Climate Resilience Organizer

The Climate Resilience Organizer will play a key role in advancing Climate Resolve’s climate justice, resilience planning, policy and advocacy agenda. This position is ideal for someone deeply committed to environmental justice and skilled in community organizing, public engagement, and coalition-building.

Reporting to the Senior Policy Analyst & Organizer, the Climate Resilience Organizer supports community-based and policy-driven efforts to advance equitable climate solutions in under-resourced communities throughout California. The position involves a dynamic mix of organizing, community-driven planning, advocacy, capacity building, and program development.

Responsibilities

Leadership & Management (5%)

• Assist in the execution of several key programs and partnerships, upholding the organization’s standard of excellence and reputation in all activities
• Report to the Senior Policy Analyst & Organizer and other project supervisors on a weekly basis to debrief activities
• Reports to Senior Policy Analyst & Organizer for annual review and performance evaluations
• Curate, cultivate, and offer feedback on work activities

Programmatic Support (70%)

• Advance climate justice in planning and other campaigns by working from a bottom-up community level and a top-down policy level to increase climate resiliency within Climate Resolve, including, but not limited to:
  • Help plan and implement public engagement strategies, including events and digital organizing efforts.
  • Help develop a multi-year, multi-party process to inform and influence the resilient recovery (post-fires), considering future shocks and stresses in Los Angeles’s communities.
  • Developing resources, organizer trainings, fact sheets, toolkits, webinars, pop-up events, and surveys that engage partners and community members on climate planning and adaptation.
  • Accessing information from online data tools such as CalEnviroScreen, Healthy Places Index, and Cal-Adapt, and presenting them in easily digestible formats, to show disparities and harms in need of addressing
  • Participating in grant and capacity-building program webinars and meetings on behalf of Climate Resolve
  • Facilitating cross-sector partnerships between government departments, community-based organizations, academics, and the private sector
  • Meeting or exceeding defined deliverables on fee-for-service or consultant projects
  • Tracking project budgets and expenditures, as needed

Community Advocacy & Organizing (20%)

• Support ongoing climate planning and resilience efforts such as:
  • Monitor and analyze local and state-level climate justice policy developments
  • Assist in coordinating projects that build climate resilience in vulnerable communities, including extreme heat adaptation, transportation justice, and clean energy initiatives
  • Collaborate on advocacy efforts that promote equity-centered climate solutions, including participation in policy coalitions and public comment processes
  • Strategizing on projects to push forth local climate change adaptation measures for extreme heat, drought, flooding, wildfire, and sea level rise as well as climate change mitigation measures for transportation, energy, and water
  • Coordinating place-based planning and implementation projects in Southern California
  • Attending policy meetings, conferences, and other events relating to climate adaptation and mitigation
  • Help plan and implement public engagement strategies, including design charrettes and action alerts

Fundraising & Grant Support (5%)

• Provide assistance in grant writing, reporting, and tracking related to Climate Resolve’s programs
• Collaborate with the development team to secure funding that supports community-based work

Communications

• On occasion, and in collaboration with the Communications Manager, generate media and communications content related to project initiatives for public dissemination, such as original content for newsletters, website, blogs, and social media

Qualifications

The Climate Resilience Organizer will be thoroughly committed to Climate Resolve's mission. All candidates should have proven experience:

Required

• 2 - 5 years of experience in community-oriented project coordination, preferably in the nonprofit sector
• Excellent time management skills with ability to effectively prioritize multiple tasks; able to work under tight deadlines
• Familiarity with the Southern California landscape (particular sectors of interest include: NGOs, service, health, faith, academia, and local government)
• Experience with in-person outreach, e.g. tabling, canvassing and comfortable speaking in public with diverse communities in a professional and personable manner
• Knowledge and ability to communicate about climate, transportation, land use, and/or public health and planning standards; have a keen awareness of the inequities exacerbated by climate change and its disproportionate effect on Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) communities
• Proficiency at being collegial and collaborative, forming and maintaining partnerships with diverse stakeholders and constituencies; able to incorporate feedback from multiple perspectives into decision-making processes
• Effectively executing performance- and outcomes-based programmatic activity and deliverables, using evaluation methods for continuous improvement
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Proficient in Microsoft Office and Google Suite platforms
• A positive, can-do attitude and the ability to work well on a team, as well as independently, and a willingness to ask for help as needed

Preferred

• Working knowledge of project management tools such as Asana
• Knowledgeable of resilient recovery, particularly from wildfire
• Interest in building other nonprofit skills such as budgeting and grant writing
• Working knowledge of communications and media platforms such as Canva, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, and WordPress
• Speaks a second language commonly spoken by Angelenos; Spanish is strongly preferred.

Please note: Due to the community-facing nature of this role, travel, evening and weekend commitments, and participation in community meetings outside of standard 9–5 hours will be required often - with the possibility to adjust their schedule to comply with the 36 hour workweek policy.

This is a full-time position (40 hrs/wk) and would be eligible to participate in Climate Resolve’s reduced workweek policy (36 hrs/wk). The annual salary range is $71,000 to $75,000, depending on experience, with above-average benefits that include a matching 401k contribution, medical benefits, cellphone and internet stipends, a professional development annual fund, and commuter benefits.

Additional Benefits

• Supportive team work culture with an option to participate in a Peer Learning Group dedicated to offering junior staff a space to learn from peers within Climate Resolve
• Generous PTO and holiday schedule
• Once a month in-person lunch and ad-hoc staff trainings to provide opportunities for professional development and continuous learning alongside peers
• A hybrid working arrangement with options to come into a vibrant office setting while still having the ability to work from home some days
• Fun, collaborative team dynamic
• Work on cutting-edge climate solutions