Southwestern US Organizer

Job Type 

Full Time Exempt

Location

100% Remote in the Southwest US, with preference for the Denver, CO area.

Position Summary

WildEarth Guardians seeks a full-time Southwest Organizer to play an integral role supporting activist engagement across Colorado and the Southwest, elevating the organization’s profile and campaign goals. The Southwest Organizer builds and manages volunteer and activist networks, driving mutually beneficial relationships with community leaders, impacted constituency groups, and ally organizations to build power for protecting the wildlife, wild places, wild rivers, and the health of communities primarily in Colorado and also across the Southwest.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Recruits activists to engage in Guardians campaigns, networking with like-minded or similar issue-based groups, organizations, and coalitions across digital platforms.
• Achieves agreed-upon campaign objectives by creating organizing and recruitment plans, and executing creative tactics and events.
• Represents Guardians at public events, in grassroots activists groups and in the environmental community at large.
• Seeks opportunities to advance Guardians Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Justice initiatives through new partnerships and engagement strategies.
• Engages people and develops volunteer leadership to build power at the local, state, and national level:
• Develops and implements a variety of engagement strategies including online and face-to-face creative tactics.
• Develops volunteer leaders and skills, offers issue-based trainings to build skill level.
• Works with appropriate staff and volunteers to plan and implement visibility, media and community outreach events to generate public support with agency decision-makers and in the media.
• Identifies and is responsible for developing strong relationships with key people of influence including community leaders and public officials to influence positive campaign outcomes.
• Coordinates and measures success of activities to ensure progress towards mission and goals.

Skills & Knowledge

The ideal candidate is an innovative, tech savvy individual with smart ideas and high motivation to work independently. A people person, they should love interacting with people on the ground and show potential for introducing innovative ideas to engage people and build diverse networks both digitally and offline. The candidate should have the ability to build meaningful partnerships with diverse organizations, entities, and individuals to strengthen Guardians’ campaigns and initiatives.

Additional qualifications include:

• Proven leadership and passion for and dedication to environmental and social justice with a passion for addressing wildlife, wildplaces, wild rivers, and climate and energy issues.
• At least three years of experience working with volunteers in the environmental movement, political campaigns, or other, similar organizations to plan and implement grassroots campaigns.
• Strong skills and experience in key campaigning areas: public speaking, activist training, organizing people around an issue, digital skills, oral and written communication, and problem solving skills. Experience in using a variety of communication & engagement tools to motivate people.
• Strong communication and listening skills with an openness to receive and implement feedback.
• Has current contacts or has the ability to develop contacts with coalition partners.
• Strong ability to network, build trust, and establish working relationships.
• Ability to work independently, cooperatively and effectively with public, staff, and volunteers.
• Adept at Excel and preferably using web databases and familiarity with social networking sites, blogs, and online tools for grassroots organizing.
• Able and willing to travel as needed. Valid driver’s license required.

Compensation:

$58,000 to $62,000 (dependent on experience)

Benefits:

WildEarth Guardians offers a flexible and generous benefits package for staff. Benefits for full-time staff include 100% medical and dental employee coverage paid for by the employer, vision, life, and disability coverage, a 403(b)-retirement plan with a 3% match after 2 years of full-time employment, paid and unpaid health and family leave, a sabbatical policy, sick leave, three weeks paid vacation to start, and fourteen holidays including 5 floating holidays to be taken at any time. Benefits are prorated for part-time employees to correspond to the employee’s schedule: holiday, vacation, sick time, 403(b) retirement plan with a 3% match after 2 years of full-time employment. Part-time employees are not eligible for health coverage or sabbatical leave.

Equal Opportunity Employer

WildEarth Guardians is an Equal Opportunity Organization and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, class, sex, gender, sexual orientation, disability, family/marital status, religion or other protected classes. We strongly encourage applications from historically excluded communities.

ADA Statement

WildEarth Guardians is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. In keeping with

our commitment, WildEarth Guardians will take the steps to assure that people with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. Accordingly, if reasonable accommodation is required to fully participate in the job application or interview process, to perform the essential functions of the position, and/or to receive all other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact apply@wildearthguardians.org.

About WildEarth Guardians

Founded in 1989, WildEarth Guardians is a west-wide environmental advocacy organization headquartered in Santa Fe, NM. The organization has offices in Denver, CO, Missoula, MT, Boise, ID, Seattle, WA, Portland, OR, and Tucson, AZ, as well as several remote staff. We have a 33-year history of securing durable environmental protections that preserve endangered species and other wildlife, advance pioneering supply-side climate policy, ensure living rivers and protect public lands. We do this by pursuing innovative and sustained legal campaigns, bold and creative policy and legislative solutions at both the state and federal levels and by mobilizing grassroots and grasstops constituencies. All this work is in service of our mission to protect and restore wildlife, wild places, wild rivers, and health in the western U.S.

For more information, please visit www.wildearthguardians.org/about-us

To Apply

Please apply to the link on this page and fill out our online application. Please no telephone calls or emails. If you require assistance applying to this opportunity, please email apply@wildearthguardians.org

Deadline to Apply:

The hiring committee will begin reviewing applications on a rolling basis after July 1, 2023 until the position is filled.