Animal Think Tank’s mission is to support the building of a broad-based anti-speciesist movement that has the power, resilience and longevity to ensure all individual animals have their rights to life, liberty and the security of person protected in UK law and embraced by society. We aim to achieve this by organising and mobilising people to engage in constructive work and nonviolent civil disobedience. Alongside this, we aim to assist the strategic direction, capacity and innovation of the wider movement, seeding any needed organisations, and supporting the many others working towards Animal Freedom in their own diverse ways. Our main areas of work include: Movement Building and Unity; Anti-speciesism; Strategy; Narrative Framing; Organising Structures; Culture; Nonviolence; Leadership Development; and Training.

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Summary

This role will build and lead a team that can build the movement’s political power by starting, training and developing a network of local groups.

We aim to build a network of local groups with a broad-base of everyday people. We will need to identify local leaders, train them and support them to launch local groups. They will need to understand our DNA, our campaigns, strategy, messaging and culture. They will need to understand the principles of good group organising, and how to coordinate campaigning with other groups nationally.

To get to this stage we need to launch our first local groups with a set of effective organising techniques. This role will play and be a hands-on part in this process including training others in what effective organising looks like. This role will be finding, implementing and testing techniques in order to help us find the organising model that will best serve us and our local groups. This work is closely tied to our understanding of good Culture and Governance especially, as well as Story-based Strategy. You will be working closely with these other roles, i.e.: Social Movement (SM) Culture, SM Governance, and Story-based Strategy.

In the long term, this role will help to evaluate and then ensure that effective organising is taking place at our local groups.

We are using Momentum-driven Organising (This is an Uprising) and are hoping to blend "flash-in-the-pan" mass action with deeper, more sustainable organising methods. This role will play a particular part in this ‘Structure-based Organising’ approach.