Avaaz

Role Description At Avaaz our granting program is not just about delivering funding, it’s about working with communities worldwide to contribute to our impact objectives to drive systemic and transformative change. The Grants Support Officer will play a vital role in ensuring the smooth functioning of Avaaz’s grants program and team, providing administrative, logistical, and operational support across all stages of the grant-making process. - Maintain and update our internal grant tracking system, ensuring information is accurate and up to date. - Review incoming proposals from potential grantee partners, distill key information, and brief relevant team members. - Communicate with grantee partners from diverse global contexts, supporting them throughout the process following proposal submission. - Track and organize incoming reports, proposals, funding commitments, and budgets in partnership with finance team. - Conduct background research on prospective grantee partners to inform decision-making. - Support the coordination of the grants lifecycle, helping ensure timelines are met and processes move forward smoothly. - Proactively identify gaps or inefficiencies in tracking systems and suggest practical improvements. - Support fundraiser commitments tracking and ensure regular, timely financial reporting. - Improve and maintain workflows for organization and storage of documents, such as contracts, reports, decisions, and legal authorizations. Qualifications - Proven experience in administration, project coordination, or grant support, ideally within a foundation, nonprofit, grassroots movement, or philanthropic organization. - Strong organizational skills and attention to detail, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines. - Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with sensitivity to working with diverse audiences and cultures. - Strong relational intelligence. - Collaborative mindset, with a proactive and solution-oriented approach to work. Requirements - AI forward - able to rapidly learn and thoughtfully apply AI tools to streamline workflows and accelerate execution. - Experience in or knowledge of Avaaz’s priority areas, such as climate justice, Palestine, MENA, Indigenous rights, Sudan, Gender Equality, etc. - Experience in grantmaking and philanthropy, and granting compliance requirements. - Basic understanding of budgeting and financial reporting in a grants context. - Fluency in additional languages relevant to Avaaz’s granting work (Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic). Benefits - 5 weeks paid vacation per year. - 10 paid holidays per year. - Up to 3,000 USD training and development per year. - Up to 1,500 USD for language development per year. - Workspace support, including reimbursement for home office or co-working expenses. Company Description Avaaz is a global organization, with most of our work done remotely. Our staff are based all over the world. For this position, the candidate would ideally be based in the Americas or with a considerable overlap with EST working hours, although other locations may be considered.

Role Description We are looking for a highly organised, reliable, and proactive People Operations generalist to strengthen the operational foundation of our global People & Culture Team. This role is primarily focused on the coordination, administration, and execution of core People & Culture processes. The successful candidate will play an important role in ensuring that our people systems, workflows, documentation, and staff lifecycle processes run smoothly, consistently, and efficiently. This role requires experience navigating operational complexity within a fast-paced, globally distributed, and highly collaborative environment. This is an ideal role for someone who enjoys operational excellence, creating clarity, improving processes, and helping teams function effectively behind the scenes. The role will be housed within the People & Culture Team to increase operational capacity and work closely with the broader Operations department to support cross collaboration across the department. Responsibilities - Staff Lifecycle Operations - Coordinate and execute core People & Culture processes across onboarding, offboarding, contract changes, leave administration, payroll in 4 countries, and benefits administration across our global team. - Prepare, track, and maintain staff documentation and records. - Ensure accurate staff data and strong data integrity across People & Culture systems. - Monitor recurring operational processes, deadlines, approvals, and follow-up actions. - Support staff transitions and help ensure a smooth and consistent experience throughout the staff lifecycle. - Systems, Documentation & Process Management - Manage and support core People & Culture systems and tools, including HRIS (Humaans), ATS (Pinpoint), Knowledge Management System (Notion), Project Management Tool (Asana), Google Workspace, and Slack. - Maintain People & Culture documentation, templates, process guides, and operational records. - Support reporting, audits, data tracking, and operational analytics. - Identify opportunities to improve processes, streamline workflows, and increase operational efficiency. - Support the implementation, maintenance, and continuous improvement of People & Culture policies, procedures, and internal systems. - Recruitment Operations & Coordination - Support the coordination of recruitment logistics across staff and consultant hiring processes. - Support interview scheduling and coordination across multiple stakeholders and time zones. - Participate in interviews and support candidate assessment processes in partnership with People & Culture Team and hiring teams. - Partner with People & Culture Team and hiring teams to ensure a smooth and positive candidate experience. - Cross-Functional Coordination & Staff Support - Serve as a reliable operational point of contact for staff questions and process guidance. - Coordinate day-to-day People & Culture operations across multiple stakeholders, systems, and time zones. - Coordinate internal communications, process updates, and operational follow-through. - Support cross-functional projects and initiatives requiring People & Culture operational coordination, specifically supporting the coordination between Finance, Compliance and the People & Culture team. - Help ensure operational consistency, responsiveness, and effective collaboration across People & Culture workflows. Qualifications - Experience in People Operations, HR administration, operations coordination, or related fields. - Strong experience managing administrative processes with high attention to detail. - Experience working in remote, international, or fast-paced environments. - Experience handling sensitive and confidential information responsibly. Requirements - Exceptionally organised with strong follow-through and reliability. - Strong attention to detail and process discipline. - Clear and professional written communication skills. - Strong coordination and task management abilities. - Calm, responsive, and solutions-oriented under pressure. - Comfortable managing multiple workflows simultaneously. - Strong systems mindset and process improvement orientation. - Collaborative, low-ego, and highly dependable. - Able to work independently and proactively manage priorities. Strong Plus - Experience using HRIS or people systems. - Experience supporting globally distributed teams. - Experience improving or documenting operational workflows. - Familiarity with employment administration across multiple jurisdictions. What Success Looks Like in This Role Within the first 6-12 months, this person will: - Partner on all payroll and employer compliance requirements, processes, and procedures. - Strengthen operational consistency across the People & Culture Team. - Manage and maintain our general inbox and staff service function, including via Notion, email, and Humaans. - Improve process coordination, follow-through, and documentation quality. - Increase reliability and responsiveness across staff lifecycle processes. - Become a trusted and dependable operational anchor for People & Culture processes. Why This Role Matters As a globally distributed organisation, strong operations and coordination are essential to helping our teams function effectively and sustainably. This role will help ensure that the People & Culture Team operates with clarity, consistency, responsiveness, and care - creating the operational foundation that enables the broader team to focus on higher-level strategic and organisational support work. Location Avaaz is a global organization, with most of our work done remotely. Our staff are based all over the world. For this position, the candidate would ideally be based in the Americas West time zones. Compensation and Benefits The salary for this role is based on location and experience. Candidates will be provided with an accurate range in local currency. - South & Central Americas: $63,000 - 69,000 USD equivalent - Greater US & Canada: $71,000 - 78,000 USD equivalent - San Francisco/LA, USA: $79,000 - 87,000 USD equivalent The development of our staff is paramount. To support this, we include these benefits: - 5 weeks paid vacation per year - 10 paid holidays per year - Up to 3,000 USD for training and development per year - Up to 1,500 USD for language development per year - Workspace support, including reimbursement for home office or co-working expense 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.

Role Description 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. 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. 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. Qualifications - 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. Requirements - Location: Candidates residing in Germany (preferably Berlin, but other cities or locations can be considered). Benefits - 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. 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.

Role Description We're hiring a Senior QA Engineer to help us raise the quality bar across engineering. Avaaz's engineering team is transitioning from a service-desk model to a strategic org partner. As our first dedicated QA hire in several years, you'll build the testing foundation from scratch, establishing automated coverage, improving release confidence, and closing the feedback loop between what we ship and how it performs. You'll blend hands-on testing of our highest-impact surfaces (donation forms, fundraisers, campaign experiments) with test strategy, automation, and team enablement. In the short term, your priority is relieving the acute QA pressure currently sitting on our product teams. Over time, you'll help us build the testing culture, frameworks, and automation that allow quality to scale without you being the bottleneck. Our members trust us with their voices, their data, and their donations. When something breaks on a campaign page or a donation form, the cost isn't just engineering time, it's lost impact in moments that matter. This role exists because we want to honor that trust by raising our quality bar. Responsibilities - Provide hands-on QA support for our highest-impact work. - Establish testing standards and a shared vocabulary for quality. - Coach and educate engineers on testing. - Design and grow our automated test coverage. - Define meaningful quality metrics. - Partner on incident response and post-mortems. - Be a thought partner to engineering leads and PMs. - Design and roll out our automated testing strategy. - Own QA across the sprint cycle. - Build feedback loops that close after we ship. Qualifications - Experience as a Senior QA engineer, with a strong mix of manual and automated testing. - Demonstrated ability to design test strategies for complex web applications. - Hands-on experience with Playwright or similar modern test automation frameworks. - Comfort working with Python-based backend services and containerized environments (Docker). - Experience testing mission-critical systems; ideally including payment flows, transactional email, or high-traffic public-facing web. - Strong written and verbal communication skills; can explain testing concepts to engineers, PMs, and non-technical campaigners. - A coaching mindset: you enjoy levelling up the people around you and don't see yourself as the only path to quality. Requirements - Experience in non-profit, activism, journalism, or other mission-driven organizations (nice to have). - Familiarity with our stack: Python, Docker, AWS (ECS), MySQL (nice to have). - Background in performance or load testing (nice to have). - Comfort with localized / multilingual product testing (nice to have). Benefits - This is an independent contractor role, paid at a monthly rate of US$ 5,200. - Contractors are responsible for their own taxes and statutory contributions in their country of residence. Application Timeline We are reviewing applications on a rolling basis, and encourage all candidates to submit applications as soon as possible.

Role Description The Project & Operations Manager will play a central coordination and operational role supporting Avaaz’s Sudan-focused campaigning and advocacy work. This person will help drive project management, communication flow, accountability, and follow-through across a fast-moving and globally distributed team. The role will act as a key bridge between the Sudan team and the broader Avaaz team, ensuring projects move forward effectively, priorities are tracked, payments and contracts are managed efficiently, and communications remain clear and coordinated internally and externally. This role is ideal for someone highly organized, proactive, detail-oriented, and comfortable operating in dynamic, high-intensity advocacy environments with many moving parts. The role is fast-paced and deals with intense and harrowing materials. This role is for someone who is passionate about human rights and thrives in fast-moving teams. Responsibilities - Coordinate operational and project management support for the Sudan campaign team. - Drive day-to-day project coordination, tracking, and follow-through across multiple campaign workstreams. - Help ensure deadlines, deliverables, and action items are clearly documented, assigned, and completed. - Coordinate communication between Sudan-focused staff, consultants, partners, and the wider Avaaz team. - Schedule meetings, prepare agendas, track decisions, and manage follow-up actions. - Build and maintain clear systems for project management, workflows, documentation, and information sharing. - Support payments and file expense reports. - Track the Budget and provide regular updates. - Assist with logistics and coordination for campaign activities, media moments, events, travel, or special projects. - Support communications and coordination with journalists, media contacts, and external stakeholders. - Help draft, organize, and track external outreach and correspondence. - Provide operational support across a range of campaign activities and rapid-response moments. - Proactively identify coordination gaps, bottlenecks, or operational challenges and help resolve them. Skills and Competencies - Able to work part-time hours with overlap across Sudan and the East coast of the US. - Fluent Arabic speaking is desirable, but not essential for this role. - Strong project management, coordination, and operational skills. - Exceptional follow-through and attention to detail. - Excellent written and verbal communication skills. - Comfortable managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment. - Strong organizational systems and ability to keep teams aligned and accountable. - Experience supporting campaigning, advocacy, media, humanitarian, or nonprofit teams preferred. - Comfortable coordinating across distributed and multicultural teams. - Experience managing media or journalist communications is an asset. - Calm under pressure, adaptable, and solutions-oriented. - Motivated by the fight for human rights, justice, and protecting democracy. Location Avaaz is a global organization, with most of our work done remotely. Our staff are based all over the world. For this position, the candidate would ideally be based in the United Kingdom or Western European time zones. Compensation and Benefits GBP 25 per hour (UK rate), with a minimum commitment of 20 hours per week and a maximum of 30 hours per week. The final hourly rate and currency will be determined based on the candidate's location.