ONE Northside is seeking a Climate Bank Campaign Organizer to lead a community-powered team dedicated to building ONE Northside’s base of poor and working class people, especially in communities of color, and serving as an organizer in a campaign to win investments that both decrease our state’s climate impact and improve people’s lives by reducing their utility bills, improving the conditions of their housing or other buildings they frequent, creating good jobs, and more broadly directing federal resources towards community priorities. This individual will organize with our existing leaders in our Environmental Justice team as well as recruit new community leaders and partners into the campaign. This staff member will have the opportunity to work with community members and partners across Chicago and the state to create and strengthen a new statewide campaign that will work to ensure that the newly created state of Illinois Climate Bank actively integrates specific, new place-based green projects and policies in our poor, working-class and Black and Brown communities across Illinois.
POSITION SUMMARY
This is a new position at ONE Northside and geared for an organizer who will focus on building ONE Northside’s base of poor and working-class people and the institutions they participate in. They will serve as a campaign organizer to win investments that decrease our state’s climate impact and improve people’s lives by reducing their utility bills, improving the conditions of their housing or other buildings they frequent, creating good jobs, and more broadly directing federal resources towards our communities’ priorities. This will involve coalition work and organizing marginalized populations in our North Side neighborhoods. This organizer will have the opportunity to work with our statewide partners: The People’s Lobby, Illinois People’s Action, and United Congregations of Metro-East (UCM).
RESPONSIBILITIES
Organizing
Administration/Fundraising
QUALIFICATIONS
An ideal candidate is someone with a deep hunger to build power to win organizing campaigns and who is rooted in a commitment to environmental and social justice. A successful candidate for this position is a deeply relational individual who is detail-oriented, able to juggle multiple projects, eager to engage with the community and is dedicated to winning concrete changes through organizing. They should have a strong interest in working with a diverse group of people and will thrive within an organizational culture that emphasizes creativity, accountability, growth, and community.
Required
Preferred
This is a community organizing job and will require attendance at night and weekend meetings. ONE Northside is an equal opportunity employer.
About the Illinois Climate Bank Campaign:
Founded in 2024, the Illinois Climate Bank Campaign works to win investments that both decrease our state’s climate impact and improve people’s lives by building or repairing affordable housing, creating good jobs, and directing federal resources towards our communities’ priorities. This campaign will work to ensure that the newly created State of Illinois Climate Bank actively integrates specific, new place-based green projects and policies in our poor, working-class and Black and Brown communities across Illinois. The Illinois Climate Bank Campaign is powered and convened by four distinct organizations: ONE Northside, Illinois People's Action, The People’s Lobby and United Congregations of Metro East.
ONE Northside is seeking a Climate Bank Campaign Organizer to lead a community-powered team dedicated to building ONE Northside’s base of poor and working class people, especially in communities of color, and serving as an organizer in a campaign to win investments that both decrease our state’s climate impact and improve people’s lives by reducing their utility bills, improving the conditions of their housing or other buildings they frequent, creating good jobs, and more broadly directing federal resources towards community priorities. This individual will organize with our existing leaders in our Environmental Justice team as well as recruit new community leaders and partners into the campaign. This staff member will have the opportunity to work with community members and partners across Chicago and the state to create and strengthen a new statewide campaign that will work to ensure that the newly created state of Illinois Climate Bank…
Comprehensive benefits package includes employer paid medical and dental insurance. Employer contribution of 4.5% of salary into a retirement plan. 13 paid vacation and personal days the first year, 12 wellness days and 18 paid holidays.
Comprehensive benefits package includes employer paid medical and dental insurance. Employer contribution of 4.5% of salary into a retirement plan. 13 paid vacation and personal days the first year, 12 wellness days and 18 paid holidays.
Fluency in a second language is a plus.
Fluency in a second language is a plus.