Campaigns Director

About the role

• Position: Campaign Director
• Location: Remote within the countries where WeMove Europe is registered to work (UK, France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Netherlands, Poland, Belgium)
• Preferred Start Date: March 2025/ as soon as possible
• Application Deadline: February 20th

We are looking to hire either one or two Campaign Directors in this recruitment round.

We are looking for a Campaign Director to lead WeMove Europe’s campaigns, ensuring they are highly impactful and engage our members in meaningful action. We are looking to hire a Campaign Director who has skills in at least one of the following (though a combination would be ideal): Influencing EU institutions; Digital fundraising; Communications and Brand; Growing online communities; Tech and innovation.

This is a senior leadership role reporting to the Executive Director and part of the Management Team. You will be responsible for shaping and optimising WeMove Europe’s overall campaign package, as well as directing individual campaigns and - alongside other members of the Management Team - providing overall leadership for the organisation.

As a Campaign Director, you will combine political insight, a deep understanding of our members’ priorities, and experience in agile digital campaigning to engage millions of Europeans in meaningful action. You’ll work closely with our campaigns team and our tech team to design, execute, and adapt campaigns to make the most of opportunities to deliver the change we want to see in Europe.

We're a small team and we get our hands dirty every day. You'll be responsible for the big picture, but you should also be ready and excited to work on the details to push the boundaries of what is possible for social change.

Key responsibilities:

Campaigns leadership

• Provide leadership to campaigns team to design and execute exceptional campaigns
• Model a collaborative, strategic, opportunistic, and inclusive way of leading and designing campaigns
• Lead the team to develop and execute effective campaign tactics that empower WeMove members while also making political impact
• Make fast, well-judged decisions when a rapid-response opportunity arises
• Work closely with the ED to review and adapt WeMove’s campaign suite: ensuring it is optimised for impact, aligned with members priorities, and capitalises on opportunities for change
• Regularly review active campaigns, leading the team to take decisions on which to scale up, scale down, or end
• Work with the Tech team to ensure alignment between technology initiatives and campaign objectives
• Provide guidance, support and coaching to members of the campaigns team

Political insight and relationships

• Maintain a solid working insight into EU political developments, and apply it to campaign decisions to ensure WeMove’s campaigns are as effective as possible
• Support the campaigns team to develop effective political relationships
• Initiate and develop significant political relationships yourself

Organisational and people leadership

• Line management for several members of the team
• Be an active member of the Management Team, providing advice and decision-making on overall organisational leadership

Based on your profile and skill set, one or a combination of the following:

• Digital Fundraising Leadership
• Communication and Brand Oversight
• Growth, Engagement and Empowerment Oversight and Leadership
• Tech and Innovation Leadership

About You - Who are we looking for?

The role of Campaign Directorincludes a range of skills, and we realise that no single candidate is likely to have extensive experience of all of them. Alongside the role’s core skills (below), these are key skills we are looking for, and we’d especially like to hear from you if you feel you also have proven experience in:

• Influencing EU institutions
• Digital fundraising
• Communications and brand
• Growing online communities
• Tech and Innovation

We are on the lookout for a Campaign Director who can offer:

• Extensive experience (at least 5 years) in leading and executing digital campaigns
• Understanding and insight into community-led campaign models - which means you’ll also need a willingness to put your own opinions aside if they diverge with the priorities of WeMove Europe members
• Proven experience of at least 2-3 years in a leadership role - formal or informal - ideally within a campaigning organisation, non-profit, or social enterprise, including a track record of being an effective line manager
• Excellent interpersonal and leadership skills, with the ability to craft and communicate a vision, engaging and bringing stakeholders at all levels of the organisation with you
• Experience of developing long-term and rapid response campaign strategies that create impact
• Exceptional writing skills, along with the ability to support others to become strong writers through effective editing, feedback and coaching
• Ability to develop campaigns, fundraising, comms, and growth strategies that can work across multiple countries, operating on an EU and national level. We’re not necessarily expecting you to have had this experience before - but we’d like to see how your previous experience has prepared you to do this
• Experience in developing and using political insight, good judgement, relationships, and nous to shape campaigns to have the best possible political impact
• Ability to navigate and analyse data and use it to inform campaign decisions. We’re not looking for deep data expertise, but do want to see whether you’ve got a track record of getting hold of data, getting to grips with it, and using it to help you make better decisions.
• A track record of getting to grips with tech tools, and confidence in learning how to use them. You don’t need to have used specific systems before, but we want to see that you’re able to learn new tech skills, and approach the challenge proactively.
• A willingness to roll up your sleeves and get stuck into whatever is needed to succeed a campaign. This is a leadership role that often involves being hands on
• A passion for social justice, activism, and European-level policy change.
• Fluent or C2 in English (additional European languages are a plus).

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 almost 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 across Europe who connect digitally every day and in person periodically.

What we offer:

• Working hours: Full-time position (5 days/week) or, if preferred, a 4-day week with a pro-rata salary adjustment.
• Employment type:Permanent Contract starting with a probation period based on your national labour code in any of the countries we operate in (UK, France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Netherlands, Poland, Belgium)
• Location: Remote within EU
• 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…!
• Salary: Gross year salary per country, depending on experience level and location. The ranges below are indicative and based on 7+ years of relevant experience.
  • Netherlands, UK: 66,000 - 74,000 (Amsterdam, London ranges 12%-20% higher)
  • France, Belgium, Germany, Italy: 60,000 - 67,000 (Paris, Brussels, Berlin ranges 7%-10% higher)
  • Spain, Poland: 48,000 - 54,000 (Madrid, Warsaw ranges 11% higher)

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 encourage applications if you feel you fit most but not all of the criteria.

Next steps

If you are interested in this position, please send your application, including:

• Motivation letter.
• CV. Including your language skills in your first language, English and other languages according to a scale from A1 to C2.

Our recruitment process involves the following stages:

• Evaluation of applications
• First round of Interviews - Monday 24th or Tuesday 25th February
• Online task assessment - upon successful completion of the first interview, week of March 3rd
• Second Interview upon successful completion of the task
• In person meeting prior to final decision and reference check

[Applications in languages other than English will not be processed. Applications from people based outside the countries where WeMove Europe operates (UK, France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Netherlands, Poland, Belgium) will not be considered.]

• Working hours: Full-time position (5 days/week) or, if preferred, a 4-day week with a pro-rata salary adjustment.
• Employment type:Permanent Contract starting with a probation period based on your national labour code in any of the countries we operate in (UK, France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Netherlands, Poland, Belgium)
• Location: Remote within EU
• 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…!
• Salary: Gross year salary per country, depending on experience level and location. The ranges below are indicative and based on 7+ years of relevant experience.
  • Netherlands, UK: 66,000 - 73,000 (Amsterdam, London ranges 12%-20% higher)
  • France, Belgium, Germany, Italy: 58,000 - 65,000 (Paris, Brussels, Berlin, Rome ranges 5%-10% higher)
  • Spain: 49,000 - 55,000 (Madrid ranges 10% higher)
  • Poland: 45,000 - 51,000 (Warsaw ranges 10% higher)

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 encourage applications if you feel you fit most but not all of the criteria.