Job Title: National Distributed Organizing Representative
Department: Program Department
Unit: Grassroots Power Building
Location: Flexible/Remote. This position requires an ability to travel (note that Sierra Club is currently in a multi-phased re-opening process).
Reports To: Distributed Organizing Manager
Overview of the Sierra Club/Context: At the Sierra Club, we believe in the power of togetherness. Together, we remain committed to the fight for a healthy climate built on a foundation of environmental, racial, economic, and gender justice – a future where all people benefit from a healthy, thriving planet and a direct connection to nature. As the climate crisis and deeply entrenched systemic racism all fuel inequity, we will continue to fight for a bold, transformational agenda that recognizes the interconnectedness between our planet, our humanity, and our democracy. By recognizing that our destinies are tied, we continue to name that all things are fundamentally connected, and the overlap between ecology, race, gender, and representative government will move to either advance our collective humanity or to oppress it. Organizers practice the Jemez Principles and center organizational Equity Values within the work.
Sierra Club is comprised of staff across the country and a network of local chapters that support our grassroots engagement. Grassroots engagement includes public education activities, issue based campaigns, administrative advocacy efforts, legislative lobbying and electoral politics. We are also proud to be a unionized employer – with two labor unions representing more than half of our employees.
Scope: This position is situated within Sierra Club’s work to build and support permanently organized, resilient and powerful communities and the organizing infrastructure to anchor a long term vision and strategy that stops the bad, builds the new and shifts power to communities. This position will work to build grassroots power, achieve concrete electoral and issue campaign victories as well as create permanent structural and cultural change in our country. One focus of this position will be recruiting, coaching and training volunteer leaders who in turn help recruit and train thousands of other volunteer leaders who make Sierra Club their permanent organizing home. Some programmatic activities may include organizing large scale phone, canvass, text and event organizing.
The National Distributed Organizing Representative will work with teammates and partners to build out the distributed organizing work internally and externally. The person in this role will dovetail distributed, digital, field and Chapter-based organizing strategies and will work on issue-based and electoral campaigns. They will build a distributed network of public support across the country and may focus on specific geographic locations and targets as needed and based on Sierra Club’s programmatic priorities.
Job activities include but are not limited to:
The successful candidate must have the following skills and experience:
Nice-to-have skills and experience – The strongest candidates will also demonstrate the following experience, skills and competencies:
Seasonal Activities:
Heavier seasonal workloads may occur as a result of project deadlines, staff absences and vacancies, and during peak activity periods. Travel as well as weekend and/or evening work required. Travel expectation is to be determined and the Sierra Club is currently in the midst of a multi-phased COVID-19 reopening plan. These should be balanced using compensatory time as needed to slow down.
Compensation and Benefits
This position is represented by a collective bargaining unit and is subject to the terms and conditions of the contract between Sierra Club and Progressive Workers Union or Sierra Employee Alliance.
The salary for this position is $65,500 if Salary Region 1 (e.g.; Washington, DC, or Oakland, CA).
The Sierra Club offers a competitive salary package commensurate with skills and experience plus excellent benefits that include medical, dental, and vision coverage, and a retirement savings 401(k) plan.
This is a category 4 exempt, represented position.
Sierra Club values the expertise and talents of foreign nationals. Sierra Club sponsors both nonimmigrant and immigrant visas when certain criteria are met, based on immigration laws and organizational needs. Such sponsorship is at the discretion of the Department Head and Sierra Club Human Resources in consultation with the employee’s manager. The Sierra Club cannot guarantee the approval of a visa petition. The Sierra Club is an equal opportunity employer committed to workforce diversity.
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To Apply
This position does not have an undergraduate education requirement. If you choose to include your education history, please remove your schools from your resume. You may leave your degree (e.g., “B.A. Philosophy”), but please remove any undergraduate and graduate school names.
This process is aimed at opening this opportunity to more candidates, reviewing applicants on performance assessments and mitigating bias in the decision making process.
Lastly, we are intentionally not asking for a cover letter, so please do not send one in with your application.
We anticipate accepting applications until late fall. We anticipate hiring 3 organizers from this applicant pool.
Job Type: Full-time
Work Location: Multiple Locations
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