350.org is looking for a passionate, self-directed organizer to assist the 350.org grassroots network, particularly in support of the fossil fuel divestment and reinvestment campaigns, along with locally designed campaigns originating from local groups.
About 350.org
350.org is building a global grassroots movement to solve the climate crisis. Our online campaigns, grassroots organizing, and mass public actions are led from the bottom up by thousands of volunteer organizers in over 188 countries. 350.org works hard to organize in a new way—everywhere at once, using online tools to facilitate strategic offline action. We want to be a laboratory for the best ways to strengthen the climate movement and catalyze transformation around the world.
About the US Divest/Reinvest Community Campaign Organizer
The Divest/Reinvest Community Campaign Organizer will work with local groups aligned with 350.org to strategize and run successful campaigns throughout the United States and Canada. While the organizer will work with a variety of groups on many campaigns, a significant focus will go towards fossil fuel divestment and reinvestment, a global movement to pull money and cultural power away from the fossil fuel industry and reinvest it in community solutions on the frontlines of the climate crisis.
This will include:
- Collaborating with the 350.org divestment team and a multi-group reinvestment network to support local climate organizers to run successful reinvestment and divestment campaigns.
- Organizing workgroups of local campaigners focusing on fossil fuel divestment, reinvestment and other developing campaigns.
- Coaching and mentoring group leaders to design, develop and run successful campaigns focused on various local targets.
Required Qualifications
- 3-5 years of campaign organizing experience, especially within city and state policy and movement contexts.
- Strategic campaign development expertise including campaign planning, coordination and organizing strategy and implementation.
- Comfort and experience organizing with activists and campaigners from a variety of backgrounds.
- Demonstrated experience with base building, power mapping, talking with elected officials and managing media relations.
- Excellent problem-solving skills working in group settings.
- Experience mentoring and/or coaching grassroots activists.
- Highly organized, and able to manage multiple projects at once without sacrificing quality.
- Proven ability to work independently, as well as in close coordination with a remote team.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Desired (but not required) skills and experiences
- Proven ability to assemble effective national working groups.
- Experience navigating a variety of decision-making structures.
- Though this is role is not a trainer, experience planning and coordinating trainings is helpful.
- Some working knowledge of economics, and interest in building a new economy that works for people and the planet.
We are looking for someone who is comfortable working both independently and in teams, highly responsive, and able to lead initiatives as well as take direction from others.
Our team strives to be an inclusive and collaborative group that engages a broad range of strategies for social change. We value new perspectives, innovative ideas and different ways of working. Diverse perspectives and experience enhance the way 350.org selects and approaches its areas of work, as well as the creativity and effectiveness of our campaigns. 350.org prioritizes making leadership positions available to women, people of color, indigenous people and communities most impacted by climate change and environmental prejudices.
If you have suggestions for us on how to do this better, we really value your input and strongly encourage you to write to us at jobs@350.org with the subject line 'Hiring Feedback'.
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