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Avaaz

## About Avaaz

Avaaz is an international campaigning and advocacy organization that provides its global membership of almost 70 million people with opportunities to make our world a better place.

We're one of the world's largest online global campaigning movements, with people from every corner in the world taking action to close the gap between the world we have and the world most people everywhere want. This includes protecting human rights worldwide, supporting indigenous struggles, saving our planet from climate change and other threats, and fighting to stop disinformation and other cyber threats from undermining our democracies.

Our model enables people to channel their voices into a powerful collective force at tipping point moments to impact the pressing global challenges of our time, from climate and ecological collapse to human rights abuses and the dismantling of democracy.

Avaaz is funded through small donations from individual Avaaz members, no big money from governments or corporations. This keeps us independent and allows us to keep a laser focus on doing what the world needs.

## Avaaz's Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

As a global organization with millions of members around the world, it's important to us that our team reflects the diversity needed to lead a movement of people from across the planet, rising to meet some of the most complex challenges humanity has ever faced. We believe we can only succeed by building a diverse team full of fresh perspectives and original ideas, and we are committed to creating a working environment in which everyone has an equitable opportunity to fulfill their potential.

Our team includes speakers of English as a first or second language, the self-taught and university educated, people with all sorts of professional backgrounds. If doing the job you just read about would make you excited to come to work every day, if you're talented, hard-working and committed to making a difference - we want you to apply.

Avaaz does not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, colour, ancestry, language and accent, national origin, citizenship, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, family/parental or marital status, religion, socioeconomic class, caste, disability or any other characteristic protected by law.

## Position Overview

**Remote | 6-month contract (with a possibility to extend) | Full-time**

Avaaz is looking for a Senior Campaigner to join us in pushing back against the rise of the far-right in Germany and inspiring millions of people with the vision of a more just, democratic, and livable future.

If you are strategic, creative, and committed to standing up for people and the planet, we would love to hear from you.

We are looking for both experienced Senior Campaigners and career changers who have their hearts in the right place and are ready to learn new skills. What counts is not just experience - but courage, passion, a little bit of humour, and the will to make a difference with us.

## Area of Responsibility

This is a full-time position in Germany, anchored in the heart of Avaaz's global movement. The Senior Campaigner will lead campaigning, communication, and advocacy measures, focusing on our campaigns in Germany in the fight against the far-right and for a diverse, democratic future.

This role requires excellent strategic communication skills, a strong network in politics and civil society, as well as expertise in social media and media.

## Your Responsibilities

- Develop and implement effective campaigns: Design strategies, develop clear messages and compelling narratives that mobilize people and achieve political impact.
- Shape digital narratives: Disseminate campaigns via social media, creators, and digital communities, help shape public debates, and convert reach into mobilization.
- Advocacy work with decision-makers: Build and utilize relationships with parliamentarians, government representatives, parties, and opinion leaders to help shape political decisions and public debates.
- Strengthen civil society alliances: Collaborate with partner organizations as well as public figures from musicians to actors to build joint momentum and amplify campaigns.
- Manage media and public relations: Develop media strategies, maintain contact with journalists, write press releases and speeches, and organize public actions.
- Drive digital mobilization: Develop digital campaigns, write content with high reach for the Avaaz community, and utilize online dynamics to reach and activate people.
- Accompany events and delegations: Help design and effectively publicize high-profile events, visits, and tours from conception to implementation.
- International collaboration: Work closely with the German and global Avaaz teams to effectively align strategies, campaigns, and messages.

## Who We Are Looking For

- Campaigning experience: Previous experience in political campaigning, strategic communication, advocacy, or related fields in Germany or Europe.
- Digital reach: A feel for social media, digital narratives, and public debates, as well as the ability to convert attention into mobilization.
- Strong networks: Contacts in politics, media, and civil society or the ability to quickly build such contacts.
- Powerful storytelling: Translate complex topics into clear, persuasive, and action-oriented messages.
- Media competence: Experience in media work and/or as a spokesperson, with success in collaboration with German media.
- Building alliances: Experience in building networks, coalitions, and strategic partnerships.
- Designing events: Experience in the conception and implementation of high-profile events, visits, or campaign tours.
- Resilience and self-management: Self-initiative and the ability to deliver excellent work even under pressure, effective priority management.
- Team spirit: High professionalism and enjoyment of working in an international, dynamic environment.
- Language skills: Fluent German and English, both written and spoken.
- Mission & Values: Passion for global justice, as well as the ability to responsibly handle emotionally challenging topics and stories.

## Location

Avaaz is a global organization, with most of our work done remotely. Our staff are based all over the world. For this position, we are looking for candidates residing in Germany (preferably Berlin, where you would also have some colleagues), but other cities or locations can be considered.

## Compensation

This is an independent contractor role with a monthly compensation range of 6,000 - 6,500 EUR. The monthly pay varies with location and experience, and is highly competitive with leading international non-profit organisations. An accurate range in local currency will be provided to candidates in other locations during the screen call.

## Application Timeline

We are reviewing applications on a rolling basis, and encourage all candidates to submit applications as soon as possible. Due to the expected high volume of applications, only candidates whose experience closely matches the requirements of the position will be contacted.

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Lena Awad

Operations Manager

Senior Campaigner – Germany - Remote | Avaaz Careers

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Avaaz is seeking an Interim Senior Campaigner for a 6-month contract to lead campaigns against the far-right in Germany. The role involves strategic communication, advocacy, and digital mobilization, requiring strong networks and media competence. The position is remote, based in Germany, with a competitive monthly compensation of 6,000 - 6,500 EUR.

Interim Senior Campaigner

Marketing

## Position Overview

**Remote | 6 months contract, with possibility to extend | Full-time**

Avaaz is seeking an experienced, mission-driven Senior Finance Transformation & Systems Consultant to support a major period of finance systems, process and operating model change.

This is a fixed-term internal transformation role within the Finance team. The consultant will work alongside Finance leadership to help design, coordinate and deliver connected workstreams, including:

- Avaaz UK's functional currency transition from USD to EUR
- finance operations improvements across payments, cards, expenses and AP workflows
- assessment and possible implementation of a spend/AP/card platform
- preparation for a future ERP transition
- alignment of finance systems and reporting with Avaaz's evolving multi-entity, multi-currency operating model

This person is not expected to replace specialist implementation partners. Avaaz may separately engage product-specific or technical partners, such as ERP implementation partners, spend/AP platform vendors, QuickBooks specialists, tax advisers or accounting advisers.

The purpose of this role is to sit on Avaaz's side of the table: helping Finance define requirements, manage decisions, coordinate vendors, translate between operational needs and system design, and ensure implementation work is coherent, practical and sustainable.

The ideal candidate will be senior enough to reduce pressure on Finance leadership, not add to it. They should be able to quickly understand a complex global finance environment, identify what matters, structure decisions, manage interdependencies, and drive work forward with limited hand-holding.

The role will report to the Finance Director and work closely with Finance team leadership, Operations leadership, external advisers and implementation partners.

## Responsibilities

**1. Functional currency transition and systems roadmap**

Support Avaaz Finance in planning and implementing the Avaaz UK functional currency transition from USD to EUR, including:

- mapping the operational, accounting and reporting impact of the transition;
- helping define the cutover approach, including treatment of transition-period transactions and opening balances;
- coordinating input from QuickBooks specialists, accounting advisers, auditors and tax advisers;
- identifying data, reconciliation and reporting requirements;
- ensuring the transition is properly documented for audit and accounts purposes;
- helping Finance understand the impact on monthly reporting, budget tracking, revenue reporting and consolidated reporting.

The consultant will also help Finance distinguish between urgent fixes, interim improvements and longer-term ERP requirements, ensuring that near-term decisions do not create unnecessary rework.

**2. Finance operations, spend, AP, cards and payments improvement**

Review current finance systems and workflows, including accounting software, expense management, banking/payment processes, card processes, revenue reporting and related trackers.

This may include:

- documenting current pain points across cards, payments, expenses, approvals and invoice workflows
- identifying where current systems are creating manual work, control risk, delays or poor user experience
- defining selection criteria for a spend / AP / card platform
- assessing vendor capabilities across global cards, multi-currency payments, approvals, expense management, invoice processing, VAT, reporting, controls and ERP integration;
- coordinating demos and vendor follow-up
- preparing recommendations for Finance and Operations leadership
- supporting implementation if a platform is selected

**3. ERP readiness and multi-entity finance design**

Support Avaaz in preparing for a future ERP transition, even if full implementation is led by a separate implementation partner.

This may include:

- helping define future-state finance requirements
- mapping processes and data flows that will need to be reflected in a new ERP
- supporting chart of accounts, dimensions, entity, currency, campaign and reporting design considerations
- identifying workflows that should be cleaned up before ERP implementation
- preparing data, documentation and process maps for implementation partners
- ensuring system design supports audit, tax, VAT, transfer pricing and reporting requirements

**4. Project management, vendor coordination and documentation**

Act as a central internal project lead across connected finance transformation workstreams.

This may include:

- building and maintaining project plans, timelines, risk logs and decision logs
- coordinating external advisers, implementation partners and vendors
- preparing clear decision materials for Finance and Operations leadership
- making dependencies visible and actively managed
- keeping workstreams moving without overloading core Finance team members
- documenting decisions, workflows, controls and handover materials
- supporting knowledge transfer within the Finance team
- helping embed improvements so they survive beyond the contract period.

## What Success Looks Like

By the end of the engagement, the consultant will have helped Avaaz:

- implement the Avaaz UK functional currency transition
- reduce operational pressure around payments, cards, expenses and AP workflows
- make a clear, well-evidenced decision on spend / AP / card platform options
- prepare a practical roadmap for ERP implementation
- improve documentation of finance processes, systems and controls
- reduce reliance on manual workarounds and single-person knowledge
- create a clearer finance operating model for a multi-entity, multi-currency organisation
- strengthen Finance's ability to support Avaaz's global campaigning work at scale

## Qualifications and Experience

**Essential Experience**

- Significant experience in finance transformation, finance systems implementation, accounting operations or finance process improvement.
- Experience working with multi-entity and multi-currency finance environments.
- Strong understanding of accounting operations, AP, expenses, payments, reconciliations, close processes and financial reporting.
- Proven ability to lead or support systems/process change in a complex organisation.
- Experience translating finance team needs into system requirements and implementation plans.
- Strong project management skills, including managing timelines, risks, dependencies and external vendors.
- Ability to work independently, structure ambiguity and drive work forward.
- Strong judgement: able to distinguish urgent from important, strategic from tactical, and good-enough from over-engineered.
- Excellent communication skills, including ability to explain complex finance systems issues clearly to non-specialists.
- Strong documentation skills.
- Ability to work effectively in a fully remote, global and multicultural team.
- High level of proficiency in English.

**Strongly Preferred Experience**

- Experience with ERP implementation or ERP readiness work.
- Experience with Sage Intacct, QuickBooks Online, Intuit Enterprise or similar finance systems.
- Experience with spend management, AP automation, card or expense platforms such as Airwallex, Ramp, Brex, Concur or similar.
- Experience supporting a functional currency transition or major accounting system migration.
- Experience working with implementation partners, external accountants, auditors, tax advisers and software vendors.
- Experience in nonprofit, NGO, advocacy, campaigning, grant-making or international organisations.
- Experience with UK/US entity structures, VAT, multi-currency reporting or global payment operations.

**Candidate Profile**

We are looking for someone who is:

- a systems thinker who also understands day-to-day finance operations;
- senior enough to operate with limited hand-holding;
- practical and implementation-oriented, not just advisory;
- comfortable working across messy, real-world finance processes;
- able to bring structure to complexity;
- collaborative, low-ego and mission-aligned;
- able to work with both strategic leaders and hands-on finance staff;
- clear, organised and calm under pressure;
- focused on making Finance easier to run, not more complicated.

## Location

Avaaz is a global organisation, with most of our work done remotely. Our staff are based all over the world. For this position, candidates based in the Americas, Europe, Africa or overlapping time zones are preferred, although strong candidates from other regions are encouraged to apply.

The role will require meaningful overlap with UK, South Africa and US working hours.

## Contract Structure

This is a fixed-term consulting contract, expected to run for an initial 6 months, with possibility to extend depending on the candidate profile, project needs and Avaaz's implementation timeline.

Avaaz may also engage separate implementation partners or technical specialists during this period. This role is intended to provide internal transformation leadership and coordination across those workstreams.

## Compensation

Compensation will vary with location, experience and time commitment, and will be competitive with international NGO and finance transformation consulting roles. Specific details will be discussed with shortlisted candidates.

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