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Campaign Director for The Americas The Rules Rio, Brazil

Campaign Director for the Americas

The Rules is a new citizen-led, global movement that unites the voice and collective power of the world’s majority to change the rules that perpetuate poverty and inequality.

Our aim is to build the largest transnational community of every day citizens and organizations from developing and developed countries who are committed to ending chronic and extreme poverty and closing the widening gaps of inequality everywhere.

Operating as an agile and highly decentralized campaigning organization, The Rules seeks to reanimate the anti-poverty movement and pivot it away from traditional aid-based solutions, targeting instead the structural impediments in force throughout the global system that keep over half the human race from accessing the elements for a life of opportunity.

The Rules launches formally at the end of 2012, with a key focus on work in five launch countries: Brazil, Kenya, South Africa, Nigeria and India. Working closely with actors and activists on the ground and mobilizing people around the world both online and offline, our campaigns will promote bottom-up reforms that come from local partners and individuals, and support them through on an innovative platform, world-class policy expertise, powerful digital content and technologies that reach people where they are. The Rules will fight unjust policies, processes and cultural norms, while promoting the scale and replication of the most effective new rules, backed by the solidarity of the global public.

As Campaign Director for the Americas, you will:

? Develop and execute high-impact, opportunity-driven campaign strategies combining online and mobile tactics, media expertise, and strategic partnerships

? Coordinate with the Director of Campaigns to identify and build relationships with partner organizations in relevant sectors on the ground

? Participate regularly in the Global Campaigns Working Group (to include representatives from major international campaigning organizations such as ActionAid, Oxfam, ONE in additional to local activists and issue area experts), to help identify new campaign opportunities, leverage local partnerships, and refine tactics

? Help secure positions and coordinate the voices of leading local activists, CSOs, NGOs, and thinkers in the Campaigns Working Group (e.g. Via Campesina, MSF, Meu Rio)

? Populate, coordinate and chair Regional Campaigns Working Groups as necessary

? Collaborate regularly with Campaign Directors for The Americas and Africa in globally synchronized campaigns

? Help The Rules recruit local members in target launch countries in the global south as the organization launches and expands its reach

? Use digital content procured locally and internationally in imaginative ways to motivate members to engage in outreach activities and campaigns

? Lead the ongoing research and use of online and mobile campaign tactics appropriate to the Central and Latin America

? Develop and maintain a personal profile in target media, including authoring articles, blogs and reports that communicate key lessons, best practices, and successful case studies

? Produce internal reports to inform global staff of developments and learning from Central and Latin America

? Contribute to the development of innovative policy and strategy approaches, including championing new ways of understanding power and change with colleagues and partners

? Help hire and manage local campaigners, field organizers and policy experts as needed

Qualified candidates must have:

? A commitment to building an informed, powerful base of global members who are empowered to create progressive and systemic change by ending rules that perpetuate to end chronic and extreme poverty

? At least 3 years of experience organizing campaigns for social change

? Best-in-class knowledge of mobile campaigning technologies and an ability to position The Rules at the forefront of emerging advocacy tactics

? Demonstrable experience of developing innovative approaches to achieving social change, and of the highest caliber of creative problem solving

? Strong leadership skills and an ability to work with campaigners located throughout the world

? Proven success engaging the media around politics, and in particular on issues of global poverty and social change

? Ability to write quickly, persuasively, and on deadline

? Entrepreneurial, self-motivated, and deadline obsessed

? Written and verbal fluency in at least Brazilian Portuguese, English and Spanish

? An ability to travel as needed both regionally and internationally

? Tolerance, patience and tact in dealing with a broad range of communities and capacities in the partnership arena

Pay is competitive and based on experience. The target start date for the Campaigns Director for the Americas is September 2012.

The Rules is a not-for-profit, campaigning organization that will tackle a broad range of structural issues, including land rights; tax justice; women and girls’ empowerment; food security; climate change; access to quality and affordable education and health care; transparent and accountable governance; trade and lending policy.

The Rules will be a geographically decentralized organization staffed with 10-12 persons in multiple countries, with regional offices in Rio, Mumbai, Lagos, Nairobi, New York, and Capetown

*The position location in Brazil is flexible and will be determined in conjunction with the preferences and location of the invited candidate.

The Rules is committed to providing equal employment opportunity to all persons without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, marital status or sexual orientation. We encourage applicants from around the world.

Application deadline: Friday, August 17, 2012.

To apply, please email your CV and cover letter to jobs@therules.org with the subject line “Campaign Director for the Americas.” PLEASE ALSO CUT AND PASTE YOUR CV INTO THE BODY OF THE EMAIL. No calls please.


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