Worker Transition Campaigns Manager

Deadline: 5pm 17 November 2025

Platform’s North Sea Workers’ Transition project is building towards a managed phase-out of oil and gas extraction in the UK North Sea. We’re organising for an energy industry that protects the rights and livelihoods of the current oil and gas workforce and directs wealth back to communities, especially those impacted by industrial change. 

We have been working with offshore oil and gas workers and their unions for 5+ years. In 2023, we published a groundbreaking set of 10 demands for a just energy transition away from fossil fuels co-created with offshore workers: Our Power: offshore workers’ demands for a just energy transition.

Since publishing the report we have launched public advocacy and media campaigns based on these demands – working alongside industrial trade unions, national and grassroots climate groups, and oil and gas workers. We coordinate a first-of-its-kind coalition of industrial unions and climate groups working together on national worker transition demands. 

As living conditions continue to decline and the climate crisis deepens, we are looking for a motivated and creative campaigner, who is able to lead the next stage of the project, and who has a strong understanding of anti-oppression and energy justice.

About the role 

The Worker Transition Campaigns Manager will be responsible for strategising, project managing and delivering the project. Activities will look like:

• Coordinating an existing coalition of climate groups and trade unions, including holding relationships with a wide range of key stakeholders across movements;
• Developing and delivering political advocacy and public campaigns strategies to win Our Power demands – including public ownership of energy – at a UK and Scottish Government level;
• Supporting the work of Platform’s Worker Organiser(s) to build links with energy workers and involve them in media, political meetings and/or campaigning activities. 

This post would sit within Platform’s internal collective management structure and would therefore be expected to support the collective management of the organisation in addition to finance and fundraising-related responsibilities. This includes line managing 1-2 staff members after the 6 month probation period and attending collective management meetings. 

Details

Hours: 4 days (32 hours) based on a 40 hour work week (5 x 8 hour days including a 1hr lunch break). 

Contract: Permanent 

Proposed start date: ASAP, depending on notice period. 

Salary:  £36,824.41 for 4 days (32 hours) per week (£46,030.51 FTE) is our baseline salary, adjustable according to our Socially Just Waging System. Terms and conditions apply. 

Other benefits include: 30 days annual leave (pro rata) plus bank holidays, enhanced parental leave, enhanced sick pay allowance. We offer Wellbeing and Training and Development funds to all staff. All policies subject to review. 

Location: The role will be formally based at Oxford House, Derbyshire Street, London, E2 6HG, but remote working is possible. 

Most Platform staff are supported to work from home most of the time, but all permanent members of staff are expected to attend in-person meetings 3-4 times a year, usually at the London office, and other in-person meetings when required. 

Application Deadline

Please read the full application pack before applying, and submit your application by 5.00pm on Monday 17 November.

The first round of interviews will be held in the week commencing Monday 24 November. 

Please send us: 

1. Your CV 
2. A supporting statement of no more than two pages, including:
   • Specific examples of how you meet relevant criteria listed in the Essential and Desirable sections of the Person Specification.  Examples can be from paid or unpaid experience. We do not expect anyone to meet every single criterion.
   • Why you want this job 
   • Why you would like to join Platform 
   • Where you saw the job advertised 

3. An Equal Opportunities form. These are used for our own monitoring purposes so we can improve our recruitment process to make it more accessible and inclusive. The information will not be used for selection purposes except for the positive action described below. 

Email your application to [email protected] by 5.00pm on Monday 17 November. Please use the subject heading: ‘Application for Worker Transition Campaigns Manager’. 

Due to limited capacity we are unfortunately unable to reply to applicants who have not been invited for an interview.