Outreach Coordinator

Summary

Join the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) as an Outreach Coordinator and contribute to a healthy, safe, and just future. This permanent, remote, bargaining unit position involves coordinating outreach and engagement to advance UCS's goals through strategic tactics. You will manage projects, cultivate relationships with various organizations and policymakers, and provide tools and support to build relationships with Science Network members and community-based organizations. The role requires project management, engagement, and organizing skills, along with strong communication and collaboration abilities. You will also contribute to data assessment, learning, and reporting, ensuring accurate and efficient tracking of UCS's impact. The position requires a BA degree and 4+ years of relevant experience.

Requirements

• BA degree in a relevant field
• 4+ years of work experience (which could include academic-related work experience), in the field of social change advocacy, working with grasstops and/or grassroots activists, and supporting the coordination and development of social campaigns and outreach events
• Demonstrated success with online and offline mobilization tools. Strong collaboration and relationship-building skills, internally and with external stakeholders from a variety of backgrounds
• Proficiency in software technology for writing, emails, other forms of communications, project management, etc
• Ability to manage multiple projects at one time and demonstrate adaptability skills to pivot and respond to fast-changing campaign needs
• Demonstrated success in multi-faceted communications needs based on differing audiences – professional/scientific, lay audiences
• Good strong self-awareness, humility, and emotional intelligence
• Knowledge and familiarity with racial equity and inclusion principles and how race and other identities intersect in the work, particularly in scientific, policy-making, and environmental communities. Must be comfortable talking about identities such as race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, class, ability, and its present-day implications

Responsibilities

• Project manage all work efforts to ensure transparency and coordination with the entire campaign team; this includes time-line management, coordination of activities, periodic updates and reporting, partnering with Campaign staff team and aligning efforts
• Maintain up-to-date related databases, documents, and resources
• Share learning with team members, campaign and science colleagues; produce periodic engagement reports (at key assessment intervals in the campaign cycle) to help inform outreach strategies
• Stay up to date on policy issues and the environment related to the assigned team: web-based research, articles, briefings, webinars, and events. Partner with the team’s scientists and analysts to understand their research findings. Build learning into relevant work, including rapid response, media, blogs, and supporter engagement
• Participate in program and project meetings, cross-organizational meetings, and planning and strategy sessions to help inform, collaborate, and develop responsible areas of work
• Help facilitate, in partnership with team colleagues, organization membership, fund-raising, visibility, and policy goals
• Understand and value accurate data for the assessment, learning, tracking, and reporting of UCS’s impact; routinely track the impact of your work to share with internal and external stakeholders; maintain and safeguard confidential UCS supporter and ally data
• In conjunction with Program Operations, Database Operations, and SDSI teams, support your program’s efforts to ensure data is captured effectively so that reporting and evaluation is accurate, up to date, and efficient
• Act as point of contact for Program Operations, Database Operations, Development, Communications, and the Science Network team regarding questions related to evaluation and measurement
• Collaborate with Communications, Science Network, Program Operations, and Database Operations teams to address reporting gaps and areas for system improvement related to supporter activity and partner tracking
• In coordination with the Program, Policy, and Advocacy team, Program Operations, and the Database Operations team, ensure metrics tracking is compatible with database processes. Analyze data reports to determine the efficacy of strategies and tactics and make recommendations for future work and lessons learned
• Cultivate relationships with key allies/partners to inform and engage in campaign strategies and to meaningfully incorporate equity and justice-aligned voices and principles in campaigns. Such allies/partners include scientists, engineers, BIPOC community leaders, and labor, religious, business, and environmental justice groups
• Design and implement corporate outreach efforts aligned with campaign strategy
• Partner with policy and government affairs staff to understand legislative and regulatory priorities and coordinate efforts
• Connect scientists, analysts, and their work to the Science Network and other external scientists and organizations representing BIPOC and marginalized communities to inform UCS products
• Work with coalition members to develop coordinated outreach strategies and activities, exchange information, and share resources
• Partner with the Communications Department to coordinate strategic, traditional, and social media activities, online resources, web content, and blogs to publicize campaign tactics, including the promotion of major UCS analytic and communications products. Help develop and publish fact sheets and other material for campaign outreach purposes
• Write, edit, and distribute online action alerts to enhance presence, power, and influence
• Organize members of the Science Network by building relationships and providing them with the training, information, and tools needed for their effective activism
• Conceptualize and implement tactics to connect activities and experts with opportunities to influence policy decisions aligned with UCS’s campaign goals
• Utilize web-based organizing tools for creative online and offline action. Maintain up-to-date knowledge of online activist technologies and social media
• 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

Bi-lingual or conversationally fluent in Spanish is a plus

Benefits

• For those who meet all position requirements, the salary is $76,541.06
• UCS offers excellent benefits and a rewarding work environment
• CA Resident Only, we offer a 12% salary differential
• This is a full-time remote position