Senior Campaigner: Climate, Food, and Agriculture

Mighty Earth is accepting applications for a Senior Campaigner to drive climate action across the U.S. food and agriculture sector. A key focus of our efforts is transforming the meat and dairy industry, the source of more climate pollution than the entire transportation sector, to adopt climate friendly agricultural policies and practices and shift to sustainable plant-based protein.

Who We Are

Founded in 2016, Mighty Earth is a growing global advocacy organization with a goal to protect Nature and secure a climate that allows life to flourish. We aspire to be the most effective environmental advocacy organization in the world.

Headquartered in Washington D.C., Mighty Earth has built strong partnerships globally, and currently has staff based across the United States, South America and Europe. We have played a leading role in persuading the world’s largest food and agriculture companies to adopt policies to eliminate deforestation, reduce emissions as well as land-grabbing, slave and child labor, and other human rights abuse from the palm oil, cocoa, beef and soy and rubber industries, and driven adoption of multi-billion-dollar shifts to clean energy. We are working to drive similar transformation in the meat industry, the largest agricultural driver of rainforest destruction and climate pollution.

Your responsibilities will include:

Strategy and Implementation:

• Developing and executing Mighty Earth’s work in the United States climate, agriculture, and food systems to reduce methane emissions and protect the climate, including launching high impact markets campaigns focused on U.S. supermarkets and food brands.
• Producing reports, briefings and other campaign materials.
• Maintaining expertise on food and agriculture systems and their intersection with methane emissions and climate change.
• Leading US focused Mighty Earth investigations, including field-investigations and desk-based analyses to support the outcomes of the campaign.
• Reaching out to and building relationships with key stakeholders and partners, including organizing and participating in meetings and coalitions.

Communications and Engagement:

• Participating in meetings with senior corporate executives and sustainability teams to advance progress and address climate issues.
• Developing relationships with and strategic interventions for policymakers to implement policy and legal levers to reduce agricultural emissions.
• Working with outside lawyers on legal strategies to address agriculture’s climate impact.
• Working with the communications and digital teams to co-create powerful communications and digital strategies.

Organizational Support:

• Working closely with other Mighty Earth communications, investigations, policy and campaign staff.
• Identifying opportunities for funding our work and participating in discussions with funders and the development of grant proposals.
• Fulfilling all compliance requirements, including supporting grant reporting and time tracking.

What we are looking for in you:

Required qualifications:

• You are passionate about protecting the environment and advancing a more just society.
• You have experience in a campaign setting
• You are an excellent project manager and can manage competing priorities across a cross-team environment.
• You are comfortable working with various internal and external stakeholders and networking and building coalitions across diverse constituencies.
• You are comfortable communicating with senior decision-makers.
• You are skilled at figuring out how to move decision-makers.
• You thrive in a highly dynamic environment where changes in politics, economics, and other external events create opportunities and challenges on a regular basis.
• You write well and can take complex information and distill it into understandable products such as press releases, blogs, social media, reports, talking points, and letters.
• You have experience with and are committed to working with people from a variety of backgrounds, including different ethnic, racial, and religious communities, ideally including in an international setting.

Preferred qualifications:

• You have at least 5 years of work experience.
• Experience (or expertise) working on issues related to beef or agriculture and climate issues
• You have experience developing, planning and implementing successful campaign strategies and plans.

We strongly encourage all interested individuals to apply and allow us to evaluate the knowledge, skills, and abilities you demonstrate using our equity lens. Research shows that candidates from under-represented communities are less likely to apply for positions unless they are confident they meet most qualifications. If you are interested and meet some of our qualifications, we encourage you to apply.

Details: This is a full-time position, and candidates need to be based in U.S. eastern or central time zones. The Senior Campaigner will work remotely. For candidates based in the DC area, there is an option to work out of our Washington, D.C. headquarters two times/ week. The position involves 15-25% travel.

This position requires an initial one-year commitment, with the possibility to extend, depending on funding.

Compensation and benefits: The salary range for this position is $75,000 to $100,000, depending on experience. We have a generous benefits package including group health insurance, dental benefits, unlimited vacation time, paid holidays, and a 401(k) plan.

To apply: Please visit the job posting and application here:https://www.mightyearth.org/jobs/ and scroll to the job posting to submit your resume and complete our short application. Please be sure to let us know where you heard about the job. The position will remain posted until it is filled. Mighty Earth is partnering with Rooted Edge Consulting on this search.

If you require reasonable accommodation in completing this application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please contact Tim at tim@mightyearth.org. Applications should be submitted through our application link and not sent to this email.

Interview process: Our interview process involves a phone interview, two video interviews, a candidate exercise, and reference calls for candidates advancing in our process.

More about Mighty Earth:

Our team: Mighty Earth is made up of people from various backgrounds, including people with backgrounds in nonprofit organizations, election campaigns, government, the private sector, and legislative offices, at a range of experience levels. We pride ourselves on being a welcoming place for people of color, members of the LGBTQ+ community, parents, empty-nesters, and more.

Approach and Culture: Consistent with our obsession with impact, Mighty Earth is results-focused, entrepreneurial, collaborative, and nimble – and we seek candidates who are excited to work in that culture. While remaining true to our public interest mission and commitment to movement-building, we have sought to apply the best of business to our organization. A resource that has informed our approach to culture is the book No Rules Rules and the famous Netflix culture deck.

Read more about our approach in the following resources:

Appealing to Companies’ Better Angels (Eco-Business)

Fomenting a “Perfect Storm” to push companies to change (Mongabay).

How Pressuring Corporations Can Save the Amazon from Destruction (Yale Environment 360)

Mighty Earth is an equal opportunity employer; we strictly prohibit discrimination against any employee or applicant based on race, creed, color, sex, religion, national origin, age, sexual orientation, disability, gender identity or expression, and any other characteristic protected by law. Women, people of color, and members of the LGBTQ+ community are strongly encouraged to apply.