Watershed Advocacy Manager

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🕒 6 days ago

🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

💵 $71.5k - $78k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👔 Manager

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Guardians of Flushing Bay

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2 - 10 employees

Founded 2015

🤝 Non-profit

🌍 Social Impact

Non-profit • Social Impact

Guardians of Flushing Bay is a coalition of human-powered boaters, park users, and local residents advocating for healthy, equitably accessible Flushing waterways and coastal lands. They pursue this through family-friendly waterfront programming, community science and stewardship, grassroots organizing, ecosystem repair, and land-use equity work to get people to the water and steward local coastal environments.

📋 Description

• Refine and execute GoFB’s multi-pronged campaign strategy with a focus on targeted public engagement, base building, coalition building, and community organizing. • Collaborate with Stewardship staff to synthesize and integrate GoFB’s water quality, habitat, marine debris, and air quality community science data into GoFB’s advocacy and campaign strategy. • Build, sustain, support, and/or manage coalitions related to the campaign strategy. Act as the spokesperson for GoFB in these coalitions and in direct advocacy with elected officials. • Cultivate and maintain relationships with community leaders, partner organizations, and city and state officials to ensure effective collaboration and shared impact. • Build a strategic plan for GoFB’s advocacy program, including capacity development. There will be the potential for staff management as the program grows. • Collaborate with GoFB’s Community Stewardship Coordinator to develop compelling messaging and build relationships with local media. • Monitor campaign performance using data analytics and make data-driven adjustments. • Related tasks as needed.

🎯 Requirements

• At least 5 years of experience in community organizing, campaign advocacy, urban policy, community engagement, or other related field; • Deep experience working within social-ecological resilience, community science, environmental justice, ecological justice, environmental planning, or climate justice issue areas; • Ease working in a collaborative environment with a small, dedicated team; • Clear written and verbal communicator; • Resident of Queens strongly preferred; • Proficiency in one of our watershed languages is a plus (e.g., Chinese, Spanish, Korean, Hindi); • Familiarity with Airtable, Google Drive, Slack, and Excel is a plus.

🏖️ Benefits

• 100% healthcare premium • 50% dental and vision premium • a $300 WFH stipend for desk set-up costs • a 401k • Medical and Commuter FSAs • 20 vacation days • 10 care days (sick or personal days) • 12 holidays