Senior Field Strategist

Summary

Join Industrious Labs as a Senior Field Strategist and contribute to transforming the cement and concrete industry for climate justice. This fully remote position, ideally based in the Midwest or Mid-Atlantic, focuses on building coalitions and advocating for green cement legislation. You will develop strategies, build relationships with key stakeholders, and implement capacity-building initiatives. The role requires extensive experience in coalition building, power-building, and community organizing within the climate or social justice movement. Industrious Labs offers a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and a commitment to equity and inclusion.

Requirements

• At least 5-8 years of increasing responsibility in robust coalition development, power building, and capacity/field/movement building, with a track record of accomplishment
• Experience in the creation of a clear vision with attainable goals that build power centered around equity and justice
• Experience developing and implementing a power analysis, community mapping, and/or landscape assessment. This includes the skill to articulate key findings and patterns
• Experience assisting/leading strategy development in coalition spaces and/or with diverse people/perspectives
• Experience designing/implementing organizing efforts in local, state, regional, national and/or international settings that build long-term sustainable power to win
• Strong analysis of movement theory, implementation, and the intersectionality of racial capitalism and other systems of oppression
• Effective relationship-building skills and solid existing relationships with a wide range of diverse external constituencies, from big greens, labor, environmental justice communities, etc
• Experience in the climate movement or another social justice movement
• 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

• Ensure municipal/regional and state markets to introduce ambitious new green cement legislation
• Identify the most promising legislation to pilot in leading states, figure out template policies, meet with legislators, generate media coverage, and build relationships with key partners for future/continued legislative work
• Ensure US-operating multinational companies strengthen + accelerate plans for zero-carbon cement production
• Create local expressions of corporate campaign work, including engaging communities on living near cement and concrete facilities, power-building, mobilization, and leadership development
• Execute a comprehensive field-building vision and strategy in key states that aligns with our field-building department and organizational mission and vision, which could include the development of a power analysis and community mapping project
• Engage and build new relationships with key leaders, organizations, and partners in strategy development to build institutional and community support for the Cement campaign's goals that reflect our values and priorities around equity and justice
• Lead the development of needed coordination infrastructure to build power and capacity-building strategies with local and/or global partners through a shared vision, theory of change, and capacity-building strategy
• If funding is available, develop a clear strategy to move regranting dollars to organizational partners in a justice-oriented manner
• Recruit and build an aligned and powerful Global Cement Network with a shared vision of industrial transformation
• Collaborate in the development of comprehensive advocacy plans to build power across the landscape of different constituencies
• 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

• Experience working internationally and familiarity with the international advocacy and civil society landscape in the Global South
• Located in the eastern time zone in the Midwest/Mid-Atlantic Region
• Entrepreneurial drive to build an organization from the ground up; prior start-up experience as an early team member in a growing organization
• Experience re-granting with partners and moving resources equitably
• Experience in community organizing or other forms of organizing

Benefits

• 100% premium contribution for employees’ comprehensive health care coverage (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