Climate Organizing Director

Climate Organizing Director

Are you an experienced organizer director who’s passionate about protecting workers rights in the era of climate change? Are you ready to lead our coalition’s efforts to build the labor movement’s power to win a worker- and community-led transition to a just and climate-safe economy?

Reports to:

Deputy Director. Compensation: $96-109.5k/year. Hybrid workplace, including weekly meetings in Oakland or SF, CA.

Jobs with Justice San Francisco (JwJSF) is a long term, multi-racial alliance of labor unions and community groups supporting workers’ rights and fighting for economic, racial and gender justice. Our member groups represent service workers, domestic workers, healthcare workers, educators, city workers, seniors, people with disabilities, tenants, students and more. Our coalition connects people—workers, Black and Brown people, immigrants, queer and gender-oppressed folks—to build collective power.

We believe as Audre Lorde said, “There is no such thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.” Working people need good jobs with dignity and a voice at work, quality and equitable public education, affordable housing and a liveable climate. We see economic, racial and gender justice as intersecting and necessary to each other. Our current programs focus on workers rights, housing and climate justice.

By building a strong multiracial and multi-issue alliance rooted in long-term relationships and solidarity, we have the power to win real systems change. JwJSF staff coordinate California Labor for Climate Jobs (CLCJ), a statewide coalition of 16 unions working to advance a worker- and community-led transition to a just and climate-safe economy. CLCJ aims to advance workers rights and build worker organizing opportunities through our policy platform that focuses on climate hazard protections, safety nets for workers and communities in transition, good jobs in the low carbon economy and ensuring climate-resilient services and infrastructure for all.

Climate change is forcing economic change; the labor movement has to lead on climate change to ensure that the changes are good for workers and advance racial justice.

The Climate Organizing Director builds worker and coalition power to win strategic victories for workers rights and good jobs in the era of climate change, and worker-led transition in California. Working primarily to advance the statewide coalition California Labor for Climate Jobs (CLCJ), the Climate Organizing Director will build the collective power and leadership of the CLCJ coalition’s member organizations and their rank & file members at the nexus of climate, economic and racial justice issues;

mobilize workers to support statewide advocacy; and work to change the narrative so that strong climate action is seen as an opportunity to create good, union jobs.

• Lead development, implementation and updates of the CLCJ coalition’s power building and organizing plan, including establishing annual goals, and union-specific power building plans.
• Serve as organizing project manager to coordinate coalition members’ participation, timelines, materials, and cross-issue collaboration to meet all deliverables.
• Carry out coalition activities in the campaign workplan, including conducting research, convening 1:1s, power mapping, organizing and mobilizing, planning for events/actions, etc.
• Develop and implement a leadership development plan to establish individual champions and spokespeople within and with the permission of member unions.
• Develop training materials/curricula and organize political education opportunities for member unions.
• Lead strategies to incorporate…