Worker Organiser
Deadline: Tuesday 13 May 2025.
Platform’s ‘North Sea Just Transition’ project works towards a managed phase-out of oil and gas extraction in the UK North Sea that protects the rights and livelihoods of the oil and gas workforce and impacted communities.
This project seeks to envision, popularise and campaign to bring about a democratic, just, and sustainable energy system for communities currently reliant on the oil and gas industry. The UK’s offshore wind capacity is rapidly being developed and yet there is little focus on public and community ownership or benefit. If we are to avoid the mistakes of the past we must organise now for different models of ownership and control.
Platform’s new Worker Organiser will work with energy workers across the north east of Scotland to change this reality, situating the project within Platform’s broader work on just transition and public ownership.
About the role
This 12 month post will lead on worker outreach and organising with onshore and offshore energy workers. Working from our existing contact list, and making new contacts through online and in person outreach, you will be responsible for building links with energy workers and community members and planning interventions.
Being based in the north east of Scotland will be a significant advantage, and we encourage applications from people based in for example Aberdeenshire, Moray and Highlands. However, this role would also work if you were able to travel there regularly.
Details
Start date: ASAP, dependent on candidate availability
Hours: 3 to 4 days, dependent on candidate preference: 24 or 32 hours per week based on a 40 hour week, flexible hours possible.
Contract: 12 months fixed term, subject to 3 months probation.
Salary details: £46,030.51 FTE, pro rata £36,824.41 (4 days per week) or £27,618.31 (3 days per week), subject to Platform’s Social Justice Waging Policy.
Location: Living in or the ability to regularly travel to the north east of Scotland (Aberdeenshire, Moray and Highlands) is essential. Platform is based at Oxford House in London, but many staff work remotely. Flexible remote working can be negotiated, and our staff team currently includes people based in London, Bristol, Liverpool, Machynlleth, Kent, Cambridge and Glasgow.
Responsible to: Management Group, Trustees
Founded in Cambridge in 1983, Platform was initially a radical theatre group that united art and politics to effect real change. For forty years, we’ve been uniting arts, research, education and activism for climate justice.
Extractive energy, food and financial systems are driving climate breakdown, the defining issue of our time.
We’re tackling this by exposing who owns and controls these systems, mobilising impacted communities and envisioning sustainable and socially just alternatives. Drawing on Platform’s unique 40-year history, our team of campaigners, researchers and artists are working across the UK to transform the political, cultural and social conditions in which polluting industries operate.
Platform is a company limited by guarantee no. 2658515 and a registered charity no. 1044485.
