Buy Right Activist
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What does this role involve? This is an exciting opportunity to bring life to People & Planet’s Buy Right campaign. Your role as a Buy Right Activist will be running the campaign on your campus, communicating its goals and building the anti-sweatshop movement on your campus. You could organise a petition to your university, organise student or national campaign actions, bring more members into your People & Planet group or put on events.
Whatever your skills, you’ll help us campaign for universities to support workers rights and Fairtrade, and campaign on campus in solidarity with sweatshop workers and farmers in your university supply chains.
Key tasks will include:
- Using your strategic skills to plan an amazing Buy Right campaign on your campus
- Communicating the latest campaign news & using social networking tools like Facebook and Twitter to promote news stories
- Promoting awareness of sweatshop issues and building our movement on campus
- Using media skills to raise the profile of the campaign on campus
- Keeping your support buddy up-to-date on any media coverage received and on campaign achievements in your university
Skills you’ll gain:
- Campaign planning
- Time management
- Prioritisation
- Team working
- Organisation skills
- Effective communications and media skills
- Lobbying and public speaking skills
Training you’ll get:
- Campaign Planning
- How to bust student apathy on campus
- Media skills
- Lobbying and public speaking skills
- Effective communications
- People & Planet campaigns
- Monitoring & evaluation
What is required of you?
- A commitment to work around 2 hours on average per week on the role
- You must have access to a computer, internet and a phone
- A commitment to come to our annual training events, like the Student Activism Weekends and the Summer Gathering.
You’ll love this role if you have the following skills:
- An interest in tackling sweatshops through innovative campaign tactics
- Enjoy encouraging people to get involved in taking action to make a real difference in the world
- Ability to explain complex information in engaging ways
- Ability to credibly convince people
- Effective communication skills
