Climate Advocate

Position description

Environment Maryland is seeking a Climate Solutions Advocate to run campaigns to expand clean, renewable energy in Maryland and power our homes, schools, and businesses with clean efficient electricity.

As our Climate Solutions Advocate, you’ll work with our state and national clean energy program team at Environment America to:

• Follow through on Maryland’s goal of reducing Maryland’s global warming emissions 60% by 2031 and to net-zero by 2045.
• Transition Maryland’s buildings including homes, libraries, schools and businesses to efficient electricity.
• Codify Governor Moore’s commitment to 100% clean energy generation by 2035.

Representative Responsibilities 

This position requires exercising discretion and independent judgment in making decisions in matters of significance. Responsibilities may include, but are not limited to:

• Program: Run our campaigns for electrification in Maryland homes, schools and businesses, including policy development, research and messaging.
• Advocacy: Represent Environment Maryland and advance our strategy in the Maryland State Capitol. Develop strong and collaborative relationships with state agencies, partner organizations, coalitions, legislators and legislative staff on both sides of the aisle, and other stakeholders to advance shared goals. Seek out and identify policy opportunities related to our issue portfolio and make recommendations regarding policy positions and messaging.
• Communications and Media Outreach: Develop materials for lawmakers, the public, and the media to help advance our campaigns, including opinion editorials, press releases, letters to the editor, campaign action emails, fact sheets, bill summaries and policy briefs, regulatory comments, analyses, and presentations.
• Fundraising: Fundraise from charitable foundations and individual donors to support our program.
• Build the team: Recruit and train new interns and volunteers to increase our impact. Participate in recruitment of new staff.

Qualifications

You are:

• A campaign advocate, campaign staffer or grassroots organizer with at least 2 years of experience.
• An effective communicator with excellent writing and public speaking skills. Experience with traditional media or digital communications is a plus.
• Creative and effective at solving complex problems; a strategic thinker who can take advantage of new opportunities.
• A people person and good listener with a track record of successful access-building; willing and interested in working with people who think differently than you.
• Well-organized and able to work on multiple legislative and administrative proposals at once.
• Demonstrated commitment to environmental and public interest issues and to citizen-based social change.
• A proven ability to recruit, train and develop staff, the ability to raise money, and demonstrated success in building relationships with the full spectrum of environmental and political stakeholders.

About Environment Maryland

Environment Maryland is a policy and action group with tens of thousands of supporters across the state. Our mission is to protect clean air, clean water and open space. Environment Maryland has been a leader in reducing plastic pollution by passing local bans on single use plastic bans and the first-in-the-nation ban on foam food packaging. We have helped ban fracking in the state, expand wind and solar power, and commit Maryland to some of the nation’s most aggressive climate goals.

Environment Maryland is part of Environment America. We work to tackle the most profound problem of our time: a way of living that is destroying the natural world. 

We’re advocates for energy conservation and renewable power, so we can keep oil in the ground and stop burning fossil fuels. We’re champions of plastic reduction, so nothing we use for a few minutes is allowed to pollute our oceans for centuries. And we’re defenders of wildlife and wild places, both for their own sake as well as the awe and wonder they bring to our lives. 

Environment America’s national network of 30 state environmental groups work to improve our quality of life by reducing the pollution and other harms of how we produce, consume and dispose of more and more stuff. And we do it one step at a time, by winning results for clean air, clean water, clean energy, wildlife, open spaces, and a livable climate that make a tangible difference in people's lives and our environment.

Compensation and Benefits

The starting compensation range for this position is $32,500-$42,000 and depends on relevant experience, education, and location. Candidates on the lower end of directly relevant experience should expect to be on the lower end of this range; candidates on the higher end of relevant experience are likely to be on the higher end of this range. Environment Maryland offers an excellent benefits package. Our benefits package includes medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and dependents, paid time off, our commuter benefit program, a 401(k) plan with employer match, parental leave, long term disability insurance, and may include needs-based student loan assistance. We also offer an excellent training program and opportunities for advancement.

Application instructions

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