Senior Field Strategist

Summary

Join Industrious Labs as a Senior Field Strategist and contribute to our mission of creating a triple impact on climate, justice, and jobs. This fully remote position, based in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, or Western Pennsylvania, requires a highly skilled relationship builder with experience in coalition development and capacity building. You will lead initiatives like the Sustainable Steel Community Cohort and the Alliance for Clean Steel, engaging diverse stakeholders to advance clean steelmaking. The role involves strategy development, field building, coalition building, and community engagement. Success requires a proven track record in coalition building, power building, and community organizing, along with strong analytical and communication skills. Industrious Labs offers a competitive salary and benefits package.

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
• Proven ability to create 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
• Experience assisting/leading strategy development in coalition spaces and/or with diverse people/perspectives
• Experience designing/implementing organizing efforts in local, state, regional, and national 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
• 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
• Lives in or is willing to relocate to Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio or Western Pennsylvania and has deep experience working and familiarity with the advocacy landscape in this region
• Ability to travel at least once a month
• 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

• Develop, execute and implement an annual 6-month leadership development program for the Sustainable Steel Community Cohort
• Engage those impacted by dirty steelmaking in imagining the future of the steel industry and maintain relationships with Cohort graduates
• Coordinate and facilitate the Alliance for Clean Steel coalition, ensuring progress towards campaign goals and long-term power building
• Execute a comprehensive field-building vision and strategy in key states (Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Illinois)
• Engage key leaders, organizations, and partners in strategy development to build institutional and community support for the Steel campaign's goals
• Develop and execute work plans and track progress to ensure transparency and strong collaboration
• Assess the landscape across the Midwest related to steel via a community mapping project and power analysis
• Identify the industry landscape, including strengths, current players, and gaps, and engage key leaders, organizations, and industry partners
• Build new organizational relationships and alliances 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 partners
• Develop a clear strategy to move regranting and subcontracting dollars to organizational partners in a justice-oriented manner (if funding is available)
• Recruit and build an aligned and powerful coalition of labor, community, and green groups 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 foundational knowledge
• 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
• Experience re-granting and subcontracting with local partners and moving resources equitably
• Experience in community organizing or other forms of organizing

Benefits

• 100% comprehensive health care coverage for employees (medical, dental, and vision)
• 50% contribution to health care coverage for dependents
• Work-from-home stipend
• Up to a 5% employer match to 401k
• Generous paid parental/family leave
• 11 paid holidays plus unlimited vacation, starting with a minimum of 15 business days