Campaign Manager, Non-Profit & Social Impact

Location: St. John's

Campaign Manager   Defend our Island    Reports to  :

Organizing Director
Status  :
Full-time, 40 hours per week
Location  :
Hybrid, based in St. John’s NL
Notes  :

Requires travel across St. John’s 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 7, 2026
Compensation  :$68,000 to $74,000 (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. Throughstrategic 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 realconversations 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   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 coordinatetargeted 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 volumealone
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 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 allaudiences
Campaign-minded, ideally with experience volunteering on a campaign,…