Oil Creative Campaigner

About Adfree Cities

Adfree Cities is a network of ‘Adblock’ groups across Britain. We campaign to reduce the harms of corporate advertising by building grassroots power to oppose plans for new billboards and showcase community arts, nature and ad‑free space as positive alternatives. We lobby for policy change at a local council and national level and work with a growing network of allies to address the social and environmental impacts of advertising.

In particular, we work closely with the ‘Badvertising’ campaign to stop adverts fuelling the climate emergency. In recent years we have supported councils such as Edinburgh, Sheffield and others to prohibit advertising for polluting products on council‑controlled sites. We have filed successful complaints to the UK ad regulator leading to greenwash adverts by Shell, Total, HSBC and Toyota being banned.

We supported a coalition of groups to instigate Parliament’s first debate amongst MPs on banning fossil fuel advertising and sponsorship in July 2025. See our press coverage here.

We’re seeking a highly‑motivated creative campaigner to support our work in reducing the environmental harms caused by advertising. You will become an expert in the tactics used by major oil firms to maintain their social licence to operate, including advertising, PR and lobbying, and co‑develop creative interventions and strategies to counter these. You’ll keep a watching brief on how big oil firms respond to cultural and political trends regarding climate and net zero, attend coalition meetings in Britain and mainland Europe and join a growing movement to end the green washing practices of the world’s worst polluters.

• Hold the line: We stop new advertising sites in our cities. We support residents and community groups to oppose planning applications for new digital billboards.
• Positive alternatives: We showcase arts, nature and ad‑free space as positive alternatives to corporate advertising.
• Movement building: We produce resources, train new organisers and run events to raise awareness about the impacts of corporate advertising on mental health, wellbeing, environmental damage, climate breakdown, body image and the local economy. We also contribute to international coalitions working in these areas.
• Lobby for change: We engage in a constructive dialogue with the advertising regulator, local councils and MPs to strengthen the regulation and legislation of advertising.

Days per week: 3 days per week.

Start date: Late February 2026 / March 2026.

Salary: £34,000 pro‑rata.

Contract: 2‑year fixed‑term contract – with the possibility of extension depending on funding.

Final date to receive applications: Thursday 29th January 2026, 11am.

Applications for remote working will be considered from exceptional candidates but we will prefer applicants who are able to work in person from our central Bristol office (three days per week).

We are currently a team of six part‑time staff based in Bristol.

We are an official partner to the Badvertising campaign which aims to stop advertising fuelling the climate emergency. This includes ads and sponsor ships for cars, airline flights and fossil fuels.

More information:

• a) Keep a watching brief on the fossil fuel industry
  • Develop expertise in the tactics used by major UK oil firms to maintain their social licence to operate, including outdoor advertising campaigns.
  • Maintain a ‘watching brief’ on the major political, marketing and policy movements of UK‑headquartered oil firms, e.g. through news articles and social media.
  • Liaise with other movement actors working to end the advertising and marketing practices of major fossil fuel companies (Big Oil), especially UK‑headquartered firms.
• b) Develop and deliver creative campaign interventions
  • Co‑create artistic interventions to expose misleading greenwash practices of major oil firms and build a public mandate for policy change.
  • Develop press plans around these interventions.
  • Deploy a health message framing around the topic of advertising for high‑carbon products and create outreach plans to engage health workers and air‑pollution campaigners.
• c) Liaise with policymakers…