Europe Movement Support Coordinator & Coach

This job can be part-time to start but is intended as a full-time role. You can be based anywhere in Europe.

Watch this 2-minute intro video: bit.ly/SMT10yrs

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 Europe; 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 SMT's work and be in the trenches working on campaigns too.

About SMT. Social Movement Technologies’ mission is to provide organizing strategy, training and campaign support to build people-power for justice and win in the digital age. We're a non-profit/NGO movement support group, driven 100% to meet movement needs. We're super lean - we do lots with little, just like most of the groups we work with.

SMT’s small but highly effective team has trained staff from over 6800 groups and unions over its first 13 years, and worked with 240 groups on campaigns more in-depth. Staff team members are based on five continents.

SMT provides the in-depth digital campaign support and training that staff and activists need in the digital age. Our goal is to expand access by driving down the cost and providing excellent online learning experiences to deepen digital organizing proficiency dramatically. We focus on using digital campaigning to amplify in-person action, broaden support, activate supporters, and pressure targets.

Location. Social Movement Technologies is a 100% remote organization. For this position you must be located in Europe.

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 Europe
• Build an instructor team of practitioners from across the continent and help to shape and do outreach
• Keep your fingers on the pulse of new tech and digital developments in the enormous diversity of Europe, testing out tools and comparing them so that SMT can help European 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 on the continent.
• 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, or building out a rigorous activist pipeline. You've worked as part of smaller and not just larger teams.
• 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 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.
  
  

How to apply: Use of A.I. to draft responses is detectable and leads to applications that aren't useful and are more likely to be declined. This app only allows one document upload, so please include your list of tools at the end of your cover letter. If you have other work you'd like to share, include a link to a folder of your campaign work or other documents at the bottom of your cover letter. A later step in the process will include a timed live exercise. References will be required.

***You should have a list of digital tools and tactics with which you work, and campaign collateral and narrative. Please don't take the time to apply if you are not at this level. Thank you!***

We regret that we will not be able to acknowledge all applications personally, nor do we have the capacity to have pre-application conversations. We greatly appreciate that time and care is invested in each of them. The position will be open until filled.

Social Movement Technologies is an equal opportunity and inclusive employer. SMT does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion (creed), gender, gender expression, age, national origin (ancestry), disability, marital status, sexual orientation, or military status, in any of its activities or operations. We believe that a diverse staff enables us to better understand and serve our members, audience and community. Women, people of color, and members of low-income, disadvantaged, and LGBTQ communities are strongly encouraged to apply.