Washington Legislative Director

Position:
Washington Legislative Director

Location:

Seattle, WA (hybrid)

Reporting To:
Washington State Director

Compensation: $115,000 - $140,000, plus benefits

Start Date:

January 2027

For nearly three decades, Climate Solutions has worked to accelerate clean energy solutions to the climate crisis and build a thriving, equitable Northwest powered by clean energy. Across Washington and the broader Northwest, Climate Solutions champions transformational climate and clean energy policies, builds powerful partnerships and coalitions, and helps turn ambitious solutions into action. With groundbreaking policies now in place across the region, the work ahead is both to protect and implement that progress and to keep pushing for solutions that cut climate pollution at the speed and scale required while delivering tangible benefits for people and communities.

Reporting to the Washington State Director, the Washington Legislative Director will lead Climate Solutions’ Washington legislative strategy to turn ambitious climate and clean energy priorities into political action, building the relationships, collective power, and team capacity needed to win meaningful and lasting policy change.

• Champion Climate Solutions’ legislative agenda, navigating a changing political climate to pass, defend, strengthen, and support implementation of state-level climate and clean energy policies, while connecting legislative strategy to real-world impact.
• Shape near-, medium-, and long-term legislative priorities and strategy in partnership with the Washington State Director, Policy Directors, and contract lobbyists, translating political dynamics into strategic guidance and recommending when and how to adapt.
• Conduct legislative and political research and analysis to inform advocacy strategy and translate complex policy information into compelling testimony, talking points, briefings, and other materials.

• Cultivate and steward strategic partnerships across Washington, including with policymakers, government officials, organizations, coalitions, and tribal nations, understanding when Climate Solutions should lead, convene, support, or step back to strengthen collective power and advance collaborative policy action.
• Build momentum and win campaigns around Climate Solutions’ policy priorities, mobilizing allies across labor, communities of color, environmental coalitions, consumer protection advocates and institutions, and other aligned groups.
• Build collective power and elevate community voice, partnering with environmental justice and community organizations to ensure communities most impacted by climate and policy decisions, particularly those historically excluded from policy making, meaningfully shape advocacy strategies and policy solutions.

• Strengthen prioritization and coordination across Climate Solutions’ legislative strategy, bringing together expertise from across the team, contract lobbyists, and other partners around shared priorities and focusing time and influence where they can have the greatest legislative impact.
• Expand the team’s capacity for legislative advocacy, drawing on expertise from across the team to engage policymakers, testify, and advocate for Climate Solutions’ priorities.

• You are Mission & Values Aligned. You bring a deep commitment to accelerating clean energy solutions to the climate crisis and advancing a thriving, equitable Northwest, grounded in justice, integrity, collaboration, respect, and perseverance.
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