The take-away
Ready to take on some of the most powerful forces in our society? We’re looking for an associate campaign director to join a fierce, smart team challenging global corporations, holding them accountable, and creating a world where all people can thrive.
Why you’ll love coming to work every day
You’ll help change the world by being part of fearless and winning campaigns. You’ll be joining an organization that’s not satisfied with the world as it is—and has a vision for how it should be. When your quest is ending corporate abuse, you can’t be afraid to name names and demand what the world needs. For more than 40 years, we’ve been exposing and challenging the abuses of the likes of Nestlé, Exxon Mobil, Philip Morris International, McDonald’s, and more. We don’t back down, and we run campaigns until we win.
You’ll work with awesome people. Join a team of passionate, kind, determined, optimistic, and solutions-oriented folks. We work hard, celebrate victories large and small, and always have each other’s backs.
You can take on big responsibilities as you go. You’ll thrive here as you develop new skills, tackle new challenges, learn, and grow. We pay lots of attention to building staff leadership, and we provide support and training to help you grow in your role.
You’ll be part of an organization committed to advancing racial equity and transforming systems of oppression. We are deeply committed to prioritizing the leadership of people who bear the brunt of corporate abuse: Black and Indigenous people and other people of color, women, low-income people, people in the Global South, and LGBTQIA+ folks around the world. Our unique culture has been fostered by a long history of women at the helm. We are actively focusing on the leadership of our staff of color, knowing we are stronger when the organization reflects the vision of the world we’re building together.
What you’ll do
Water is life–but there are far too many people across the globe who do not have access to the basic human right of safe water. Transnational water corporations are exploiting and exacerbating this crisis to gain control of and privatize water systems, putting profit over the health and livelihoods of millions. And water privatizers and entities like the World Bank are targeting the Global South, and Africa in particular, as an expansion region for the water privatization market. That’s why we need to organize to prevent water privatization globally and promote well-funded, democratically-accountable, and equitable public water solutions. And that’s where you come in.
For almost a decade, Corporate Accountability has partnered deeply with organizers in Lagos, Nigeria, to run a powerful grassroots campaign that has successfully kept the privatization of Lagos’ water systems at bay. Building on the ongoing success of this campaign, we and the Lagos organizers at Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) are teaming up with organizers across the African region and internationally to support local campaigns that will prevent water privatization in countries across the continent. You will build on the momentum behind this campaign and help direct it toward successful outcomes—while attending carefully to Global North-Global South power dynamics and advancing justice and corporate accountability.
Our joint campaign in the African region is built on decades of trust and campaigning between Corporate Accountability and CAPPA. Long before our water campaign was launched, our two teams worked together on the WHO’s global tobacco treaty in the early 2000s—which, thanks in part to our partnership, includes the first corporate accountability measures in an international treaty. Your job will include maintaining and deepening this powerful partnership, identifying and building relationships with new campaign partners, and facilitating and furthering our shared mission in all aspects, from campaigning to fundraising.
Who you are
What you’ll be responsible for in the day-to-day
Salary and benefits:
Location:
Remote based on public health recommendations around COVID-19 centering the safety and health of our staff, with eventual transition into our campaign headquarters in downtown Boston, MA.
We are looking for great candidates from a wide range of backgrounds. If you don’t exactly fit the job description, but you know you have skills and experiences that are transferable to this position, please apply! Tell us about yourself and why you are should be our next associate campaign director.
To apply:
Visit www.corporateaccountability.org/employment-opportunities. Attach your résumé to the online application and include a cover letter. Please include where you heard about the position.
Corporate Accountability stops transnational corporations from devastating democracy, perpetuating systemic racism, trampling human rights, and destroying our planet. We are building a world rooted in justice where corporations answer to people, not the other way around -- a world where every person has access to clean water, healthy food, a safe place to live, and the opportunity to reach their full human potential.
Corporate Accountability is an equal opportunity employer and an inclusive organization. Black and Indigenous people and other people of color, women, nonbinary people, LGBTQ+ and disabled folks are strongly encouraged to apply. Join more than 60 smart and driven staff and interns working in this dynamic organization with a powerful network of members and allies around the world.