Senior Campaign Advisor

Summary

Join the Sierra Club as a Senior Campaign Advisor for the Beyond Coal Campaign and play a pivotal role in developing and implementing electricity policy strategies. Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams to advance clean energy priorities at FERC and RTOs, ensuring strategies leverage opportunities for justice, equity, and inclusion. Lead strategic planning, build strong stakeholder relationships, and act as a public spokesperson. Manage information sharing, support coalition building, and engage in fundraising efforts. This leadership role requires a proven track record of successful campaign leadership, experience in climate and energy policy, and a commitment to social and economic justice.

Requirements

• Track record of successful campaign leadership.  Demonstrated ability to build, implement, and win strategic campaigns or initiatives. Demonstrated ability to achieve goals in an operating environment that requires working with and building alignment among a range of constituents inside and outside an organization or business. Includes identifying a theory of change, leveraging resources both internal and external toward strategies designed to win tangible, meaningful outcomes, and building a team culture that supports success
• Experience with administrative policy, including but not limited to elements of rulemaking, policy design, and implementation.  Experience in climate, energy, and/or environmental policy and related issues. Among other priorities, this person will work with the organization’s Environmental Law Program to manage the Campaign’s advocacy at FERC and the RTOs. Experience working on transmission and energy markets-related policy and engaging in specific FERC and RTO campaigns is a plus
• Understanding of environmental, climate, and social and economic justice issues and how they relate to each other. Demonstrated ability to design and implement strategies that operate at the intersections of energy, the environment, race, gender, and class. Experience cultivating and maintaining just, accountable partnerships, especially with organizations led by those most impacted by the crises we seek to remedy
• Committed to evolution. You are committed to continuously deepening and evolving your own understanding of systems of oppression through study, openness, and humility. And you easily recognize your own relationship to privilege and power, examining and shifting your behaviors as appropriate
• Uplifting and additive. You see mistakes as opportunities for growth; problems as catalysts for solutions, and inspire others along the journey. You carry a constructive approach, can-do attitude, a sense of humor, and authentic kindness wherever you go
• Highly developed communication skills, and the ability to represent the organization in media and in venues with key decision-makers (including elected officials at all levels, their senior staffers, movement leaders and tribal partners and C-suite executives)
• Ability to raise money and manage a large budget.  Proven fundraising and donor stewardship skills
• Ability to travel up to 15% of the time

Responsibilities

• Work with the Campaign Director to develop strategy, goals, and evaluation mechanisms to achieve the Beyond Coal Campaign goals through advocacy within and relating to FERC and the RTOs (as well as other issue areas) in pursuit of Sierra Club’s 2030 goals that are rooted in equity, justice, and inclusion. Leverage the Sierra Club’s state and national infrastructure and key capacities
• Provide strategic leadership to those implementing Beyond Coal Campaign goals. Engage in strategic planning at the state and national level, join team calls and strategy sessions with internal stakeholders.  Build strong relationships across groups of stakeholders to ensure goal alignment, support for staff engaged in the Beyond Coal Campaign, and compelling narratives to advance outcomes.  Engage in state,regional, and national hubs to provide strategic guidance, problem-solving, resource allocation, and campaign planning
• Support Campaign Leadership Team in Campaign Management: Stand in for the Director, as assigned, and regularly participate in leadership meetings.  Manage information sharing and documentation in alignment with the confidentiality parameters of these projects, including but not limited to budget and personnel decisions
• Serve as an issue-area expert on FERC and RTO matters and other key topics internally and externally with partners, in coalitions, and with the media. Act as a public spokesperson and advocate for the campaign and Sierra Club’s related priorities
• Support strong coalitions and external partnerships :  Work collaboratively to build a larger coalition inclusive of environmental justice groups. Engage with key stakeholders who may not currently participate in climate coalition environments
• Fundraise for the Beyond Coal Campaign budget . Meet with high net-worth individuals and foundations, partnering with our Office of Advancement on proposal development, presentations and reports.  Support the Campaign Director to allocate resources, develop budgets, and ensure the campaign’s resources are directed toward the most important strategic opportunities

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in a fast-paced environment, across geographies, and with different types of volunteer and staff structures, building buy-in across a complex organization, exercising effective judgment in challenging situations and remaining calm under pressure
• Demonstrated understanding of how organized movements create change

Benefits

• The salary range for this position is $110,000 - $115,000 annually
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Retirement savings 401(k) plan