Communications Campaigner (bilingual)

Apply before: February 28, 2025

Location: Anywhere in Canada.  We have offices in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver.

Reports to: Co-Head of Program

Details: Permanent, unionized, full-time (four day work week, Monday to Thursday, 28 hours/week)

Salary: $64,643 CAD per year (this amount will be prorated for partial years of service)

Closing date for applicants:  February 28, 2025

About Greenpeace Canada:

Greenpeace Canada is an independently funded, non-profit organization that works towards a greener, more peaceful world, and to confront the systems that threaten people and the planet. We challenge government and industry to halt harmful practices by negotiating solutions, conducting scientific research, introducing clean alternatives, carrying out peaceful acts of civil disobedience and engaging the public. To maintain independence Greenpeace does not accept donations from corporations or governments. Greenpeace relies on individual donors and creative partnerships to fund our environmental justice campaigns.

As an organization, Greenpeace Canada recognizes and supports Indigenous sovereignty and the Land Back movement. We support the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) and are committed to collaboration and consultation with Indigenous Peoples to ensure our campaigns and positions respect Indigenous rights and liberation.

Greenpeace Canada is committed to a workplace that is enriched by the people, needs and desires of Canada’s diverse communities. We seek candidates with a variety of perspectives and lived experiences to effect change and will prioritize applicants from racialized and other equity-seeking groups.

The responsibilities and skills for this role are outlined below. Greenpeace Canada fully recognizes lived experiences, unpaid credentials, as well as education and work experiences from outside of Canada. If you are interested in this role, but feel you do not have all of the requirements listed for this position, we highly encourage you to still apply!

About the role:

Greenpeace Canada (GPC) is seeking a Communications Campaigner that brings extensive experience as a communications professional that has developed and implemented communications plans to enable GP to build its profile, increase its supporter base, and win campaigns.

The major focus of the position is to deliver impactful Greenpeace campaign and organizational communications by identifying media, public relations, and engagement opportunities; providing strategic communications advice related to those opportunities; and using story-telling, audience analysis, media analysis and other techniques to craft effective cross-platform outputs.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES: 

1. Use storytelling techniques to raise the profile of the organization, engage and mobilize supporters, and shift framing around campaign issues.
2. Lead the development of comprehensive communications strategies within the assigned campaign area, crafting objectives and creating frameworks that include the use of traditional, digital, and multi-media channels.
3. Develop productive relationships with a wide variety of outlets and journalists.
4. Act as organizational spokesperson.
5. Advance GPC’s campaign, fundraising and impact strategies by proactively seeking opportunities to highlight and amplify the work of Greenpeace and its volunteers nationally and internationally.
6. Provide strategic advice, materials, and media relations for reactive and crisis communications as needed. Write press releases, statements, op-eds, blog posts, and other media and social media materials in French and English. Prepare key messages, backgrounders, Q&As, and other materials to support our communications in French and English
7. Proofread and edit a wide variety of materials for grammar, style, tone, messaging, and accuracy in French and English.
8. Manage design and translation requests and proofread/edit translated copy, as required.
9. Conduct media-monitoring and flag key opportunities or stories to relevant colleagues. This may include providing coverage outside of the standard 4-day work week, as required.
10. Stay up to date with Greenpeace projects, programs and campaigns as well as relevant external developments (e.g. political, scientific) in order to ensure the accuracy of materials and participate in the strategic development of the assigned campaign.
11. Assist in the organization of public events, including press conferences, rallies, supporter events, and non-violent direct actions.
12. Provide media and public communication training, support, and guidance to Greenpeace staff and volunteers.
13. Lead cross-functional, national and global projects as needed as per established GP project management processes. Act as task managers within the project management framework. Oversee approved project budgets.
14. Participate as a member of broader Campaign, Engagement and Fundraising teams, supporting the overall goals and needs of the team as required, including working outside of the area of expertise (e.g. mobilization or volunteer projects).

SKILLS REQUIRED:

• Organizational and Time Management Skills: to address fluctuating priorities and meet tight deadlines; to be able to lead projects as necessary.

• Interpersonal Skills and Team Work: to work effectively within diverse teams, across departments and with global colleagues.

• Bilingual Communications Skills (written and oral): to develop communications strategies and accompanying materials; to write, edit and distribute a wide range of communications materials to traditional and new media outlets and on Greenpeace channels, and facilitate relationships with journalists, all using professional level fluency in French and English.

• Research and Analytical Skills: to evaluate information, plan strategies and anticipate ramifications and risk; to undertake audience analysis; to monitor media.

• Tact and Enthusiasm: to function effectively within a highly charged atmosphere, under public scrutiny. To remain confident and effective in the face of controversy.

• Digital literacy and tech savvy: Able to confidently use a range of digital communication and collaboration tools. To understand trends and tools for digital mobilization and the media. Advanced digital skills are strongly preferred.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in both English AND French

• Knowledge of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis languages are highly desirable.

• Knowledge of other languages that reflect the diversity of Canada’s many communities are also highly desirable.

You will work with colleagues across Canada and collaborate with other Greenpeace offices around the world.

Candidates should understand and support the Greenpeace campaign tactics, including the use of peaceful civil disobedience. 

All applicants must be legally entitled to work in Canada.

Benefits

Our benefits package includes: generous holidays; dental and extended medical insurance for you and your family, contributions towards a fossil-fuel-free pension plan equal to 5% of your gross salary, and a 4-day (28 hour) work week.

Application Process

Please use the link below to apply for this position. Tell us about yourself by attaching your CV and cover letter.

In accordance with our Collective Agreement, internal candidates from unionized positions will be considered for open unionized positions prior to considering external applicants.

We are looking forward to hearing from you!