Corporate Campaigner

The Wilderness Society is seeking a Corporate Campaigner in Melbourne, VIC, Australia, to challenge industries harming nature. The role involves lobbying, strategic campaign development, and community engagement to promote corporate responsibility. Candidates should have around four years of advocacy experience, strong communication skills, and a commitment to environmental protection. The position offers flexibility in working hours and location, including support for remote work.
ABOUT THE ROLE

In order to protect nature, we must change the industries driving its destruction. As a Corporate Campaigner with the Wilderness Society, your work is all about challenging the status quo of industries responsible for nature destruction, and pressuring them to clean up their act. Whether the focus is deforestation, fossil fuels or destructive finance, your role will be to work collaboratively to develop and implement strategic systems change campaign plans to influence corporations. You’ll spend your time lobbying decision-makers, engaging with alliances, advancing research, developing and delivering communications, and motivating supporters to build community power. Through this work, you’ll be helping shift key companies to be on the side of nature protection, not destruction.

ABOUT YOU

You’re a strategic and purpose-driven campaigner with around four years’ experience in advocacy, campaigns or related roles, and you're deeply committed to protecting nature and challenging destructive systems. You have a solid grasp of campaign strategy, power dynamics, and systems change, with a keen interest in influencing corporate actors. Whether it's developing tactics, lobbying decision-makers, contributing to strategy, or delivering on-the-ground outcomes, you bring strong project management skills, good organisation, and the ability to balance priorities in a fast-paced, evolving environment. You’re a strong communicator—confident in your written and verbal skills, collaborative across teams, and able to engage a wide range of stakeholders. You bring solid research and analytical capabilities, and you’re able to identify opportunities for impact. You're committed to campaign success and excited to work for a future that does not rely on the continued destruction of nature and our climate but rather flourishes because of our responsible stewardship of these core life support systems.

If you don’t meet every requirement but feel you’d thrive in this role, we strongly encourage you to apply—we’d love to hear from you.

ADDITIONAL BENEFITS
• Five weeks of annual leave per year
• Genuine flexibility in working hours and location, with support for office and/or remote working
• 15 days personal leave
• 3 additional leave days at end of year
• Floating public holidays
• Generous Paid parental leave (subject to eligibility conditions)
• Commitment to supporting your professional development
• Access to Long Service Leave after five years of continuous service
• Access to our Employee Assistance Program (free counselling service)
• Regular 1:1 meetings for coaching and management support
• Performance conversations for reflections and growth
• When you start, a co-developed initial 3 month work plan

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY (EEO) STATEMENT

Our approach to diversity is about embracing everyone. From building a culture where you can bring your best self to work, to deploying initiatives that support the different needs of our staff, we are proud to be part of building an inclusive world for all. If you identify as a First Nations person, a woman, LGBTQIA+, neurodivergent, a person with a disability, a person of colour, or if you are from a culturally and linguistically diverse background, we strongly encourage you to apply.

All qualified applicants will be considered regardless of race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, or veteran status. We're committed to reasonable and equitable adjustments throughout the recruitment process for the needs of applicants; please let us know if you require any.

A position description is attached.