Climate Finance Fellow

Greenlining is an equal opportunity employer committed to a diverse workforce. Greenlining is committed to building and maintaining a diverse staff and an inclusive workplace that values equity. We welcome applications from immigrants, BIPOC, LGBTQ+ applicants, and people with lived experience in poverty.

Job Title:

Climate Finance Fellow

Classification:
Fellow, Non-Union, Non-Exempt 35-Hour work week

Reports to:

Monica Palmeira


Program Dates:
September 8, 2026
- August 7, 2027

The Greenlining Institute works towards a future where communities of color can build wealth, live in healthy places filled with economic opportunity, and are ready to meet the challenges posed by climate change.

We work with communities of color to:

• Understand and analyze the racist barriers to economic opportunity.
• Demand accountability from the public and private sectors to combat injustice.
• Foster consensus-building that produces long-term change and success.
• Bridge research and policy to spearhead innovative strategies at the intersections of racial, economic, and climate equity.

To achieve our vision, we focus on four strategic issue areas:

Economic Equity

Climate Equity

Transformative Communities

Leadership Academy

The Greenlining Institute is deeply committed to justice and equity not just in the work we do in communities, but also within our organization. We actively work to create a diverse, inclusive, and supportive workplace that values lived experience, community wisdom, and racial equity. We particularly encourage applications from Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC), immigrants, LGBTQ+ individuals, and those with lived experiences in historically marginalized communities.

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ABOUT THE GREENLINING INSTITUTE

The Greenlining Institute envisions a future where communities of color can build wealth, live in healthy places filled with economic opportunity and are ready to meet the challenges posed by climate change. With equity practice and systems change guiding us, we incubate and advocate for new ideas and build with diverse communities and partners to ensure that race is never a barrier to opportunity.

ABOUT THE FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM

The Greenlining Institute's Leadership Academy Fellowship is an 11-month training and experiential learning program for early career leaders seeking to gain hands-on public policy experience and invest in their personal and professional growth. Fellows are integrated into one of Greenlining's policy teams to develop, plan, and implement the organization's policy and advocacy efforts while they simultaneously work with the Leadership Academy to focus on the skills to support their personal growth and deepen their leadership perspective.

We're looking for individuals who have a strong commitment to racial equity and social justice for communities of color and can demonstrate a sincere interest in building themselves into true race equity leaders. Our offices are based in Oakland, CA and participants will be expected to attend in person throughout the program.

POLICY FOCUS AREA

The Climate Finance Fellow works with our team to hold private entities, with an emphasis on banks, credit providers, and insurance companies, accountable for their impacts on climate. We work to ensure low-income communities and communities of color across California and the country will be better equipped to face the impacts of climate change in a way that promotes self-determination and economic opportunity.

The Climate Finance Fellow will assist with researching and writing comments in response to legislative and regulatory rule making processes on issues such as corporate climate disclosure, insurance regulation, and clean energy finance. One significant focus for the Fellow on insurance will be working to transform the existing insurer investment program into California to be more robust, transparent, and enforceable in ways that facilitate the investment of insurer capital to climate-vulnerable and low- and moderate-income (LMI) communities.

Work will include research into insurer investment practices, coalition-building, outreach and education, and legislative advocacy.

MAJOR AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY

Public Policy Development & Advocacy

• Deepens and applies race equity lens to analyze and develop policy solutions that remove barriers for historically redlined communities
• Participates in policy making activities to pass legislation or agency policies, including lobbying, giving public comment, or analyzing legislation.
• Leads a substantive public policy assignment (research project, report development, landscape analysis, stakeholder relationship management, coalition management, etc.) to advance the team's advocacy objectives for the year
• Develops, drafts, and publishes public policy writings including but not limited to…