Job Title : MEAA: Organiser, Media - Part timeLocation : AustraliaCompany : Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU)Salary : Open Date : 2023-06-01Close Date : 2023-10-01
About the Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance
The Media Entertainment & Arts Alliance is the union and leading advocate for workers in the media, entertainment and arts industries. It represents performers, journalists and all other workers in the media, entertainment and arts industries and has over 15,000 members.
Building on our proud history we aim to empower the people who inform and entertain Australia through:
- Protect & advance our rights at work: Improving our members income and conditions, providing timely and expert advice to members, enforcing members rights at work and promoting safe and respectful workplaces.
- Build Power: Recruit and grow leaders, activists and supporters, ensure best practice governance and accountability, continue staff development and build strategic alliances.
- Build Community: Utilise communications to engage and activate, remain relevant throughout members lives, reach out to new areas and be the creative hub.
- Shape our Industries: Be the respected and authoritative voice across all of our industries, influence policy, mobilise our membership and broaden our sphere of influence.
Our Members
Our members include people working in television, radio, theatre and film, entertainment venues and recreation grounds, as journalists, actors, dancers, sportspeople, cartoonists and photographers, orchestral and opera performers, as well as people working in public relations, advertising, book publishing and website production.
Our Locations and Staffing
The MEAA national office is in Redfern in Sydney.
There are branch offices located in Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, and Perth.
Organiser, Media, Part Time
Overall Purpose
Are you passionate about equality, and believe that a thriving press matters to a strong civil society? Do you want all workers, regardless of employment status to have good jobs, security, and respect?
This organiser role works as a part of a team committed to developing innovative ways to secure good jobs and a fair, thriving industry by building leaders and acting together to make change.
They will be responsible for implementing our campaigning, industrial and organising work.
The role is 0.6 FTE and could be based in Sydney or Melbourne.
Key duties include:
- Building power among freelance journalists and media workers through recruiting and maintaining members to participate in our campaigns.
- Systematic contact of non-members in the industry and target areas through 1:1 conversations and holding group meetings
- Identifying and educating leaders among freelancers in the media industry.
- Work with members and union staff to plan and execute activities to address group and individual issues in line with campaign objectives.
- Writing and creating communications to members including email, social media posts and text messages
- Provide frontline advice and support to members.
Preferred attributes:
- Confidence in speaking to members and non-members, both over the phone and face to face
- Leader identification and development
- Advocacy, negotiation, and dispute resolution skills
- Strategy, planning and structured organising skills
- Strong communication and listening skills and ability to play a leadership role among members and leaders
- Ability to work in a team environment
- Commitment to trade union principles and workers’ rights
- Experience using tools including social media, WordPress, survey tools, peer to SMS and other digital campaigning tools
- Experience using CRMs such as CiviCRM, iMIS, NationBuilder etc.
Remuneration will depend on skills and experience.
Applications close 5pm Wednesday 21 June 2023. Please forward your curriculum vitae and covering letter to [email protected]