Oil and gas – Clean up your mess

Campaign Organizer for Polluters Pay

Position: Campaign Organizer
Organization: Neighbours United
Location: Hybrid, ideally based in Lethbridge, Red Deer, Cochrane/ Airdrie, Drumheller or another rural Albertan community

Reports to: Organizing Director
Status: Full-time, 40 hours per week

Notes: Requires travel across Alberta and surrounding areas, as well as occasional evening/weekend work to accommodate volunteer schedules. Valid driver’s license and access to a reliable vehicle required.
Closing date: Sep 18, 2026
Compensation: $62,000 to $68,000 (depending on experience)

About Neighbours United

Neighbours United is a community-driven charity that brings people together in rural, small, and suburban areas to support policies that defend the people and places we love.

Through strategic campaigns using engagement organizing, deep canvassing, and communications, we are shifting hearts and minds in places often left out of progressive movements. By centering personal stories we broaden public support beyond the usual environmental base.

We focus on areas and audiences that are frequently written off. 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.

About the Role

Oil and gas companies sign agreements to clean up the wells they leave behind. When they walk away instead, the cleanup doesn’t disappear. It lands on the public and on the people who live closest to the well, while the companies that made the mess post record profits.

Neighbours United is starting a campaign to change that. We’re looking for a Campaign Organizer to build public pressure in one rural community resulting in the decision makers publicly saying that oil and gas needs to clean up its mess.

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
• Work with our Communications Director on strategic outreach that puts public pressure on selected targets
• 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 mapping how everyday people can force big oil and gas companies to “clean up their mess”, identifying and tracking the opinions of power holders on this issue
• Prepare volunteers for meetings with political representatives 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-first values
• Oversee allocation, tracking, and reporting for the Polluters Pay 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 Alberta’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
• You’re comfortable being the only staff person in the room. You don’t need a big team to get things done
• 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
• Aligned 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 purpose-driven work in a supportive environment, we offer:

• 10 paid sick days, pro-rated
• 6 weeks of paid time off, including four weeks vacation, and paid time off during our August and January office closures, pro-rated
• (If needed) technology hardware provided
• Paid statutory holidays for staff who have worked 15 of the previous 30 days, including Boxing Day and Easter Monday, with additional consideration for days of cultural or religious significance
• Paid time for Leadership Training, for Organizational Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Training, and other professional development
• Extended health benefits
• Annual raises for cost of living and performance

How To Apply

Send a letter answering the question “how are you personally impacted by the issue of Alberta's multi-billion dollar well cleanup crisis?” along with your CV to: jessica@neighboursunited.org 

Use the subject line: Polluters Pay Campaign Organizer Application - Last Name

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

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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.