Clean Creatives South Africa Campaign Manager - Cape Town, South Africa - Action Appointments

Action Appointments

Verified Company

Cape Town, South Africa

1 week ago

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Thabo Mthembu

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Description

_Fossil Free SA is a campaign working for an end to the fossil fuel industry in South Africa, particularly through fossil fuel divestment and challenging greenwashing in all its forms.

Our core campaigns are for divestment by individuals and institutions, an end to greenwashing by the creative industries, and for bans on fossil fuel advertising.

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Based in Cape Town, Fossil Free SA seeks to appoint a

CLEAN CREATIVES SOUTH AFRICA CAMPAIGN MANAGER
Clean Creatives SA is a 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.

Key responsibilities for the
Clean Creatives South Africa Campaign Manager will include:

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.
Continue building a database of companies involved in and examples of greenwashing.
Liaising with FFSA's US partners.
Daytoday management of the 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.

The
Clean Creatives South Africa Campaign Manager must have the following:

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; some track record of meaningful activism.
Strategic thinker, selfstarter, effective collaborator.
Good at getting engagement and building networks on social media.
Good writing skills and basic design skills (enough to support social media work).
Well organised, systematic, comfortable working in the cloud and tracking your work in shareable ways.
Basic website management skills.
Event organising experience.
Comfortable with public speaking and communications, eg, radio interviews.
Good research skills

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This is a part-time, flexi-time position, remote working. Must have own reliable computer and Internet connection and be able to travel locally to occasional in-person meetings and events._

Job Type:
Part-time

Expected hours: 20 per week

Application Deadline: 2024/03/26