Movement Builder / Organiser

Safe Landing is looking for an organiser to help grow our global movement of
climate-concerned aviation workers.

You will be working alongside our co-founders Finlay (former aircraft engine designer) and Todd
(former pilot) who are based in the UK (Bristol and London). 

About Safe Landing:

Safe Landing is a group of aviation workers campaigning
for long-term employment by challenging industry leaders to conform with climate science and
reject dangerous growth. We empower other aviation workers to demand a sustainable future for
air travel and advocate for Aviation Workers’
Assemblies to help trade unions navigate this. A critical part of what we do is voicing an
alternative to the dominant narrative that business-as-usual growth of aviation and air traffic
is a sensible economic investment that will produce secure jobs and benefit workers. We
encourage trade unions to critique the plans of business leaders and to develop their own
positive worker-led visions of the future that protect both their professions and the planet.
Read more about our positions here and
browse our Q&A.

Your main duties & responsibilities will include:

• Organising a network of climate-concerned aviation workers.
• Developing a strategy for building our movement globally across a variety of countries,
  companies and worker roles; growing the numbers of aviation workers who follow and actively
  engage with our activities.
• Laying the foundations and structure for our group to grow organically and effectively as
  new members join. 
• Performing both physical and digital outreach to organisations, groups and individuals who
  might be interested in joining and contributing to Safe Landing.
• Onboarding of new members: keeping track of new crew, understanding member motivations,
  expectations and desires for Safe Landing activities.
• Planning, scheduling and advertising Safe Landing events for our members in a way that
  maximises participation and engagement.
• Hosting and facilitating group events to enable member contributions, collaborative working
  and inclusive decision-making in order to arrive at shared group positions.
• Facilitating member collaboration between meetings/events 

What we offer:

• A full-time position of 35 hours per week, with a gross monthly salary of £2500. The
  possibility of part-time working is open to discussion. 
• The chance to connect with, engage and harness the expertise of a diverse set of
  climate-concerned aviation workers from around the world. 
• The opportunity to work at the intersection between the climate justice and worker justice
  movements: helping workers in a carbon-intensive industry navigate the consequences of climate
  impacts and policies in their sector – and how to approach this with colleagues.
• The encouragement to bring your own ideas and collectively shape the strategy of our
  movement: the activities we pursue, and our approach to engaging workers.
• The potential to put important issues on the political agenda and to pursue the goals of a
  fair, equitable and just transition for workers and affected communities.
• Fixed-term contract until December 2023 (8 months). Likely to be extended, we are looking
  for someone interested in long-term employment.

Skills and Background of an Ideal Candidate

Essential:

• Experience organising and motivating diverse groups of people to collaborate.
• Experience planning, coordinating and facilitating group events such as workshops, both physically and
  digitally.
• Good interpersonal skills: making and growing strong relationships, bringing positive
  energy to group activities.
• A reasonable understanding of the climate justice and worker-justice movements.
• Awareness of, and sensitivity to, the needs and concerns of individuals from diverse
  cultures, backgrounds and orientations, and being mindful to not reproduce any forms of
  discrimination. Experience in working together or with marginalised groups.
• Knowledge of standard computer applications for communication (e.g. Zoom/Teams), word
  processing, calendar and spreadsheets (e.g. Google docs).
• Appetite to join our occasional in-person team meet-ups or activities, and an ability to
  accommodate travel to reach these. 

Desirable:

• Experience in communications for social movement groups, e.g. websites, newsletters,
  administrating messaging (e.g. Whatsapp, Telegram, Signal) groups.
• Experience managing social media accounts (especially LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram).
• Having an activist background: understanding how social movements work, feeling comfortable
  with non-hierarchical collaboration and taking on ownership; knowledge of climate issues and
  the climate movement; interest in working in a collective.
• Having a worker justice and/or trade unionist background with understanding of how trade
  unions operate. 
• Very good writing skills in English (other languages are an advantage).
• Interest in aviation/transport policy and related issues e.g. the problems with proposed
  technological solutions (such as ‘green growth’, biofuels, offsetting). 
• Interest in participatory and deliberative democracy such as Citizens’ Assemblies.

We particularly encourage people who experience discrimination due to societal power relations
to apply. We acknowledge racism, (hetero-)sexism, classism, ableism or ageism as sadly being
part of the current society into which we are born and socialised. In the Safe Landing team we
are not exempt from this either, but we try to reflect on these discriminations — and
especially our own privileges — and to change them in an emancipatory way.

This is a remote position that will ideally be done from the UK/Europe so we’re in similar time
zones and to enable some in-person meet-ups. If you are located elsewhere, but think you’d be a
good fit for the role, we may be able to accommodate you. Safe Landing operates from grant
funding and is fiscally hosted by Climate 2025. You can work on a self-employed basis and
invoice for your work, or be paid directly as an employee on PAYE if you are based in the UK.

Application Process:

Have we gained your interest? Then please send us your application containing a letter of
motivation (up to 1 page), CV, and provide relevant examples of your work (e.g. groups, events
and/or social media accounts you have managed), and two contacts for references (of colleagues
in your former job, or activist comrades from a certain group). 

The application documents should be sent as a PDF file with your name in the file to: [email protected]. No photo is necessary.

The deadline for applications is 16th April 2023 and interviews will be scheduled on 18th –
28th April 2023. We are looking for candidates who could ideally start with us from May 1st.

Please understand that we will only consider complete application materials. Once you have
submitted your application, we will keep you informed as the selection process progresses.