that campaigns courageously for human rights for everyone.
We’re ordinary people from all walks of life, using our passion and commitment to bring torturers to justice, change oppressive laws and free people imprisoned just for voicing their opinion.
We’re independent of any government, political ideology, economic interest or religion to ensure we can speak out on human rights abuses wherever they occur.
We stand for equality, justice, freedom, and human dignity and uphold these values:
Empowerment – we build people power
Persistence – we are resolute in pursuit of our goals
Integrity – we hold ourselves to the highest standards
Courage – we are fearless in upholding human rights
Every day we move closer to a world where human rights are enjoyed by all.
HOW TO APPLY
Please submit your application with a CV and cover letter.
People from cultural and linguistic diverse backgrounds and First Nation Australians are strongly encouraged to apply.