Collective Abundance is a movement-building initiative that engages philanthropic funding as a tool to help strengthen the Climate Justice ecosystem across Europe. Our work aims to shift and expand funders' perspectives on what it means to resource Climate Justice work in Europe, while nurturing a collective consensus amongst fellow organisers that is so loud it begins to shift the narrative and discourse of the general climate movement towards one of climate justice. 

The Influencing Philanthropy working group is one of two main working groups of Collective Abundance. The working group is responsible for funder-focused advocacy, fundraising and educational engagement in line with our mission to expand understandings of climate justice amongst funders, move more resources to grassroot organisers and use philanthropic funds for systemic change, understanding that this may require creating systems of care and repair.

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Job Description

The working group Lead is responsible for ensuring the working group’s goals are achieved. As someone familiar with the philanthropic sector and mechanisms to bring more justice and equity to it, your role will be to build connections, instigate conversations and help ensure the success of CA’s mission to transform philanthropy into something that can truly support transitions toward more regenerative and caring societies, and resource movements for climate justice while we are at it. You will be working closely with the Operations Lead for fundraising and have access to resources to coordinate ad-hoc support as needed. 

So far this role has been implemented with an average of 5 hours a week, some weeks more some weeks less. As an emergent organisation, we continuously assess our needs and capacities and adjust accordingly. The 6-month position is to cover a parental leave, but with high probability of extension given the need for this WG’s work to be sustained. 

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Tasks

• Organising and drafting agendas for regular working group calls
• Defining & tracking objectives of the working group
• Keeping up with philanthropic news (Newsletters, Linkedin, Blog, etc)
• Identifying & joining online funder/network spaces
• Identifying & joining in-person funder/network spaces
• Writing & finalizing written pieces for Collective Abundance website
• Fundraising (maintaining CA funder database & outreach to prospective donors)
• Initiating Climate Justice/movement building conversations with (potential) allies and funders
• Collective Sense-Making organisation, facilitation & in-person logistics 

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Whom we seek

• A friendly and organised person with good communication skills 
• Familiarity with anti-racist, decolonial climate narratives and movements across Europe 
• Proven partnership and network building as well as fundraising track record
• Deep understanding of philanthropy, its critique and creative thinking about its alternative futures
• Comfortable working in/through emergent, flexible/fluid, and decentralized processes
• Experience in fundraising for grassroots work
• Writing and editing experience in English 
• Proven experience designing and facilitating processes that lead to collaboration, participation and power building  

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What we offer

❖  5hrs/week, €‎40/hour freelance contract - 6 months with possibility of extension.    

❖  Accommodation and transport for any required travel

❖  An opportunity to support a new, growing initiative reshaping climate justice funding in Europe 

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To Apply:

Please send an email describing yourself and your ability to meet each of the points under “whom we seek” above to hello@collectiveabundance.org by 15 August at 23:59 PM CET. We will be in touch within two weeks with a response.