Chief Campaigns Officer

GetUp is looking for a **Chief Campaigns Officer **who will work closely with the CEO to drive strategic, engaging and politically impactful campaigns across a wide range of issue areas. You will be an experienced and highly capable senior leader.

At GetUp, we know our capacity to drive progressive change is increased when our team has a diversity of backgrounds and experience. We are always actively looking for applicants from a diverse range of genders, cultures, language groups, abilities, and experiences to apply.

**Who is GetUp**

The GetUp movement is powered by the values and hopes of everyday people. We combine the power of over one million members, movement partners and a central team of expert strategists to make extraordinary impact.

We focus our campaigns on the areas our members care about most in the fields of First Nations Justice, Climate Justice, Human Rights, Economic Fairness and Democratic Integrity. From making sure hundreds of thousands of people are able to vote in elections, to successfully stopping major projects threatening the Great Barrier Reef, or securing billions of dollars in new funding for mental health - we have a decade-long history of taking on powerful interests, and winning.

**Who is Campaign Leadership Team**

The Chief Campaigns Officer will work as part of a small executive campaign leadership team to set direction on campaigns and political relations, and hold ultimate responsibility for key community engagement and fundraising targets. Reporting directly to GetUp’s new CEO, Larissa Baldwin, you will play a key role in driving GetUp’s mission to give people opportunities to have extraordinary impact on pressing national issues.

The Chief Campaigns Officer is chiefly responsible for balancing campaign priorities, ensuring that teams are delivering a strategic, impactful and engaging mix of campaigns, and determining the organisation’s political positioning. You will also be directly responsible for major gifts fundraising. You will work with senior staff across the organisation to ensure GetUp campaigns teams have the right structure & resourcing, are meeting fundraising goals, are making politically savvy decisions, and are operating in line with our values.

Currently, GetUp has campaigns teams working on a range of issues from First Nations Justice, Economic Fairness, Free & Fair Media, Democratic Integrity, Human Rights and Climate Justice. We also have a team of organising staff who work closely with our network of community volunteer activists.

The Chief Campaigns Officer will have line management responsibilities for a number of Campaigns Directors. You will also provide regular updates to the GetUp Board.

**GetUp’s Chief Campaigns Officer will oversee our brilliant and committed Campaign Teams specifically**:

- Working with the CEO and other executive staff to provide inspired campaign leadership to the GetUp movement and staff team;
- Leading strategic decision-making on campaigns, including setting, implementing and reporting against GetUp’s overarching political and impact strategy;
- Managing political engagement and key relationships, and cultivating a sophisticated understanding of political parties and institutions across the organisation;
- Cultivating strong philanthropic relationships and meeting major gift fundraising targets;
- Line managing senior campaigns staff, including other executive-level staff, to ensure smooth delivery of campaigns that provide GetUp members with opportunities for impact on a range of issues and achieve demonstrable social change outcomes;
- Ensuring the voices of GetUp staff and members with lived experiences are reflected in our campaigns, alongside the voices of affected communities;
- Proactively identifying campaign opportunities, challenges and risks, and making relevant resourcing decisions that promote equity, collaboration and intersectional campaigning;
- Setting, monitoring and meeting campaign fundraising and membership engagement targets, while managing campaign spending in line with the budget;
- Promoting a positive campaigns team culture that supports high performance, strategic alignment, strong employee engagement and sustainable work practices;
- Being a spokesperson for GetUp publically and in the media, and to a range of institutional, community and political stakeholders.

**You will be someone who has the following**:

- Passionate about growing and strengthening a movement of everyday people committed to creating change on a wide range of progressive issues, including a demonstrated ability to communicate and work with affected communities;
- Sophisticated knowledge about points of leverage and engagement in the Australian political system and media cycle, with an established network of sector and political contacts;
- Proven ability to lead the development of strategic campaigns across a range of issue areas that achieve demonstrable social change outcomes;
- Proven ability to