This is 1 year fixed term role based in Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta or Manila.
The deadline for the application is May 30th, 2025
About the Role
The Senior Regional Campaign Strategist (Legal and Political) leads the development of Greenpeace Southeast Asia’s (GPSEA) political and legal strategy and provides legal and political risk assessments in all stages of campaign/project development and implementation. The scope of work is regional, multi-issue, multi-project, and multi-discipline with global dimensions. It requires high ability to adapt and work in different and challenging internal and external work environments and political contexts.
This is a full-time position based in either Manila, Bangkok, Jakarta and Kuala Lumpur working on legal and political issues related to the environment. Candidates who have the legal right to work and live in the Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia are encouraged to apply.
The job holder will have the following key responsibilities:
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Lead the development and implementation of regional political and legal strategy of GPSEA bringing campaigns and projects across countries together for synergy, regional and global impact as aligned with GPSEA Theory of Change (TOC), objectives and priorities
- Provide political and legal risk assessments and mitigation measures on key campaign strategies, and project activities; advise leadership team on political and legal responses in case of harassment, violence, and attacks on the staff (including activists, supporters and volunteers) institution, property and reputation of GPSEA
- Anchor the development of South-South legal/political community and global south position on multilateral platforms in the Greenpeace global network.
- Lead global legal/political project or process relevant to GPSEA and global political and legal campaign objectives
- Strategically position and make GPSEA’s presence in multilateral platforms highly impactful
- Develop legal and political briefings, negotiating texts, reports, updates, position papers and talking points for regional and global submission in cooperation with relevant programme staff
- Analyse external political situations and identify relevant regional trends and opportunities to advance GPSEA’s political and legal work regionally and globally
- Develop and maintain a GPSEA community of practice around legal and political work
- Ensure GPSEA’s political and legal position and stance on issues are coherent and consistent across countries and in external communications
- Proactively identify politically or legally contentious issues that will impact GPSEA and provide advice on actions to take
- When required/requested, perform a review and give political, legal sign off of reports and other external communications of GPSEA.
- Actively contribute to programme design, review of campaigns and projects and provide inputs for decision making processes.
- Proactively contribute to the development and implementation of innovative strategies for non-violent direct actions to maximize political and legal impact, in cooperation with country teams and other international units, and in accordance with Greenpeace’s principles
- Participate in non-violent direct action to support and advance campaign goals.
- Organize and oversee the work of short-term contractors where appropriate.
- Help manage and oversee the budget and ensure financial integrity of projects and unit
- Coordinate and ensure coherence on GPSEA position internally, provide legal and political oversight on sign-ons
- Represent GPSEA’s political, legal and related inputs at internal meetings and activities of Greenpeace’s global legal and political communities or global project teams. Inform GPSEA of agreements and developments in the global legal and political communities.
- Periodically conduct capacity needs assessments of GPSEA staff to improve legal and political work
- Coordinate capacity building skills shares and training to support the legal and political work of the program team. When requested, mentor or coach program staff to enhance his/her skills in political and legal engagements.
- Working with the Fundraising Team to explore and develop working relationships and cooperation with donors and foundations
- Lead and coordinate the development of funding proposals for GPSEA legal and political work with relevant GPSEA team leaders.
- Represent, lead and strategically position GPSEA at key international, regional fora
- Ensure that the objectives, analysis, recommendations and submissions of GPSEA in relevant fora are timely, effective and strategic in advancing GPSEA program and organizational objectives, branding and identity
- Act as expert spokesperson on regional legal and political issues for GPSEA and a go to person for the global organisation when needed.
- Proactively develop relationships with national and regional media to increase campaign outreach
- Build networks and alliances to advance GPSEA objectives, brand and identity
- Contribute to strengthening social and emergent regional and global movements by supporting development of campaign strategies
- Develop common strategies and actions with external parties regionally and globally in support of broader political objectives and to realize global and GPSEA campaign objectives and TOCs
- Assist the Campaign Director in designing GPSEA campaign program and implement strategies to mobilize various stakeholders and key audiences in the region
- Manage project cycle and optimize responsiveness to current situation/context, evolve and devise new ways of working for efficient delivery of multi-layered projects
- Respond to and engage in internal as well as pressing external regional challenges as determined by the campaign team through the Campaign Director beyond his/her normal area of work as circumstances do require.
- Keep abreast of regional developments in political and legal fields and maintain a general knowledge of developments in political, legal developments in SEA in order to ensure that GPSEA is able to respond, adjust, campaign appropriately/effectively.
- Coordinate policy and legal research or other outputs such as policy briefs, statements, submissions, pleadings, motions, legal comments and legal opinions to ensure consistency in form and substance.
Skills and Experience
- Master’s degree minimum, Doctorate in philosophy or laws preferred in field of Political Science, Public Management, Public Policy, International Relations with minimum 10 years of equivalent experience
Organizational Competencies
- Integrity, professionalism
- Strategic thinking, goal-oriented
- High standards of quality outputs
- Teamwork in a multicultural environment
- Courage and innovativeness in challenging enemies of the environment, status quo
- Values people, interpersonal relationships, conflict resolution and management
- Information management and transfer, sharing of knowledge
- Planning, budgeting, monitoring, evaluation
Functional Skills
- Understanding of the political, legal and economic landscape, processes, dynamics in SEA
- Extensive knowledge of environmental and human rights laws, jurisprudence, regulation, public policies, stakeholders in SEA
- Political, legal communications skills in all forms
- Political lobbying, negotiation, advocacy skills/experience in UN, multilateral, bilateral and other policy spaces/processes
- Legal counseling, representation, litigation practice
- Political, legal research
- Campaigning experience, project management
- NVDA
- Understanding of environmental issues in general and campaign issues and agenda in particular
- Wide network across the region for potential networking and partnership
- Public, people management
- Project management, programme administration
- Stakeholders, power, constituency, audience analysis
Preferred Skills
- Experience in negotiating in multilateral environmental agreements and similar regional platforms
- A preference for good communication skills in one of more regional SEA languages other than English.
- Preference for extensive experience in political economy and progressive political framing of environmental issues
- Preferred skills include experience in key program areas: policy lobby, public speaking, activist training, strategic planning and organizing people around an issue.
