Junior Campaign Manager

Democracy International (DI) is a young, dynamic, internationally operating non-governmental organisation fighting for more democracy on the regional, national and especially on the transnational level. We are convinced that empowering citizens is essential to solve the big challenges of the 21st century. Therefore we campaign and lobby for better electoral laws, for participatory and direct democracy. Furthermore we conduct research together with partners to find ways to make transnational institutions more democratic and we advise activists in different countries.

Short Description:

For our campaign team in Cologne we search a young junior campaign manager who loves to work with us in the stimulating and inspiring atmosphere of a high performance core team. Developing strategies, organising campaigns, communicating internally and externally in order to fight for more democracy (particularly participatory forms) by raising awareness and conducting irritating, astonishing high-impact publicity actions. Do you have creative ideas, endurance and a passion for democracy? Apply! We are waiting for you!

Background Information:

The campaign unit of Democracy International has a new structure and will be expanded in the coming months and years into a team, which is able to run campaigns in Europe and other continents. We cooperate very closely with national member organisations and other partners for planning and execution of campaign across countries. In the past, DI ran successful campaigns for the implementation of the European Citizen's Initiative (ECI), for referenda about the outcome of the last convention and others. In the future we continue to lay a particular focus on democracy in the EU, while at the same time running campaigns on other continents.

Currently we are planning a Europe-wide campaign for a more democratic EU by demanding a new European convention according to Art. 48 of the Lisbon Treaty. This campaign will be conducted together with many partner organisations in all EU member states.

For more details about the current campaign planning please visit: www.democracy-international.org/campaign-documents.

Job Description

Key responsibilities:

Strategy Development: Together with the chief campaigner and in collaboration with member-organisations you will develop campaign strategies to reach our organisational objective. You will plan out the strategic, communicative and operative goals for each campaign, together with marketing firms. In doing so, you will come up with creative ideas to maximize the impact of the campaign.

Campaign Management:

• Operative execution of the campaign;
• Development, coordination and organisation of mass-publicity actions/events/lobbying/press conferences etc.;
• Building Alliances for special Campaigns;
• Internal (other member organisations) and external (media, public, politics) communication;
• Recruitment, coordination and motivation of new volunteers and campaign staff.

Network Building: Maintaining and developing a long-term network of co-operation partners, communication on a regular basis with the member organisations.

Team capacity: Together with the campaign-leader: building development and inspiration of a high performance core-team for the campaign unit of DI.

What we expect:

Since we are searching for a Junior Campaign Manager we do not require previous campaigning experience (although it would certainly be helpful). You just need to demonstrate, that you have the potential, passion, interest and power to campaign for (direct) democracy.

What is important to us:

• You have a proven track record which shows your organisational skills: e.g. experience in citizen's actions, campaigns or start-ups;
• You have communicational skills which allow you - after a short training period - to communicate with press, politicians, partners;
• Fluency in English is necessary and in other languages desirable (especially German, French, Spanish);
• You have a good understanding of EU politics;
• You are flexible, able to cope with pressure, venturous and ready for action;
• You enjoy travelling trough Europe and don't mind being away from home for some weeks.

Additional Information:

Full time Job, Office is in Cologne (Germany), salary is on NGO level.

Starting date: as soon as possible.

Apply:

Please send your CV, motivational letter and complementing materials by email to steuernagel@democracy-international.org. For further questions you can contact us via the same email address or by phone: 0177-9737748 (Armin Steuernagel).

If possible please submit your application by 30 September 2013 12:00 pm.