Senior Campaign Strategist

Summary

Join Industrious Labs' Circular Economy team as a Senior Campaign Strategist! This fully remote role, reporting to Katherine Blauvelt, requires a highly skilled relationship builder and campaigner with a proven ability to establish and sustain diverse coalitions. You will drive state-level policy forward, focusing on methane mitigation and organics diversion. The position involves collaborating with various stakeholders, including BIPOC-led organizations and policymakers, to advocate for impactful policies. You'll leverage data and media tactics to achieve aggressive landfill air emissions regulations and organics diversion policies. Industrious Labs is committed to building powerful coalitions and achieving equitable, community-led climate solutions. This is a newly created position offering the opportunity to build something new within the climate movement.

Requirements

• At least 8 years of increasing responsibility in the field, with a proven campaigning and coalition-building track record
• Emphasis on cultural competency and emotional intelligence—this could be demonstrated by experience leading multicultural teams, building alignment across divergent viewpoints, etc
• Comfort in scrappy/entrepreneurial/resource-lean situations
• Mastery of relationship-building skills and strong existing relationships with a wide range of diverse external constituencies
• Experience in the climate movement or another social justice movement
• Outstanding oral and written communication skills that demonstrate an ability to: Convey a compelling story about Industrious Labs’ mission and impact; Translate complex data and analysis into persuasive narratives; Communicate Industrious Labs’ strategies with accessible expertise (without jargon)
• Strong commitment to the mission, vision, policies, and goals of Industrious Labs
• Highly collaborative work style with the ability to operate as a peer and thought partner to colleagues and external partners
• Commitment to continuous learning, hunger for knowledge, and willingness to ask questions and self-correct; a curious, self-directed, and entrepreneurial approach
• Exceptional oral and written communication skills with the ability to break down a complex issue into manageable and clear decision points that drive the desired campaign outcomes
• Excited rather than intimidated by the challenge of what's unknown about this role
• Proven leadership skills with clarity of vision and a commitment to the highest levels of integrity, quality, and collaboration, developing strong team cultures, promoting and enhancing equity, diversity, and inclusion, performance management, and professional development
• Demonstrated experience working across lines of race, class, gender, and geography and an analysis of how climate change intersects with historically oppressed and marginalized communities
• Proven ability to prioritize and be flexible in a fast-paced, constantly evolving, and collaborative environment, where working on a team and working individually are all required
• Commitment to giving and receiving direct, compassionate feedback

Responsibilities

• Work with partners to identify and implement new campaign strategies that accelerate the industry's transformation in line with the values we share with our partners
• Engage in direct advocacy with state and local policymakers, including policymaker education and lobbying meetings
• Build new organizational relationships and alliances that reflect our values and priorities around equity, diversity, and environmental justice
• Engage key partners in strategy development to build institutional buy-in for the campaign's goals
• Serve as spokesperson for Industrious Labs
• Research and stay apprised of industry trends, organic waste diversion and waste prevention model policies, policy developments, and technology innovations that will inform the campaign's trajectory
• Write public-facing policy briefs and explainers
• Assess the state policy landscape, identify strengths, current players, and gaps, and engage key leaders, organizations, and industry partners
• Recruit and build an aligned and powerful coalition of BIPOC-led, environmental, anti-hunger and other organizations with a shared vision of waste system transformation, deploying resources to build organizations’ capacity
• Collaborate in developing comprehensive campaign plans, and execute those plans, ensuring tight coordination and cohesion between field, analytics, communications, and advocacy
• Design and implement trainings and other opportunities for stakeholders to collaborate, train each other, and build the foundational knowledge to develop and refine campaign approaches
• Identify partners with aligned efforts to accelerate action and leverage resources, relationships, and research

Preferred Qualifications

• Entrepreneurial drive to build an organization from the ground up; prior start-up experience as an early team member in a growing organization
• Deep experience working in Michigan, Maryland or North Carolina

Benefits

• 100% comprehensive health care coverage for employees (medical, dental, and vision)
• Work-from-home stipend
• Up to a 5% employer match to 401k
• 11 paid holidays plus unlimited vacation, starting with a minimum of 15 business days