Campaign Associate at Environment America | Richmond, VA | $38K/yr – $40K/yr

Environment America

Campaign Associate

Richmond, VA (On-site)

$38K/yr – $40K/yrEntry Level1+ years expFull time

Posted 4 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own grassroots campaigning with a focus on coalition building, media attention, and volunteer-driven operations to move environmental policy goals across communities and key offices.

Coalitions & Outreach: Build broad support across organizations and constituencies to advance campaign goals.
Campaign Visibility: Organize events, secure media attention, and grow a social following for the campaign.
Grassroots Operations & Team Building: Recruit volunteers, run summer offices, organize events, and hit fundraising targets.

Job Description

Responsibilities

Build powerful coalitions: Reach out to a broad range of organizations and affected constituency groups across the political spectrum to demonstrate support for our campaign goals.
Earn traditional media and social media attention: Organize news conferences and write opinion pieces. Build a following on social media for your campaign.
Organize events and work with volunteers: Organize webinars, community events and public meetings. Recruit organizations and members of the public to attend and participate.
Lobby elected officials: Meet with decision makers - from city council members to state legislators - to make the case for our campaign goals. When a critical vote is happening on your campaign, work to demonstrate the support you’ve been building on the ground to help line up the votes needed to win.
Research and write reports: Catalog and analyze data relevant to the issue and our policy proposals to help influence public debate and earn media attention for our cause.
Recruit new people to your team: Help build your team by recruiting volunteers, interns and full-time staff.
Run a grassroots campaign office each summer: Run a campaign office for the summer, knocking on doors to raise money to support our campaigns, build our organization and membership, and help build critical and timely grassroots support to win key campaigns. Your responsibilities will include meeting your own fundraising goals and managing a team of paid staff. You may be assigned to a different office location for the summer and should be flexible to move.

Requirements

Entry-level candidates are encouraged to apply.
Candidates must live in or be willing to relocate to Virginia.
Passion for the environment and using the power of grassroots organizing to win campaigns
Leadership experience
Top-notch writing and public speaking skills
Good listening skills
An eagerness to learn
Organizing experience, including building campus or community groups

Preferred

Benefits

medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and dependents
time off
a commuter benefit program
a 401(k) plan with employer match
parental leave
long term disability insurance
needs-based student loan assistance (may include)
an excellent training program and opportunities for advancement

Environment America

Every day, we see more heartbreaking evidence of the damage being done to our planet: climate change, plastic pollution, wildlife disappearing forever. But we also see the solutions all around us, practically begging us to adopt them: solar and wind power, electric cars and buses, more walkable and “bikeable” cities, reusing and repairing stuff instead of throwing it away, and on and on.At Environment America, our mission is to transform the power of our imaginations and our ideas into change that makes our world a greener and healthier place for all.

Founded in 2007

Denver, Colorado, USA

81 employees (25,145,048 in marketing)

www.environmentamerica.org