Go Solar Advocate

Are you passionate about solar energy? Do you want to help America realize its vast renewable energy potential as quickly as possible? If so, consider applying to be Environment America’s Go Solar Advocate. We’re looking for a smart, well-organized and creative campaigner to build public support for solar energy and win policies that allow solar energy to flourish. 

Key Responsibilities

Some of the things you will do: 

• Develop and coordinate cutting-edge campaigns to grow solar energy: In this role, you will participate in policy development, engage in research, and play a key role in developing winning strategies to help America realize its vast solar energy potential.
• Craft messages and tell stories. You will help develop and deploy winning messages to grow solar that resonate with diverse audiences. You will take complex data and distill it into clear, powerful conclusions that are easy to communicate to decision-makers and the public. You will author reports, fact sheets, news releases, op-eds, coalition sign-on letters, articles and updates for our website, emails to our members, and more. You’ll enhance Environment America in the media and work closely with state directors and our national communications team to drive media coverage.
• Advocate before decision-makers: You will present a compelling case for policies that will grow solar energy through lobbying, testifying at hearings, providing briefings, and producing written materials for decision-makers, building relationships with key players on solar energy at the federal, state, local and boardroom level.
• Build and mobilize coalitions: You will represent Environment America in existing coalitions, lead efforts to build and expand coalitions, and cultivate relationships with diverse and powerful allies to demonstrate the breadth and depth of support for solar energy.
• Fundraise: You will write grant proposals, build relationships with foundation staff, and meet with major donors to bring more resources to your campaigns. You’ll also work with our citizen outreach and digital staff to build and develop a strong membership base to sustain our work.
• Recruit, train and manage staff: You will make an even bigger impact by recruiting, training and managing interns and full-time staff to work on your campaigns.

This position requires exercising discretion and independent judgment in making decisions in matters of significance. 

Qualifications

If you have a passion for Environment America’s issues, mission, and values and a strong desire to spend your life building a better world, you should apply. To be effective, you will need to be goal-oriented and driven, have excellent verbal, writing and analytical skills, and be passionate about growing renewable energy as quickly as possible.

Top candidates will also

• Have at least two years of professional experience working in citizen-based social change organizations or in the renewable energy sector.
• Be well-organized, have excellent judgment and discretion, and show you are able to manage multiple projects independently.
• Demonstrate a track record of working with diverse stakeholders to advance an agenda.
• Be committed to citizen-based organizing as a means of securing lasting change.

Benefits

Compensation and Benefits

The starting compensation range for this position is $33,000-$49,000 and depends on relevant experience, education, and location. Candidates on the lower end of directly relevant experience should expect to be on the lower end of this range; candidates on the higher end of relevant experience are likely to be on the higher end of this range. Environment America offers an excellent benefits package. Our benefits package includes medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and dependents, paid time off, our commuter benefit program, a 401(k) plan with employer match, parental leave, long term disability insurance, and may include needs-based student loan assistance. We also offer an excellent training program and opportunities for advancement. 

Location: Amherst, MA preferred. This position could also be based in Denver, CO; Boston, MA; or Washington, DC.

Our Mission and Values

Environment America is part of The Public Interest Network, which operates and supports organizations committed to a shared vision of a better world and a strategic approach to social change. Visit https://environmentamerica.org/core-values/ to learn more about our network when you apply.

Why work with Environment America? Check out 10 reasons: https://environmentamerica.org/why-work-with-us/

Environment America is an equal opportunity employer.

COVID-19: We take COVID-19 safety very seriously. Employees must follow our COVID safety protocols and be fully vaccinated and boosted. Accommodations are provided to the extent required by law.

About Environment America

Environment America is a policy and action group working to tackle the most profound problem of our time: a way of living that is destroying the natural world. 

We’re advocates for energy conservation and renewable power, so we can keep oil in the ground and stop burning fossil fuels. We’re champions of plastic reduction, so nothing we use for a few minutes is allowed to pollute our oceans for centuries. And we’re defenders of wildlife and wild places, both for their own sake as well as the awe and wonder they bring to our lives.

Environment America and our national network of 30 state environmental groups work to improve our quality of life by reducing the pollution and other harms of how we produce, consume and dispose of more and more stuff. And we do it one step at a time, by winning results for clean air, clean water, clean energy, wildlife, open spaces, and a livable climate that make a tangible difference in people's lives and our environment. 

If you want to work hard, challenge yourself, and make a real impact on the critical environmental issues of our time, consider a career with Environment America.