Constituency Organizer, US

About Us

The Sunrise Project is a global network of independent organizations united by a common mission: scaling social movements to drive the global transition beyond fossil fuels. We've developed a unique model that combines strategic grant-making with campaigning, supporting interconnected organizations to create powerful change aligned with our mission.

Sunrise Inc. is a proud member of The Sunrise Project network. Our organizational culture is dynamic and adaptable. We're committed to supporting our team members to thrive as we tackle the urgent challenge of climate change. We believe that a diversity of experiences and perspectives strengthens our strategies, teams, and movements.

Sunrise Inc. takes the broadest possible view of diversity and encourages First Nations people, people of colour, people living outside of cities, people living with disabilities, neurodiverse, and LGBTQIA+ people to apply. We are continually working on becoming a better workplace for everyone. Find out more here.

About the Program

The Sunrise Organising Lab (SOL) is a program of The Sunrise Project that works to build a more powerful and effective movement to shift finance out of fossil fuels and into clean energy. We do this by focusing on three key areas: strategy design and iteration across our campaigns and with our partners; partnerships and regranting to ensure we’re scaling organisations and ecosystems to win; and powerbuilding and constituency organising to bring in new, needed groups to shift key stakeholders while also growing the number and types of voices in our movement.

About The Role

The US insurability crisis is devastating homes and communities. Families are losing insurance when climate disaster strikes, or they’re not able to get coverage because of where they’re located. This crisis needs to be addressed, and the solutions created and won for families will depend on who is involved in the fight. This crisis creates an opportunity to bring new constituencies into the fight against fossil fuels.

The purpose of this role is to work within the US insurability crisis project team and SOL movement team to design strategy rooted in powerbuilding, identifying constituencies that can shift politics and policy in key locations, finding points of shared stakes with them, recruiting them into the campaign, and supporting their collaboration and development in climate finance and justice fights.

You’ll be engaging a wide range of people, from local groups on the ground, policy analysts, communications managers, and others. You’ll need to be a highly skilled organiser who knows we design best when we design to win; work together across different theories of change; and are rooted in solutions to support the most impacted.

We support networks of organisations to work together to achieve outcomes that would not be possible by individual organisations acting alone. We expect all roles at Sunrise to actively support the capacity building of these networks and partner organisations.

About You

You’re a strategic, experienced, and collaborative leader and organiser with a passion for growing the global finance movement that’s shifting finance out of fossil fuels and into clean energy, and rewriting the rules of the financial system along the way.

You have a strong track record of winning political campaigns and a nuanced understanding of how political change works, including which actors influence stakeholders now, and which ones can into the future. You can work with people across the political spectrum or different theories of change because you understand we’re all needed to win.

You understand what it takes to build trust, nurture creativity and unleash the potential of groups. You’re an open and honest communicator with the ability to build strong relationships and nurture collaboration between diverse stakeholders. You are a detail oriented project manager and strategic thinker.

You do not need senior experience in fossil finance or climate – you can be an advanced leader in your own field of environmental or social justice work with a desire to be more active in the fossil finance movement. You have a firm grasp of the role of finance actors in the climate crisis, and how civil society and social movements can influence their actions.

Key Responsibilities

• Co-design campaign strategies for key locations in collaboration with the US insurability team. Responsible for integration of movement building, powerbuilding, and justice into campaign design.
• With the project and SOL teams, identify key constituencies for recruitment into the project and the methods to bring them in. Lead on power mapping in key areas, scoping potential and needed partners, and implementation and iteration of criteria and rubrics to prioritize constituencies.
• Directly recruit needed constituencies into the project, including through direct recruitment, experiments, and other methods. Work closely with Senior Strategist - US Lead to identify constituencies that are harder to shift and design longer-term experiments to bring them into the movement
• Nurture generative relationships with partners, understand their strategic and organizational needs, and support them to reach project/campaign and capacity goals, including providing training, coaching, resources, and other supports as needed
• Facilitate and design convenings, strategy meetings, and retreats with partners and the team.
• Collaborate with movement strategy school to run and design needed training on issues or areas related to the project.
• Manage powerbuilding and key constituency grants for the specific project and work with the Partnerships & Regranting team on ensuring strategic partnerships and grants.
• Align programmatic strategies and OKR’s with Sunrise’s Values

Required skills and experience

• Advanced experience in organizing and recruitment, including demonstrated experience scaling a base and managing leadership development in constituency-based organisations (eg trade unions, faith groups, worker bodies, community organisations, etc);
• Significant experience in political campaigning, including winning or iterating on local-level campaigns through diverse stakeholder strategies;
• Proven track record in facilitation, coaching, and training with constituency based organizations;
• History in demonstrating well-developed relationships with US powerbuilding and other organizations;
• High-level experience and ability to work across teams and collaborate across varied stakeholders and theories of change;
• Highly developed knowledge of the US political landscape as evidenced by campaign wins;
• A high level of emotional intelligence with excellent interpersonal, communication and group facilitation skills;
• A passion for action on climate change and a commitment to social justice.

Desirable Skills and Experience

• Experience in corporate campaigning in the US

Job requirements

• You must have full working rights in the country in which you will be working. The Sunrise Project is unable to sponsor applicants for employment visas.
• Employment background checks may be required.
• Previous employment reference checks will be required for successful applicants
• Attend local in person partner actions.
• Intermittent travel with advanced notice may be/is required.
• COVID-19 vaccinations may apply in accordance with local legislation and/or Sunrise policy

How Sunrise supports its staff

The Sunrise Project Inc. (Sunrise Inc.) is committed to creating a workplace that supports our staff to do their best work and develop professionally. We have the following in place to help us achieve that, noting pro rata will apply for part time staff and/or temporarily appointed-fixed term staff:

• 401(k) & employer match
• 100% employer paid health, vision and dental coverage
• Five weeks of vacation leave
• Paid Parental Leave that is gender-neutral & inclusive of all types of families, incl. Parental Return To Work & Keeping In Touch Program
• Life Leave (up to 40 days p.a. for significant personal reasons)
• Flexible Working Policy
• Floating public holidays (cultural leave)
• Employee Assistance Program
• VIDA - An AI tool to support your health and wellbeing.
• Generous allowances for:
  • Workspace Benefits incl: Macbook & accessories, initial $2,000 for home workspace and IT equipment + $800 every 2 years + up to $75/mth phone/data/internet.
  • Shared office support
• Regular all-org and team meetings & retreats
• Learning & Development Program incl. a professional development budget for you
• Coaching & manager support with regular 1:1 meetings
• Annual performance & development reviews with 360 feedback
• A co-developed work plan to ensure clarity on your role & key responsibilities
• We provide our staff with a voice on issues that concern them via consultation, eg JEDI caucuses, working groups, slack channels, surveys and meetings.

How to apply for this job

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The application window will close on [May 19, 2025, 11:59PM, EST]

How Sunrise supports its staff

The Sunrise Project Inc. (Sunrise Inc.) is committed to creating a workplace that supports our staff to do their best work and develop professionally. We have the following in place to help us achieve that, noting pro rata will apply for part time staff and/or temporarily appointed-fixed term staff:

• 401(k) & employer match
• 100% employer paid health, vision and dental coverage
• Five weeks of vacation leave
• Paid Parental Leave that is gender-neutral & inclusive of all types of families, incl. Parental Return To Work & Keeping In Touch Program
• Life Leave (up to 40 days p.a. for significant personal reasons)
• Flexible Working Policy
• Floating public holidays (cultural leave)
• Employee Assistance Program
• VIDA - An AI tool to support your health and wellbeing.
• Generous allowances for:
  • Workspace Benefits incl: Macbook & accessories, initial $2,000 for home workspace and IT equipment + $800 every 2 years + up to $75/mth phone/data/internet.
  • Shared office support
• Regular all-org and team meetings & retreats
• Learning & Development Program incl. a professional development budget for you
• Coaching & manager support with regular 1:1 meetings
• Annual performance & development reviews with 360 feedback
• A co-developed work plan to ensure clarity on your role & key responsibilities
• We provide our staff with a voice on issues that concern them via consultation, eg JEDI caucuses, working groups, slack channels, surveys and meetings.