Alaska Environment Campaign Associate

Key Responsibilities

• Build powerful coalitions: Reach out to and engage organizations, businesses and affected constituency groups across the state and the political spectrum with common ground on relevant issues to demonstrate support for our campaign goals.
• Public outreach and education: Attend events to educate Alaskans on issues, recruit them to take action, and build widespread support for our campaigns. 
• Earn traditional media and social media attention: Organize news conferences and write opinion pieces. Build a following on social media platforms for our campaigns.
• Lobby elected officials: Meet with decision makers - from local officials to state legislators - to make the case for our campaign goals. When a critical vote is happening on your campaign, work to demonstrate the support you’ve been building on the ground to help line up the votes needed to win.
• Research and write reports and articles: Catalog and analyze data relevant to the issue and our policy proposals to help influence public debate and earn media attention for our cause.
• Recruit new people to your team: Help build your team by recruiting volunteers, interns and full-time staff.
• Run a grassroots campaign office each summer: Run a campaign office for the summer, knocking on doors to raise money to support our campaigns, build our organization and membership, and help build critical and timely grassroots support to win key campaigns. Your responsibilities will include meeting your own fundraising goals and managing a team of paid staff. You may be assigned to a different office location for the summer and should be flexible to move.

Qualifications

• Passion for the environment and using the power of grassroots organizing to win campaigns
• Leadership experience 
• Top-notch writing and public speaking skills 
• Good listening skills
• An eagerness to learn
• Organizing experience, including building campus or community groups
• The ideal candidate will also be from, live in or have other deep ties to Alaska 

Benefits