Michael Chaitow Email & Phone Number

Sydney, Nsw, Au

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

New York, United States

‣ Manage email communications for a list of more than 35,000 active email subscribers, supporting human rights organizations in Israel and Palestine‣ Lead web and social media efforts to grow NIF's reach beyond its 50,000+ followers across Facebook, Instagram and Twitter‣ Use an integrated approach to online and offline comms ‣ Deploy a variety of strategies from A/B testing emails, to paid and organic social media posting, that help advance our communication and maximize their impact on our fundraising and advocacy efforts

New York, United States

‣ Managed a team of seven organizers, building new campus chapters for J Street U, focused on driving political change on over 60 campuses across the USA ‣ Convened leadership gatherings (virtually during 2020, 2021m and in person in 2022) for 200+ leaders ‣ Trained over 2,000 students on issues of digital organizing, diplomacy, domestic and foreign policy‣ Led the transition of data from G-Suite to Salesforce for my team, managing data hygiene and leading organizing efforts on zoom, social media and other digital platforms

Greater New York City Area

‣ Organized NJ and PA chapters to advance the agenda of ending Israeli occupation of Palestine‣ Organized and prepared lay-leaders for meetings with their members of Congress and Senators ‣ Trained leaders to lobby representatives, encouraging their elected officials to take bold and progressive positions on key foreign policy issues‣ Stewarded an existing donor file of over $100,000, fundraising over $70,000 in new donations each year to support our political and advocacy work

‣ Led communications on the campaign to re-elect the Hon. Linda Burney MP, Shadow Minister for Families and Social Services‣ Managed all speechwriting, social media and press engagement for the shadow minister in the lead-up to the 2019 election‣ Successfully drafted and placed opinion pieces in national and regional papers, briefed the minister for events, prepared her for radio and television interviews and worked with policy advisers to produce key election commitments and press releases on matters of national significance

‣ As Communications Director for Senator Carol Brown, Shadow Minister for Disability and Carers I managed all digital and traditional communications, developing press releases, speeches, op-eds, viral videos, and election commitments for matters related to the shadow minister's portfolio area (disability and carers).‣ Improved the Senator's reach across social media platforms by over 35% throughout the year in the lead up to the election.

London

‣ I pressured high polluting fossil fuel companies such as Shell and BP to transition to a low-carbon business model‣ Produced reports, op-eds and engaged media to provide media releases and key quotes that helped drive coverage in support of our agenda to pressure key polluters to reduce their carbon emissions

‣ Masters of Public Policy in Berlin, graduated with a 3.7 GPA‣ Research thesis: "Digital Campaigns and Analogue Actors" focused on the ways in which digital campaigners change the ways that traditional political parties undertook electoral campaigns

‣ Established a new campaign targeting supporters of renewable energy in our membership of over one million subscribers‣ Produced web content, email campaigns, social media assets across Facebook and Twitter ‣ Ghost wrote op-eds for high profile supporters of our campaign ‣ Garnered national attention for our campaign and generated support from over 11,000 members willing to switch their energy supplier away from a high polluting supplier, to one supporting renewable energy‣ Resulted in the government retaining its renewable energy target, a primary objective of the campaign

Master’S Degree, Public Policy

Master’S Degree (Semester Abroad), Public Policy

Masters Of International Law, Law

Bachelor, Economics