Climate Justice & Engagement Associate

Climate Justice & Engagement Associate

The Office of Sustainability & Environment (OSE) develops and implements citywide environmental policies and programs that propel our city toward a sustainable, equitable, and carbon-neutral future. OSE is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. Our mission is to ensure a clean and healthy environment for every resident of Seattle. We prioritize those currently and historically harmed by racial, economic, and environmental injustice and serve as cross-departmental and community partners, innovators, and drivers of cutting-edge city policy.

If you are looking to support opportunities to increase racial, social, and environmental justice throughout Seattle's environmental work, look no further!

The Green New Deal (GND) for Seattle focuses on developing equitable solutions to substantially reduce climate pollution, create jobs, develop solutions that support healthy and resilient communities, advance racial equity, and invest in communities disproportionately impacted by racial, economic, and environmental inequities. The Green New Deal for Seattle started as a community-led initiative that builds off the Equity and Environment Initiative to ensure that all people and communities benefit from Seattle's environmental progress, and communities most affected by environmental injustice are engaged in setting environmental priorities, designing strategies, and tracking progress.

We are recruiting applicants for the Climate Justice & Engagement Associate job. You will be the primary staff for Seattle's Green New Deal Oversight Board and expected to align the Board's priorities with City environmental priorities through your leadership, strategic guidance, clear communications, consistent agenda setting and protocols, coordination and organizing expertise, dedication to advancing climate and environmental justice, and technical assistance.

You will also lead the development and implementation of engagement and organizing strategies with important external stakeholders.

You will be ready for this job if you:

• Align City priorities in Climate Justice and Environmental Justice with community priorities using strong community-centered engagement and facilitation skills.
• Have built partnerships with Black, Native, and Indigenous people and people of color, people with low incomes, immigrants, refugees, and English language learners to advance goals that promote racial, social, environmental, or economic justice.
• Can work across diverse opinions and agendas to identify shared goals and pathways toward progress.
• Gather, synthesize, respond to, and integrate feedback from internal and external partners into policy and program creation through strong listening, oral communication, and writing capabilities.

To be successful, you are committed to:

• Racial, climate, and environmental justice, equity, and inclusion.
• A positive, "can-do" attitude and a proactive, helpful strategic approach to problem solving.
• Listening to, communicating with, and engaging all people with cultural competence and respect.
• Planning ahead, anticipating needs, and following through on assignments.
• Openness to feedback and desire for continuous professional growth.

To be most effective, you have:

• Advanced Climate and Environmental Justice work.
• Provided technical assistance, coordination support, and staff capacity to a Board, Commission, or similar group with annual deliverables such as budget and policy recommendations
• Collaborated successfully with internal and external partners, moving the work towards common goals and completing required deliverables on time
• Created communication materials and shared information with partners as well as the broader public that is proactive, approachable, and provides clear, accurate information regarding project, program, or organization progress
• Engaged, built relationships, and facilitated collaborative processes and dialogue with internal and external partners
• Coordinated complex projects/programs, with attention to detail, gathering data, reporting results, and using evaluation loops to continually improve processes
• Identified situations or issues that need to be elevated to leadership

In addition to the qualities mentioned above, you will need to possess the following required qualifications (or a combination of education, and/or training, and/or experience which provides an equivalent background required to perform the work of the class):

Five years of experience in planning and research related to climate and environmental justice issues, conservation, public health, human services, urban economics, land use, or other work directly related to City planning and development activities

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Four years of experience in planning and research related to climate and environmental justice issues, conservation, public health, human services, urban economics, land use, or other work directly related to City planning and development activities, and an…