National Policy & Advocacy Campaigner

This position will focus on helping Solar United Neighbors (SUN) build impactful advocacy campaigns, implement tactics to influence key decision makers, and expand grassroots engagement opportunities across our network of solar owners and supporters. The National Policy & Advocacy Campaigner will support state and federal legislative, and regulatory campaigns to advance and defend equitable access to distributed solar and storage.

In addition to being a member of SUN’s Policy & Advocacy team, this position will work closely with internal teams and departments, including SUN’s Virtual Power Plant team, Marketing & Communications, Community Impact, as well as external partners in the distributed solar industry and solar advocacy community.

This position will report to the Associate Director, National Solar Activist Network & Policy.

Requirements:

• Authorized to work in the US without sponsorship
• Minimum 5 years of grassroots organizing experience in engaging and mobilizing activists and working with coalition partners in legislative, regulatory, or other arenas.
• Minimum 2 years of experience managing projects across multiple states. Keen sense on how to build the strategy, alliances, narrative, and tactics to win issue campaigns.
• Strong analytic and writing skills.
• Ability to work independently, collaboratively, and strategically.
• Experience in taking creative approaches to grassroots mobilization and distributed organizing.
• Experience in building and being a productive member of complex internal and external teams.
• Ability to prioritize, work within tight deadlines, heavy workloads and unexpected challenges.
• Passion for creating an equitable energy system where everyone gets to make and benefit from their own local power.
• Knowledge in: Computer skills

Salary Range: $80,000.00 – $95,880.00 annual salary

Tagged as: Advocacy/Communications, Law/Policy