Tax Power Campaign Manager - ActionAid International

Tax Power Campaign Manager

£45,489 per annum

Terms, conditions and benefits of base Location will apply

Johannesburg or Nairobi

At ActionAid International we help people use their own power to fight poverty and injustice. Because that’s how real change happens – for families, for communities, for whole societies. We are now recruiting a Campaign Manager to lead the strategic development, coordination and delivery of our international Tax Power Campaign. This is a unique opportunity to lead a bold and transformative campaign that is tackling the injustice of developing countries losing billions to corporate tax dodging every year. We have played a pioneering role globally in leading this groundbreaking campaign over the last few years.

As Campaign Manager your primary focus will be ensuring the effective delivery of clearly identified external and internal objectives and outcomes for our Tax Power campaign. This will mean coordinating contributions and skills from over 20 ActionAid countries around the world and across the International Secretariat to harness the power of our Federation behind this multi-country campaign. This will involve facilitating a diverse cross-functional and multi-country Campaign Project Team to develop and deliver strategy as well as overseeing activities to ensure they are consistent with our values and mission. You will assess priorities, manage resources and oversee stakeholder communications to ensure staff are informed and motivated and campaigning is effective. You will also build alliances, monitor and evaluate performance as well as share insight to drive continuous improvement. You will also play a key role in helping develop the federation’s strength as an effective campaigning force over the coming years and in building leadership of our campaigning by the people living in poverty we work alongside.

You must have a relevant postgraduate degree or equivalent experience and have excellent written and spoken English. You will have substantial campaigning experience, ideally on a range of levels (local, national, international) and gained in both implementation and strategic roles. You understand how to influence political structures and decision makers, and can demonstrate strategic knowledge of the global political landscape, as well as having knowledge and experience of tax justice and women’s rights issues. You will have worked in coalitions and are skilled at alliance building and networking. An experienced and effective manager, you can communicate, represent and persuade at all levels, both internally and externally, and thrive working in a collaborative way to drive forward this amazing campaign.

HOW TO APPLY:

If you have the skills and passion to make a difference please visit our website via the link:

http://www.actionaid.org/jobs/tax-power-campaign-manager

In order to be considered for this position please only apply if you have the right or eligibility to work in Kenya or South Africa or if you are willing to relocate to Nairobi or Johannesburg (subject to approval of a Work Permit).

Application Procedures

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Please address the person specification in your application point by point and in detail as it enables us to identify the skills, knowledge and experience you have to be able to do the job effectively.

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ActionAid International promotes diversity and welcomes applications from all section of the community.

Applications should be sent with your CV, motivation/cover letter by no later than 11th August 2015. You are requested to highlight in the motivation/cover letter how specifically you meet the criteria for this role.Please clearly indicate which position you are applying for.

Due to high volumes of applications received, we can only correspond with short listed applicants. Should you not have received feedback on your application within two weeks of the closing date, please consider your application unsuccessful. We reserve the right to withdraw any of our vacancies at any time. Recruitment consultancies/agencies should not approach ActionAid with regards to open vacancies. We regret that agency candidates will not be considered.