Partnership & Engagement Coordinator

Our Children’s Trust is seeking a Partnership & Engagement Coordinator to join our Engagement team.

The position is a salary, exempt, and a member of the OCTWA Bargaining Union and is benefit eligible. Benefits include 100% employer paid medical and dental for employee, long and short

term disability, life insurance, 401(k) plan, 15 days of vacation in the first year, 12 sick days, and 15 company holidays and 5 floating holidays, 6-weeks fully paid Family Medical Leave and 6 weeks of Restorative leave after 6 years.

The compensation range for this position is $60,630 - $69,920, with a starting salary based on experience, qualifications, and internal equity.

This position is a remote position, with Pacific Time Zone preferred. Work is primarily performed Monday through Friday during regular business hours; however, evening and weekend hours may be necessary dependent upon case activity, deadlines, and workload. Some travel may be required at the cost of Our Children’s Trust.

About Us

Our Children’s Trust is a non-profit public interest law firm that provides strategic, campaign-based legal services to youth from diverse backgrounds to secure their legal rights to a safe climate. We work to protect the Earth’s climate system for present and future generations by representing young people in global legal efforts to secure their binding and enforceable legal rights to a healthy atmosphere and stable climate, based on the best available science. We support our youth clients and amplify their voices before the third branch of government in a highly strategic legal campaign that includes targeted media, education, and public engagement work to support the youths’ legal actions. Our legal work – guided by constitutional, public trust, human rights laws and the laws of nature – aims to ensure systemic and science-based climate recovery planning and remedies at federal, state, and global levels. We seek legally-binding, countrywide and/or statewide science-based Climate Recovery Plans that will return atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations to levels below 350 ppm by the year 2100.

Position Summary:

The Partnership & Engagement Coordinator plays a pivotal role in building and sustaining relationships that advance our mission. In addition to fostering meaningful connections, this role functions as a key project manager, ensuring that stakeholder engagement efforts are strategically planned, well-executed, and aligned across departments, including Legal, Communications, Development, Operations, and Leadership.

The Partnership & Engagement Coordinator supports engagement with a diverse network of partners such as youth plaintiffs and their families, legal allies, scientists, frontline organizations, philanthropic supporters, educators, and policymakers. The ideal candidate is a relationship-driven communicator and highly organized project manager who can keep multiple moving pieces on track, coordinate across teams, and maintain visibility on timelines, deliverables, and opportunities. A strong attention to detail and a deep commitment to climate advocacy are essential.

Key Responsibilities:

Partnership Strategy and Project Management

• Serve as the primary project manager for stakeholder engagement initiatives—developing timelines, assigning tasks, tracking progress, and ensuring on-time delivery of key activities.
• Build and implement systems to manage partnership data, communications, and workflows, with clear benchmarks to measure engagement effectiveness and impact.
• Lead cross-departmental coordination meetings; prepare agendas, track action items, and ensure accountability.
• Collaborate with the Communications team to align timing and delivery of messaging and campaign materials to partners.
• Conduct landscape research to identify new partnership opportunities and manage tracking systems to monitor alignment, engagement levels, and deliverables.
• Assist Legal with plaintiff outreach for new cases and amicus brief outreach to partners.

Event Coordination & Logistics

• Lead logistical planning for stakeholder events (virtual and in-person), including registration, venue coordination, materials, and communications.
• Develop event timelines, run-of-show documents, speaker briefings, and track event metrics for evaluation and improvement.
• Coordinate travel and logistics for youth plaintiffs and partners; facilitate meetings with attorneys, leadership, and strategic stakeholders in coordination with Legal and others.

Administrative & Campaign Support

• Provide administrative support for partnership activities and event logistics, including partner participation in legal or media-related appearances.
• Prepare meeting materials and help coordinate speaking engagements
• Track corporate giving and engagement in collaboration with the Development team.
• Organize regular partner check-ins and relationship management meetings.

Minimum Required Education and Experience

• 5 years of direct experience with stakeholder engagement or community outreach. partnership development in mission-driven or advocacy organizations.
• OR- Associate’s Degree with a focus in one of the following or closely related fields: Communications; Public or Nonprofit Administration; Political Science; Environmental or Social Justice Studies; Project or Program Management; Sociology or Community Engagement and 3 years of relevant of experience
• OR- Bachelor’s Degree with a focus in one of the following or closely related fields: Communications; Public or Nonprofit Administration; Political Science; Environmental or Social Justice Studies; Project or Program Management; Sociology or Community Engagement and 1 year of relevant experience

An ideal candidate will come with: Proven project management skills with the ability to prioritize, multitask, and execute in high-pressure or deadline-driven environments; demonstrated experience working with diverse communities and stakeholders; experience coordinating or supporting virtual and in-person events; familiarity with M365 and project management tools; experience with Canva or Adobe Creative Suite; Spanish and/or French language skills is a bonus.

Application Instructions

Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply for jobs unless they believe they have every one of the qualifications as described in the job description. We are most interested in finding the best candidate for the job, and that candidate may be one who comes from a less traditional background. We would encourage you to apply, even if you don’t believe you meet every one of our qualifications described. If you are unsure of whether you meet the qualifications of this position, or how this would be determined, please feel free to contact us to discuss your application.

Visit our Jobs and Internship page at https://www.ourchildrenstrust.org/jobs-internships, and follow prompts to submit:

• Resume.
• One-page cover letter that addresses your interest in OCT’s mission.
• A list of three professional references and their contact information.

Physical Working Requirements:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations will be provided to the extent possible and appropriate in the event of ADA qualifying disability.

This position requires the incumbent to sit for long periods of time; understand speech of another person and speak clearly so listeners can understand; routinely uses fingers to grasp, type move or assemble small objects. Position occasionally lifts and carries files and boxes weighing up to 20 pounds.

EEO Statement

At Our Children’s Trust, we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Our Children’s Trust believes that diversity and inclusion is critical to our success and we seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people.