Policy Coordinator

Application Deadline: July 14, 2025

Position Overview
Climate Justice Alliance (CJA) is seeking a Policy Coordinator to support the day-to-day activities of CJA’s policy campaigns. The Policy Coordinator reports to the Legislative Director, and works in consultation with the rest of the Policy Team and other CJA staff, CJA members, organizers, policy advocates, researchers, and allies across the nation to assure the success of the alliance into the future. This is a full-time, remote position with DMV-area residency preferred.

About Climate Justice Alliance
Climate Justice Alliance (CJA) was formed in 2013 to create a new center of gravity in the climate movement by uniting frontline communities and organizations into a formidable force. Our translocal organizing strategy and mobilizing capacity is building a Just Transition away from extractive systems of production, consumption and political oppression, and towards resilient, regenerative and equitable economies. We believe that the process of transition must place race, gender and class at the center of the solutions equation in order to make it a truly Just Transition.

We are a unique alliance of 99 community, frontline, and environmental justice organizations; movement networks; and support organizations at the forefront of climate change. Our members are multicultural, intergenerational, and prioritize leadership among women, gender-oppressed, and persons of color. They come from traditionally underrepresented constituencies, including Indigenous Peoples, African American, Latinx, Asian Pacific Islander, and low-income white communities, often often located near toxic, polluting industries such as oil refineries, fracking wells, coal mines, power plants, and pipelines; rails, ports, and other major transportation corridors; landfills and incinerators; and industrial agriculture.

Core Responsibilities

Provide administrative support for Policy Team, CJA policy working groups, and coalition spaces as assigned (50%)

• Provide overall administrative support for the policy team, including scheduling, document management and organization, CRM data management and relationship tracking, drafting agendas, taking notes, and ensuring threads of communication are sustained in a remote work environment. 
• Support overall weaving between the Policy Team and other CJA teams as needed to ensure success of policy-related messaging and events.
• Prepare event logistics, meeting spaces and agendas for these spaces in coordination with the Policy Organizing Manager, Co-Chairs, and relevant CJA staff, and serve as the main point of contact for logistical support and onsite coordination as needed. 
• Conduct outreach to member groups to support recruitment for public comments, direct actions and/or mobilizations, as needed. 
• Conduct research on elected officials, agencies, and other relevant topics to advance policy and campaign goals as directed.
• Prepare draft memos and analysis of policy proposals and develop draft training materials for members as needed.
• Manage internal and external information tools for the policy team, such as the policy letter sign-ons tracker, policy webpage on the CJA website, and the policy tracker for members.
• Provide other campaign support as needed.

• Coordinate pre-planning support to ensure members are prepared for meetings with legislators, (provide prep internal communications, talking points, roles, other items as assigned);
• With consideration for needs around timing, collate and assess urgency of sign-on letters and legislation and use appropriate internal communication pathways to make preliminary recommendations to CJA’s Legislative Director and other senior staff as needed about whether to support or oppose;
• Coordinate with CJA’s organizing staff to ensure that members within regions impacted by time-sensitive legislation or important political moments are informed and mobilized on a timeline that is strategic and impactful. 

• Along with all other staff, this position contributes to CJA’s culture of innovation, teamwork, and continuous learning. They work diligently to collaborate and support each other within and across teams and excel in an environment where every member takes care of their own basic administrative needs.

Supervisory Responsibility

The Policy Coordinator has no supervisory responsibilities at this time.

Expected hours of work
Standard days and hours of work are Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m in your time zone.  Daily schedule is flexible within the proximity of this time frame, and will be decided in consultation with the supervisor.

Please note that our policy advocacy often responds to urgent federal actions, which means there may be occasional needs to work outside of standard hours. We strive to support healthy work-life balance and offer flexible scheduling to ensure staff are resourced and cared for during peak periods.

Travel
Moderate domestic travel (2-4 times per quarter) for meetings or conferences would be required for this position.

Physical duties of this role: Ability to work at a computer and participate in video conferencing, speaking and typing for extended periods of time. 

Occasional physical duties: Responsible for logistics during travel which includes lifting items (not in excess of 25 lbs.), coordinating meals/catering, and driving. (CJA is willing and able to make reasonable accommodations for candidates who may not be able to fulfill these tasks).

Essential Knowledge, Skills and Experience

• Strong organizational skills, proven high attention to detail, ability to effectively prioritize and re-prioritize tasks with little supervision and work independently to accomplish assignments and projects in a remote work environment.
• Ease learning and leveraging project management and internal communications tools and systems, (CJA uses Basecamp and Powerbase). 
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

• Ability to work effectively with staff and volunteers in a member-oriented collaborative environment.

• Familiarity with climate policy, environmental justice and social justice issues, as well as concepts pertaining to self-determination, liberation, decolonization, and the political & social conditions of oppression.

• Medium-level understanding of how the U.S. Congress and its functions, as well as an analysis of the political moment and national political landscape and relation to community-based and advocacy groups.
• Agreement with and commitment to CJA’s mission, values, and practices.

• 100% FTE, non-exempt position. Annual gross pay is $75,000.
• CJA’s 100% FTE benefits package includes:
  • 20 days vacation leave per year;
  • 14 standard holidays per year;
  • 12 sick days per year;
  • 1 month of paid parental leave during first year; eligible for an additional 2 months of paid parental leave in the second year of employment, up to 3 months;
  • 3 month sabbatical leave after 5 years of continuous Full-Time employment 
  • Medical, vision, dental for employees and dependents (requires 30 day waiting period);
  • 100% employer sponsored basic life, short-term and long-term disability insurance coverage;
  • Access to FSA Benefits;.
  • Access to employer-sponsored HRA,
  • Access to employer-sponsored retirement account with annual contribution.​​​​​​​

Climate Justice Alliance is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion or belief, disability, gender, nationality, ethnicity, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender identity or expression, sexual orientation or any other status protected by law. BIPOC and LGBTQ candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.