France Team Leader - Paris, France - 350

Description

is looking for a passionate campaigner to lead our team and guide our work in France. This is a full-time role based anywhere in France.

About
is helping build a global grassroots movement to solve the climate crisis.

Our online campaigns, grassroots organising, and mass public actions are led from the bottom up by thousands of volunteer organisers in over 188 countries.

works hard to organise in a new way - everywhere at once, using online tools to facilitate strategic offline action.

We want to be a laboratory for the best ways to strengthen the climate movement and catalyse transformation around the world.

The values that guide and drive our work are listed here.


Our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion

About the France Team Leader

We are looking for an experienced and committed campaigner, with strong people and program management skills, to lead 's work in France.

Leading our small staff team in France and in collaboration with our team in Europe and partner organisations, you will be responsible for steering our work to achieve ambitious campaign goals.

You will identify emerging threats and opportunities in France and Europe, and work in partnership with others to develop strategies and tactics to respond to them.

You will be providing management support as well as directly delivering elements of the team's plans yourself.

This is a list of the responsibilities of the role:
Strategic leadership

• Develop an overarching national campaign strategy, relevant to the country context, and aligned with agreed regional and global priorities (including the priorities of other national/regional teams, especially in the global south). This incorporates different thematic campaigns and different functional areas (e.g. organising, mobilisation, digital, media etc)
• Monitor and evaluate progress, adapting plans accordingly
• Actively contribute to the development and delivery of regional and global strategies as required

Oversight and Direct Delivery of Strategic Campaigns and Communications

• Oversee the development and execution of campaign plans. This includes direct delivery of some elements, and supporting others to deliver the rest.
• Oversee the development and execution of organising plans in line with overall strategy
• Working with communications staff on the team oversee the development and delivery of strategic communications products and projects in line with overall strategy
• Oversee the development and execution of digital campaigns in line with overall strategy

Team Coordination, Leadership and Management

• Ensure strong internal coordination, communication and shared planning within the team to maximise impact
• Lead regular team meetings; support and plan annual face to face team retreats
• Offer firstclass direct management and support to members of the team in France to enable them to deliver to their full potential, including ensuring strong performance management
• Identify support, training and resource needs across their team, and work with others to address these.
• Recruitment and selection as and when vacancies arise in the team
• Promote and model a positive sustainable working culture in the team that provides a healthy work environment for all staff
• Be a proactive and collaborative member of 's wider Europe and global teams

External Representation and Partnerships

• Build, strengthen, and manage key external partnerships
• Convene and contribute to effective coalitions
• Represent work on climate change externally amongst partners, media, volunteers and public audiences.
• Attend key external meetings on climate change and other relevant issues

Business and Resource Management

• Oversee operations, financial management, and compliance functions in France
• Identify and mitigate risks to programmes, staff, and partners

Required qualifications

• A proven track record of developing and delivering impactful campaigns
• Experience of managing complex projects and project teams, including in a multicultural environment
• Strong strategic campaigns and communications experience
• Excellent proven people management skills, with ability to unleash the potential of staff, and provide support and guidance
• Comfortable working both independently and in teams, highly responsive, and able to lead initiatives as well as take direction from others
• Comfortable working remotely with colleagues in multiple timezones and in multicultural groups, through online tools
• Extensive experience and knowledge of current politicaleconomic realities and cultural diversity in France.
• Strong ability to build and nurture partnerships.
• Experience of external representation across multiple audiences
• Fluent in French and able to work in English

Desired (but not required) qualifications

• Experience working on climate change or other issues of environmental, social or economic justice
• A strong understanding of