About Avaaz

Avaaz is a worldwide movement that brings together 70 million members, aimed at empowering citizens and turning individual voices into a powerful collective force. This is especially crucial during key moments, enabling us to tackle urgent global issues such as climate change, biodiversity loss, land degradation, human rights violations, and threats to democracy.

The organisation is deeply mission focused and funded exclusively by members to maintain its independence. Avaaz has achieved a broad range of victories over the last 15 years that you can read about here. 

Role Overview

We're looking for a committed full-time organiser / campaigner to join our ‘creative resistance’ to stop the rise of right-wing extremism in Germany ahead of the European elections, from March until June 15.  

You will be part of a team dedicated to ensuring Europe continues to stand as a strong democratic force. This position is a unique opportunity to shape Europe's future and keep the voices of hatred and division at bay.

If this sounds exciting to you and you’re keen to leverage your investigative and/or journalistic skills to defend democracy and human rights, then do apply. We’re hiring as of today.

Responsibilities

• Lead the planning and execution of research/investigation to produce press releases, briefs and multimedia content related to the EU elections, highlighting the actual record, policies and agenda of the far right.
• Identify opportunities and trends, produce analyses in a clear and accessible manner for a wider audience. Generate story ideas and pitch compelling angles for media coverage. 
• Assist Campaign Directors in drafting campaigns, ads and other types of messaging.
• Publishing and editing online content. 

Qualifications

• Proven track record in investigative journalism or similar fields, with demonstrated results, incl. exclusive stories.
• Strong analytical, research, and investigative skills.
• Solid writing, editing and oral communication skills in German - high proficiency in English is a plus.
• Strong understanding of the German political context, the far right, far right figures and network.
• Access to media contacts, and knowledge of the media landscape in Germany.
• High-level understanding of social media and chat platforms, incl. TikTok and WhatsApp.
• Strong understanding and experience of how public elections campaigns function.
• Professionalism, efficiency and results-oriented delivery on short timelines.
• Passion and commitment to global justice, citizen empowerment and social change.
• Strong teamwork skills, comfortable in a highly collaborative team culture and a hierarchical team structure.

Location

Avaaz is a virtual organisation, with most of our work done online. This position will be based in Germany.

Compensation

Salary varies with location and experience, and is highly competitive with leading international nongovernmental organisations. The monthly compensation for this position ranges from 4.800 - 7.000 EURO.

Application Timeline

We are reviewing applications on a rolling basis, and encourage all candidates to submit applications as soon as possible. 

Avaaz’s Commitment to Equity and Inclusion 

As a global organisation with millions of members around the world, it’s important to us that our team reflects the diversity needed to lead a movement of people from across the planet, rising to meet some of the most complex challenges humanity has ever faced. We believe we can only succeed by building a diverse team full of fresh perspectives and original ideas, and we are committed to creating a working environment in which everyone has an equitable opportunity to fulfil their potential.

Our team includes English as first language and second language speakers, the self-taught and university educated, people with all sorts of professional backgrounds. If doing the job you just read about would make you excited to come to work every day, if you’re talented, hard-working and committed to making a difference - we want you to apply.

Avaaz does not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, colour, ancestry, language and accent, national origin, citizenship, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, family/parental or marital status, religion, socioeconomic class, caste, disability or any other characteristic protected by law

We are committed to ongoing learning, so if you have suggestions for us on how to better put these values into practice in our hiring process, we’d value your input. Please write to us at recruitment@avaaz.org with the subject line ‘Hiring Feedback’.

We’ll provide reasonable accommodations for qualified applicants with disabilities or special needs to participate in the application process, so please let us know if you have such a request when you apply.

Thank you!