Environment America seeks an advocate to join our campaign team to build support for our Clean Water for America program. Responsibilities include advocacy, coalition-building, generating media and visibility, field organizing, fundraising, and helping us build our team.

Environment America is a national grassroots advocacy organization tackling today’s toughest environmental problems. Working with our state affiliates and members across the country we use creative strategies, effective tactics, grit and determination to win positive change for our environment and our families’ health. That’s how we helped bring millions of people together with thousands of constituency groups, coalition partners and elected officials to restore Clean Water Act protections to thousands of waterways despite opposition from the oil and gas industry, corporate agribusiness, developers, and coal companies.

From the Great Lakes to the Colorado River, from Puget Sound to the Chesapeake Bay, America’s rivers, streams, lakes and other waters are where we go to swim, fish, canoe, kayak or just enjoy the scenery. They supply us with clean drinking water. The Advocate for our Clean Water campaign will be a key part of our national efforts to protect America’s waterways.

What you'll do

Advocacy: Be the face of Environment America's clean water work in Washington, D.C. Build relationships with key players at the federal level. Present a compelling case for strong action on clean water to decision–makers through lobbying, testifying at hearings, providing briefings, and producing written materials.

Coalition building: Engage support from diverse and powerful allies and cultivate relationships with them over time.

Media and visibility: Produce and release materials designed to earn media attention and otherwise raise visibility – including reports, press releases, talking points, op-eds, and letters to the editor, as well as social media posts. Build relationships with reporters and pitch stories to them. Enhance our visibility by networking at conferences, and speaking on panels.

Program and policy development: Participate in policy development, engage in research, and help create powerful messaging for our clean water program.

Building the community: Build relationships and mobilize support within the national environmental community while working with key constituencies that share our concerns about water quality from health professionals and farmers to outdoor recreational businesses and local elected officials.

Grassroots mobilization: Support our efforts to mobilize citizens on our campaigns by providing compelling and timely information and opportunities for action, briefing our citizen outreach staff, and more. Help determine where our field resources will be most effective.

Fundraising: Write grant proposals, build relationships with foundation staff, and meet with major donors, all to bring more resources to our campaigns. Work with our citizen outreach and on-line staff to build and develop a strong membership base to sustain our work.

Recruiting and staff development: Recruit new staff, new interns and new volunteers to increase our impact and build more power.

Qualifications

Candidates must have at least four years of relevant professional experience. Qualified candidates will have a demonstrated commitment to environmental issues and to citizen-based social change as well as a track record of leadership. We're looking for goal-driven and results-oriented individuals who have excellent verbal, writing and analytical skills, the ability to speak persuasively in a charged atmosphere, and enthusiasm for the work.

The ideal candidate will have state-level political advocacy and organizing experience, a proven ability to recruit, train, and develop staff, fundraising experience, and demonstrated success in building relationships with the full spectrum of environmental and political stakeholders.