Campaign Manager

Job description

Clean Creatives SA is a new Fossil Free South Africa campaign. It is a local version of the original Clean Creatives campaign based in the US. The Clean Creatives pledge challenges the institutional power and social licence of the fossil fuel industry in South Africa by asking professionals and agencies in the advertising and PR industries to pledge to decline future work from the fossil fuel industry. 

The social, financial and political influence of the global fossil fuel industry continues to be one of the greatest obstacles to securing a future safe from continuing climate breakdown.

Fossil Free SA has been working for several years to challenge the financial influence of the fossil fuel industry by asking people and institutions to stop investing in fossil fuel companies. Now, we seek to challenge their media and cultural influence by making it much harder for them to find creative people willing to help greenwash their operations.

The Clean Creatives SA directors have secured funding for an initial year of campaigning, and are now looking for a campaign manager to start.

Your responsibilities will be:

• Building the public profile of the Clean Creatives campaign by driving public awareness and signatory engagement through intensive networking, public events on and off-line, social media, op eds and articles, and other content development. 
• Build and manage a database of companies involved in and examples of greenwashing, 
• Liaison with our US partners.
• Day-to-day management of this campaign, working with oversight and guidance from Fossil Free SA coordinator David Le Page and Clean Creatives SA director Stephen Horn; and our advisory committee. 

This is a part-time, flexi-time position, remote working, with the option of taking a desk in the Stoep Startup Co-Working Space in Plumstead. A Cape Town-based candidate is preferred. You will need your own reliable computer and Internet connection. The initial duration of the project is one year from Jul/Aug 2022; this may be extended if we are able to renew our funding as hoped for. Diversity will be a strong consideration in making this appointment.

Please apply by filling in our application form and uploading your <10MB CV here. Applications close 7 July.

Requirements

• Excellent insider knowledge of and connections within the SA advertising / PR industry (minimum 5-8 years in industry)
• Passionate concern for human rights and the environment; and ideally some track record of meaningful activism
• Well-organised, systematic, strategic thinker and self-starter

  Good collaborator

• Good at getting engagement and building networks on social media
• Good writing skills and basic design skills (enough to support social media work) 
• Organised, comfortable working in cloud
• Basic website management skills
• Event organising experience
• Comfortable with public speaking and communications, eg, radio interviews