JOB:Senior Strategists for International Movement Team

Purpose Campaig=
ns is an international team based in New York that creates 21st century move=
ments. Our principals Jeremy Heimans and David Madden co-founded GetUp.org -=
an Australian online political movement that is now larger than all Austral=
ia’s political parties put together and Avaaz.org, the world’s largest onlin=
e political community with more than 3.5 million members (a partnership with=
MoveOn.org). Another principal, Douglas Atkin, is the author of The Culting=
of Brands, helped build cult brands like Jet Blue, and is a world-renowned =
expert on the psychology of belonging.   

Purpose Campaigns is currently advising =
advocacy groups and progressive brands around the world and is also incubati=
ng new issue-based movements.  We’re a new, unusual and evolving combin=
ation of an agency and a home for political and social entrepreneurship.&nbs=
p;  

Purpose=
Campaigns has advised GlobalZero.org – a new global campaign for a world wi=
thout nuclear weapons spearheaded by Richard Branson, Queen Noor, Jimmy Cart=
er and Mikhail Gorbachev; the 2007 presidential campaign of Segolene Royal, =
the first woman to win a major party nomination for President of France; the=
Australian and US labor movements and just launched a new global anti-cance=
r movement, LivestrongAction.org, for the Lance Armstrong Foundation, among =
others.   

We’re now helping some of the world’s best known brands champion issu=
es and causes in exciting new ways that go much further than traditional CSR=
or tokenistic “1% of every product sold helps save the rainforests” drivel.=
  We’re working on launching a ground-breaking transnational gay rights=
movement and on building mass consumer movements that help high-impact gree=
n products get to scale quickly.    

We’re looking to expand our team. We hav=
e some immediate project-based work available, and we’re also looking for ne=
w full-time team members at varying levels of experience and seniority.&nbsp=
;  

Our idea=
l candidate is an experienced campaigner, social entrepreneur or agency type=
with strong strategy, project management and client relationship skills, wh=
o is excited by the prospect of joining a global team focused on building in=
novative social and political movements, as well as helping progressive comp=
anies get their message out in entirely new ways.    

Here are some of the qu=
alities we’re looking for: 

— Brilliant online organizers, campaigners and strategists who=
have the ability to creatively apply that set of skills across different is=
sues and causes, and for different types of advocacy groups and companies. W=
e’re thinking about questions like how to build a mass consumer movement for=
electric cars — if you are too, we should talk.

— People who can combine high-level strateg=
y with tactical creativity — deploying online organizing, social media and =
content in innovative ways to build movements, not as ends in themselves