Social/ Economic/ Climate Justice

Hiring: Campaigner
Organization: Leadnow
Location: Flexible, with preference that candidate will be located in Ontario or the ET time zone. We have offices in Vancouver and Toronto, but staff work remotely

Closing date: Sunday, July 20, 2025, 11:59 PM Pacific Time

Compensation: $63,967.32, plus benefits, including paid vacation, sick leaves, and access to a professional dev budget. This is a unionized position with BCGEU, based on a 4-day workweek (32 hours, Monday-Thursday, with salary unchanged)

Summary

Leadnow is an independent advocacy organization powered by more than 600,000 members campaigning for social, economic and climate justice. Together, we do what it takes, with fierce integrity, to have impact as a powerful progressive force in Canada.

Our campaigns aim to create accessible opportunities online and on the ground for people to organize and influence the priorities and policies of governments and corporations. We want a more open, accountable, and representative democracy because decisions should be driven by the people whose lives they affect.

We’re looking for a creative and motivated campaigner to join our team. The ideal candidate will have strong team and collaboration skills, demonstrated abilities in planning and executing campaigns or projects to achieve impact, and is deeply passionate about the power of ordinary people to affect change.

About the role

Reporting to the Campaigns Manager, the Campaigner is responsible for leading or supporting specific Leadnow campaigns and delivering on a suite of digital and offline tactics that enable our members to influence policy and the broader direction of society as a whole.

Core areas of work this role is responsible for are:

• Campaign strategy: Work with the campaigns team to lead or support development of effectively targeted campaign strategies and tactics with clear theories of change. Scan the news, speak to experts, and collaborate with other organizations to identify new campaign opportunities. Support data-driven and qualitative evaluation of campaigning efforts.
• Communications and content development: Efficiently and collaboratively write compelling web copy and emails to send to thousands of Leadnow members to serve campaign goals. Occasionally produce other written and visual content such as media advisories, blogs, and social media posts, based on solid analysis of what messages and mediums are effective to move key targets and audiences.
• Tactical deployment: Execute on a variety of primarily digital and media campaign tactics, such as organizing and implementing broadcast emails; petitions; and digital, radio or print ads, to enable effective delivery against campaign goals. Work with the organizing team on the execution of “live” tactical events, such as rallies, petition deliveries or supporter-driven lobbying of corporate and political leaders (calls, emails, meetings).
• Supporter engagement: Deliver high-quality digital experiences for Leadnow supporters and use your creativity to design and implement inspiring and impactful journeys - from assessing supporter interest in an issue and signing a petition, through to registering for an offline event, to reporting back to supporters about campaign progress.

What we’re looking for

This role will require hard work, flexibility, good judgment, initiative, and an ability to deliver results in an ever-changing environment. You will have a deep commitment to our mission of empowering people everywhere to win campaigns on critical issues.

We’re seeking candidates with a mix of the following characteristics. If you don’t meet all of them, but are energized by Leadnow’s mission and excited about how you could contribute in this role, we want to hear from you.

Essential skills and qualities:

• You’re excited about devising effective strategies to bring new people into progressive movements and empower them to influence and change the issues and challenges that most impact them
• You’re good at strategic thinking and problem-solving and are energized by creating effective actions to influence decision-makers and move us toward our goals
• You’re able to write accessible, persuasive copy to motivate people to action
• You’ve got a knack for learning new tech systems (like an email delivery system, membership database, or Facebook Ads Manager)
• You’re a great team player and communicator, and also able to work independently
• You’re organized, accountable, and great at taking initiative in identifying gaps and finding and implementing solutions to move your work forward
• You’re able to effectively prioritize and handle different demands and shift with evolving political campaigning contexts
• You’re excited about working in a proactive anti-oppression (eg, anti-racist, anti-sexist, anti-ableist, and against other harmful -isms) work environment that engages in necessary and sometimes tough conversations and trainings to identify and dismantle structural inequalities within and beyond Leadnow

Some things that would be considered ‘big pluses’ but are not required are:

• You have digital campaigning experience, e.g. experience with digital advocacy platforms like NationBuilder, ActionNetwork, or Engaging Networks
• You have experience developing short and/or long form copy such as emails, blogs, articles, media advisories, social media
• You understand basic data analysis or analytics, particularly in a digital campaigning environment
• You have Government Relations, media, or public relations skills
• You’re familiar with the MoveOn/Avaaz/Change.org model of digital campaigning experience in campaigning or advocacy-focused organizations

As a leading progressive campaigning organization, we recognize the importance of our staff reflecting the communities our work aims to benefit. Even as we work to unlearn our biases, we know that our identities and lived experiences affect how we work, prioritize, and how we build relationships. We strongly encourage candidates who are Black, Indigenous, people of colour, women, LGBTQ2I, immigrants, people with disabilities, and people from low-income and working-class backgrounds and/or with lived experience of poverty to apply. We recognize that this is neither exhaustive nor representative of the intersectionality (i.e. identities or experiences) present within each individual.

How to apply & the application process

To apply, please submit your CV and answer the 3 questions through this form by Sunday, July 20, 11:59 PM PT.

Applications will only be accepted via Google form. If candidates have accessibility needs and need accommodations for the application process, they can contact jobs@leadnow.ca . Any other questions can also be sent to jobs@leadnow.ca .

What to expect if you are contacted for the next steps of the application process:

1. Task: Shortlisted candidates will complete a task at home to evaluate their campaign strategy development and planning skills. This task is designed to take a maximum of two hours.
2. Panel Interview: Final shortlisted candidates will be invited to a panel interview with 2-3 Leadnow staff members. This interview will consist of a series of questions to learn more about your background and experience, and include a group roleplay. Typically, the entire interview lasts 1-1.5 hours.

All candidates who participate in the task and panel interview are given an honorarium for their time.

Leadnow strives to have an inclusive and equity-based hiring process. Our processes are set up to avoid bias as much as possible, including using a score-based system. The hiring committee will not know if people have applied before.

Leadnow is committed to ensuring that all applicants can participate in our hiring processes to the best of their ability. Please indicate in your application if there’s anything we can do to make the application or interview process more accessible.

We thank all applicants for their time; however, only selected candidates will be contacted by Friday, July 31, to organize next steps.

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