Job Openings

PHILADELPHIA AREA ANTI-INCINERATION & ZERO WASTE ORGANIZER

Ener­gy Jus­tice Net­work sup­ports grass­roots com­mu­ni­ty efforts to stop dirty ener­gy and waste indus­try facil­i­ties, and to tran­si­tion to clean ener­gy and zero waste alter­na­tives. Since its found­ing in 1999, Ener­gy Jus­tice Net­work has played either a lead or sup­port­ing role in numer­ous grass­roots vic­to­ries against incin­er­a­tors, pow­er plants, and var­i­ous oth­er pol­lut­ing haz­ards through­out the Unit­ed States.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Loca­tion: Philadel­phia area (most work is remote, but need to be present for in-per­son meet­ings, events and out­reach)
Hours: 40/week, cur­rent­ly fund­ed for 12 months; flex­i­ble sched­ule, though some events will be on evenings and week­ends
Com­pen­sa­tion rate: $50–65K/year, com­men­su­rate with expe­ri­ence
Start date: Open until filled

NOTE: If you land­ed here and are not famil­iar with our work, please review our home­page, about page, ser­vices, and accom­plish­ments before con­sid­er­ing apply­ing. Thanks!

About the Philadel­phia Area Cam­paign: We’re work­ing to end the use of waste incin­er­a­tion, a seri­ous envi­ron­men­tal racism prob­lem, par­tic­u­lar­ly in Chester and Cam­den. Philadel­phia is sur­round­ed by five trash incin­er­a­tors – the worst clus­ter in the nation – all of which are among the region’s top sev­en indus­tri­al air pol­luters. Waste incin­er­a­tion is the most expen­sive and pol­lut­ing way to make ener­gy or to man­age waste – dirt­i­er than burn­ing coal, and worse than direct­ly deposit­ing waste in landfills.

We are look­ing for an orga­niz­er in the Philadel­phia area to join our team. The ide­al can­di­date will be a pas­sion­ate and effec­tive advo­cate for envi­ron­men­tal jus­tice, with a strong under­stand­ing of the chal­lenges fac­ing envi­ron­men­tal jus­tice com­mu­ni­ties. We are look­ing for a cre­ative, orga­nized indi­vid­ual who is com­mit­ted to build­ing a more equi­table and sus­tain­able future.

The Philadel­phia area orga­niz­er will sup­port and expand on exist­ing cam­paigns and those of our mem­ber groups, to win the soon­est pos­si­ble tran­si­tion from incin­er­a­tion toward zero waste strategies.

Qual­i­fi­ca­tions & Expectations:

• 4 years orga­niz­ing expe­ri­ence (paid or volunteer)
• Pas­sion­ate about envi­ron­men­tal injustice
• Strong com­mit­ment to build­ing a mul­tira­cial, cross-class movement
• Philadel­phia area resident
• Valid dri­ver’s license and avail­able car
• Pro­fi­cient in Microsoft Office pro­grams (Word, Excel, Pow­er­Point), Zoom, Google appli­ca­tions, social media, WordPress
• Skilled and com­fort­able with pub­lic speaking
• Strong inter­per­son­al skills; friend­ly and out­go­ing demeanor
• Excel­lent com­mu­ni­ca­tion skills, both writ­ten and spoken
• Punc­tu­al, reli­able, fol­lows up on commitments
• Expe­ri­ence in project man­age­ment, with strong atten­tion to detail
• Lead­er­ship devel­op­ment experience
• Abil­i­ty to adjust pri­or­i­ties, man­age time, and meet timelines
• Expe­ri­ence work­ing in rapid­ly chang­ing environments
• Flex­i­ble sched­ule, with abil­i­ty to attend meet­ings or oth­er events in evenings or week­ends when needed

 

 

Com­mu­ni­ties this cam­paign will focus on:

• Philadel­phia
• Delaware Coun­ty
• Ply­mouth Town­ship / Mont­gomery County
• Cam­den Coun­ty, NJ

Core Respon­si­bil­i­ties: The Philadel­phia Area Orga­niz­er will lead recruit­ment efforts, man­age vol­un­teers, orga­nize meet­ings, meet with deci­sion mak­ers, devel­op social media vis­i­bil­i­ty (and media vis­i­bil­i­ty more broad­ly), over­see local orga­niz­ing activ­i­ties, and coor­di­nate with the Exec­u­tive Director.

• BASE-BUILDING
  • Build net­work with allied organizations
  • Cul­ti­vate rela­tion­ships with oth­er organizations.
  • Set up meet­ings and present to local groups
  • Coor­di­nate and facil­i­tate meet­ings and oth­er events
  • Recruit and man­age volunteers
  • Out­reach to our contacts
  • Recruit new peo­ple, includ­ing occa­sion­al, tar­get­ed door-to-door out­reach and tabling at events
  • Build and devel­op the process of onboard­ing volunteers
  • Sup­port vol­un­teers to become more expe­ri­enced and pow­er­ful orga­niz­ers and leaders
• MESSAGING
  • Help devel­op mes­sag­ing and fact sheets for each community
  • Help design train­ing and polit­i­cal edu­ca­tion mate­ri­als that will pre­pare vol­un­teers to orga­nize their communities
• LEGISLATIVE
  • Attend pub­lic and offi­cial meetings
  • Sched­ule meet­ings with mem­bers of munic­i­pal and coun­ty gov­ern­ments, take notes, advance leg­isla­tive priorities
  • Help pre­pare action alerts & sign-on letters
• MEDIA
  • Track and share media hits relat­ed to the campaigns
  • Make sure our activ­i­ties are more vis­i­ble to media
• SOCIAL MEDIA
  • Devel­op a social media pres­ence through­out the Philadel­phia area
  • Post updates to web­site and do reg­u­lar out­reach to Face­book, Twit­ter, Insta­gram, Email lists
• FUNDRAISING
  • Con­tribute to grant writing/fundraising efforts to main­tain the position

To apply: Email a cov­er let­ter with resume attached and at least three ref­er­ences, with a sub­ject line of “PHILLY ORGANIZER” to: apply \at/ ener­gyjus­tice dot net