Digital Campaigner & Fundraiser (German Language)

About the Role

• Position: Digital Campaigner and Fundraiser (German Language)
• Location: Remote within the countries where WeMove Europe is registered to work (UK, Italy, Spain, Germany, Netherlands, Poland)
• Preferred Start Date: February 2025 / as soon as possible
• Application Deadline: January 23rd

WeMove Europe is looking for a Digital Campaigner and Fundraiser (German Language) who is able to think, do, and deliver. Someone who loves being part of fast-paced digital campaigning for a better Europe and can also think about the bigger strategic picture.

Most importantly the digital world: online campaigning, fundraising and innovative digital tactics excite you, and you are keen to learn more in this field. Data analysis and data driven decision-making is not a frightening concept to you, on the contrary.

As a Digital Campaigner and Fundraiser (German Language), your tasks will include:

Digital, Creative, Comms

• Identify european campaign opportunities and develop and lead on campaigns from planning phase, to execution, pulling out the creative digital tactics in between
• Storytelling - Write strong, compelling copy which results in our members taking action on various issues, including for email and social media platforms
• Tailor our emails fundraisers and messages to the German context
• Manage email communications with our German members, including setting up and sending emails using our online campaigning tools (currently, ActionKit), and analysing data and user engagement
• Run ads in your country to optimise our campaigns for growth and impact
• Stay up-to-date with digital campaigning and marketing trends and find innovative ways to apply them at WeMove Europe
• Organise “offline” actions such as demonstrations, petition handovers etc.
• With with a part-time Digital Organiser to help manage the German community

Fundraising

• Fundraise from individual donors in Germany
• Support the fundraising team in executing our members focused fundraising strategy,
• Tailor fundraising messages to our German community
• Support campaigners to raise funds for their campaigns and from their communities

Partnerships

• Build and maintain relations with partners in NGOs and movements in Germany and EU-wide
• Help us understand the political dynamics in Germany by keeping connected to local movements, alternative thinking and researching policy processes within your national context as it connects to the EU level

Other

• Travel nationally and EU-wide for team meetings, retreats, stakeholder and partner meetings, and petition deliveries

About You - Who are we looking for?

We are seeking a passionate and dedicated Digital Campaigner and Fundraiser(German Language) who brings these qualities to the table:

• You are comfortable with and excited by helping people understand their own power and becoming agents of change
• You understand the power of words and stories to make change, and you write great copy and have great writing skills in English and German
• You speak and write German at a native or fluent (C2) level
• Results drive you and crave more data, keen to run tests that are backed by statistical significance and are always looking to improve your work
• You excel at finding visuals and creating engaging graphics and video content for campaigns.
• You are comfortable with new software, online tools and all things digital
• You are deeply committed to working in Germany and Europe for bold, structural change and believe in empowering the people around you to do the same
• You have some experience with non-partisan political campaigning, and if that experience is online and digital that’s an added bonus
• You have a strong understanding of the political and social context in Germany as well as some understanding of the European context.
• You are fluent in English to a degree that you can work in an English-speaking environment and can translate from English into German
• You are happy with travel in Europe
• You look forward to working in a team where we all strive to learn from each other in order to have the biggest possible impact
• You have some experience in digital fundraising

Bonus Skills and knowledge

While we understand that no one possesses all these skills and experiences, we would encourage that you will bring 2 or 3 of the following to our team:

• Extensive Digital fundraising experience
• Digital Marketing
• Great writing skills in English
• Statistics / Data analytics
• Additional European languages
• Street actions & protests
• You are well networked nationally and regionally in activist circles
• Strong understanding of one or more other European countries, gained from personal or professional experience

Why us?

WeMove Europe is an independent and values-based organisation that seeks to build people power to transform Europe in the name of our community, future generations and the planet. We are people from all walks of life, who call Europe our home – whether we were born in Europe or elsewhere.

Our job is to move a community of a million people across Europe on issues that matter - including the climate emergency, migrant rights, workers rights, better governance, and more. We know this number of people also needs to grow and diversify further so we can represent a strong critical mass that can bring about change in Europe.

We work with staff accross Europe who connect digitally every day and in person periodically.

Conditions:

• Full time position (40hrs/week);
• 1 year labour contract based on your national labour code
• Location: Remote within the countries where WeMove Europe is registered to work (UK, Italy, Spain, Germany, Netherlands, Poland)
• Benefits: home office set up and co-working space of your choice, 30 vacation days, training, professional development, regular team calls, full week retreat in person with the whole team, and much more…!

We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive workplace which is why people from communities that experience discrimination on the basis of race, ethnicity; women; people with disabilities; and LGBTQ+ people are especially encouraged to apply.

We do not share the implicit belief that online campaigners necessarily have to be very young and encourage also people who left their twenties and thirties behind to apply.

Next steps

If you are interested in this position, please send an application in English by January 23rd. Please include:

• Motivation letter. Please include a mention of your experience with voluntary political activism
• CV. Including your language skills in your first language, English and other languages according to a scale from A1 to C2.
• Relevant samples of your work (if applicable)

Our recruitment process involves the following stages:

• Evaluation of applications
• Online task assessment
• 1-2 round interviews
• Final decision

[Applications in languages other than English will not be processed]

[Applications from people based outside the countries where WeMove Europe operates will not be considered.]