Introduction

Starting salary up to £26,050 - 35 hours - London

We need highly organised, enthusiastic and motivated people to support our teams in Food & Biofuels and International Climate to help ensure our campaigns are running as effectively as possible.

With previous experience of working in an administrative and support role, including experience of setting up and managing administrative systems, you will be confident at managing volunteers and working with a wide range of people including local campaigners, internal experts and representatives of other organisations.

Friends of the Earth gives all applications equal consideration. Job share applicants welcome

Supplementary information:

Campaign Assistant

The role has an emphasis on the importance of information management using core systems, working to agreed protocols and demonstrating leadership through good practice.  The Campaign Assistant provides campaign support to Campaigners and in supporting campaigns, ensures that information about related issues, external policy developments, FOE policy positions and campaigns is available to a variety of internal and external audiences such as local groups, our Supporter Information Team, as well as Communications and Media and Fundraising. Part of this role will be to 'know who knows' and where to get information from, within and beyond Friends of the Earth. In collaboration with staff in Communications and Activism teams, you will also manage communications to activist networks linked to team issues. The role also requires an ability to write succinctly to communicate our campaign developments and actions on the website and to internal and external audiences, and an ability to work with a variety of internal and external people to help deliver, and sometimes manage, specific projects such as events or training days for local activists.

The Food and Biofuels team (permanent appointment):

This team delivers Friends of the Earth's Food Chain and biofuels campaigns.  The Food Chain campaign is focused on tackling the environmental and social damage caused by intensive production of livestock, particularly through the dependency of soy grown in South America for animal feed. The campaign is working for changes in UK and European farming policy to shift money towards systems that don't wreck the environment or livelihoods abroad and boost a sustainable farming sector in the UK and Europe.

The biofuels campaign is working to halt unsustainable targets for the use of biofuels that contribute to deforestation, rising food prices and increasing greenhouse gas emissions.

The International Climate Team (temporary appointment until 23 March 2012):

This team delivers Friends of the Earth's International Climate campaigns that focus on reducing greenhouse gas emissions so as to prevent dangerous climate change, which is one of the most pressing challenges facing humanity. The campaign works with others for a strong and just global agreement where those most responsible for creating the climate problem reduce their domestic emissions whilst also supporting sustainable development and poverty reduction for those most vulnerable to the climate crisis. At the European level we work to ensure that the EU commits to adequate emissions reductions and not to promote false solutions to the climate crisis such as carbon markets and offsets. We also campaign for real global solutions that seek to transforms us away from a dependency on dirty fossil fuels towards a clean energy future that both reduces global emissions as well as providing energy access to the billions of people who currently do without.

Role profile

Background information

Salary
The starting salary if you are based in London is in a range from £22,320 to £26,050 a year.

The top of the salary range for this role is £28,083 a year. If you are employed to work less than a full time 35 hour week your pay will be based on the number of hours you work as a percentage of full time.

We have a competence based career stages pay structure. Each competence level relates to a pay level.

Based on what you demonstrate during the recruitment process, we gather evidence to assess the level of competence on our career stage structure that you already fully meet. We pay you at this level. Please note: we do not negotiate your pay level.

After you join, you can progress your pay by demonstrating increased competence at annual appraisal against the criteria for the career stages associated with your role profile.

Pension / Life Assurance
You can join our group personal pension scheme after three months service. You can choose from a range of socially responsible funds. We will match your contributions up to a maximum of seven per cent of salary but you may contribute more if you want to build your pension up.

Friends of the Earth also provides life assurance for all employees, to pay out 4 x your annual salary in the event of your death while you are employed by us.

Place of work
You will be based at our Head Office near Old Street

Hours of work
35 hours per week. Friends of the Earth operates a flexi time scheme with normal core office
hours of between 10.00-12.30 and 14.30-16.30, within a working time bandwidth of 07.00-20.00.
You are entitled to an unpaid lunch break of between 30 minutes and two hours.

If you need to work evenings and/or weekends, you should record it through the time recording system.

Holiday
The holiday year at Friends of the Earth runs from 1 January to 31 December each year. Holiday entitlement is initially 25 days paid holiday per year. You can accrue an extra day’s holiday entitlement, up to a maximum of 30 days, for every full year of continuous employment at the beginning of the holiday year (1 January). You are also entitled to paid time off for public holidays. There are some exceptions to this such as when you are on maternity / adoption leave or long term leave of absence.

Diversity and equal opportunities
We give all applications fair consideration. We have a Diversity Forum to drive us forward to being a more diverse organisation in all we do.

We regret that Friends of the Earth does not yet have full wheel chair access.

Working culture
Everything we do, from the day to day operational work to strategic planning, is done with a commitment to participation.

It works for us. We want you to feel involved in all that we do: able to contribute to decision making in ways that make sense and work for you. You can choose not to participate but if you don’t you still have to accept decisions that we take in this way.

It’s an opportunity and a responsibility. We all

• accept responsibility with authority and accountability for their actions
• act as leaders and visionaries
• participate and contribute in an appropriate way at the appropriate times
• actively follow through on decisions made through agreed processes, even if they do not agree with the outcome
• are willing to be swayed by others
• exert self-discipline
• praise and challenge themselves and others, rather than waiting for feedback from on high
• exhibit respect for others in the organisation
• are transparent in the way they do things
• show trust and confidence in each other
• respect expertise
• celebrate success and talk up their organisation internally as well as externally
• provide constructive feedback
• recognise the importance of communication and sharing information across teams

Loans
We offer interest free loans to all staff for the following:
Season ticket - up to £5,000
Bicycle - up to £5,000 to buy a pedal bicycle for travel to and from work
Personal Development - up to £2,000 to pay for courses, qualifications etc that we do not directly fund
Total of all loans cannot exceed £5,000, the current taxable limit.

Childcare vouchers
You can sacrifice some of your gross salary to buy vouchers for childcare. This can be worth doing as you don’t have to pay tax or National Insurance contributions on the value of the vouchers.

Removal expenses
If you have to move home to be able to take up employment with Friends of the Earth you can claim up to £3000 removal expenses, payable on submission of receipts. For further information and to find out if you qualify contact Human Resources.

Discount card
You can get a card which allows you discounts at local leisure centres.

Online Shop
Our online Shop stocks an extensive range of reading materials on environmental issues from the political to the practical. Staff and volunteers are entitled to 30% off ALL titles sold in the Shop. Log onto www.foe.co.uk/shop

Flexible Working
We consider applications for flexible working arrangements from staff with at least six months service. This can be:

Reduced hours: where we agree that you can work fewer contractual hours than in your current role.
Job Sharing: where we agree that two people can share the same role.
Changing Office Location: where we agree that you can work from a different Friends of the Earth office.

Background information
Friends of the Earth is making life better for people by inspiring solutions to environmental problems.

We are:

• the UK's most influential national environmental campaigning organisation
• the most extensive environmental network in the world, with around two million supporters across five continents and more than 75 national organisations worldwide
• a unique network of campaigning local groups, working in more than 220 communities throughout England, Wales and Northern Ireland
• dependent on individuals for over 90 % of its income.

Organisational structure
We employ about 150 paid staff, based mainly in our London Head Office. We also have a Supporter Care unit in Luton and smaller regional offices in major cities across England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Volunteers play a vital role in our success as an organisation and we currently have around 75 volunteers working in our national and regional offices.

We are led by a management team of our Executive Director and other staff who bring the necessary strategic and operational expertise to ensure we achieve our Strategic Plan. We do this through activities and programmes of work, mostly in cross-functional teams. Members of this management team have individual responsibilities to ensure the delivery of specific activities and collective responsibilities for ensuring the delivery of the whole plan.

All staff member are part of a ‘home team’, led by a team leader who provides professional support and development, coaching and other line management functions.  

Here are the strategic aims we want to achieve by 2013.

1. Biodiversity and ecosystem services
   To halt biodiversity loss and reverse the loss of ecosystem services by 2030 at the global, regional and national levels, in ways that protect the rights of people who depend on ecosystem services and enhance the sustainable use of natural habitats.
2. Climate change
   To get global concentrations of greenhouse gases on a trajectory to prevent average global temperatures exceeding 2 degrees centigrade above pre-industrial levels by promoting solutions, including the securing of legal and economic frameworks to reduce emissions in an equitable way and in a way that does not undermine biodiversity objectives
3. Sustainable Economies and Resource Use
   Identify the major transformations that must be made to the UK economy and economic policy, and secure actions to achieve these - so that we respect global environmental limits, ensure fair access to resources and pollution capacities, and deliver well-being to all people; and help catalyse transformations to the global economy.  And implement improvements to UK and EU resource use.
4. Rights
   To secure a substantive right to a healthy environment in UK law; strengthen the Aarhus procedural rights; and empower people to use their environmental rights.
5. Delivering Sustainable Development in Nations and Regions
   Make a significant shift towards sustainable development in regions and nations, and assist the move towards Sustainable Development in the UK, predominantly through the delivery of the low carbon communities campaign but also assisting in the delivery of resource use, biodiversity and rights solutions as identified in other Aims and, where necessary, responding to significant cases of environmental injustices affecting those campaign areas.
6. International
   Through effective collaboration with others secure a strong and co-ordinated FOEI federation that wins international campaigns on mutually agreed programmes.
7. Reputation and Reach
   Through the delivery of the Brand Strategy: ensure that Friends of the Earth’s prioritised audiences recognise Friends of the Earth as the leading organisation that involves people in campaigning for solutions to the global sustainability challenges and makes life better for people.
8. Supporter Development Aim
   To maximise the value and commitment of all the people who support us.
9. Activism
   In the UK, Friends of the Earth is supporting and empowering its expanded activist networks to act with sufficient force to achieve its campaign aims.
   As a result, substantially more people in the UK feel empowered to take political action for environmental solutions.
10. Fundraising
    To create a secure and stable income base for the organisation, sufficient to implement the strategic plan
11. Organisational Development
    Friends of the Earth is fit for purpose to deliver the strategic plan.

How to apply

We want staff to share our vision and join in our success. We aim to recruit the best person for any vacancy. We communicate our vacancies widely and openly and are committed to giving all applicants fair consideration.

We use the information you give us in your application form to decide whether to invite you to interview. We want you to do the best application you can. Here's some guidance to help you.

First

• Role profile first. This sets out what we are looking for under specific headings which we call the competencies of this role. You need to relate your experience to these same headings which appear on the application form.
• Introduction (and supplementary information). This tells you about the work you will be doing if you are successful.
• Background – the terms and conditions of this role and some of the benefits of working here

Applying

Please note : We're unable to sponsor a visa application for anyone who cannot supply the original of one of documents accepted under the Asylum and Immigration Act (1996) as evidence that you're allowed to work in the UK. Please do not apply if you cannot fulfil this legal requirement.

The headings in the application form match those in the role profile. Think about how well your knowledge, skills and abilities fit what we are looking for in the role profile and supplementary information. Don't just tell us that you have the skills listed in the role profile or say that you believe you can do the job. Under each of the headings please give us real examples of what you did, when and how you did it and what part you personally played.

Check you are free to come on the planned interview date. If not, please tell us on your application why you can't come and tell us when you are free to come.

Keep a copy of your application form before you submit it online or post it to us.

We send an automated email in response to online applications but can't acknowledge posted forms.

We encourage online applications but you can also download a copy of the application form as a PDF and post it to us.

Shortlisting

At least two people assess how closely your application matches what we are looking for and decide the interview shortlist. We contact shortlisted candidates by phone and ask them to come to interview.

Interviews

If we invite you for an interview we will ask you in more detail about what you have done so you might want to remind yourself what you wrote in your application and be able to talk to the interview panel about it. We often ask candidates to do a job-related exercise to help us assess their competence in particular areas; some are given unseen on the day of the interview, others you will be told about in advance of the interview so you can prepare. When we ask you to interview we will tell you if you will have to do an exercise. If we haven't contacted you by the interview date your application has not been successful.

Feedback

If we interview you we will let you know the outcome and are happy to offer feedback if you would like this. Many of our vacancies are very popular and if you are not shortlisted unfortunately we do not have the resources to be able to contact you and can’t give you feedback.

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