The Legislative Director (LD) is chargeable for The weather center’s policy advocacy in Sacramento to realise the formidable and urgently needed dreams of our weather-safe California advertising campaign. The LD is an experienced and driven policy expert who is a robust crew participant and crew builder, and an first-rate communicator and listener.
She/they/he is a self-starter, aim-orientated, and devoted to a weather-comfortable, colourful future for all. She/they/he’ll offer professional analysis and strategic guidance on a entire variety of climate rules together with easy strength, herbal climate solutions, phasing out of fossil fuels, network resilience, and associated efforts, even as additionally being passionate about mastering from our companions and others.
The LD works in near partnership with The weather center’s control organization, initiative leaders, and distinct personnel, in addition to the Board and companions.
The LD is The weather middle’s voice in Sacramento, and chief on climate and energy legislative complaints. She/he/they’ll bring significant enjoy in California climate law and policy, which includes drafting, growing approach, reviewing and driving the passage of law, further to supporting aligned regulation. The LD may have an in-depth strategic understanding of methods the legislative department can artwork with the regulatory and authorities branches to achieve insurance goals. The LD can even play a lead feature in constructing partnerships and coalitions with accomplice organizations working in Sacramento to aid The weather center’s coverage priorities.
Key duties
Extend, put into effect, evaluate and often document on development on an annual workplan as a way to define a manner to expand and help coverage priorities of The climate middle throughout organizational projects;
Build relationships and advocate for The weather center’s policy priorities with legislators, their body of employees, the Governor’s workplace, relevant companies, unique lobbyists, key influencers, exertions unions, and nonprofit partners on a each day basis;
Maintain information of enormous developments and traits inside the difficulty, function a beneficial resource to team of workers on developing issues and politics, and make hints to alter organizational and statewide campaign techniques making sure that The weather center has an appropriate coverage plans and actions to achieve its dreams;
Coordinate annual insurance improvement retreat with The climate middle’s workforce, advisors, coalition companions, and problem rely specialists;
Help manufacturing of substances (reality sheets, be a part of up letters, movement signs and emails, legislative and finances analyses, slide indicates) to interact stakeholders and to decorate stakeholder records of coverage;
Assist manipulate The weather middle’s settlement lobbying employer, and coordinate and facilitate normal take a look at in and strategy meetings;
Track lobbying sports to make sure work is in the organization’s annual 501(h) election limits, and federal, state, and close by reporting necessities are met;
Paintings with Initiative Leaders and specific team members to song rules and extend guidelines for The climate center to take positions on regulation and manipulate the related method;
Function a spokesperson for The weather middle’s priority campaigns, representing the company in Sacramento, with media, on webinars, and in coalitions;
Help the Communications group at the weather middle to optimize their efforts to manual organizational coverage and interact media, motion takers, donors and different supporters in the legislative manner;
Song legislative contacts, key positions, and wished comply with up, and percentage with relevant team of workers;
Coordinate with Communications crew on communications for priority legislative and regulatory hearings, testimony, or formal shows, along with prepping relevant staff;
Art work with Initiative Leaders to engage their assist in attending legislature and regulatory hearings, offer testimony and “me too’s,” and further moves as wanted;
Produce regular quarterly critiques for the CEO and board detailing progress in the path of organizational insurance dreams;
Contribute to organizational strategic plan development and updates, in addition to organizational workplan and price range
Actively interact within the system of recruiting legislative members to wait the worldwide UN climate conferences (cops), the as soon as a year California climate insurance Summit, and other applicable climate sports that legislators, the governor and their body of workers would possibly have interaction in (eg climate Week NYC);
Lead The weather middle’s lobby day, organizing companions and supporters with different workforce;
Assist with fundraising sports; and,
Distinct sports as decided thru the chief working Officer and/or leader authorities Officer.
Required qualifications
Minimal of 5 years enjoy advocating for and developing policy for climate, energy, environmental or related troubles in Sacramento, serving as a legislative chief of body of people, legislative director, government affairs manager and/or kingdom insurance workforce lead for a nonprofit employer or identical
Experience with and verified knowledge of a few factors of weather exchange policy
Proven and well-developed network of contacts among California policymakers and their influencers in Sacramento and beyond
Evidently connects and builds strong relationships with others, demonstrating sturdy emotional intelligence and an functionality to talk simply, authentically, and persuasively with a numerous set of audiences
Enormous records of California legislative and administrative techniques and enjoy analyzing and decoding legislative and regulatory language
Extraordinary conversation talents, both written and oral; enjoy as a public spokesperson and endorse; capability to research and articulate prison thoughts and other complicated troubles and to talk them to a diffusion of audiences; a “brief look at” on a dynamic array of problems
Fantastic advocacy, listening, consensus-constructing, coalition-building, and management abilities with a tested ability to paintings collegially, examine from others and accomplice collaboratively with different employees, advisors and agencies
Has a excessive diploma of integrity and potential to behave in a transparent and regular way
