Campaigner – Community Outreach

The Climate Agenda seeks to achieve a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment for all. We take an integrated approach to climate and social justice, working towards solution-focused narratives of pollution, just energy transition, socio-environmental equality, and public health securities.

The Community Mobilizer will play a key role in building community awareness, participation, and ownership around issues of clean air and inclusive public transport in Lucknow. This position requires an energetic, empathetic, and proactive individual who can engage diverse urban communities—youth, women, working professionals, and marginalized groups—to create a strong civic voice in support of climate-resilient solutions as well as to create connections between the communities and the organization.

Community Engagement & Mobilization:

1. Identify and engage with community leaders, youth groups, SHGs, women’s collectives, RWAs, and informal workers.
2. Facilitate regular community meetings, listening circles, and awareness workshops on climate action and resilience.
3. Build and support climate champions from within the community to lead hyperlocal action.
4. Map existing mobility and environmental issues faced by slum dwellers & other marginalized communities and co-create solutions with them.
5. Build a base of Volunteers from the community to support organizational campaigns.
6. Build a base of Volunteers from the community to support organizational campaigns.

Campaign Execution:

1. Design and implement community-led campaigns focusing on issues like lack of access to public transport, air pollution, and infrastructure gaps.
2. Support creative mobilization such as street plays, wall art, storytelling sessions, etc.
3. Conduct surveys, FGDs (focus group discussions), and community-level data collection as needed.
4. Gather community stories and testimonials to amplify in advocacy and digital outreach.

Advocacy Support

1. Collect testimonials, stories, and data from the field to support city-level advocacy.
2. Assist in building linkages between the community and city administration.

Capacity Building:

1. Organize training and capacity-building workshops for community leaders on climate literacy, leadership, and advocacy.
2. Facilitate peer-to-peer learning platforms within communities.

Stakeholder Coordination:

1. Liaise with local NGOs, CSOs, and government representatives to ensure community voices are integrated in policy dialogues.
2. Build collaborative platforms for shared learning and collective action.

Documentation and Reporting:

1. Maintain detailed records of community interactions, activities conducted, and feedback collected.
2. Support in reporting outcomes and insights to the project team and donors.
3. Documentation of strategically strong and beneficial audio, visual or text content from the community engagement activities. 

1. Post Graduate in Social Sciences, Development Studies, Environmental Studies, or related fields.
2. 1-2 years of experience in field mobilization, community engagement, or youth campaigning (freshers with volunteer experience may also apply).
3. Ability to plan, conceptualize, strategize and execute high-impact end-to-end on-ground climate and social campaigns.

1. Outstanding networking and relationship-building skills.
2. Fluency in Hindi, and proficiency in English.
3. Ability to work on interdisciplinary assignments.
4. Proficiency in the use of MS Office tools for the creation of presentations, plans, and monitoring reports.
5. Passionate about climate action, sustainability, and youth empowerment.
6. Familiarity with Lucknow’s local geography, communities, and college networks is desirable.
7. Competent in photography and videography. 

1. Strict work ethics and a sense of responsibility towards the work assigned.
2. Should possess the necessary leadership skills to provide vision, strategy, and overall direction to ensure achievement of desired outcomes.
3. Must be enthusiastic with a willingness to learn and contribute towards the growth of the organization.

How To Apply: Please send an email to jobs@theclimateagenda.in mentioning “Campaigner – Community Outreach” and please attach an updated CV with a cover letter explaining your candidature in not more than 250 words.