Campaigns Manager

Surfers Against Sewage are looking for a Campaigns Manager.

• Full-time: 37.5 hours per week
• Language:
  English
• Location:
  
  St Agnes, Cornwall, UK
• Salary: £36,419- £41,170 per year
• Applications closing: 22nd March

The Campaigns Manager will develop and lead the delivery of highly engaging campaigns and activations on water quality, the ocean and climate emergency and ocean recovery. You will work with the SAS network of communities and beyond, supporting communities in building their power to successfully campaign on water quality, the ocean and climate emergency and ocean recovery.

The role will work closely with the Campaigns Manager focusing on plastic Pollution and with the wider Campaigns team;
Policy and Advocacy, Communities and Comms teams to engage and motivate individuals and communities to join SAS in our fight for a thriving ocean and thriving people.

This critical role will deliver some of our most exciting, impactful and visible work – mobilising our supporters and the wider public, engaging and building the power of communities, to bring about local and systemic change. At SAS we deliver both mass mobilisation national campaigns and grassroots community campaigns, and the Campaigns Manager will lead on both.

The successful candidate will have proven experience of mass digital campaigning, using their creativity to engage audiences through innovative strategy and tactical execution and/or experience of community organising or community engagement.

• Develop and lead impactful SAS campaigns (across water quality and ocean‑climate related issues), both online and offline, that mobilise the public, engage communities, and motivate our political targets to act.
• Producing clear campaign plans that deliver to organisational and project objectives, using a creative approach to maximise impact.
• Delivering well‑designed distinctive campaigns, including innovative and creative campaign tactics, that drive real change – championing an audience and impact first approach to campaigns.
• In partnership with the Communities teams, devising and delivering engaging and accessible online and offline training, events, tools and/or campaigns that support community needs to power up local campaigns. This could include networking, capacity‑building and knowledge sharing.
• Community engagement – building strong and authentic relationships within our core communities and beyond. This includes wider water user and surf communities.
• Develop strong working relationships with relevant stakeholders and key external figures – for example grassroots groups, third sector organisations, politicians, local businesses and local councillors – to collaborate on campaigning and advocacy work.
• Work collaboratively, leading cross‑departmental project teams in a fast‑paced and rapidly changing environment.
• Leading team to commission / produce and delivering all content and outputs identified as part of the campaign, including emails, petitions and social media content.
• Working closely with other teams to lead, plan and execute content strategies across social, web, email, and traditional media for campaigns.
• Identify rapid response campaigning opportunities in response to changing events or context.
• Managing day‑to‑day relationships with sub‑contractors to produce design work, videos, imagery etc.
• Embedding monitoring, evaluation and learning on the impact of our campaigns into your work.
• Managing team budgets.
• Actively seek diverse inputs and inclusive approaches.
• Carry out any other duties as are within the scope, spirit and purpose of the post as requested by your line manager.
• Line Management responsibility

• Experience in designing and delivering inspiring public campaigns, harnessing the power of individuals to bring about systemic change – ideally from a mission‑led background, and/or experience in working alongside communities to power up their campaigns, harnessing the power of communities to bring about systemic change – ideally from a mission‑led background.
• Well versed in the day‑to‑day running campaigns but also able take a strategic view.
• Creativity to develop purposeful, authentic,…