We are hiring a Full Time Defend Our Island Campaign Manager to lead Neighbours United’s Defend Our Island campaign in Newfoundland. The current non-partisan campaign’s goal is to educate and build public support to contest new off-shore oil projects.

Key Info:

  • Application Closing Date: September 7th, 2026
  • Reports to: Organizing Director
  • Status: Full-Time (40hrs/week)
  • Location: Hybrid St. Johns, NL based
  • Compensation: $68,000–$74,000 annually, plus benefits

Defend Our Island Campaign Manager – Job Posting (pdf version)

About the Role

The Defend Our Island Campaign Manager leads Neighbours United’s Defend Our Island campaign in Newfoundland. The current non-partisan campaign’s goal is to educate and build public support to contest new off-shore oil projects.

The campaign empowers everyday people and local leaders to share their perspectives directly with decision-makers, amplifying community voices through volunteer leadership development, targeted campaign actions, and close coordination with allied organizations.

The Defend Our Island Campaign Manager leads this work, turning local relationships and shared stories into lasting policy impact for Newfoundland.

You Will:

  • Create a campaign that guides community members step-by-step from initial awareness to active civic involvement. Starting with petitions and letters to decision makers and progressing to meetings with their decision-makers or leadership roles like event hosting, community outreach, and public speaking
  • Recruit, train, and coach a core team of committed volunteer leaders – leadership development takes priority over mass activity
  • Develop and drive a regional escalation strategy focused on stopping future off-shore oil projects, identifying and tracking the federal and provincial decision-makers who control it
  • Prepare volunteers for meetings with MHAs, Ministers, MPs, etc. and coordinate targeted letter and email pushes to those decision-makers – integrating political pressure into every stage of the program
  • Maintain existing partnerships, and build new ones, with allied organizations and coalition partners already working on this issue
  • Engage respectfully with Indigenous Nations
  • Provide regular metric-based updates to the Organizing Director, measuring success by political outcomes and durable volunteer relationships, not organizing volume alone
  • Contribute to campaign learning documentation, support grassroots fundraising, and uphold Neighbours United’s mission and team-fi rst values
  • Oversee allocation, tracking, and reporting for the Defend Our Island campaign budget, ensuring all expenditures align with organizational guidelines and grant requirements
  • Maintain clean, reliable campaign data in organizing tools (e.g., CRMs/databases) to track volunteer journeys, engagement metrics, and outreach lists

You Should Apply If You Are:

  • Mission-aligned and deeply motivated by helping everyday people have a stronger voice in decisions that affect the people and places they love
  • Knowledgeable about local dynamics, with an understanding of Newfoundland’s political, social, and community landscape
  • Caring and community-minded, knowing how to listen deeply to local perspectives and excited to coach people to step into their own power
  • A communicator who interacts with clarity, empathy, and professionalism across all audiences
  • Campaign-minded, ideally with experience volunteering on a campaign, organizing locally, or navigating policy issues (a strong asset, though transferable community leadership counts too!)
  • Experienced in developing volunteers into leaders who take on real responsibility
  • Able to take independent ownership of your work, managing your time effectively and driving projects forward in a remote work setting without needing step-by-step supervision
  • Highly organized and able to manage logistics, oversee a budget, and keep track of data
  • Experienced in building strong collaborations and organizational partnerships
  • Based in or willing to be based in the St. John’s area
  • Alignment with Neighbours United’s values: fairness, transparency, and building community first

We know great organizers come from all kinds of backgrounds. If you don’t check every box above but you know how to build real relationships and grow people into leaders, we want to hear from you.

Compensation and Benefits:

Neighbours United is a Living Wage Employer. Alongside important and purpose-driven work in a supportive environment, we offer the following benefits:

  • 10 paid sick days pro-rated
  • Six weeks of paid time off, including four weeks vacation (prorated), and paid time off during August and January office closure
  • Technology hardware provided
  • Paid Statutory holidays (for staff that have worked 15 of the previous 30 days), includes Boxing Day and Easter Monday, and additional consideration for days of cultural or religious significance
  • Paid time for Leadership Training and for Organizational Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Training, and other professional development
  • Extended health benefits
  • Annual raises for the cost of living and performance

 

About Neighbours United

Neighbours United is a community-driven charity that brings people together in rural, small, and suburban areas to support policies that protect the people and places we love. Through strategic campaigns using engagement organizing, deep canvassing, and communications, we are moving the needle in places often left out of progressive solutions. By centering personal stories we broaden public support beyond the usual environmental base.

We focus on areas and audiences that are frequently written off as unreachable. We invest in real conversations that matter to people.

We are known for our deep canvassing based approach: listening, leading with personal stories, and creating space for people to wrestle with real tensions. Rather than broadcasting messages, we create conversations that allow people to reflect, connect, and act.

 

How To Apply

Send an email answering the question “How have you seen climate change happening in your community?” along with your CV to jessica@neighboursunited.org.

Use the subject line: Defend Our Home Island Application – Last Name

Please name your files with your first and last name (e.g., Hennessy Jessica – Resume) and submit in PDF format.

We welcome applications from Indigenous Peoples, Black People, People of Colour, women, youth, people with disabilities, members of the LGBTQ2SAI+ communities, new immigrants, refugees, and members of other equity-seeking groups.

We thank all who apply. We will read each submission, and we will respond to all (serious) candidates and advise them as to their status.

 

Defend Our Island Campaign Manager – Job Posting (pdf version)