Clean Water Campaign Director, Environment America – Washington, DC
Organization: Environment America
Position Title: Clean Water Campaign Director
Location: Washington, DC
Dates and compensation: Salary for this position is commensurate with relevant professional experience and/or advanced degrees. Environment America offers a competitive benefits package.
Application Deadline: Position open until filled
Description: Our vision is to build a strong team of advocates, campaigners, writers and digital organizers who will work with our national field operation to ensure that ALL of the nation’s waterways are clean and safe.
Responsibilities:
Advocacy: Present both problems and solutions to decision-makers—local, state and federal. Make a compelling case for action. Build access and influence with key players who can help us move our agenda forward.
Campaign Strategy Development: Winning real victories takes much more than good policy ideas and strong inside relationships – we need to determine the best strategies for building and using our power. The Program Director will assess opportunities for building political and public support through coalition-building, grassroots organizing, grasstops mobilization, generating media coverage, and develop winning plans for putting our resources to use.
Telling Our Story: The Clean Water Program Director will serve as a public spokesperson for the campaign organizing media events, writing news releases, attending editorial board meetings, generating on-line content and designing and implementing other communication tactics with a goal of building name recognition, garnering broad support and educating and mobilizing the public around our clean water vision.
Program and Policy Development: Participate in and oversee policy development, research and messaging for our clean water program. Help determine where our field resources will be most effective.
Building the Community: We all know there is strength in numbers and more voices lead to more power and more action. Thus the Clean Water Program Director will play a critical role in building relationships and mobilizing support within the national environmental community while working with key constituencies that share our concerns about water quality from health professionals and farmers to outdoor recreational businesses and local elected officials.
Mobilizing the Public: In poll after poll, clean water is America’s top environmental concern. Providing compelling information and opportunities for action to our members and the general public will be a critical component of winning our clean water campaigns.
Fundraising: The Clean Water Program Director will write grant proposals, build relationships with foundation staff, and meet with major donors, all to bring more resources to our campaigns. S/he will also work with our citizen outreach and on-line staff to build and develop a strong membership base to sustain our work.
Recruiting and Developing Staff: If we’re not growing, we’re not winning. The Clean Water Program Director will help recruit new staff, new interns and new volunteers to increase our impact and build more power. S/he will oversee all staff on the Clean Water Program team including developing and implementing work plans, provide training and leadership development opportunities.
Qualifications: Candidates must have at least 5 years of relevant professional experience.
Qualified candidates will have a demonstrated commitment to environmental issues and to citizen-based social change as well as a track-record of leadership. We’re looking for goal-driven and results-oriented individuals who have excellent verbal, writing and analytical skills, the ability to speak persuasively in a charged atmosphere, and enthusiasm for the work.
The ideal candidate will have policy, political advocacy and organizing experience, a proven ability to recruit, train, and develop staff, fundraising experience, and demonstrated success in building relationships with the full spectrum of environmental and political stakeholders.
How to Apply: Please apply here. Direct your application to Leigh-Anne Cole, Recruitment Director.
