Careers at Action Aid

The Role:

• Are you ready to grow your digital activism skills with a global human rights organisation? Do you enjoy crafting creative digital strategies to pressure corporations to divest from fossil fuels and industrial agriculture? Then this might be the role for you.
• The Campaigns team at ActionAid is looking for a resourceful, resilient, and grounded Digital Organiser to coordinate and support efforts across the ActionAid federation. You’ll help deploy digital and distributed strategies that turn passive citizens into active stakeholders — building political power, growing movements, connecting local struggles, and expanding our supporter base.

Who we're looking for: 

• We aim to go beyond raising awareness — using online tools to inspire people to take meaningful action that leads to real-world impact and on-the-ground mobilisation.
• We’re looking for someone who can design powerful supporter journeys and help align digital strategies across ActionAid offices, ensuring our work resonates with people and movements globally.
• This role will provide specialist expertise and guidance to federation offices and social movement allies on how to use technology and data to identify, recruit, and activate supporters — moving them up the ladder of engagement.
• We're also seeking strategic input on the potential development of global digital campaign-based fundraising products that can strengthen our movement and sustain our work.

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• Plays an entrepreneurial and strategic role in driving significant increases in the quantity and quality of global media, social media, and brand coverage for ActionAid’s humanitarian work.

Who we're looking for: 

• You should have substantial experience in media relations within a humanitarian context, along with a proven ability to identify compelling humanitarian stories that will connect with the federation’s digital audiences. This includes creating strong digital assets from humanitarian content and stories, and working closely with an external network of journalists, editors, and media colleagues from other international humanitarian organisations. A strong knowledge of and experience in developing humanitarian media strategies is essential, as is a thorough understanding of humanitarian principles, the rights of women and young people in emergencies, and effective humanitarian campaigning. You should also have experience living and working in fast-paced emergency or humanitarian contexts.
• You will need excellent decision-making skills, demonstrated experience in crisis management, and a collaborative working style. A proven ability to navigate differing perspectives with sensitivity and to work effectively within a complex organisation is also key.
• You must be an excellent writer and editor, capable of producing press releases, features, opinion pieces, letters to the editor, and blogs – particularly under tight deadlines.
• You should also be committed to working outside of regular hours, including across time zones and during weekends or public holidays, and be prepared to take part in out-of-office media cover as needed.