Creative Campaigner
What’s the job?
We are not currently recruiting for this role.
But you can learn more about what we expect from Creative Campaigner at Small Axe on this page.
You can also send your CV to be held on file for future opportunities to smallaxe@jobs.workablemail.com
As Creative Campaigner you’ll form an important part of our Campaigns team, developing creative ideas and campaigning responses to political moments.
You’ll help tell memorable stories to different audiences across a variety of platforms.
Everyday will be unpredictable, will move fast and be a learning opportunity.
This is a midweight role, we’re looking for someone with 2-3 years direct or transferable experience under their belt who can get stuck straight in. That could be in a creative or digital agency or in campaigning or organising role.
You’ll have experience of being responsible for managing a project, handling deadlines and budgets.
Person specification
You’ll have at least 2-3 years of experience working in a creative or digital agency or campaigning or organising role
You are passionate about politics and making change
You have a strong sense of what makes an effective digital campaign - you may have delivered paid advertising campaigns, created social media graphics or videos to convince people to take an action, written email campaigns to get people to turn out to an event or used other tools that can help build power
You have experience managing small projects - including budgets and deadlines
You can write engaging and punchy email campaigns
You have some experience with HTML
You have an eye for good design and what makes a graphic cut through
You have strong attention to detail
You can communicate effectively and openly with people of different backgrounds and from across the political spectrum
You have experience working collaboratively in a team to get stuff done on tight deadlines
You are open to learning and not afraid to ask questions when unsure
You have learnt to juggle and prioritise - that might be through waiting tables, working multiple jobs or working in a fast paced environment
What we expect a Creative Campaigner to do
Work alongside our design team, clients and partners to deliver creative communications - from writing punchy emails and moving film scripts, to directing a photoshoot, to producing beautiful posters, social media graphics and videos that cut through the noise.
Produce campaign actions - organising petition hand-ins, getting people to show up to rallies, seeing through creative stunts like projecting slogans onto buildings
Organise with grassroots campaigners - to develop leaders and spokespeople for the causes we champion
Support in the management of projects and campaigns - that means getting stuck into the behind the scenes admin from start to finish, knowing your budgets and deadlines, and actively engaging in project reports and reviews
Contribute to building positive relationships with partners and suppliers - communicating in person, on the phone and over email with clarity, sensitivity and integrity
Use a variety of online and offline tools to achieve your aims - always willing to adapt and learn in response to different projects, issues, partners and audiences
What that means in practice
Within a week, or even a day, you might find yourself working on the following.
Writing persuasively: crafting email and social copy that cuts through the noise, working with designers to brief in creative content
Helping to organise a parliamentary briefing: building ‘write to your MP’ actions, helping to develop the materials that will be presented on the day
Supporting film and video production: from writing scripts, scoping locations, supporting and collaborating with freelancers at shoots and feeding into editing processes
Wrangling data: using Google Sheets to understand all sorts of data, whether it’s relating to policy, analysing metrics from an ad campaign or carefully transferring supporter data from one system to another
Helping to coordinate stunts & live-streams that cut through: working with the team to programme an action, drive turn out through email and social media, support peer-to-peer texting and community organising, and plan and produce creative that stops journalists in their tracks
And all the while... communicating openly with the team, receiving and responding to feedback, being ready to jump on another project or campaign to support a colleague