ENERGY DEMOCRACY STRATEGIC COORDINATOR & FACILITATOR

Description & Purpose of the Position:

• Internal Alignment of Campaigns with Organizational Mission  (BIG PICTURE) 
• Make connections between strategic areas of work by connecting people and ideas.
• Initiate and bottom line strategic thinking and planning to help teams align their work plan with the strategic direction of those campaigns
• Facilitate internal and collaborative processes to help set and execute campaign goals.
• Internal Coordination of Staff & Campaign Work (SMALL DETAILS & SYNTHESIS)
• Complete a regular “landscape assessment” of staff and Board/team members through 1-1s and/or group meetings to coordinate efforts and ensure we are 1) staying mission aligned and 2) that the work can be supportive of one another - cross pollination between campaign work
• Facilitate and organize internal strategy meetings and conversations between staff and contractors
• Support follow through coordination, communication, and implementation (e.g. help staff set and meet realistic deadlines)
• Promote Consensus building both within the organization and with work partners
• Support Staff with Professional Development Efforts
• Seek, investigate and inform team members (individually and collectively) of appropriate developmental opportunities in the current field, and how to apply for them (some assistance may be required)
• Prepare proposed developmental plans with team members and assess progress
• Assist team with the addition of professional development to their time management systems 

Additional responsibilities

• Admin and writing tasks to build capacity
• Reporting on progress at monthly strategy meetings and quarterly board meetings

Are you the person we need? 

Required Qualifications:

Experience:

• 2+ years experience as a project manager, campaign manager or director
• 2+ years experience coordinating with multiple people to build consensus (consensus-based organizational decision-making) on developing and executing a shared work plan

Skill-sets:

• Strong interpersonal skills
• Active listening
• Consensus-building/ team building skills and experience

Work qualities:

• Clear and prompt in communication via mutually agreed upon channels (email, phone, text, etc)
• Highly organized, detail-oriented
• Has a keen eye for synthesizing complex ideas, systems, patterns, constraints, and tensions. 

Logistics: 

• Have access to reliable internet connection
• Have access to reliable transportation (bus, bike, car)
• Fluency in reading, writing and speaking the English language

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience:

• Project management experience
• “Facilitative leadership” - Experience in a leadership role that is about facilitating the work of others (versus a “command and control” version of leadership)
• Familiarity with inter-organizational movement work
• Experience reporting to a board of directors (non-profit/NGO preferred)

Skill-sets:

• Strong practice of self-reflection and commitment to continual growth
• Practice leading others through self-reflection and continuing growth
• Methodical process of evaluating work to test effectiveness of approaches 

Genuine Interest / Curiosity: 

• Excited about, or to learn  for the first time about, any or all of the following: cooperatives, justice-focused climate action, alternatives to monopoly-owned utility companies, local community-driven solutions, community organizing, people!
• Willingness to take active role in learning or growing in skill-sets needed 

Groundedness: 

• Have a strong sense of empathy and like working with and talking with people, interested in people’s stories 
• Well-developed ability to see nuance, multiple perspectives, power dynamics, and hold tensions and complexity in interpersonal relationships
• Are able to receive and give honest feedback in stride and adapt based on new information
• Strong sense of accountability and integrity towards communities and equitable outcomes

Work Qualities

• Are fluent in any or multiple of the following Spanish, Somali, Hmong, Oromo, Karen, ASL
• Builds and possesses strong, trustworthy relationships that can nourish the work, at Community Power