About Protect Our Winters (POW)

POW Australia is a volunteer-driven non-profit turning love for the mountains into climate action. We protect Australia’s alpine environments by educating communities, mobilising supporters, and advocating for the policies that will keep our winters alive. This role is at the sharp end of that work — the person who turns passion into political pressure.

About the Role

The Advocacy & Campaigns Lead is responsible for designing and delivering POW’s core campaigns and advocacy strategy, directly leading our Advocate pillar. This role brings together policy work, comms, community organizing and partnerships to create campaigns that drive real-world change.

As part of POW’s new structure, this position is shared as a Role Pair. You will work closely with a co-lead to share the strategy, divide up the workload, cover for each other when life gets busy, and alternate attending monthly leadership meetings. Together, you’ll help lead our campaign development and build relationships that increase POW’s influence.

Commitment & Context: This is a voluntary role with an expected commitment of about 3 to 5 hours per week.

Key Responsibilities

You will work with your co-lead to shape and execute our campaigns. Your main areas of focus will be:

• Develop and lead POW’s campaign strategy, in collaboration with strategic direction from the POW Board.
• Coordinate cross-functional campaign delivery alongside other role pairs, including comms, community, and fundraising.
• Lead political and government engagement, and advocacy efforts.
• Oversee the development of clear, credible policy positions and submissions.
• Build relationships with aligned NGOs, advocacy groups, and coalitions.
• Identify key public moments and opportunities for campaign impact.
• Support the mobilization of supporters and local alliances into targeted advocacy actions.

About You

We are looking for someone who loves campaigning and understands how to build community momentum. To be successful, you will need:

• Required: Experience designing and delivering advocacy or campaign strategies.
• Required: A solid understanding of campaigning and movement-building.
• Required: Ability to coordinate across multiple stakeholders, workstreams, and a role co-lead.
• Required: Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Required: Strategic thinking combined with the ability to execute day-to-day tasks.
• Highly Desirable: Knowledge of climate and energy policy in Australia.
• Highly Desirable: Experience working with political processes or decision-makers.
• Highly Desirable: A background in environmental or social justice campaigns.

Performance Goals

Your work will help drive community action and shift public conversations. Your goals include:

• Successful delivery of high-impact national or targeted campaigns.
• Smooth, well-coordinated work across all core POW role pairs during campaigns.
• Increased advocacy engagement and supporter actions.
• Development of clear, credible policy positions for the organization.
• Strengthened relationships with key advocacy partners.

Specific targets for each goal will be set in POW’s operational plan, currently in development.

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About Protect Our Winters (POW)

POW Australia is a volunteer-driven non-profit turning love for the mountains into climate action. We protect Australia’s alpine environments by educating communities, mobilising supporters, and advocating for the policies that will keep our winters alive. This role is where that mission finds its voice — the storyteller who makes people feel the mountains are worth fighting for.

About the Role

The Comms & Storytelling Lead is responsible for shaping POW’s public voice, growing our audience, and delivering campaign communications that support our three strategic pillars: Educate, Mobilise, and Advocate. This role combines storytelling, social media and marketing to raise awareness and drive engagement.

This position is shared as a Role Pair. You will work closely with a co-lead to plan content, split up creative tasks, cover for each other during busy periods, and alternate attending monthly leadership meetings. Together, you’ll make sure POW’s campaigns are engaging and resonate with the outdoor community and beyond.

Commitment & Context: This is a voluntary role with an expected commitment of about 3 to 5 hours per week.

Key Responsibilities

You will manage our public communication channels and help share our campaign stories. Your main responsibilities include:

• Lead communication and marketing strategies across active campaigns.
• Develop and facilitate engaging narrative and storytelling content for digital channels, media etc – often in partnership with our Alliance and Local Alliances.
• Manage social media channels, media outreach, and content creation workflows.
• Plan and deliver digital marketing campaigns, including email newsletters and audience growth initiatives.
• Use analytics and supporter data to track and improve campaign performance.
• Support campaign launches, key announcement moments, and amplify ground-level alliance updates.

About You

We are looking for a creative communicator who enjoys digital media and content creation. Ideally, you bring:

• Required: Experience in communications, marketing, or media production.
• Required: Strong storytelling and content creation skills.
• Required: Practical experience with digital marketing tools and analytics.
• Required: Ability to translate environmental or policy issues into clear, action-oriented content.
• Required: A collaborative approach suited for a shared role pair partnership.
• Highly Desirable: Experience with media relations or working with ambassadors and athlete voices.
• Highly Desirable: Basic graphic design or multimedia skills (Canva, Adobe Suite, etc.).

Performance Goals

Success means growing a connected digital audience and keeping our messaging consistent. Your progress will be evaluated on:

• Steady growth in audience reach and engagement across our digital platforms.
• Strong campaign visibility and consistent storytelling impact.
• Increased supporter acquisition, volunteer pipeline sign-ups, and retention.
• Effective use of data to improve communication strategies.
• A reliable and high-quality flow of content across your role pair.

Specific targets for each goal will be set in POW’s operational plan, currently in development.

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About Protect Our Winters (POW)

POW Australia is a volunteer-driven non-profit turning love for the mountains into climate action. We protect Australia’s alpine environments by educating communities, mobilising supporters, and advocating for the policies that will keep our winters alive. This role is the engine of that movement — the community organiser who builds the network that makes everything else possible.

About the Role

The Community & Alliances Coordinator is responsible for building and organizing POW’s grassroots movement through our Local Alliances and our Science and Athlete Alliances, supporting our Mobilise pillar. Think community organiser, but more mountains. This role focuses on helping our communities grow, stay connected, and take part in national and local campaigns. It also acts as our primary events engine across our education and advocacy work.

This position is shared as a Role Pair. You will work alongside a co-lead to support our regional networks, manage volunteer pathways, cover for each other during busy personal periods, and alternate attending monthly leadership meetings. Together, you will help create accessible ways for people to get involved and ensure POW remains a vibrant, community-led movement.

Commitment & Context: This is a voluntary role with an expected commitment of about 3 to 5 hours per week.

Key Responsibilities

You will focus on supporting our volunteers and growing our local chapters. Your main responsibilities include:

• Build, support, and scale regional Local Alliances (such as Jindabyne, Bright/Mt Beauty, and urban hubs).
• Manage the volunteer pipeline—welcoming, engaging, and retaining volunteers and supporters.
• Develop and maintain clear pathways guiding individuals from casual supporters to active core contributors.
• Act as our events engine, supporting local community meetups, film screenings, and community engagement.
• Identify, mentor, and support emerging leaders within local hubs to build leadership in our volunteer ranks.
• Foster a welcoming, connected, and values-driven environment across our volunteer network, with particular attention to inclusive engagement with First Nations communities in alpine regions.

About You

We are looking for someone who loves connecting with people and organizing community initiatives. Your skills should include:

• Required: Experience in community organizing, volunteer coordination, or grassroots movement-building.
• Required: Strong interpersonal, relationship-building, and communication skills.
• Required: Ability to motivate, support, and coordinate remote or volunteer teams.
• Required: Comfortable with public speaking, meeting facilitation, and group dynamics.
• Required: An organized approach to building clear volunteer workflows.
• Highly Desirable: Connections to or a good understanding of regional alpine or outdoor sports communities.
• Highly Desirable: Understanding of volunteer engagement and retention strategies.

Performance Goals

Success means our local chapters are active, supported, and growing sustainably. Your performance will be guided by these goals:

• Measurable growth, activity, and stability across our regional Local Alliances.
• Improved volunteer engagement metrics and long-term retention.
• Successful delivery of community-led events and local campaign activations.
• Identification and support of new leadership pipelines within local chapters.
• A reliable supporter pipeline filtering smoothly into core operational roles.

Specific targets for each goal will be set in POW’s operational plan, currently in development.

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About Protect Our Winters (POW)

POW Australia is a volunteer-driven non-profit turning love for the mountains into climate action. We protect Australia’s alpine environments by educating communities, mobilising supporters, and advocating for the policies that will keep our winters alive. This role is what makes that work sustainable — securing the funding that turns ambition into impact.

About the Role

The Fundraising & Grants Lead is responsible for securing the financial resources needed to sustain and grow POW’s work. This role focuses on building relationship networks with institutional funders, researching grants, writing proposals, and establishing strategic corporate sponsorships that expand POW’s reach and campaign funding.

This position is shared as a Role Pair. You will work closely with a co-lead to manage the fundraising pipeline, split up grant applications, cover for each other during busy professional or life periods, and alternate attending monthly leadership meetings. Together, you will build a stable funding model that enables high-impact climate action. This work will be highly collaborative with the POW Board.

Commitment & Context: This is a voluntary role with an expected commitment of about 3 to 5 hours per week.

Key Responsibilities

You will manage our fundraising pipeline and help connect our campaigns with funding partners. Your main responsibilities include:

• Develop and implement a fundraising strategy across corporate giving, individual donors, and grants.
• Identify, research, and apply for relevant major grants, trusts, and sponsorship opportunities.
• Build and manage relationships with institutional funders and corporate sustainability contacts.
• Lead the writing, design, and presentation of high-quality funding proposals and grant applications.
• Manage corporate partnerships and sponsorships.
• Support campaign-specific fundraising initiatives in coordination with the active campaign and comms leads.

About You

We are looking for an organized relationship-builder with excellent writing skills. To succeed in this role, you will need:

• Required: Experience in fundraising, grant writing, corporate partnerships, or business development.
• Required: Exceptional written communication skills with a track record of crafting successful proposals or grants.
• Required: Strong relationship-building skills and confidence engaging external stakeholders.
• Required: Highly organized, detail-oriented, and proactive project management habits.
• Required: A collaborative approach built for working in a shared role pair structure.
• Highly Desirable: Knowledge of the Australian philanthropic landscape and environmental funding cycles.
• Highly Desirable: Experience managing corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs or brand sponsorships.

Performance Goals

Your work will help build the financial sustainability needed for POW to scale its campaigns. Your goals include:

• Measurable growth in total organizational funding, grants, and revenue streams.
• Consistent application and success rates for targeted grant opportunities.
• Strong, collaborative, and long-lasting donor and partner relationships.
• Strategic growth in corporate sponsorships that expand our public visibility.
• A predictable, de-risked, and sustainable funding pipeline built for the long term.

Specific targets for each goal will be set in POW’s operational plan, currently in development.

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About Protect Our Winters (POW)

POW Australia is a volunteer-driven non-profit turning love for the mountains into climate action. We protect Australia’s alpine environments by educating communities, mobilising supporters, and advocating for the policies that will keep our winters alive. This role builds the understanding that makes action possible — turning science into stories that connect people to what’s at stake.

About the Role

The National Education Coordinator is responsible for guiding POW’s educational initiatives, directly leading our Educate pillar. This role focuses on taking complex climate science, environmental data, and alpine impacts, and breaking them down into clear, accessible resources that inform and inspire our community.

As part of POW’s structure, this position is shared as a Role Pair. You will work closely with a co-lead to shape the educational direction, share the workload, cover for each other when life gets busy, and alternate attending monthly leadership meetings. Together, you’ll help provide our community, local alliances, and ambassadors with the knowledge they need to advocate confidently for climate action.

Commitment & Context: This is a voluntary role with an expected commitment of about 3 to 5 hours per week.

Key Responsibilities

You will work with your co-lead to build out our educational resources and insights. Your main areas of focus will be:

• Develop and lead POW’s educational strategy, aligning content with our core campaign and organisational goals.
• Champion our alpine flagship species — including the Mountain Pygmy-possum, Gang-gang Cockatoo, Corroboree Frog, and Snow Gum — as the emotional and scientific centrepiece of our education work, translating climate science and species data into compelling, accessible resources.
• Develop the flagship species education toolkit and talking points to support our local alliances, volunteer networks, schools program, and resort-based visitor education.
• Collaborate with the Comms & Storytelling pair to integrate credible, factual insights into public content and social media.
• Lead or support educational engagement programs including schools visits, alpine resort activations, community workshops, and digital learning content — feeding directly into campaign reach goals.
• Maintain the scientific accuracy and currency of all POW public materials, and support the Advocacy & Campaigns Lead with evidence-based content for policy submissions and government engagement.

About You

We are looking for someone who loves learning and enjoys making complex information accessible to a broad audience. Ideally, you bring:

• Required: Experience or strong capability in education, research, science communication, or resource creation.
• Required: Ability to break down technical or complex environmental topics into clear, everyday language.
• Required: Strong written communication skills and attention to detail.
• Required: A collaborative approach suited for a shared role pair structure.
• Required: High comfort coordinating with different stakeholders and creative teams.
• Highly Desirable: A background or qualification in environmental science, climate policy, or sustainability education.
• Highly Desirable: Experience designing workshops, educational presentations, or community learning guides.

Performance Goals

Your work will help build a well-informed community equipped to advocate for the mountains. Your goals include:

• Successful development and rollout of the flagship species education toolkit and other key educational resources, supporting the Fossil-Fuels Campaign and broader POW education goals.
• Consistent accuracy and credibility across all public-facing POW educational messaging.
• Strong collaboration with the Comms and Community pairs to ensure resources are used effectively.
• Increased community understanding of alpine climate impacts, including the threatened status of our flagship species, and the link between fossil fuels and alpine decline.
• A sustainable, shared workflow across your role pair that keeps content delivery consistent.

Specific targets for each goal will be set in POW’s operational plan, currently in development.

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About Protect Our Winters (POW)

POW Australia is a volunteer-driven non-profit turning love for the mountains into climate action. We protect Australia’s alpine environments by educating communities, mobilising supporters, and advocating for the policies that will keep our winters alive. This role keeps it all running — the quiet backbone that lets every other part of the organisation focus on what matters.

About the Role

The Operations & Governance Lead ensures POW runs smoothly, efficiently, and sustainably through organized digital systems, reliable internal coordination, and good governance. This role supports the entire organization behind the scenes by keeping our structures, cross-role processes, compliance, and continuity running effectively.

This position is shared as a Role Pair. You will work closely with a co-lead—partnering closely with the POW Board—to share administrative tasks, oversee our tools, cover for each other during busy life periods, and alternate attending monthly leadership meetings. Together, you’ll help keep POW steady and focused on achieving its strategic goals.

Commitment & Context: This is a voluntary role with an expected commitment of about 3 to 5 hours per week.

Key Responsibilities

You will manage our back-end processes and help keep the organization organized. Your main responsibilities include:

• Coordinate Board and core leadership meetings, keeping agendas focused and accurately documented.
• Maintain and optimize internal digital systems, file storage, and team communication channels.
• Support volunteer onboarding workflows in partnership with the Community & Alliances Lead.
• Oversee administrative compliance, documentation, and not-for-profit requirements, in partnership with the POW Board.
• Support basic financial tracking, budget oversight, and reporting systems.
• Ensure operational continuity and knowledge preservation when leadership volunteers transition.
• Maintain and update POW’s website, and oversee the day-to-day management of our online merchandise shop.

About You

We are looking for an organized, detail-oriented person who enjoys creating order and supporting teams from behind the scenes. Ideally, you bring:

• Required: Strong organizational, administrative, and data management skills.
• Required: High attention to detail, reliability, and respect for confidentiality.
• Required: Experience managing cloud-based software, shared storage, or project management tools.
• Required: Experience with website management, ideally with wordpress.
• Required: Comfortable working productively behind the scenes to support our public-facing teams.
• Required: A collaborative approach suited for a shared role pair dynamic.
• Highly Desirable: Experience in operational administration or non-profit governance.
• Highly Desirable: Familiarity with Australian not-for-profit compliance and financial tracking guidelines.

Performance Goals

Success means our day-to-day administrative tools are simple, reliable, and compliant. Your progress will track against:

• Smooth, reliable, and efficient day-to-day organizational operations.
• Clear, well-maintained internal systems and collaborative file structures.
• A reliable meeting rhythm with clear documentation and action items.
• An effective onboarding and digital tracking pipeline for new volunteers.
• Adherence to all necessary compliance, governance, and reporting requirements.
• Smooth, up-to-date website performance and a well-managed online shop.

Specific targets for each goal will be set in POW’s operational plan, currently in development.

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