Director, Southeast Region

Overview

NRDC is a non-profit environmental advocacy organization. We use law, science, and the support of3.1 million member sand online activists to protect the planet's wildlife and wild places and to ensure the rights of all people to clean air, clean water, and healthy communities. NRDC was founded in 1970 and our people helped write some of America's bedrock environmental laws, including the Clean Water Act and many of the implementing regulations.

Today, our team of more than 700 lawyers, scientists, economists, policy advocates, communications experts, and others work across the United States and the globe from our offices in Beijing;
Chicago;
New Delhi;
New York;
San Francisco;
Santa Monica; and Washington, D.C.

POSITION SUMMARY

NRDC’s Environmental Health Department isseekingto hire aSoutheast Regional Directortoadvanceour regionalenvironmentalhealthgoalsin the Adaptation and Air & Water sectors, with occasional workto advanceadditional

Environmental Health goals in the Southeast region. The Regional Directorwillwork remotely and basedin the southeastern United States, with a preference for Atlanta, Georgia.

Theadvocatewill be an empowering and collaborative individual who champions equityand justice. The successful candidate willhaveexistingrelationships with community, environmental justice, environmental groups,in addition tostate and local elected officials and staff and state agencies.

The candidate should alsobe adept attellingcompelling stories to diverse audiences.

The candidate mustdemonstratea genuine alignment with the mission and valuesof NRDC andseekto applytheirpassion and skills to tackle the most important challenges humanity has ever faced.

The positionisremote, with an expectation tobe basedin Atlanta, Georgia and totraveloccasionallytoother parts of the southeastern United Statesto advance NRDC’s policy goals andfor team meetings, etc., as needed.

This is a limited term 2 year position.

The position you are applying forispart of the bargaining unit represented by The Washington Baltimore News Guild (WBNG /The Newsguild-CWA Local 32035).

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the following essential functions:

• Support the development of a broad portfolio of policies thatseekto protect communities in the face of climate change, environmental degradation, and inequality. Specific prioritiesinclude:risk reduction initiatives that protect homes from climate impacts, homeowner insurance reform, and drinking water contamination (due to PFAS, lead, or other harmful contaminants). [50%]
• Work to advanceother community-driven, cross-cuttinginitiatives thatadvance the Environmental Health Department’s wider portfolio,including but not limited work onair quality,clean water,toxics, fossil fuels, and community impacts. [20%]
• Buildand managepartnerships and collaborate with community groups most impacted byclimate and environmental injustices (including Black, indigenous, and people of color, and low-income and rural communities).[10%]
• Develop and nurture durable partnerships with state coalitions and a wide network of allies, including the environmental community, frontline and environmental justice groups, consumer and low-income advocates, labor, the faith community, state and local decision makers and elected officials.[10%]
• Manage one state advocate based in North Carolina with a similar workplan. [10%]
• Contribute toresearch, analysis, and design of state and localdrinking water and climate adaptation policies.
• Provide written and oral advocacy atmany levels of government, including but not limited tomunicipal agencies, municipal legislatures, utility boards,state agencies, the state legislature, and governor’s office.
• Represent NRDC at conferences and serve as a spokesperson in the press for NRDC’senvironmental health mission in the southeastern United States.
• Collaborate with a multi-faceted internal team of campaign, communications, public engagement, and policy experts to advance a diverse portfolio of policy…