Advocate

Overview

NRDC (the Natural Resources Defense Council) works to safeguard the Earth, its people, its plants and animals, and the natural systems on which all life depends. NRDC combines the power of more than 3 million members and online activists with the expertise of some 800 policy advocates, lawyers, scientists, and communication experts to confront the climate crisis, protect nature, ensure the rights of all people to clean air, clean water, and healthy communities.

As an international nonprofit environmental organization, NRDC is working to address the world’s most urgent environmental challenges, and advance innovative, science-based, and enforceable solutions.

Since our founding in 1970, NRDC has helped craft and deliver many of America’s foundational environmental laws, including the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act and Safe Drinking Water Act. Today, we continue to lead in advancing and defending strong environmental protections at the local, state, federal and international levels, as well as through the marketplace. Our team works across the United States and around the world, from offices in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C., as well as in Beijing, and New Delhi (a subsidiary of NRDC India Pvt.

Ltd.).

Supported by our members and online activists, NRDC is driving impactful solutions that confront the climate crisis, defend nature and safeguard public health across

Asia, Africa, and the Americas. At NRDC, we believe lasting change happens when people bring their talent, passion, and expertise together for a common purpose: to build a cleaner, healthier, and more resilient world. Learn more

NRDC is seeking an Advocate to work with NRDC’s Pollinators & Pesticides Team. As the biodiversity crisis has worsened in the last two decades, pollinator populations have dramatically declined, threatening food security and the viability of whole ecosystems. NRDC works to eliminate wasteful use of the pollinator-killing pesticides that not only drive these losses, but also contaminate water, devastate ecosystems, and threaten human health on a vast scale.

The Advocate would work as a member of the Pollinator & Pesticides Team to advance its all-of-the-above strategy to protect our pollinators, our health, and our planet from dangerous pesticide use. This includes a focus on big-tent state campaigns to pass leading model laws; advocacy before Congress and federal agencies making decisions with nationwide impact; cutting-edge litigation to hold decision makers and polluters to account;

and working in the new media landscape to educate the public and elevate the profile of pollinator-harming pesticides.

This is a limited term 2 year position.

The position you are applying for is part 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:

• Partnering with senior staff to develop and execute strategies to support our: nation-leading state campaign work to pass vanguard model laws that safeguard pollinators, people, and the environment; advocacy before Congress, federal agencies, and other key decision makers to secure nationwide protections against harmful pesticide use; and national communications work.
• Along with senior staff, meeting regularly with policy makers, agency staff, and other decision makers at the state and federal level to influence policy outcomes and cultivating policy makers to be champions for protecting pollinators, other wildlife, clean water, and human health against harmful pesticides.
• Working to build and maintain relationships with a diverse set of partner organizations, coalitions, and other stakeholders to mobilize our collective power in support of curbs on pollinator and community-harming pesticide uses.
• Speaking in public forums, including testifying at legislative committee hearings, speaking with media outlets
• Developi…