Senior Campaigner

Senior Campaigner

Salary: £56,988 - £63,756 per annum + benefits

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

Based: Islington, London – hybrid working

Closing date: Tuesday 21st July 2026

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 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.

We’re recruiting a Senior Campaigner to join the team at Greenpeace UK on our domestic and global campaigns. You'll step into our Climate mission, and specifically take the reins on our work to reduce the power of the Populist Right to set the agenda on climate.

The core of the role is developing and delivering campaign strategy, and holding accountability to impact across significant strands of the climate campaign. This will include spotting opportunities, leading and directing tactics ranging from political and legal to non-violent direct action and creative communications, and ensuring those outputs are in line with our theory of change.

You will achieve this by:

• Leading the planning and delivery of effective and ambitious campaign strategies with multiple, overlapping campaign strands and communications projects.

• Collaborating with others using your skills to; influence, guide, and manage multidisciplinary teams to build creative, people-powered campaigns, communications and innovative campaign tactics

• Line managing a Campaigner to deliver projects to the strategy you lead.

• Using your ability to communicate effectively to relate complex messages across diverse platforms, including media interviews and presentations to project partners and both established and new audiences.

• Building and maintaining a strong network within the climate sector and movement.

• Championing anti-racist values – tailoring your approach to those with different perspectives, and helping Greenpeace to reach a broader more diverse audience.

About you

You’ll thrive in this role if you bring a strong track record in developing campaign strategy and delivering effective tactics, ideally within campaigning or advocacy. You’re someone who can work at pace, adapt quickly as the news agenda shifts, and still ensure all the opportunities you spot enable the campaign team to deliver to its objectives. You know how to lead, guide and get the best out of campaigners and multidisciplinary comms teams — from press to digital to creative — and you bring an in-depth understanding of how to shape strategies that can bring about positive change.

Experience working on climate, energy transition or tackling the rise of the populist right would be a real advantage. Reporting to the Co-Head of Climate (Campaigns), line managing a Campaigner and working alongside a Political Campaigner, you’ll collaborate with a multidisciplinary team of action co-ordinators, organisers, mobilisers and communicators to deliver high impact work.

The role spans rapid response on some of the most urgent and politically charged issues — from the Iran conflict and rising oil prices to local elections and extreme weather — while also steering longer term strategies to tackle the growing populist right and rebuild climate salience with the public.

Essential criteria for success      

• Demonstrable knowledge and experience of campaigning, understanding of how campaigning can achieve change, with a strong track record of success in a public facing campaign environment in the voluntary, private or public sector.

• Ability to design effective and ambitious campaign strategies with multiple, overlapping campaign strands and projects.

• Demonstrable leadership skills with the ability to influence, guide, line manage campaigners and task manage multidisciplinary teams with the range of skills needed to build creative, people-powered campaigns and deliver innovative campaign tactics.

• Proven ability to deliver impactful communications within campaigns, detailing an iterative approach towards measurable outcomes, including acting as a campaign spokesperson.

• Ability to develop and maintain effective contacts and relationships within a campaigning sector or movement.

• Commitment to diversity and anti-racism - Can speak to tangible, personal examples of how you have demonstrated a commitment to diversity and anti-racism in your work.

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

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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: Tuesday 21st July 2026