Climate and Energy Justice campaigner

Based in the Friends of the Earth Europe office, Brussels.

Are you passionate about intersectional, climate justice movements across Europe?
Do you want to be part of the talented Friends of the Earth team working for a just energy transition? Then this job is for you!

We are looking for a campaigner who will work as a member of the climate justice and energy team. If successful you will contribute to FoE Europe’s work on energy poverty, part of the “Right to Energy” campaign. This post will particularly focus on supporting our movement building for the “Right to Energy” campaign, ensuring our campaign is intersectional and mobilises activists for climate justice at grassroots and EU level. You will specifically work with groups across Europe and the “Right to Energy Coalition”. This role will help promote real solutions including housing renovations and renewables for low-income groups and tackle the grip of fossil fuels on our energy system. 

Friends of the Earth Europe campaigns at the heart of Europe for sustainable and just societies and for the protection of the environment. We are the largest grassroot environmental network in Europe, uniting 32 national organisations with thousands of local groups as part of Friends of the Earth International. Our vision is of a peaceful and sustainable world, founded on social, economic, racial, gender and environmental justice and free from all forms of domination and exploitation. Please see this website for more information.

We campaign with Friends of the Earth Europe member groups, both inside and outside the EU and work closely with allies in Brussels and at the national level.

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Key responsibilities:

• Support and strengthen the European movement for a socially fair energy transformation, including supporting FoE Europe member groups, social justice allies and grassroots groups engaging in energy saving and energy poverty alleviation efforts;
• Work with the other energy efficiency campaigner to develop FoE Europe’s policies, expertise and campaign strategies on energy savings and energy poverty;
• Manage and coordinate events and webinars, including our Right to Energy Forum;
• Build coalitions and alliances beyond the current environmental campaign network;
• Coordinate activities and strategies with key allies and alliances, such as the “Right to Energy Coalition”;
• Produce press releases and diverse online (social media) and offline communication materials like briefings, reports, studies, blog articles, infographics, videos, and op-eds, in close cooperation with communications colleagues;
• Develop and implement activities e.g. stunts, petitions etc, in close cooperation with other members of the climate justice and energy team;
• Support and strengthen the “European Right to Energy” movement and amplify sustainable solutions, such as community energy, renovations and a just energy transition, including supporting FoEE member groups in the preparation of campaigns;
• Carry out and deliver on annual planning, budgeting, fundraising for work on energy efficiency and energy poverty;
• Use social media effectively and creatively;
• Maintain an overview of the key relevant research, events and policy developments;
• Represent FoEE externally, including to the media and at external events;
• Report to and advise the coordinator of the Climate Justice and Energy team on the campaign;
• Contribute to development of strategy and tactics of the Climate Justice and Energy program beyond the specific work on energy savings and energy poverty

The campaigner will report to and be task managed by the coordinator of the Climate Justice and Energy team.

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Essential requirements:

• Strong commitment to, and passion to match, the values, vision and mission of Friends of the Earth Europe;
• A clear understanding and commitment to intersectional campaigns for climate justice;
• Experience in managing campaigns, including the various responsibilities involved (such as fundraising, planning, coalition and alliance building, event management, communications);
• A minimum of three years’ experience in working with an NGO or social justice organisation;
• Experience in dealing with actors from different backgrounds: such as decision-makers at high and working-level, MEPs, NGOs, grassroots groups, social justice organisations and trade unions, , activists, lobbyists, researchers, media, etc.;
• Experience in project management, including proven ability to effectively adjust plans to rapidly changing circumstances;
• Good understanding of energy and/or climate issues;
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English; knowledge of other European working languages is an advantage;
• Ability to work both independently and as part of a team;
• Motivation to exchange with and learn from colleagues;
• Creativity: able to think out of the box and find new ways to campaign;
• Flexibility: able to attend evening/weekend meetings and undertake travel.

Desired experience

• Experience in campaigning on climate justice, energy savings and efficiency or energy poverty is an advantage;
• Experience of working with systematically marginalized groups is an advantage

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We offer:

The position is currently online and can be done remotely but when Corona measures ease it is assumed you will join us in Brussels in the FoEE office.

This position is offered for 4 days a week. A salary between Euro 2.096 and 3.094  gross per month, depending on experience.

FoE Europe offers an attractive benefits package, including a 13th month salary, lunch vouchers, an additional 5 days of holidays per year, pension scheme, hospitalisation and comprehensive travel insurance. We also offer full coverage of train travel in case of commuting within Belgium. FoE Europe offers a motivating working environment in an international NGO and office located in an environmentally-friendly NGO building. We offer the position for 10 months. The position is only open to persons with the right to live and work in the EU.

Friends of the Earth Europe actively welcomes candidates of all descriptions, regardless of age, sexual orientation, marital status, wealth, religious, philosophical or political beliefs, language, present or future state of health, disability, physical or genetic characteristics, gender, pregnancy, parental status, change of sex, nationality, race, skin colour, ancestry, nationality, descent, national or ethnic or social origin. FoE Europe strives to make our office as diverse as possible.

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To apply:

Send your motivation letter (maximum 2 pages), and CV summarising your experience – education, employment, activism, volunteering, relevant lived experience, etc (maximum 3 pages, no photos please) by midnight September 12th 2021 at the latest to: climateandenergyjob@foeeurope.org

Interviews are scheduled for the week of Sept 20th 2021. FoEE will store your application and all corresponding data for a period of 6 months after the job advert closes. If you would like us to keep your CV and application letter on file, please indicate this in your email.

Only candidates selected for the test and interviews will be contacted – thank you for your understanding.