Social Media Content Creator
Volunteer Coordinator
Outreach Officer
Campaign Assistant
Show Producer
The Natural Health Products Protection Association (NHPPA) is one of Canada’s leading non-profit activist organizations with a mission to protect the alternative health care industry’s access to natural health products and practitioners’ ability to practice.
Due to multiple 2023 Health Canada initiatives, Canadians’ access to natural health products and practices are at risk like never before. As a result, NHPPA is preparing to pushback against this government overreach. We are seeking the most powerful team to unify, and call to action, Canada’s natural health community to overturn these affronts to our freedom.
NHPPA works within a collaborative, fast-paced, dynamic, results-driven and positive culture, compelled by both critical analysis and intuition! You will be working directly with Shawn Buckley and the NHPPA team on a daily basis, as well as Natural Health Product manufacturers, practitioners and the public. If you are passionate about protecting freedom of choice in healthcare and have the skills listed below, please reach out!
What We Look For In Our Team:
- A strong familiarity with NHPPA’s position on health freedom, the NHP regulations, the NHP industry, and natural health professions
- Must demonstrate commitment to, and passion for, health freedom, natural health products and practices
- Ability to legally work in Canada, and a competence and willingness to operate as an independent contractor
- Be proficient with Zoom, Google Suite, Adobe Acrobat, and Microsoft Office programs (Word, Excel)
- Reliable internet access and the ability to work remotely
- A proven ability to manage and complete multiple projects under tight deadlines
- Be a team player who thrives in a fast-paced collaborative environment
- Flexibility to adapt to changing priorities, schedules, and assigned tasks
- Must be able to communicate in a digital space. Need to meet both the requirements to make things look great but also clearly make the message of utmost importance.
Jobs Posting Date: June 22, 2023
Apply by: June 30, 2023 or ASAP
Start Date: As soon as a suitable candidate is found
Compensation: Commensurate upon experience, we can discuss at interview
To Apply for any of the positions: Send your note of interest and resume, to Julia Rickert, National Campaign Director and Executive Coordinator, at info@nhppa.org
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SOCIAL MEDIA CONTENT CREATOR
Hours: 20 hours per week, growing to 30+ hours per week, depending on intensity of campaign and project deadlines
Education, Skills, and Experience:
- Experience, Degree or Diploma in Digital Marketing, Communication or a related field
- 2-3 years proven working experience in digital media management, preferably within an activist organization
- Have significant experience producing written copy and designing digital images for campaigns and an ability to engage various audiences and purposes such as official communications, grassroots organizing, and online advocacy
- Be proficient with Canva, knowledge of Photoshop and Illustrator is an asset, but not required
- A working knowledge of WordPress (visual) or HTML is an asset, but not required
- Excellent written communication skills including proofreading, copy editing
- Experience producing web video, live feeds, and other multimedia a plus
- Strong ability to render and communicate ideas, a flexibility of vision, responsiveness to creative input, and great visual sensibilities
- A solid understanding of social media platforms including, but not limited to, Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, and Twitter
- A solid understanding of alternative social media platforms including, but not limited to, Mighty Networks and Rumble
The main tasks of this position include:
- Responsible for planning, developing, implementing, and managing strategies for NHPPA’s public social media accounts
- Utilize campaign materials to create compelling content appropriate for social media
- Stay on top of current social media trends, and understand how to reduce the risk of having NHPPA de-platformed
- Build and execute ads through Meta via boosting and ads manager utilizing competitive research, benchmarking, messaging, and audience identification
- Post materials across social media relating to national campaigns, local campaigns, and LIVE with Shawn Buckley events, all at appropriate intervals
- Engage with followers and establish relationships via social media channels
- Ensure consistent use of organizational brand and messaging across all public communications
- Participate in creative brainstorming sessions with other members of the NHPPA core team
- See each project through to completion within a set timeframe
VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR
Hours: 15 hours per week, growing to 20+ hours per week, depending on campaign and event schedules
Education, Skills, and Experience:
- 2-3 years proven leadership experience, preferably within an activist organization
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong organizational skills, and an attention to detail
- Dedicated to serving and supporting others
The main tasks of this position include:
- Recruit, screen, and select volunteers for various NHPPA campaigns and related individual citizen-led initiatives
- Develop policies and procedures for welcoming and integrating volunteers
- Outline each volunteer’s role and duties
- Assist each volunteer in carrying out their duties and tasks
- Be consistently available to troubleshoot any challenges volunteers encounter
- Communicate volunteer activities to the appropriate team members to allow for recognition within the organization as well as on public channels, as appropriate
- Create and maintain a database of volunteers, volunteer positions, volunteer events, and volunteer services
OUTREACH OFFICER
Hours: 10-15 hours per week
Education, Skills, and Experience:
- 2-3 years proven outreach or sales experience, preferably within an activist organization
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong organizational skills, and an attention to detail
- Dedicated to serving and supporting others
The main tasks of this position include:
- Furthering the reach of NHPPA campaigns with phone calls to stores, practitioners and media.
- Identifying Charter of Health Freedom petition station locations and supplying the necessary information and support
- Following up positive connections with support for individual actions, such as clinic education evenings and grass-roots rallies and meetings
- Develop policies and procedures for welcoming and integrating industry supporters
- Be consistently available to troubleshoot any challenges industry supporters encounter
- Communicate industry support activities to the appropriate team members to allow for recognition within the organization as well as on public channels, as appropriate
- Create and maintain a database of industry supporters, initiatives, and outcomes
CAMPAIGN ASSISTANT
Hours: 15-20 hours per week, must have a flexible schedule to react to urgent needs of the NHPPA team
Education, Skills, and Experience:
- 2-3 years proven experience as an assistant, preferably within an activist organization
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong organizational skills, and an attention to detail
- Flexible, open schedule
- You should be accustomed to working under pressure and be comfortable with a wide variety of tasks
- You have an attitude that “everything is figureoutable” and are ready to jump in and help whenever needed
The main tasks of this position include:
- Supporting NHPPA team to ensure that requests for support materials are met in a timely manner
- Help write, develop and administer public campaigns to the public and industry through our website and other channels, as required
- Proof-reading capabilities
- Assist with internal communication between team members by making phone calls, following up on emails, and otherwise facilitating communication
- Ability to manage, organize and communicate schedules for various team members and external contacts
- Be consistently available to complete urgent tasks for the NHPPA team
- Any other task assigned by any member of NHPPA’s core team
LIVE WITH SHAWN BUCKLEY SHOW PRODUCER
Hours: 20 hours per week, growing to 30+ hours per week
Education, Skills, and Experience:
- Experience, Degree or Diploma in Digital Marketing, Communication or a related field
- Have significant experience producing written copy and designing digital images for campaigns and an ability to engage various audiences and purposes such as official communications, grassroots organizing, and online advocacy
- Be proficient with Canva, proficiency in Photoshop and/or Illustrator considered an asset, but not required
- Experience with email marketing automation platforms such as Mailchimp, MailPoet, and/or ConvertKit
- A working knowledge of WordPress (visual) or HTML is an asset, but not required
- Excellent written communication skills including proofreading, copy editing
- Experience producing web video, live feeds, and other multimedia a plus
- Strong ability to render and communicate ideas, a flexibility of vision, responsiveness to creative input, and great visual sensibilities
- A solid understanding of social media platforms including, but not limited to, Facebook, Youtube, Instagram, and Twitter
- A solid understanding of alternative social media platforms including, but not limited to, Mighty Networks and Rumble
- A proven ability to manage and complete multiple projects under tight deadlines
The main tasks of this position include:
- Assist in producing a new video-based, long-form conversational show
- Manage guest outreach
- Compile pre-show research
- Complete pre-show briefing with show host
- Copy writing with Show Editor
- Supporting the development of mid-roll advertisements
- Manage Zoom functionality during the live shows
- Build and execute show content and strategy through competitive research, benchmarking, messaging, and audience identification
- Ensure consistent use of organizational brand and messaging across all public communications
- Participate in creative brainstorming sessions with other members of the NHPPA core team
- Demonstrated ability to meet deadlines
