Advocacy & Activism Giving Coordinator - USA

Lush Handmade Cosmetics•Williamsburg, VA

2d•$61,400 - $75,000•Remote

About The Position

Lush is a handmade cosmetics company with strong values regarding nature, the environment, human rights, and animal rights. They aim to integrate these values into their business practices and support charities, NGOs, activists, and community groups working towards a better world. Lush is known for its campaigning and giving initiatives, highlighting world issues through its platforms. This role is a rare opportunity to join their small, worldwide Campaigns Team, focusing on furthering Lush values, shaping public-facing campaigns, and engaging with external groups. The ideal candidate will be driven by a desire to shift public awareness, have experience in active campaigning, and possess the ability to engage effectively with grassroots activists, internal staff, and company leadership. The role requires an active interest in Human Rights, Animal Rights, or Environmental issues, with a strong understanding of and connections within the US campaigning and activism landscape. The company is particularly interested in candidates who can represent young activists, those driving change through diversity and inclusion, and bring awareness to underrepresented voices. Success in this role is measured by the ability to shift public awareness, drive legislative or social change, and keep shop floors engaged in campaigns.

Requirements

Proven experience supporting or leading community focused initiatives, volunteering schemes, or grassroots events, ideally with a background in or strong understanding of a retail environment.
Strong copywriting and verbal communication skills. You must be comfortable writing compelling copy across a variety of platforms from internal employee newsletters to public facing websites and global PR materials.
Highly organised and detail oriented. Proven experience handling budget logistics, managing payment requests, resolving financial discrepancies, and keeping databases meticulously updated.
A track record of coordinating multi stakeholder projects under tight deadlines. You must be comfortable working cross departmentally liaising directly with retail shop staff, inventors, creative/artworking teams, and global coordinators.
Sound judgment and the ability to interpret guidelines strictly to evaluate the ethical suitability of external events, community groups, and campaign alignments.
You possess the ability to take a global concept and effectively collaborate with varied international markets to localise the content.
A deep, genuine passion for environmental sustainability, human rights, and animal protection, with an enthusiasm for turning those ethics into real world, positive community impact.
Proven experience working across diverse, multicultural, and historically marginalised communities, ensuring a respectful and non-transactional approach to grassroots funding.
A strong understanding of grassroots driven initiatives and "movement-building as a theory of change," enabling a deeper analysis of a community group’s potential long-term social impact
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.

Nice To Haves

Active in Human Rights, Animal Rights or Environmental issues.
Understand the landscape of campaigning and activism in the USA and is connected to it.
Represent young activists, those driving change through diversity and inclusion and bring awareness of voices that are less heard.

Responsibilities

Encourage and support US retail shops with all charity pot in store inquiries, applications, and performance results.
Assist shops in sourcing local groups and evaluating their ethical suitability.
Proactively work with retail shops that have historically low engagement to increase their involvement with local product donations in Canada.
When required support with the rest of the business with ethical vetting of external organisations and events.
Review and manage all US giving proposals and prepare formal submissions for the Giving and Campaigns Circle.
Partner directly with internal stakeholders who suggest giving ideas to build comprehensive presentation packs, and support the co-presentation of these new ideas at executive alignment meetings.
Assist the wider Giving team with initial product determination, collaborating directly with inventors and innovation teams, managing global stock allocations.
Use the Charity Pot guidelines to vet and evaluate the ethical suitability of all incoming US giving proposals, local shop events, and community groups.
Champion the stories of grassroots groups internally by writing and publishing compelling content for internal employee newsletters and websites.
Draft clear, impactful copy for Lush.com and the global PR teams to celebrate product donations and giving milestones.
Provide copy and collaborate closely with the artworking team to design and deploy in-store signage for newly launched Giving products.
Update the We Are Lush website with current copy.
Build comprehensive Business Communication Packs compiled from signed-off presentations and product details, and work alongside international markets to localise these packs globally.
Manage the day-to-day administration of charity pot instore events, including updating records, resolving information bottlenecks, and clarifying corporate guidelines.
Work with financial teams to arrange payment requests, update financial tracking records, and resolve any payment issues.
Consistently compile and report comprehensive store event data and product donation metrics to other internal departments.
Maintain accurate administration (including applications, decision-making panels and reporting for Charity Pot funding), working with the finance team to ensure funds are paid.