Campaign Manager

Summary

Join the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) as a Campaign Manager and lead impactful campaigns focused on clean transportation. This remote, full-time position requires managing campaign teams, developing strategies, and coordinating with various stakeholders to achieve campaign goals. You will leverage UCS's resources and expertise to influence policy and public opinion. The ideal candidate possesses extensive experience in advocacy campaigns, strong project management skills, and a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. The salary is $106,517 (with a 12% differential for CA residents), and UCS offers excellent benefits. Apply with a cover letter and resume.

Requirements

• BA degree in a relevant field
• 7+ years of progressively responsible and relevant experience in developing and leading successful advocacy campaigns; at least 1+ year/s managing staff with demonstrated interest in performance management, coaching and mentoring, individual and small team management
• Demonstrated ability to conceive, plan and implement effective regulatory or legislative focused advocacy campaigns
• Strong and demonstrated project and team management skills, including a commitment to transparency and inclusivity
• Innovation skills; ability to develop novel applications for existing data streams
• Strong collaboration and relationship-building skills, internally and with external stakeholders from a variety of backgrounds
• Ability to collaborate as a leader and member of a multidisciplinary team
• Demonstrated ability to thoughtfully navigate issues related to diversity, equity, and inclusion and a deep commitment to advancing these values
• Excellent writing and public speaking skills and an ability to build relationships with policymakers, technical experts, allies, and UCS colleagues and donors
• Ability to work both independently and in teams in a fast-paced environment while managing multiple tasks, projects, and deadlines
• Must be able to remain in a stationary position for long periods of time
• Continuously operate a computer and must have the ability to control a mouse and keyboard
• Communicate in verbal and written formats with internal staff and external constituents

Responsibilities

• Manage Campaign team staff with strong skills of inclusive management, serving as a mentor and coach, strengthening team culture, enhancing project management and communications, fostering learning and professional development, individually, and collectively to achieve results
• Coordinate with Program team Scientists, Analysts, Outreach staff and Communications colleagues to develop a Theory of Change and help facilitate (with guidance and direction from Program team leadership) the alignment of goals, outcomes, strategies and tactics that advance the campaign
• Lead the successful development and implementation of a high impact and achievable work plan to achieve Campaign goals
• Strategically leverage UCS’s analytical, technical, outreach, and communications strengths to achieve campaign goals
• Ensure intersectionality in strategy development and meaningful inclusion of partners’ needs and ideas in the creation of analytic and other products and tactics
• Partner with the Washington Representatives and other members of the Program’s interdisciplinary team to ensure integration between advocacy, outreach, analytic and media activities as well as constituency group coordination
• Strategically manage externally changing conditions, campaign opportunities, and resource constraints. Allocate personnel, budgetary, and other resources to accomplish expected campaign results
• Serve as a project manager for high priority campaign projects where appropriate
• Collaborate with other Program team leaders to coordinate policy development, decisionmaker targeting, partner, and stakeholder outreach at federal, state and regulatory levels, where feasible, and facilitate ongoing coordination of strategies and resources, including establishing regular campaign meetings and other processes that engage the team in the necessary review and interaction of strategies and activities
• Design media and online engagement strategies and coordinate visibility activities across platforms that will strategically educate and put pressure on target audiences
• Lead the development of campaign narratives and ensure that campaign analytics are meaningfully supporting the overarching communications strategy
• Identify and positively and proactively resolve conflicts, contradictions, and resource constraints in the planning process and in daily operation
• Coordinating regularly with campaign analytics and projects leads to ensure integration of analysis, partner engagement, and supporter engagement with high priority campaign needs
• Liaise with regional offices to coordinate progress toward campaign outcomes
• Regularly monitor developments in organizing tools, public policy developments and methods for effective public education
• Provide timely input to the Development team on fundraising proposals and grant reports
• Manage and mentor Outreach colleagues to conceive, develop and support outreach and organizing tactics to advance the campaign goals.  Ensure effective strategies and activities for engaging partners, allies, coalitions
• Ensure campaign strategies include the mobilization of UCS activists, experts, donors, grass top supporters.  Mentor and direct Outreach staff to develop initiatives to hone supporters’ science, communication and advocacy skills, develop their leadership and deepen their affinity to UCS
• Oversee the effective engagement and recruitment of UCS Science Network members and other activist partnerships
• Manage the coordination of event planning including convenings, conferences, trainings, receptions, webinars and briefings for target constituents and decision makers, all aligned to programmatic goals and outcomes
• Develop metrics for the effectiveness of outreach activities and other campaign tactics. Ensure activities are tracked in UCS’s databases appropriately, including online communications. Ensure implementation of lessons learned from campaign activities. Share learning with members of the Program team
• In conjunction with Program Operations, Database Operations, and Communications teams, support your program’s efforts to ensure data is captured effectively so that reporting and evaluation is accurate, up to date, and efficient
• Revisit and adjust strategies, tactics, activities as needed to ensure they remain relevant and impactful in changing environments
• Act as point of contact for Program Operations, Database Operations. Development, Communications, and Science Network teams regarding questions related to evaluation and measurement
• Collaborate with Communications, Science Network, Outreach, Program Operations, and Database Operations teams to address reporting gaps and areas for system improvement related to supporter activity and ally tracking
• In coordination with the Outreach Facilitator, Program Operations, and the Database Operations team, ensures metrics tracking is compatible with outreach processes
• Analyze data reports to determine efficacy of strategies and tactics and make recommendations for future work and lessons learned
• As needed, coordinate campaign work with other UCS programs. Provide support as needed to campaign work led by Western States and Midwest offices
• Represent Program work in select cross-programmatic working groups, learning and sharing forums, especially those where there is an opportunity for strategic intersection between program campaign developments, management and or/engagement. Effectively leverage relevant work from these programs to advance the campaigns
• Represent UCS positions in coalitions pursuing similar goals. Maintain awareness and ensure proper coordination with strategic opportunities in allied efforts that intersect with UCS’s campaigns. Ensure regular check-ins with partners to maintain alignment
• Represent the campaign to the public. Translate technical information into layperson-friendly language. Give speeches, presentations, speak with reporters, and attend conferences
• Identify and cultivate relationships with new constituents and allies including public health, labor, business and industry, environmental justice communities, racial and social justice organizations - with an emphasis on building and strengthening relationships with BIPOC partners - to exchange information, share resources and engage in collaborative activities
• Ensure unrepresented voices have seats at the table in coalition meetings and policy processes
• Support and participate in UCS's internal efforts to create an anti-racist and inclusive work environment. Contribute to creating a culture in which all staff on the team are safe, respected, and heeded, and BIPOC people thrive

Preferred Qualifications

• A demonstrated commitment to the application of science to public policy, especially on energy issues, and background in climate change and energy are strongly preferred
• Knowledge and familiarity with racial equity and inclusion principles and ways that race, and other identities intersect in the work, particularly in scientific, policymaking and environmental communities.  Must be comfortable talking about identities such as race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, class, ability and its present-day implications

Benefits

• Excellent benefits
• Remote work
• Salary: $106,517 (with a 12% differential for CA residents)