Strategic Organiser : Brussels, Belgium

ITUC – International Trade Union Confederation
CSI – Confédération syndicale international
CSI – Confederación Sindical lnternacional
IGB – Internationaler Gewerkschaftsbund

Strategic Organiser
Campaigns and Communications (CAM/COM)

Brussels, Belgium

Permanent contract
Department: Campaigns and Communications (CAM/COM)
Post: Strategic Campaigner

Job description
The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) represents the world’s working people working with 340 member organisations in 163 countries. We are the largest democratically elected movement in the world.

Our campaigners and organisers design, implement and lead regional and international campaigns for workers’ rights and social justice.

We are looking for a talented and experienced Strategic Global Campaigner to fill a key position in our Campaigns and Communications Department at our Brussels headquarters.

The successful candidate will be expected to take a leading role in developing and implementing global campaign strategies which integrate political, media, organising, and legal tactics both online and offline.

Implementation of ITUC global campaigns with member organisations and requires tactical support for national plans to mobilise and organise workers.

Responsibilities

• Campaign generation and strategy: you can develop and implement campaign ideas with a strong political awareness of the trade union movement and social justice. You are constantly researching and gathering facts, information about the experience of workers where they are denied fundamental rights and secure and safe work. A capacity to identify corporate or institutional targets and to process and synthesise information and big ideas into concrete action plans is essential.
• Campaign executive and content creation: you can manage projects from creative concept to execution in a fast paced, multi lingual and international environment. You have the ability to write punchy campaign copy that inspires action across a range of formats including emails, social media content, lobby briefs and campaign reports. You can run campaigns using both online and offline tactics from street rallies that harness the strength and reach of the trade union movement. You are media savvy, and can pitch to media and write press releases that get the story covered.
• Digital campaigning skills: you can grow movements and motivate people to act on issues through social media. Using data and analytics you can adapt campaigns to have maximized impact and reach.
• Relationship building: you have excellent communication skills and are able to build relationships with an international network of contacts.
• Team work: you can work effectively with a team of colleagues with legal, political economic, backgrounds.
• Movement building: you can engage with and inspire active involvement of national trade union centres and affiliates on days of action and sustained global coordinated campaigns.
• Public communication: you can eloquently convey ITUC positions at conferences and other public fora, and represent the interests of ITUC at meetings with allies.
• Training and instruction: you can work hands-on with affiliates to develop their campaign and communications capacities, identifying and advising on best practices.

Experience required:

• Several years’ experience in a trade union organisation with responsibility for campaigning and/or communications, or in an international NGO with strong identification with the ITUC’s values and objectives;
• Experience working at regional or international levels, or demonstrated capacity to translate national experience into the international sphere;
• Strong campaigning and coordination skills, with a focus on online campaigning, and capacity to motivate and support others to take action;
• Established relationships with, or good knowledge of, key advocacy organisations, including corporate accountability-focused campaigning groups;
• Can handle several projects at once, including in different regions and on different sectors.

Skills required:

• Sound knowledge of mainstream media and specialist publications, in particular political and business media;
• Social media skills to build movements for change including mobilising communities traditionally left out of online campaigning, through innovative approaches and writing of engaging content;
• Writing and editing reports, with capacity to commission graphics, oversee layout and support
• web-design;
• Ability to identify research and fact-finding needs, conduct or commission research tailored to achieving campaign goals and coordinate the deployment of campaigning, lobbying, legal, communication and other relevant tactics to win;
• Willingness to travel internationally, adapt to different environments and work in a multicultural, multilingual setting:
• A very high level of proficiency in the English language, with knowledge of other languages
• (especially French and Spanish) a distinct advantage.

We offer an attractive salary and significant extra-legal benefits. We are an Equal-Opportunity employer and we encourage appropriately-qualified women, candidates from developing countries and members of minorities to apply.

Closing date: 12 February 2017

Applications: Applications should be sent, together with CV, to Vik Meeuws, Human Resources Director vik.meeuws@ituc-csi.org