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While the horrors of the Israeli invasion of Gaza continue, the public’s understanding and support for a free Palestine is rapidly growing. During recent years the Australia Palestine Advocacy Network (APAN) has experienced steady growth in the number of supporters and members and witnessed a shift in public opinion towards support for Palestine. Recent events have seen this solidarity grow exponentially, and APAN is adding a new role to its team to maximise the impact of this support and bring about change.
APAN Campaigns and Membership lead
This exciting new position is responsible for leading APAN’s Campaigns and Membership engagement. The role will develop and implement campaigns around boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS), campaigns to bring changes in public awareness and the public narrative around Palestine and work with the organisation’s political engagement lead to implement policy change campaigns.
The role will also manage and grow our membership base. It will be responsible for managing our database and our email communications. APAN has a small but dynamic team, and this position will work closely with others in the APAN staff team and APAN subgroups to run campaigns that have impact. This position is full time.
APAN
APAN is a national network of both organisations and many thousands of individual Australians who seek justice, freedom and equality for Palestinians. APAN works to bring a greater understanding of the realities of the human rights abuses perpetrated against Palestinians, and advocates for the Australian Government to adopt policies that will support Palestinian rights to live in dignity, justice and freedom. APAN supports grassroots advocacy and campaigns, advocates directly to government and in the media. APAN is a membership based organisation, governed by an elected Executive, and has many volunteers as well as paid staff.
Key Responsibilities
Campaigns
- Lead the conceptualisation, planning and implementation of BDS campaigns.
- Lead the conceptualisation, planning and implementation other APAN campaigns aimed at changing public awareness and/or the public narrative around Palestine.
- Develop overarching messaging and develop and implement a communications plan for each campaign.
- Work with the Political Engagement and Media Lead to implement campaigns that aim to change government policy at national, state and local levels.
- Engage with APAN member groups to involve them in APAN campaigns.
- Ensure that relevant data is collected on all campaigns, so they are evaluated and contribute to ongoing organisational learning.
Support APAN’s membership engagement and growth, including:
- Lead an annual membership drive to seek new members.
- Lead an annual membership renewal drive.
- Pursue opportunities to encourage supporters to take the next step and become members.
- Facilitate approval, process and welcome new members.
- Engage members in the work of APAN.
- Evaluate the new membership and renewal drives and report on membership growth.
- Lead the improvement and maintenance of APAN’s database systems to maximise their efficiency.
- Ensure APAN’s database systems facilitate satisfying supporter journeys and personalisation of communications.
- Manage APAN’s email communications.
Location of this position is flexible.
A position description is attached.
If you feel you meet most, but not all, of the selection criteria, please do consider applying. APAN encourages applications from all interested and qualified people.
People of Palestinian background are strongly encouraged to apply. APAN does not discriminate on the basis of sex, age, race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability. APAN welcomes people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds to apply.
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