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The Outreach Coordinator will work with a multi-disciplinary program team
to advance the goals of the department by coordinating and implementing
a variety of climate impacts and solutions outreach and capacity-building
activities. Activities may take place at the federal, regional, state, and/or
local levels. Priorities include: (a) actively participating in and sometimes
leading priority impacts-related projects in both the climate and the energy
campaigns; (b) engaging and deploying key stakeholders who might influence
UCS priority targets, (c) engaging UCS activists, experts, and coalition
partners to achieve policy and public education goals, and (d) working closely
with Senior Manager of Legislative Affairs to design and implement federal
and state policy campaigns
Help achieve UCS's climate impacts agenda by developing and implementing
strategies that engage and influence the issue public, opinion leaders,
decision makers, and elected officials at the local, state, and national
levels.
Conceive, develop, and implement outreach plans to influence key opinion
leaders to speak out on local climate change impacts; the importance of
action to reduce carbon emissions, and; the need to prepare for climate
changes, such as building resilient energy systems or strengthening community
infrastructure.
Engage UCS activists, experts, local officials, and other opinion leaders
in climate communications and/or constituent advocacy at the local, state
or federal level.
Conceive, develop, and implement outreach plans to support federal legislative
policy campaigns.
Organize and participate in events, convenings, and workshops that highlight
local climate impacts, including, for example, setting strategic objectives,
establishing and managing planning committees, recruiting and preparing
participants, developing or coordinating a media plan, and other tasks.
Participate in planning and strategy-setting for UCS climate and energy
goals.
Work with coalitions and professional associations with shared goals on
climate and energy.
Identify and raise the profile of communities taking action to prepare for
climate changes already underway and/or future climate changes.
Raise awareness of climate science and impacts and leverage these efforts
to achieve campaign objectives.
Work with UCS communications team to develop media and online communications
strategies that bolster outreach efforts.
Help write fact sheets, web pages and special features, and other communications
materials.
Deploy UCS science and/or activist networks as appropriate to achieve educational
and communication goals.
Lead the development and launch of new outreach initiatives that contribute
to the success of the climate campaign, as needed.
Devise and implement strategies to expand, engage, and mobilize members
of the UCS science network.
Identify and deploy expert scientists, engineers, health professionals,
emergency preparedness specialists, and others. As needed, oversee skills-building
seminars to help these experts become more effective messengers.
Educate and activate UCS members and activists on climate and clean energy
science, analysis, and policy issues.
Maintain and update working knowledge of climate science, energy and technological
advances, and policy issues. Monitor developments in organizing and on-line
activism and assess their viability for UCS outreach efforts.
Applicants should be able to: work both independently and to collaborate
with a multidisciplinary team; and communicate effectively with professionals
who may be expert and/or prominent in their fields. Applicants should have
strong communication and public speaking skills, a Bachelor's degree or
higher, and be a self-starter proficient with Microsoft Office, graphics
software, online research, database maintenance and on-line organizing tools....
