About the Role
As part of the Campaigns Team, you will help further Lush values, shape public facing campaigns, and engage with external groups working to improve the world. You bring a strong drive to shift public awareness, experience in active campaigning, and the ability to meaningfully engage with activists, staff, and leadership.
Responsibilities
- Highlight and suggest partnerships with progressive grassroots organizations, NGOs, and movements in Canada.
- Propose creative angles for Canadian campaigns, focusing on underrepresented or misrepresented groups and issues.
- Build authentic, respectful relationships with external partner organizations, activists, and charities.
- Align active campaign priorities and grassroots partners with the internal charitable giving team's funding focus.
- Communicate complex ethical or legislative topics into clear, inspiring educational materials, training guides, and window concepts.
- Write compelling campaign & giving copy for internal and external communication, web articles, press mailers, and digital platforms.
- Develop creative concepts for campaign store windows, in-store activations, and public stunts, and participate in person where required.
- Collaborate with the PR team to draft press releases and secure earned media coverage.
- Maximize impact while staying within budget.
- Provide post-campaign & giving feedback, including impact reporting and outcomes.
- Attend business meetings to provide ethical insight and strategic guidance on core ethical positions.
- Collaborate across the internal business to identify and refine proposals and promote open communication on campaign & giving directions.
- Support Canadian shops with Charity Pot in-store event inquiries, applications, vetting, and suitability checks.
- Handle administrative recording, payment requests, and event reporting.
- Work with shops to boost localized engagement via product donations, managing reporting and storytelling.
- Ensure external events that shops participate in are ethical, on-brand, and align with Lush values.
- Ensure all localized Canadian shop activations, external partnerships, and campaign strategies adhere to Charity Pot Guidelines.
- Maintain a high standard of administration and partner with stakeholders like Finance to ensure timely fund payments.
- Monitor Canadian current affairs to advise management on emerging socio-political issues, crises, or grassroots causes.
Requirements
- Proven portfolio of existing relationships and high personal credibility within the Canadian charity, NGO, or grassroots activist sectors.
- 3+ years of experience managing and rolling out successful ethical or grassroots campaigns, ideally within an NGO, community, organizing, charity, or progressive brand environment.
- Deep, intersectional understanding of current affairs across Canada, with cultural sensitivity to communicate complex social topics responsibly and authentically.
- Highly organized and methodical, experienced in tracking complex copy sign-offs, administrative records, and multi-layered retail timelines under tight deadlines.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with experience delivering presentations, training retail teams, or participating in press interviews.
- Proven knowledge, understanding, and commitment to global justice, social change, and specifically reconciliation and decolonization within the Canadian context.
- Proven experience working authentically and respectfully across multicultural, diverse, and marginalized communities.
- Passion and integrity, respected and trusted by external organizations, and motivating to internal staff.
Skills
- Active campaigning
- Meaningful engagement with activists, staff, and leadership
- Understanding of the Canadian campaigning and activism landscape
- Connecting with young activists, those driving change through diversity and inclusion
- Awareness of less heard voices
- Written communication
- Verbal communication
- Presentation delivery
- Training retail teams
- Press interviews
- Administration
- Budget management
- Relationship building
- Creative concept development
- Public relations
- Impact reporting
Location
- Etobicoke, ON
Work Type
- Hybrid (2 days per week in office)
- Full-time
- Regular role
Experience Level
- 3+ years of experience
Salary/Compensations
- $72,000—$88,000 USD
About the Company
- Lush is a handmade cosmetics company that makes skin, hair, and bathing products in a way that benefits the world. They have strong opinions on nature, the environment, human rights, and animal rights, building these into business practices. Lush is known as a campaigning & giving company, highlighting world issues and supporting charities, NGOs, activists, and community groups.
- Lush Handmade Cosmetics participates in E-Verify in certain US states.
- Lush Cosmetics North America recognizes its business operates on Indigenous territory across Turtle Island and is committed to reconciliation and decolonization guided by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada: Calls to Action #92.
Equal Opportunity
- Thriving with a diverse company culture, celebrating the uniqueness of our staff and committed to inclusion. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
