Job Announcement: 350 Seattle Campaigns Co-Director / Staff Collective Member

We are seeking someone new to join our Staff Collective as a Campaigns Co-Director, with an expertise in nurturing strong volunteer leadership and powerful grassroots organizing. The Campaigns Co-Director will join two other Campaigns Co-Directors in supporting 350 Seattle’s campaigns that stop fossil fuel expansion, work toward just and equitable solutions to the climate crisis, and hold polluters accountable. 

Currently, this Campaigns Co-Director position will be responsible for supporting our Resistance work, in two major areas:

  • Keep it in the Ground
    • Tacoma LNG Resistance campaign 
    • Resisting regional fracked gas expansion 
    • Stop proposed fossil fuel infrastructure projects (e.g. Kalama Methanol and the Trans Mountain pipeline in Canada) 
  • Port of Seattle 
    • Stop cruise ship expansion, through Seattle Cruise Control
    • Aviation team
    • No LNG at the Port  

This work is accomplished through supporting campaigns that we are leading, helping develop new campaigns, working in coalition, and supporting volunteers who are tracking legislation and regulatory processes.

The Campaigns Co-Director works with 350 Seattle’s two other Campaigns Co-Directors to collectively hold the organization’s campaigns, so these campaigns may shift depending on the staffing and organizational priorities. 

In addition to the campaigns work, this position is also the lead on developing strong organizational leadership development strategies. This person will work with our Movement Building Director on strategies to better support, grow, and retain our incredible team of volunteer leaders. 

About 350 Seattle 

350 Seattle’s mission is to work toward climate justice by organizing people to make deep system change: resisting fossil fuels; building momentum for healthy alternatives; and fostering resilient, just, and welcoming communities. Since founded in 2013, we have:

  • Helped to kill Shell’s Arctic drilling program
  • Worked in coalition to stop or delay every proposed fossil fuel infrastructure project in the state.
  • Persuaded the City of Seattle to end its $3 billion banking relationship with Wells Fargo due to its funding of the Dakota Access Pipeline. (With no other options at this point, the City is exploring setting up a public bank.)
  • Pushed King County to ban all new fossil fuel infrastructure. 
  • Launched the Seattle for a Green New Deal campaign, which just won $22 million/year for Green New Deal investments in affordable housing and green jobs.
  • Focused local media on climate change and climate action and helped to draw attention to its disproportionate impact on people of color and lower income communities.

We’ve accomplished all this by creating an infrastructure that makes it easy for people to volunteer and put their skills to good use. We now have over 30 teams/projects, hundreds of volunteers, and thousands of supporters. 

About the Staff Collective

350 Seattle’s Staff Collective consists of seven members — this position will be the eighth person. All Staff Collective members are directors of the organization. We have an interim Executive Director, Communications Director, Arts & Movement Building Director, Operations & Finance Director, and Campaigns Co-Directors. The interim Executive Director is working with us to help us create internal accountability structures and will be facilitating a process where we determine the best management structure moving forward. We have a hybrid model of a Staff Collective right now — the interim ED is formally supervising the rest of the SC until we have collective accountability structures in place or formally move to a management model.  We are looking for someone who is not intimidated by an evolving organizational structure and who is excited to help shape it. 

We chose a collective model when we started the organization because we wanted to staff the organization in a way that models our value of distributing power and having shared accountability for the whole. As a Collective, we are all responsible for the health and wellbeing of the organization. Each member of the Collective fills specific roles, though we sometimes shift roles to balance workloads or to learn new things. We all have some shared responsibilities–to help raise money, to respond to opportunities and threats, and to work on organizational development projects. If we don’t meet our fundraising goals, we all figure out how to deal with it. We approach our work with the spirit of engaging as many people as possible and building the strength of the movement. 

Job Description: Campaigns Co-Director

Campaigns Management – 50%

The Campaigns Co-Director works with other Campaigns Co-Director(s) to provide leadership to 350 Seattle’s campaigns, by leading campaigns and/or supporting volunteer campaign leads, as well as supporting issue-area volunteer leaders.


Campaign management 

  • Create and manage campaigns which 1) advance climate justice goals; 2) are aligned with 350 Seattle’s theory of change and equity commitments; and 3) are strategically designed to build movement power by recruiting and onboarding many new volunteers, building their organizing skills, and moving them into increasingly significant roles 
    • Creating campaigns includes: research; power analysis; campaign planning; team and task design; create internal communications structure; developing ladders of engagement; narrative strategy; partner engagement
    • Managing campaigns includes: recruiting and onboarding volunteer leaders into key roles; holding bird’s-eye view on strategy, movement-building, & communications; managing partner relationships & coalition-building; policy development; leadership development & coaching
  • Build external relationships that support our campaigns, including partnerships with organizations and individuals doing similar work; City electeds and staff; and relevant coalitions
  • Experiment with movement-building and volunteer engagement strategies; relay successful models and learning to broader 350 Seattle leadership

Support volunteer-led campaigns and issue-area work 

  • Weekly meetings with volunteer campaign leads and issue-area leads to develop strategy and volunteer engagement pathways; create work plans and provide support, resources and accountability  
  • Coach volunteer leaders to develop core organizing skills, theory of change, equity lenses and sense of power/connection within 350 Seattle community. 
  • Provide organizational expertise to leads, including onboarding to broader organization history of partner relationships and campaigns, broader organizational strategy, making connections between other teams/workgroups to facilitate the work  
  • Oversee leads’ progress and ensuring that work moves forward; filling critical gaps as needed
  • Advise on research and at times provide research for teams
  • Conduct 1-1s to recruit and onboard volunteers into leadership roles
  • Approve funding requests under $100 and help leads put in requests for more funding as needed

Other/related, campaigns management

  • Work with volunteer engagement team during campaign design to strategize recruitment; leadership development, and absorption planning
  • Support and potentially lead emergent campaigns and rapid response efforts, as needed

Movement Building / Leadership Development – 25%

Responsible for deepening the engagement and political analysis of 350 Seattle supporters. 

  • Work with Movement Building Director and Campaigns Co-Directors to create and implement a leadership development plan for 350 Seattle 
  • Work with Movement Building Director  to develop trainings that leads to greater volunteer leadership retention and increased organizational capacity
  • Hold one on ones with new potential volunteers 
  • Alongside Movement Building Director, consult with campaign and issue area leads to build organizational and campaign structures that enable large numbers of volunteers to get and stay engaged in a meaningful way

Other – 15%

  • Support Equity & Inclusion Team workshop trainings work (2.5%)
  • Support fundraising efforts through major donor outreach, asks, providing intel for grants and grant reports, and other ways as mutually agreed upon (2.5%)
  • Attend weekly Staff Collective meetings
  • Engage in peer support 
  • Organizational development projects as needed
  • Staff organizational governance committee(s) 
  • Respond to communications across channels and keep Staff Collective members and volunteer leaders you work with informed.
  • Represent 350 Seattle in the community; forge authentic relationships with community partners and leaders. 
  • Other projects that do not fall in above scope of work

Flex Time – 10%

Every Staff Collective member has at least 10% “flex time” to work on other projects that emerge. 350 Seattle’s work is highly emergent and this time is set aside for the unpredictable work and work that staff take on prior to projects being put on pause or responsibilities shifting. The Staff Collective works together to respond to opportunities and threats to the organization.

Qualifications:

  • At least three years experience in leadership roles in a campaign (volunteer or paid). Can be a grassroots campaign, political campaign, union organizing campaign, or anything that you believe demonstrates you can design and effectively run a campaign for social change, working with partners and in coalition across issues and constituencies.
  • At least two years experience (in a paid or volunteer role) working with volunteers and supporting their growth, political education, and leadership development
  • Demonstrated experience coaching and supporting people with very different experience levels, learning styles, and communication styles.
  • Demonstrated project management experience, with multiple teams across an organization and/or community. 
  • Experience organizing data and developing internal and external communications
  • Willingness to support and bring creativity to emergent areas of work
  • Experience working with people from diverse backgrounds, the ability to flex communication styles to adapt to different cultural environments.
  • History of engaging in anti-racism and anti-oppression training and desire to continue doing this work.
  • Willingness to learn new technology.
  • Team player – cooperative, communicative, and willing to support fellow team members
  • Demonstrated ability to effectively manage own workload

In addition, we ask that all Staff Collective members: 

  • Be based in the Seattle area 
  • Be experienced in transformative social change work and deeply committed to climate justice, social justice, and anti-racism principles.
  • Have a strong commitment to integrity, transparency and democratic process 
  • Be committed to a high level of accountability to the collective as well as personal growth and development 
  • Be able to take initiative and self-manage but also work well with team dynamics 
  • Have familiarity/experience with and be comfortable working in a collective structure (a plus) 

Physical Demands & Working Conditions
350 Seattle currently does not have an office due to Covid-19, so employees work from home. In the future when we have an office again, employees can choose to work from home or at the office. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to read, speak, and use a computer keyboard and monitor. This position requires occasional travel to meetings and conferences. Some evening meetings and/or weekend events will be required.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this job.

Salary/Benefits Package

Currently all Staff Collective members are paid an annual salary of $50,000. All full-time exempt staff are offered 100% individual Gold plan health insurance policies (medical / dental / vision), a $35,000 life insurance policy, and unlimited paid time off.

How to apply

Please send to jobs@350seattle.org. 

  • A cover letter describing:
    1. Your interest in the position.
    2. What you would bring to the position.
    3. Why you believe that grassroots organizing is a powerful way to make change that wins a liveable and vibrant future. 
  • A resume 

We are accepting applications on a rolling basis; if we are no longer accepting applications we will update this Google doc. We plan to begin to review applications on 10/1/20. Everybody who applies for the position will receive email notifications about the status of their application. Thank you for the time and effort put into applying!

350 Seattle is committed to being a collaborative group that values a diversity of approaches and perspectives to the work we do because we know this allows the movement to be as strong as it can be. People of color, and of all genders, sexualities, ethnicities, and abilities, and particularly members of communities on the frontlines of climate change,
are welcome and encouraged to apply.