South Africa, Climate Justice Coalition Field

**South Africa, Climate Justice Coalition Field Organiser**

**_ 350.org is looking for a field organiser for the South African Climate Justice Coalition - a diverse civil society coalition working to advance a transformative climate justice agenda._**

**About 350.org**

350.org is building a global grassroots movement to solve the climate crisis. Our online campaigns, grassroots organizing, and mass public actions are led from the bottom up by thousands of volunteer organizers in over 188 countries. 350.org works hard to organize in a new way—everywhere at once, using online tools to facilitate strategic offline action. We want to be a laboratory for the best ways to strengthen the climate movement and catalyze transformation around the world. The values that guide and drive our work are listed here.

**350.org is an equal opportunity employer. **350.org strives to be an inclusive and collaborative group of people who bring a variety of approaches to the work we do. We're committed to the principles of justice, and we try to build a safe workplace where everyone is treated fairly and enjoys working together. We value new perspectives, ideas of all sorts, and different ways of working. Diverse perspectives and experiences improve the way 350.org carries out our work - including what we decide to work on and how creatively/effectively we do that. We do our best to make staff positions accessible to all potential team members, regardless of race, national origin, ethnicity, age, disability, assigned gender, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation or identity, religion or creed, veteran status, marital or parental status, and genetic information. We also strive to include team members in communities most impacted by climate change or impacted by other kinds of environmental, social, and economic injustice.**

**About the Climate Justice Coalition**:
The Climate Justice Coalition is a coalition of South African trade unions, grassroots, community and non-profit organisations. It is working on advancing a transformative climate justice agenda, which works to tackle inequality, poverty, and unemployment. The coalition advocates for a vision of climate justice which advances environmental, energy, gender, racial, climate, and economic justice together. The coalition aims to advance the struggle for climate justice using a combination of litigation, advocacy, education, training, mobilising, organising, campaigning, and non-violent direct action. The coalition's strength lies in our diversity both in terms of our member base and in terms of bringing together our different tactics to collectively advance climate justice.

The coalition is led by a secretariat and steering committee and has a diverse array of members working on a variety of social, labour, health, environmental, energy, education, gender, human rights, and climate justice issues. You can view a list of members on our website: ClimateJusticeCoalition.org. The coalition meets as a full coalition once a month. We also work through task team structures. We currently have four different task forces focused on energy and mining justice, legal advocacy, economic justice, and communications. Education is also a cross-cutting responsibility of the coalition.

**About the Climate Justice Coalition Field Organiser**:
**Duties and Responsibilities**

**Strategy and planning**
- Working in partnership with the secretariat and steering committee to create strategies and plans for organising work in South Africa.

**Organising**
- Finding new ways to reach potential organisations and communities.
- Absorbing potential organisations and movements into the coalition from the coalition activities, both offline and online.
- Responding to enquiries to the coalition to get involved.
- Supporting groups to grow and be more strategic and effective through:

- Trainings
- Workshops
- Access to resources
- Mentoring
- Regular communication
- In person meetings
- Working together

**Mobilising**
- Coordinating offline events and groups involvement in these events.
- Incorporating groups in the coalition's campaigns and work.
- Empowering groups to support each other.
- Supporting groups to hold their own events, and ensuring the coalition is able to amplify them.

**Training**
- Identifying training opportunities for and from members of the coalition.
- Organising these trainings with external trainers and experts, and where appropriate, leading trainings.
- Contributing to coalition trainings and facilitation.

**Networking**
- Attending events and representing the coalition at these events.
- Forming and nurturing relationships with individuals and organisations in the climate justice space and connected movements in South Africa, as well as complimentary sectors.

**Assisting the wider coalition**
- From time to time, working with the wider coalition and steering committee on different projects. Presenting our work, representing our perspectives and assisting