About [Employer hidden — view at passion-project.co.uk]

Results’ mission is to create the public and political will to end poverty, by enabling people to exercise their personal and political power for change. Results is a movement of passionate, committed people. Together as staff and grassroots activists, we use our voices to influence political decisions that will bring an end to poverty. Our advocacy is built on global solidarity, partnership and shared empowerment. This is crucial to challenging the racist, colonial and oppressive narratives that have underpinned development and that help to both create and maintain poverty. We prioritise specific issues on which we can have the most influence to achieve progress, including health, nutrition and education: see www.results.org.uk.

About the Role

The Campaigns Manager will shape and lead our campaigning and communications work, supporting our network of grassroots volunteer campaigners across the country, ensuring that grassroots advocacy is at the heart of what we do. You will be an expert at developing and managing campaigns and communications and supporting volunteer networks, with excellent written English, and proven experience ensuring that written and visual communications and digital outreach contribute to our organisational advocacy work. The post-holder will line-manage the Campaigns and Communications Officer.

This role is available 4 days per week on a permanent basis and will provide good opportunities for further developing your leadership of campaigns and public advocacy, and using your communications expertise to contribute to lasting advocacy success. We are looking for candidates with experience of and passion for engaging members of the public in international development advocacy, and for overcoming poverty, inequality and oppression.

Key Responsibilities

• Campaigning and network support
  • Lead the development and delivery of our monthly grassroots campaign actions, to gain demonstrable public support for specific advocacy asks, identifying targets and effective tactics for reaching them.
  • Ensure our grassroots network continues to thrive, and adapt our support model to changing external circumstances, putting volunteer-led campaigning at the heart of Results’ advocacy.
  • Support and broaden the grassroots network, including outreach and onboarding activities, providing personalised support to our active campaigners, and providing resources, information and advocacy opportunities that enable them to grow as advocates and leaders and to achieve their own advocacy goals.
  • Work closely with colleagues in the Parliamentary Advocacy and Policy Advocacy Teams, leading on the development of campaigns and communications programmes that contribute to organisational advocacy strategies.
  • Identifying effective partnerships where appropriate to maximise our impact.
  • Manage the delivery of events including monthly grassroots conference calls and the annual Results National Conference and other advocacy events and training sessions.
• Communications and media
  • Line-manage the Campaigns and Communications Officer, supervising Results’ communications programme including campaign materials and newsletters, social media, our website, and resources and publications that deliver powerful advocacy messages and strengthen our brand.
  • Oversee media activity and ensure appropriate sign-off for Results’ public communications and media work, to manage reputational risk and ensure political neutrality, quality control and brand compliance.
  • Mentor colleagues, including by running training sessions and providing expert communications advice, to ensure that Results’ communications reflect our values, give voice to the experiences of people living with poverty and inequality, and advance our work to end injustice, exclusion and oppression.
  • Represent Results in various public coalitions and platforms, acting as a spokesperson where needed.
• Organisational management and development
  • Alongside other line managers, ensure the consistent application of Results’ policies and procedures, with a focus on effective performance management, staff development and wellbeing.
  • Manage the Campaigns and Communications budget.
  • Lead on the effective monitoring and evaluation of our campaigns and communications work in support of organisational grant management and impact reporting.
  • Contribute ideas to and support organisational initiatives to expand our work, including funding applications.

Person Specification

Essential criteria – Skills and experience

• 3-5 years’ proven experience developing and delivering successful advocacy campaigns, including through volunteer networks and effective communications approaches.
• An understanding of different models of campaigning and how to motivate volunteers for long term campaigns success.
• Demonstrable understanding of poverty and inequality issues and the UK international development campaigning landscape, and experience of working with colleagues across functions to design powerful advocacy strategies to address these.
• Proven leadership of advocacy programmes and projects with measurable outcomes, contributing to organisational success.
• Experience leading on and offline communications programmes to deliver advocacy objectives.
• Experience of representing organisations and working in coalitions.
• Excellent English language and copy-editing skills with the ability to ensure the delivery of powerful content for a wide range of audiences.
• Strong collaborative skills, with an ability to lead cross-organisational initiatives, working with people across a wide range of functions and perspectives.
• Experience of managing complex projects and monitoring budgets.
• Experience of line management.

Personal attributes

• Strong belief in the power of public and volunteer-led campaigning, and in the importance of political engagement to achieve change.
• An organised self-starter, with strong attention to detail and comfortable working with a high degree of autonomy.
• A passion for enabling others to take action on poverty issues and for opposing injustice and oppression, and a commitment to making visible progress on equality, diversity and inclusion.
• An understanding of how to engage diverse audiences in advocacy.
• An enthusiastic leader and team player who enjoys sharing learning and developing others.
• A willingness to travel in the UK to provide support to our local campaign groups.

Desirable criteria

• Experience using digital and social media tools to contribute to advocacy campaigns.
• Experience of media work.

Why Work for [Employer hidden]?

Like you, we’re passionate about ending poverty. We’re a small, collaborative organisation that has a big impact. We just do advocacy – we don’t run programmes. The experience you gain with us will further your career in international development. Benefits include: flexible working, hybrid working, birthday off, office closure between Christmas and New Year, Bupa employee advice line, mental health support, anti-oppression learning leave, disability leave, and more.

How to Apply

Please submit a CV demonstrating your previous experience and answer the shortlisting questions outlined below.

Deadline for applications: 9 am on 14 April 2025.

Interviews will be held online on 24 April. Second round interviews will be held on 30 April / 1 May.

All candidates must have the right to live and work in the UK. If you are made an offer of employment, this will be subject to verifying that you are eligible to work in the UK before you start work.

Shortlisting questions (under 500 words each):
1. What motivates you about this role at this point in your career?
2. How do you think that political challenges to the UK’s support for international development efforts affect how to involve volunteer campaigners and interested members of the public in advocacy on development issues?
3. How would you approach identifying new volunteers and developing new groups to increase the reach of our grassroots network?
4. What does the term anti-oppression mean to you? Feel free to reflect on your personal experiences of anti-oppression if you would like to do so.

Apply here: https://resultsuk.peoplehr.net/Pages/JobBoard/Opening.aspx?v=54e6cba7-26bb-4a99-a9d5-6d132666bd2b