Organiser

Organiser

Salary: £48,396 - £55,644 per annum + benefits (We normally offer a starting salary at the start of the range)

Based: Islington, London – hybrid working

Closing date: Sunday 23rd August 2026

Interview process: First round interview: Thursday 3rd & Friday 4th September

Second round interview: Thursday 10th September

Location: Islington, London. We aim to create an environment where everyone can contribute to the best of their abilities. Our hybrid working approach brings together the benefits of both office-based and remote working in an inclusive way. For this role, you’ll be expected to work from our Islington office at least 40% of the time each week. Reasonable adjustments will be made to support individual needs.

Greenpeace UK is a global movement of people passionate about defending the natural world. Independent from governments, corporations, and political parties, we are funded by individuals—giving us the freedom to challenge power and drive real change. From our beginnings in 1971, to operating in over 40 countries today, our mission remains urgent: to secure a greener, healthier, and more peaceful planet for generations to come.

The Organising team works to build the size, power and diversity of Greenpeace’s volunteer base to win campaigns and achieve our mission, in line with our Organising Principles. 

The Organiser role is about working directly with our network of Local Groups and Organisers to build their strength and impact.

Within your allocated ‘Regions’, you’ll be responsible for monitoring the health and development of the existing network, developing the resources and support structures to support their development, and designing and delivering Regional Support Strategies to tailor support for maximum strategic impact.

You will achieve this by:

• Coaching and nurturing local  leaders, giving them access to resources, support and  best practice that will help them create groups that are strategic, impactful, outreach-oriented and welcoming

• Supporting groups to develop local strategies that align with national and global Greenpeace UK campaigns and/or goals, while staying rooted in local constituency contexts and impacted community needs.

• Investing in target locations: seeding and strengthening groups in strategically important areas, including with regular on-the-ground visits and hands-on coaching

• Developing new tactics and strategies that build our local people power ensuring that our approaches stay fresh, relevant and impactful.

• Fostering community & peer support: creating volunteer teams,  peer-support structures, in-person network gatherings, and online spaces that remove staff bottlenecks to enable us to work at scale.

• Monitoring and tiering groups - assessing the; health, equity, and impact of groups; tailoring support accordingly and report progress against depth/impact goals.

About you

You’re passionate about Greenpeace’s mission and committed to championing its values, including building a diverse and inclusive organising network. You have a strong interest in motivating, supporting, and developing local leaders, with a focus on growing grassroots power and strengthening community connections.

You thrive in a fast-paced environments, adapting quickly to changing priorities, and are comfortable engaging people regularly—whether through calls or in person—to recruit, organise, and train volunteers.

You’ll be working alongside two other Organisers to build the systems - including trainings, resources and Volunteer Teams - that enable you to provide baseline support at scale, and leave space for deeper support in target locations.

 Essential Criteria for Success     

1. Experience building powerful local and national campaigns that used people power to achieve campaign goals

2. Demonstrable ability to build powerful, impactful groups with effective leadership structures, onboarding and retention processes and anti-oppressive culture and practises

3. Ability to identify and act on strategic campaign opportunities, via longer term planning and reactive tactical opportunities.

4. Able to coach and develop the leadership and capacity of others, in line with an Organising approach 

5. Ability to operate at scale - competence with digital systems, routine tracking and reporting on progress at scale, and able to manage multiple projects, priorities and tight deadlines

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:

We acknowledge that people from certain backgrounds are under-represented in environmental and campaigning organisations and we’re committed to doing what we can to correct this.

One of our Anti Racism Plan objectives is to proactively achieve stronger representation of people of colour, particularly within leadership positions, and we have recently published ambitious race representation targets. 

As part of our commitment to increasing representation of people from underrepresented communities in the environmental sector, we are piloting a Guaranteed Interview Scheme (GIS) as a new approach to make our recruitment more equitable. If you identify as a person of colour, you can choose to opt in to the Guaranteed Interview Scheme.

We will be aiming to offer everyone who opts into the scheme and meets the essential criteria a first stage interview. While we fully intend to honour this, exceptionally high application volumes may affect our capacity. If so, we will communicate clearly and keep candidates informed as we continue to learn and improve.

To Apply

For further information including the job description, please download the applicant information pack. Please ensure to save this file to your computer for future reference. Once the job listing has closed you will no longer be able to access it online.

We recommend taking a look at this document that contains top tips for filling out your application, complied by our recruitment team.

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: Sunday 23rd August 2026