Festival Campaigns Activity Coordinators (Various Locations)

Oxfam goes to festivals to talk to thousands of people about our campaigns - you might have seen Oxfam volunteers campaigning at festivals like Glastonbury or Bestival. This role would be the coordination of those teams of volunteers to do similar things, but at a smaller event.

Your role as a Festival Campaigns Activity Coordinator will be to organise and deliver campaigning activities at a small festival. This will involve recruiting and coordinating a small group of volunteers and enabling them to take the message of our campaign out to the crowds.

The Oxfam Festival Campaigns Team will support you, making sure you have the resources and know-how to lead your team to engage festival-goers around the site. You will work alongside the Oxfam Festivals Campaigns Team at key points leading up to, during, and after the festival season as part of a nation-wide festivals campaigning programme - including a weekend-long training session and a one day debrief session. You will be leading Oxfam's campaign activity onsite at a smaller festival The Festivals team has chosen.

The activities you coordinate at the festival you attend will be linked to those led by the central Festivals Campaigns Team at the bigger festivals like Leeds, Latitude and Bestival as part of a summer-long campaigning season for Oxfam. You will also play a crucial role in the evaluation of the festival programme, and contribute to plans for 2014.

The possible festivals that the Campaigns Activity Coordinators will be going to this summer are:

• Towersey
• Ramsbottom
• Kendal Calling
• Truck
• Beatherder

This is not a comprehensive list and Oxfam's presence at these festivals will not be confirmed till a later date.

Frequency: 1 - 4 hours a week on average, with a much busier period surrounding the event, and onsite for up to 5 days (depending on festival), from March to October.

• Leading communication with a festival to arrange a pitch there and carry out the festival campaigning activity
• Playing an active role in the core Oxfam Festivals Campaigns team by helping to shape campaigning activities, and leading on other specific areas of the project as required
• Recruiting and supporting a team of volunteers to ensure they are able to promote Oxfam and talk to anyone about serious issues in a fun and engaging way. This is likely to include working alongside Oxfam staff to deliver national training
• Coaching and motivating volunteers onsite, helping them develop their skills to promote Oxfam's campaign activities to festival goers
• Acting as an ambassador for Oxfam at all times to both the public and the festival organizers
• Leading on a thorough evaluation of your festival, and participate in the national festival campaigning programme evaluation

• Ability to lead a project effectively and keep a team focused on a clear purpose
• Experience in building and maintaining positive working relationships.
• Excellent communication skills
• Experience of events is a bonus
• Flexibility to adapt to changing priorities
• Ability to remain calm and use initiative when under pressure
• Able to motivate and manage volunteers, whatever the weather!
• Passion for campaigning to create positive change
• Some existing knowledge of poverty and/or food issues and the enthusiasm to build on and share this knowledge

• Volunteer management experience
• Project management experience
• Opportunities for training and development
• Events and festivals experience

Suzanne Saunter

Email: campaigning@oxfam.org.uk

Download and complete the Volunteer Application Form and send to the email address above together with a CV.

28^th March 2013

Phone interviews 9^th/10^th April

 Training on weekend of 27^th-28^th April