Chispa National Campaign Manager

Title: Chispa National Campaign Manager

Department: Community & Civic Engagement

Status: Exempt

Reports to: Chispa National Director

Positions Reporting to this Position: None

Location: Flexible

Union Position: Yes

Job Classification Level: D

Salary Range (depending on experience): $68,000 - $83,000

General Description:

LCV believes our earth is worth fighting for because everyone has a right to clean air, water, and a safe, healthy community. To ensure those rights are protected, we help people use their power to shape policy, hold politicians and polluters accountable, and influence elections.

Our over 2 million members, our volunteers and staff, and our more than 30 state affiliates (together, the Conservation Voter Movement) work for a more just and equitable democracy, where people—not polluters—determine our future. This movement is an influential national network with unparalleled influence in Washington, DC, in state capitals, and in communities around the country.

Chispa, a program of LCV, works to ensure that Latinx communities and leaders have a strong voice in the movement for climate justice and within the environmental movement. In the last two years, Chispa has grown to include grassroots organizing programs focused on Latinx communities in Colorado, Arizona, Nevada, Florida, Maryland, and soon Texas.

LCV is hiring a Chispa National Campaign Manager, a new position in the Chispa program, who will ensure that Chispa develops federal strategy centered on the needs of communities on the ground. We are looking for someone who can support the development of campaigns and who can support the implementation needed to win meaningful policy change. We are looking for someone who combines the curiosity and attention to detail of a researcher, is a strategic thinker who is constantly finding new opportunities and angles for communities to persuade policymakers, and believes in the power and necessity of everyday families to lead the movement for climate justice.

Responsibilities:

• Work with national and state teams to support developing, writing, implementing, and evaluating federal strategy and campaign plans that connect to the local level and result in environmental policy victories grounded in racial justice and equity.
• Collaborate with the Government Affairs team, digital team, and other departments to support, coordinate, and push federal advocacy efforts that reflect local/state campaigns and vice versa rooted in the voices of communities of color.
• Oversee the execution of Chispa’s Clean Buses for Healthy Niños campaign, including supporting state-level work, overseeing federal strategy, ensuring cross-departmental collaboration to advance campaign goals, and tracking campaign progress to date.
• Develop, maintain, and nurture strong and transformational relationships with partner organizations, coalitions, and other stakeholders to help advance shared goals around electric school buses and other issues as needed, including supporting the management of the Electric School Bus Coalition.
• Seek out and identify issue-based opportunities and make recommendations on policy for Chispa engagement at the state and national levels.
• Work closely with Chispa national and state teams to support developing issue-based campaign plans and implementation.  
• Work with Chispa Organizing Director to ensure that organizing is centered in campaign development. Collaborate on assessing and addressing campaign-specific training needs for Chispa staff and volunteers.
• Ensure that the stories, voices, and vision of our grassroots base, particularly communities of color and young people, are central to each campaign’s theory of change, process, and outcomes and are seen as agents of change at the local and federal levels.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Work Experience:
  • Required - Minimum of 3-5 years of experience in issue, labor, community organizing, and/or advocacy campaigns with communities of color, low-income families, and/or Latinx communities. Familiarity with digital and communications strategies and tactics and understanding how they amplify and strengthen community organizing and issue campaigns; Familiarity with community organizing.
  • Preferred - Research experience; familiarity with community organizing models; Familiarity with federal legislative processes and advocacy.
• Skills:
  • Required - Excellent writing and verbal communication skills, including the ability to write and implement, monitor, and evaluate program and campaign plans. Ability to represent Chispa to a variety of audiences and through a variety of mediums. Fluency in Office Suite. Familiarity with project management. Experience and commitment to measuring and tracking progress and outcomes. Work well in a fast-paced environment and able to multitask without sacrificing the quality of work. Reliable, consistent, detail-oriented, and self-motivated.
  • Preferred - Bilingual (English-Spanish) written and verbal skills. Familiarity with the IRS rules regarding 501(c)(3), 501(c)(4), and PACs; understanding of environmental issues and their potential to engage Latinx communities and communities of color.
• Cultural Competence: Demonstrated awareness of one’s own cultural identity, views about differences, and the ability to learn and build on varying cultural and community norms. A complex understanding of racial justice and the urgency of confronting institutional racism and inequity. Commitment to equity and inclusion as organizational practice and culture. Proven track record of successfully working across lines of race, immigration status, ethnicity, language, class, gender, and other identities and experiences.
• Working Conditions: This job operates in a professional office environment, and routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, and audiovisual systems. This position is largely sedentary, often standing or sitting for prolonged periods. Ability to occasionally work evening and weekend hours as needed; ability and willingness to travel up to 30% of the time (currently paused due to COVID-19). The location of this position is flexible. Please note that all LCV staff are currently working remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic.

To Apply: Send a cover letter and resume to hr@lcv.org with “Chispa Campaigns Manager” in the subject line by May 28, 2021. No phone calls, please.

LCV is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to a racially just, equitable, and inclusive workplace.

https://www.lcv.org/careers/lcv-job-openings/chispa-national-campaign-manager/