This job is for you if…you’re super driven and ambitious about building people-power movements for justice; you have deep experience with both online and offline campaigning in Asia; you think strategically, enjoy coaching, work really well with people; you’re creative and hungry to see change happen; and you’re nimble at finding ways to meet needs and shape solutions. You can manage teams and you also are excellent at running an online/offline campaign and its component pieces yourself. This is for someone who finds using tech tools easy, wants to invest deeply and take leadership in the organization’s work and be in the trenches working on campaigns too.
What you’ll do:
Provide a range of campaign strategy and implementation support for partner groups, with the support of senior SMT team members
Build and maintain relationships with a range of organizing networks
Develop new online training to meet movement needs across Asia
Build an instructor team of practitioners from across the continent and help to shape and do outreach for the training
Keep your fingers on the pulse of new tech and digital developments in the enormous diversity of Asia, testing out tools and comparing them so that SMT can help Asian groups sift through the options and make choices appropriate to their needs
What we’re looking for in you:
You speak and write fluent English, as a non-negotiable, but ideally, speak another language dominant in the region.
You have a minimum of 5 years of relevant campaign experience in which you held responsibility that included digital campaigning.
You have a knack for campaigning and understand what it takes to make a difference, including how to build power on the issue, who we need with us, messaging that will move people, and the steps to get you there.
You have broad experience in running issue campaigns, for example doing your own memes with a sense for design and messaging, or setting up Facebook ad campaigns – not relying on other staffers for creative or ad setup. You’ve worked as part of smaller and not just larger teams.
You have worked at a sub-regional or regional level in Asia, and are able to navigate the complexities of language and sub-regional affinities.
You have experience with coaching and training people.
You have management and organizational skills that enable you to keep a number of projects on track and delegate to other members of our team and contractors.
You have previous experience working remotely, are highly self-motivated and need to be doing work that involves constant learning.
You have experience running campaigns at the grassroots, national and/or sub-regional/regional levels in Asia.
You are an activist yourself, not just doing this work as paid employment.
Ideally you have a history of investing in roles for the long haul – we’re looking for someone who wants to make SMT their home and build the work over multiple years.