Environment Texas City Hall Advocate

Key Responsibilities

• Program Development and Strategy: Help develop programs and campaigns around relevant policies at City Hall, including researching the issue, identifying viable policy solutions, and proposing a winning political strategy. 
• Advocacy and Coalition-building: Meet directly with decision makers in the city government, corporations and academia, and make the case for our policy solutions in meetings, hearings, and other forums. Develop strong and collaborative relationships with city staff, partner organizations, community leaders, council members and staff, and other stakeholders to advance shared goals. Build relationships with unlikely allies who might agree with us on one issue, even if we disagree on other issues. 
• Communications and Media: Write reports, fact sheets, news releases, blogs, op-eds, and other forms of communication to get our message in the media and heard by decision-makers and the public. Serve as the public spokesperson for our campaigns through media events, press releases, editorial board meetings and other outreach with a goal of building name recognition for the organization, educating the public about our issues, and building and demonstrating support for our positions.
• Fundraising: Raise money from charitable foundations and individual donors to support our work.
• Recruitment and training: Recruit and train new interns and volunteers to increase our impact and build our power. Participate in recruitment of new staff.

Qualifications

• Passionate about the environment and using the power of grassroots organizing to win campaigns.
• A campaign advocate or grassroots organizer with at least 2 years of advocacy or organizing experience. Advanced degrees may count toward experience.
• An effective communicator with excellent writing and public speaking skills. Experience getting traditional and digital media coverage in previous work is a plus.
• Creative and effective at solving complex problems; a strategic thinker who can take advantage of new opportunities.
• A people person and good listener with a track record of successful access-building; willing and interested in working with people who think differently than you.
• Well-organized and able to work on multiple legislative and administrative proposals at once.

• Experience in city government or other government office, or with an environmental or public health advocacy organization is a plus but not required. 
• Fundraising experience, particularly in grant-seeking from charitable foundations.

Benefits