Change.org is looking for Country Director, India

Change.org is a rapidly expanding, profitable social venture growing by hundreds of thousands of members a month and empowering people across the globe to win social action campaigns on a wide range of issues such as human rights, global poverty, and environmental protection.

Change.org is hiring Country Director, who will oversee our advocacy and organising efforts in India to crafting and executing rapid-response campaigns, and helping millions of activists start and successfully run their own local campaigns, and build a team that scales with success.

We are flexible on location so long as applicants are within India and have easy access to a major international airport. Pay and benefits are very competitive. This job is exceptionally fast-paced.

The Country Director will:

• Identify promising grassroots campaigns started by activists in India or pertaining to regional issues, and help these campaigns win by providing strategic advice, conducting media outreach, and promoting them across the web, and to our members via email
• Collaborate with a global team of organisers to identify opportunities for creating effective grassroots campaigns that win measurable social change
• Establish and maintain deep partnerships with leading NGOs - local, regional, and global in scope - and help them run successful campaigns on Change.org

The ideal candidate should have the following:

• Innovative ideas for how to use online organising to win local, national, and international campaigns
• A willingness to take risks, to fail and to adapt
• Management experience and an entrepreneurial spirit
• A strong interest in aiding local, member-driven online organising campaigns and developing member capacity for ever-larger campaigns. (This is the backbone of our work and what we see as the biggest opportunity for transformational change.)
• A history of online public mobilisation for grassroots social change
• A strong grasp on politics, the political process and current social justice issues within India and globally

To apply, please send a brief introductory email and your resume to countrydirectorjob@change.org

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