Campaign Organizing Strategist

Overview

Job Title:

Campaign Organizing Strategist

Department:
Campaigns, Industrial Transformation

Location:

Hybrid within Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, or Minnesota

This position requires an ability to travel.

Reports To:

Campaign Director, Industrial Transformation

Context:
At the Sierra Club, we believe in the power of interdependence. We remain committed to the fight for a healthy climate built on a foundation of environmental, racial, economic, and gender justice – a future where all people benefit from a healthy, thriving planet and a direct connection to nature. By recognizing that our destinies are tied, we name that all things are interconnected, and the overlap between ecology, race, gender, and representative government will move to either advance our collective humanity or to oppress it.

Sierra Club has close to 800 staff across the country and a network of 64 local chapters that are led and fueled by volunteers. We are also proud to be a unionized employer, with three labor unions representing more than half of our employees.

Scope:
The Campaign Organizing Strategist designs the campaign organizing component of strategic planning in collaboration with the manager and Chapter Director. The role supports planning and coordination of campaigns to win real victories and build grassroots power to advance Sierra Club priorities, which include addressing climate disruption, transforming the energy economy, protecting communities from pollution, ensuring access to the outdoors for all and protecting lands, water and wildlife.

The Chapter(s) is a crucial partner for successful strategic execution.

The Campaign Organizing Strategist works with volunteers, partners, and staff across states, leveraging Sierra Club resources including legal, communications, digital strategies, and subject matter expertise. The role coordinates and guides teams of organizers and volunteers to implement campaign goals in alignment with and supported by the manager. The Strategist will work with state leadership to develop state-based, regional, and local strategies, coordinate implementation plans with field teams, communicate priorities, and track metric benchmarks.

The Campaign Organizing Strategist provides leadership to volunteer and staff organizers in the state(s), fosters volunteer leadership and shapes the leadership ladder, participates in educational materials, presentations and reports, research, testifies, lobbies, and develops subject matter expertise on relevant topics. The role represents the Sierra Club to government officials, the media, and other organizations, including coalition spaces.

Job activities include but are not limited to:

• Campaign Strategy and Implementation:
  Works with Campaign leadership, Chapter Director, and Campaign teams to design state or multi-state strategic planning, facilitates organizing strategy, balancing national and state priorities. Incorporates key state and chapter stakeholders, including volunteers, to create and implement a campaign within the overarching strategic plan. This includes leading multi-issue state campaign plans, organizing tactics, conducting or overseeing research, developing engagement strategies, facilitating organizing meetings, volunteer integration, and developing and leveraging partnerships.
  
  Tracks policy and regulatory proceedings in the state relevant to a campaign, identifies engagement, mobilization, or intervention opportunities. Ensures campaigns are rooted in equity and justice and inclusive of frontline and directly impacted communities. May be asked to consult or support on budget, fundraising, and large-scale strategic planning.
• Campaign Team Leadership:
  Creates a state (or multi-state) campaign team space to support and coach organizers, track campaign progress, and foster a positive team culture with guidance from the manager. Guides team members to develop campaign plans to achieve outcomes. Ensures organizers have resources and uses expertise to support the training team to develop and facilitate training on organizing skills. Supports organizers to deliver on grassroots campaigns which win real victories and build…