Environment California Climate Solutions Advocate

Department: State

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Oakland, CA

Compensation: $34,000 - $40,000 / year

Description

• Support efforts to get over one million EV charging stations by 2030
• Ensure 100% of new cars are zero emission vehicles by 2035
• Transition our trucks, buses and trains to zero emission vehicles
• Electrify buildings including homes, libraries, schools and businesses throughout California

Representative Responsibilities

• Program: Run our campaigns for electrification in California, including policy development, research and messaging.
• Advocacy: Represent Environment California and advance our strategy in the California State Capitol. Develop strong and collaborative relationships with state agencies, partner organizations, coalitions, legislators and legislative staff on both sides of the aisle, and other stakeholders to advance shared goals. Seek out and identify policy opportunities related to our issue portfolio and make recommendations regarding policy positions and messaging.
• Communications and Media Outreach: Work with your team to develop materials for lawmakers, the public, and the media to help advance our campaigns, including opinion editorials, press releases, letters to the editor, campaign action emails, fact sheets, bill summaries and policy briefs, regulatory comments, analyses, and presentations.
• Fundraising: Fundraise from charitable foundations and individual donors to support our program.
• Build the team: You will be part of a California-based team of advocates and campaign staff working to advance our policy goals. Advocates may serve as mentors or supervisors to less experienced staff, recruit and train new interns and volunteers to increase our impact and build our power, and participate in recruitment of new staff.

Qualifications

• A campaign advocate, campaign staffer or grassroots organizer with at least 3 years of experience team building and/or coalition building.
• An effective communicator with excellent writing and public speaking skills. Experience with traditional media or digital communications is a plus.
• Creative and effective at solving complex problems; a strategic thinker who can take advantage of new opportunities.
• A people person and good listener with a track record of successful access-building; willing and interested in working with people who think differently than you.
• Well-organized and able to work on multiple legislative and administrative proposals at once.
• Demonstrated commitment to environmental and public interest issues and to citizen-based social change.
• A proven ability to recruit, train and develop staff, raise money, and demonstrated success in building relationships with the full spectrum of environmental and political stakeholders.

Benefits