Climate Director

Corporate Accountability•Boston, MA

5d•Remote

About The Position

Corporate Accountability is seeking a Climate Director to shape and lead the next iteration of its climate campaign. The role focuses on stopping Big Polluters from harming communities and the planet, exposing interconnected corporate climate abuses, and building a collective vision for justice with the broader climate justice movement. The Director works closely with the Managing Director of Campaigns and colleagues in research, campaigns, and communications, while deepening existing partnerships and developing new ones with allies and coalition partners in the United States and internationally. The Climate Director develops and implements campaign strategy, facilitates planning and strategy meetings, organizes decision makers and coalition partners, and guides staff and available contract capacity toward campaign goals. The role also oversees campaign finances and logistics, including the budget, regranting support for climate allies, event planning, donor updates, and campaign-related travel. The position involves regular collaboration across the organization and travel 4–6 times per year. It is remote, with the option to use or transition to the Campaign Headquarters in downtown Boston, Massachusetts. Corporate Accountability is an organization of more than 60 staff and interns that works to hold transnational corporations accountable and advance a world rooted in justice. It emphasizes racial equity, dismantling systems of oppression, and the leadership of people most affected by corporate abuse.

Requirements

At least 5 years of experience in corporate campaigning, climate organizing, or another relevant field.
Experience developing and implementing campaign plans, including strategy, targets, goals, tactics, meeting facilitation, and implementation processes.
Experience organizing decision makers across varying sectors and building relationships that move people with power to take action.
Strong relationship-building, communication, active listening, and organizing skills.
Ability to build shared goals and visions among diverse participants and guide groups toward strategic outcomes.
Leadership and management skills, including bridging team work to organizational priorities, navigating changing conditions, making difficult decisions, and having hard conversations with openness and fairness.
Ability to establish structure and clarity of roles and responsibilities and align organizational capacity with team success.
Demonstrated ability to work with people from a wide range of backgrounds, geographies, and cultural contexts.
Ability to work under pressure, adapt to unexpected situations, and develop creative solutions.
Commitment to advancing racial equity and ending systems of oppression, including white supremacy, institutional racism, colonialism, and anti-Blackness, in day-to-day work.
Ability to work flexible hours, including regular meetings with allies at 6 a.m. PT / 7 a.m. CT / 8 a.m. ET and occasional availability outside standard business hours.
Willingness to travel 4–6 times per year.

Responsibilities

Lead climate campaign development in alignment with organizational priorities and budgets, working with the Managing Director of Campaigns and research unit to connect campaign areas, assess the movement landscape, and refine corporate campaigning.
Regularly evaluate progress against campaign objectives and help develop effective ongoing strategies.
Partner with allies and coalition partners to monitor, identify, and develop member organizing and mobilization opportunities.
Lead staff and available contract capacity to deliver campaign goals, deadlines, and milestones within the organization and coalition spaces.
Collaborate across the organization to prioritize proposals and policies in coalition spaces and manage, track, and identify organizational points of connection.
Coordinate with the communications team to integrate climate campaign strategies and tactics into communications in alignment with campaign goals.
Support strategic planning meetings to develop long- and short-term vision, strategy, goals, and plans for an integrated campaigns agenda, with attention to racial equity.
Oversee and execute campaign administration, including the campaign budget, support for regranting to climate allies, and logistics for climate events and actions as needed.
Collaborate with the development team by providing campaign strategy updates, information about changed conditions, and campaign victories for donor communications.
Participate in personal visits with major donors to provide campaign insight.
Travel 4–6 times each year to represent Corporate Accountability at U.N. and other international conferences, campaign actions, coalition convenings, and in-person planning sessions or team meetings.
Participate in organization-wide planning, fundraising, racial equity work, recruitment, and campaign activities.

Benefits

Health insurance, with 90% of the premium for all tiers covered by the organization.
Dental coverage, with 100% of the individual premium covered by the organization.
Flexible Spending Account options for transit, health care, and dependent care.
Voluntary life insurance.
Employee assistance program.
401(k) with employer match.
One month of personal vacation time.
One week of office closure for collective rest.
Holidays and unlimited wellness days.
$40 per month home office stipend and $250 at hire toward setting up a home office.
Internal and external training and leadership development opportunities.