Campaign Team Leader

£60,084 to £66,192 per annum

(We normally offer a starting salary at the start of the range)

Full-time (37.5h) / Permanent x 2 

Based in Islington, London

Greenpeace UK is an independent national/regional organisation within the global Greenpeace campaigning network, which acts to change attitudes and behaviour, to protect and conserve the environment and to promote peace. The global network of Greenpeace organisations comprises 26 independent national/regional Greenpeace organisations with presence in over 55 countries across Europe, Africa, the Americas, Asia and the Pacific, as well as a coordinating and supporting organisation, Greenpeace International.

This is a chance to use all your leadership and strategic skills and knowledge of how campaigning can achieve change to help Greenpeace meet its mission of halving carbon emissions and restoring biodiversity

You’ll lead, challenge and inspire a diverse team of campaigners, mobilisers and communicators to plan and deliver a high quality, globally relevant and impactful campaign. In doing so you’ll be embodying Greenpeace values and supporting the Programme Leadership Team in the delivery of our ambitious three year strategy.

Responsibilities range from leading, developing and delivering the full lifecycle of a campaign from strategy, to implementation, to impact assessment through to the provision of day-to-day line management and team leadership with an open and collaborative style. You’ll also be expected to build networks and represent Greenpeace to high-level external audiences.

In this role you will lead one of our main campaigns:

Stop Drilling Start Paying 

You’ll drive this work at a critical moment - ensuring we tackle the climate crisis in an equitable and just way.  Leading a team of campaigners and specialists, and working with colleagues across the global network, you’ll deliver creative, confrontational, impactful campaigning that builds power with those on the fronts lines, and demands governments hold International Oil and Gas companies accountable for loss and damage at home and in the Global South.

Biodiversity

You will lead a team of campaigners and specialists, and work with colleagues globally, to develop and deliver creative, confrontational, impactful campaigning that mobilises the public to demand the urgent the restoration of biodiversity by 2030. Building on our hugely successful work on plastics, oceans, food and forests, your work will be crucial in delivering Greenpeace UK’s new three year strategy, with justice and movement collaboration at the heart of what we do. 

Location: Islington, London. Our hybrid working model enables us to enjoy the benefits of both office based and remote working. We ask that staff work from the office in Islington 40% of their time, with 20% required as a minimum. Reasonable adjustments as well as specific office based needs will be considered for those with long term health conditions and disabilities.

You'll have:

• Proven track record of success in a communications, political advocacy or public facing campaign environment in the voluntary, private or public sector.
• Experience of project managing multi faceted complex projects with numerous deliverables to tight deadlines.
• Experience of developing and using different tactics and strategic approaches to campaigns for example, legal, political, direct action, public and digital campaigning. Experience of Non Violent Direct Action is not essential but candidates should have an understanding of, and commitment to, it’s role in driving change.
• Track record at managing multidisciplinary teams with the range of skills needed to build creative, people-powered campaigns.
• Commitment to, and understanding of working within a values led organisation, including experience of anti-racism, anti-oppression and inclusive leadership.
• Global mindedness and a passion for international collaboration and cross-cultural working.

We give you: 
You’ll be encouraged to develop both personally and professionally, taking advantage of the wide range of learning and development opportunities available to our staff. We offer great benefits such as a generous pension scheme, subsidised lunches, free yoga and a wealth of well-being resources, just to name a few. Take a look at our Work for Greenpeace pages to find out more about what it’s like to work for us and why you should apply.

Our commitment to diversity:

At Greenpeace UK we are committed to advancing diversity, inclusion, equity and becoming anti-racist. We acknowledge that people from certain backgrounds are under-represented in environmental and campaigning organisations and want to do all we can to correct this. In particular, we want to be more representative of Britain’s diversity at senior levels of GPUK. If you have the skills we need and are a person of colour, disabled, LGBTQIA, non-binary, have a mental health condition, or if you identify as working class now or in the past, we would welcome an application from you.

To Apply

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If you have any questions, please email us at huk@greenpeace.org. Please note that this email address is only for information. All applications have to be filled out on the website and cannot be submitted via email.

Greenpeace UK is an inclusive and diversity-friendly employer. We value difference, promote equality and challenge discrimination, enhancing our organisational capability. We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and do not discriminate on the basis of disability, race, colour, ethnicity, gender, religion, sexual orientation, age or any other category protected by law.

CLOSING DATE: 9.00 am 19 November 
INTERVIEWS: TBC