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Avaaz

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51 - 200 employees

🤝 Non-profit

🌍 Social Impact

Non-profit • Social Impact

Avaaz is a global online civic organization that mobilizes people through petitions, email/WhatsApp sign-ups, fundraising and digital campaigns to influence policy and public opinion on human rights, climate, environment, migration and related social and political issues. The site emphasizes member-driven petitions and campaigns, calls for donations, and highlights ongoing actions and victories around causes such as Palestinian civil society, anti-arms exports, elephant protection, and emergency appeals.

📋 Description

• Translate Avaaz campaigns from English to Dutch to turn them into strong, emotive, and compelling campaigns to send out in The Netherlands and Belgium, and to Dutch-speaking members around the world. • Hands-on technical support for campaign development, including setting up email blasts and landing pages in the Avaaz website backend interface, and supporting the drafting and testing of campaigns. • Looking for sources for campaigns -- finding relevant, issue-specific, supporting materials from the press, NGOs, etc. • Monitor and enhance the Dutch Avaaz website and other tools for functionality and language errors, supporting clear and effective communication with members. • Support the Dutch campaign team to write and edit excellent campaign materials such as briefings, advocacy letters, and press releases. • Translate and/or edit other materials as necessary: Media material, content for social media etc. • Reviewing, managing, and supporting the petitions published by Dutch members on the Avaaz Community Petitions website.

🎯 Requirements

• Excellent written and oral communication, and translation skills in Dutch, combined with creative thinking to craft engaging texts. • Excellent communication skills in English, the Avaaz team’s working language. • Professionalism, efficiency, and results-oriented delivery on short timelines. • Flexibility and ability to adapt to (somewhat) varying weekly workloads. • Passion and commitment to global justice, citizen empowerment, and social change. • Strong teamwork skills, comfortable in a highly collaborative culture, and a hierarchical team structure. • Proficient in Google Suite and online communication systems (Slack, Zoom, etc). • Ideally: cultural and linguistic understanding of regional differences (e.g. the Netherlands and Belgium), to guarantee Avaaz content can be understood across Dutch-speaking regions.