Title: State Equity Policy Director
Department: State Capacity Building
Status: Exempt
Reports to: Senior Director, State Policy and Advocacy
Positions Reporting to this Position: None
Location: Flexible
Union Position: Yes
Job Classification Level: F
Salary Range (depending on experience): $88,000 - $132,000
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 a powerful national network with deeply rooted, and far-reaching influence in Washington, DC, in state capitals, and in communities around the country. We are unmatched in our ability to ensure meaningful action on our key issues. We aim to bring people and communities together across racial, geographic, political, religious, economic and other differences toward collective goals instead of dividing us from one another.
In 2018, LCV and our more than 30 state affiliates, together, the Conservation Voter Movement (CVM), launched the Clean Energy for All (CEFA) campaign to equitably move the U.S. to 100% clean energy. Through CEFA, the Conservation Voter Movement has successfully translated growing grassroots energy into a movement that demands our leaders respond with the urgency and vision necessary to solve climate change including winning commitments to transition to 100% clean energy from nearly 1400 successful state and local candidates. We have mobilized hundreds of thousands of people to translate those commitments into clean energy progress in 23 states—13 of which have enacted significant statewide clean energy priorities. These victories are creating upward pressure where we have a historic opportunity to shape a just and progressive economic recovery that aggressively tackles the climate crisis, creates good, family-sustaining union jobs, confronts the legacy of systemic racism and toxic pollution in frontline communities, and ensures that communities of color benefit from equitable, targeted, and community-driven investments in the transition to a clean energy economy.
We are looking for a State Equity Policy Director who will play a key role in developing and designing policy guidance for climate advocacy at the state and local level, grounded in social, racial and economic justice, work with CVM partners to implement those policies and identify and share lessons learned with policymakers. The State Equity Policy Director will also help facilitate LCV’s efforts to show federal policymakers that the groundwork for bold climate action centered around racial and economic justice has already begun in states and cities nationwide and ensure federal actions support further sub-federal policymaking. The ideal candidate will have experience working collaboratively with state and local-based coalitions and organizations, and in campaigns with broad, racially diverse coalitions that center equity within policy demands.
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Qualifications:
To Apply: Send cover letter and resume to hr@lcv.org with “State Equity Policy Director” in the subject line by March 24, 2021. No phone calls please.
LCV is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to a racially just, equitable, and inclusive workplace.
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.
For more than 50 years, LCV has grown into a potent political force for protecting our planet and everyone who inhabits it. We have built a powerful national movement with 30 state affiliates, and grassroots and community organizing programs across the country.
LCV’s work to protect and advocate for the environment is rooted in our commitment to racial, social and environmental justice. Communities of color are disproportionately impacted by climate change and pollution. For this reason, racial justice and equity are inextricably linked to protecting our environment. Within the organization, we are actively building a workplace culture that demonstrates how we value equity and inclusion through more intentional and inclusive practices. We are committed to building an organization that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills.