Campaign Director - Building Electrification

Job Title: Campaign Director - Building Electrification

Department: Strategy

Location: Remote 

Reports To: Chief Energy Officer

Supervises: Up to 5 campaign staff 

Context:  At the Sierra Club, we believe in the power of interdependence. Together, we remain committed to the fight for a healthy climate built on a foundation of environmental, racial, economic, and gender justice – a future where all people benefit from a healthy, thriving planet and a direct connection to nature. As the climate crisis and deeply entrenched systemic racism all fuel injustice, we will continue to fight for a bold, transformational agenda that recognizes the interconnectedness between our planet, our humanity, and our future. By recognizing that our destinies are tied, we continue to name that all things are fundamentally connected, and the overlap between ecology, race, gender, and representative government will move to either advance our collective humanity or to oppress it. Sierra Club has close to 800 staff across the country and a network of 64 local chapters that are led and fueled by thousands of volunteers. We are also proud to be a unionized employer, with three labor unions representing more than half of our employees.

Scope: The Campaign Director for the Building Electrification Campaign leads the Sierra Club’s work to achieve the equitable transition from fossil fuels to clean energy in our homes and buildings.  The Campaign Director works alongside a team of Directors as part of Sierra Club’s Energy Campaigns to address climate disruption, transform the energy economy and protect communities from pollution.  This is a senior leadership position in the Sierra Club, with responsibility to set strategy, approve local plans, and raise and deploy resources to achieve the organization's top goals. The Campaign Director will foster collaboration across their team and across energy campaigns, working with Sierra Club’s multi-disciplinary teams to build strategic campaigns.  The ideal candidate will be capable of managing internal and external opportunities and challenges.  The Campaign Director will do all of the above in a way that ensures strategies and tactics leverage opportunities to advance justice (centered on racial justice), and belonging while building long-term power.

• Leads campaign strategy, planning, design, and evaluation for the Building Electrification Campaign centered in belonging and justice that meets the challenge of the current climate crisis. Develops a theory of change, core strategies, campaign goals and outcomes, and fundraises and oversees an annual budget, adjusting expenses based on quarterly revenue projections and strategic opportunity.  Engages across the organization and the movement to ensure the campaign is rooted in equitable outcomes and contributes to building long term power.  Oversees strategic campaign planning at the national level, and supports local planning and approves local plans in partnership with relevant stakeholders.
• Provide strategic leadership to the Sierra Club and those implementing the Building Electrification Campaign strategy. Serves as the strategic lead and provides guidance to all parts of the Sierra Club and with partners and external stakeholders related to the Building Electrification Campaign. Accountable for building strong relationships across groups of stakeholders to ensure goal alignment, support for staff engaged in buildings’ work, and compelling narratives to advance outcomes. Leads the campaign team’s engagement with the field department, environmental law program, communications, and strategy department and deputizes staff and delegates work as appropriate.
• Supervise and mentor up to 5 direct reports by setting performance objectives, providing regular feedback and supporting staff to excel. Effectively manage, guide and coach staff, ensure individual professional development, establish performance objectives and expectations, and evaluate accomplishments and effectiveness. Take appropriate disciplinary action when needed, make hiring and termination recommendations. Ensure campaign staff advance assigned projects by collaborating with other Sierra Club staff and volunteers as well as external partners. Establish strategic priorities and monitor progress toward annual results. Serve as a member of the Energy Campaigns Team. Help shape and manage the direction of intersectional energy campaigns, and support a holistic vision for significant greenhouse gas reductions across interrelated sectors of the economy.  Support an effective and visionary theory of change for the Energy Campaigns, that leverages the power of the campaigns as part of the Sierra Club’s foundational approach to greenhouse gas and harmful pollution reductions while also building power.
• Serve as a spokesperson. Represent the Sierra Club with the media and with partners as a strategic leader and subject-matter expert on issues related to the buildings sector.
• Fundraise for the Building Electrification Campaign. Meet with high net-worth individuals and foundations, partnering with our Office of Advancement on proposal development, presentations and reports.
• Manage a large complex budget. Ensure we are providing donors a meaningful return on investment, achieving our stated goals,  and aligning resources with strategy on an ongoing basis.  Owns strategy and budgetary decisions deploying resources in service of the Building Electrification Campaign’s goals through a consultative and collaborative approach.
• Perform miscellaneous duties as directed.

• Track record of successful campaign leadership.  Demonstrated ability to build, implement, and win strategic campaigns. Demonstrated ability to achieve goals in an operating environment that requires working with and building alignment among a range of constituents inside and outside the organization. Includes identifying a theory of change, leveraging resources both internal and external toward strategies designed to win tangible, meaningful outcomes, and building a team culture that supports success.
• Significant knowledge and expertise related to building electrification and related environmental and social justice issues that arise in that work.  Expertise in policy and other important regulatory and related frameworks governing the buildings sector.
• Understanding of environmental, climate, and social justice issues and how they relate to each other. Demonstrated ability to design and implement strategies that operate at the intersections of the environment and race, gender, and class. Experience cultivating and maintaining just, accountable partnerships, especially with organizations led by those most impacted by the crises we seek to remedy.
• Skillful at managing individuals and leading teams with a diversity of identities and skill sets to contribute at their highest level. Proficient at proactively surfacing and navigating conflict in a generative, equitable way, and providing timely feedback. In depth understanding of privilege and how race, gender, class intersect with environmental, climate, and movement work. Personal commitment to learning and growth, especially around equity, and experience coaching others on these issues. 
• Highly developed communication skills, and the ability to represent the organization in media and in venues with key decision-makers (including elected officials at all levels, their senior staffers, movement leaders and tribal partners and C-suite executives). 
• Successful track record of fundraising and budget management. 
• Ability to travel up to 25% of the time.
• Committed to evolution. You are committed to continuously deepening and evolving your own understanding of systems of oppression through study, openness, and humility. And you easily recognize your own relationship to privilege and power, examining and shifting your behaviors as appropriate.
• Uplifting and additive. You see mistakes as opportunities for growth; problems as catalysts for solutions, and inspire others along the journey. You carry a constructive approach, can-do attitude, a sense of humor, and authentic kindness wherever you go.

• Proven ability to integrate cutting edge data management and digital tools to inform strategy and track progress.
• Demonstrated experience in implementing change management processes that required building buy-in and leading across a wide range of stakeholders.
• Experience working in a fast-paced environment, across geographies, and with different types of volunteer and staff structures, exercising effective judgment in challenging situations and remaining calm under pressure.

To Apply

The Sierra Club provides equal employment and advancement opportunities to all staff members. Employment decisions are based on merit, qualifications, lived experience and skills. The Sierra Club does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, immigration status, socioeconomic status, ancestry, age, size, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, familial status, veteran status, disability, AIDS/HIV status, medical condition, prior conviction, arrest history, traits historically associated with race, including, but not limited to, hair texture and protective hairstyles, or any other characteristic protected by law.

The Sierra Club values applicants who are people that identify as Black, Indigenous, and other minoritized groups; women; queer, transgender, gender non-conforming, and gender fluid people.

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