VICE PRESIDENT OF CAMPAIGNS AND POLITICAL STRATEGY
Location: All Region - West I (AZ CO ID MT NM NV UT WY)
Mission(s): Network of Nonprofit Organizations
Salary: $160,000/Yr - to - $200,000/Yr
Job Type: Full Time
Posted On: Jul 04, 2024
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS Career Level: Executive (VP/Senior VP/etc)
Nonprofit Experience: 10-20 Yrs
JOB DESCRIPTION Position Summary
Western Resource Advocates (WRA) is hiring a Vice President of Campaigns and Political Strategy. This position will lead WRA’s strategic and political work and supervise seven Government Affairs team members. The Vice President of Campaigns and Political Strategy is an executive-level leadership position that will play a key role in developing strategies that advance an ambitious and focused agenda to fight climate change and its impacts in the Western United States. Serving as one of the organization’s senior staff leaders and executive-level partner to the President, the Vice President of Campaigns and Political Strategy will develop multi-faceted advocacy plans and campaigns that leverage WRA’s policy work in clean energy, healthy rivers, and Western lands, throughout WRA’s seven-state region. The Vice President of Campaigns and Political Strategy will collaborate with teams across the organization to ensure that priority campaign plans and objectives are aligned and oriented towards achievement of the organization’s long-term goals. This role will also lead effective relationships with decision makers and political partners; and work with other senior organization leaders to cultivate an inclusive climate that promotes excellence and an engaging and supportive organizational culture.
About Western Resource Advocates
WRA fights climate change and its impacts to sustain the environment, economy, and people of the West. We respect the different needs of diverse people and partner with them to develop a shared vision for progress—one that advances communities while protecting biodiversity.
Location
This position may work remotely in our seven-state region, in one of our six offices, or a hybrid of the two. Our seven-state region includes Arizona, Colorado, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming. WRA has offices located in Boulder, CO; Carson City, NV; Denver, CO; Phoenix, AZ; Salt Lake City, UT; and Santa Fe, NM. Access to a major airport required, as this position involves some travel.
Responsibilities
- Lead the campaign planning, political strategy, and advocacy efforts of WRA by:
- Creating collaborative processes to design and build effective campaigns that maximize WRA’s expertise across our organizational teams.
- Partnering with the Vice President of Policy and Programs to recommend priority campaigns to the Executive Leadership Team.
- Developing and building sophisticated advocacy plans to advance WRA’s priority campaigns and other issue campaigns to achieve our policy objectives, including:
- Identifying the venues to drive change.
- Identifying decision makers to target to advance our objectives. Develop cross program and cross departmental coordinated plans to advance WRA priority campaigns and other campaigns at the same time.
- Develop advocacy strategies to achieve program goals and secure identified policies.
Qualification and Competencies
- At least 10 years of experience in nonprofit environmental advocacy or experience in a similar role focusing on a different subject matter area in our Western region.
- Demonstrated successful team leadership and personnel management skills.
- Experience managing multiple staff, consultants and projects with deadline pressures.
- Demonstrated track record of advocacy campaign leadership including strategy development in a policy-focused context, including legislative, regulatory and ballot campaigns.
- Demonstrated track record of successful advocacy campaign leadership.
- Nuanced, sophisticated understanding of the political environments and climate of the states in the interior West.
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate with diverse teams to leverage skills and expertise toward organizational goals.
- Track record of working collaboratively.
- Outstanding interpersonal skills and emotional intelligence.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Strong organizational skills, with attention to detail and follow through.
- Strong and engaging entrepreneurial spirit and a willingness to experiment.
- Demonstrated awareness and sensitivity to the needs and concerns of individuals from diverse cultures, backgrounds, and orientations.
- Experience in recruiting, hiring, developing, and retaining a diverse and inclusive workforce.
- An appetite and excitement for political and conservation advocacy.
- A genuine passion to carry out WRA’s mission to fight climate change and its impacts.
Physical Requirements
Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Some travel is required.
Travel Requirements
Some travel is required for leadership, staff and board retreats, trainings, donor visits and other job specific meetings, within the individual’s state of residence and within WRA’s region (15% to 25%).
Salary And Benefits
The salary range is $160,000-$200,000 annually, salary depends on relevant experience and new staff rarely start at the top of the range. WRA’s excellent benefits package includes a 401(k)-retirement plan with up to 5% matching and health, dental, vision, and life & disability insurance with 100% of premiums paid by WRA. Annually, staff receive seventeen days paid vacation leave, twelve paid sick days, one paid volunteer day, twelve paid holidays, and WRA is closed for Winter Break between Christmas Day and New Year’s Day for additional paid time off. Employees are eligible for up to twelve weeks of parental leave, and after five years, staff are eligible for up to twelve weeks of paid sabbatical leave. Colorado staff receive an RTD EcoPass. Position is full-time exempt.
Deadline To Apply: Open Until Filled with priority review beginning on Monday, July 15, 2024.
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