Climate Justice Community Connector

The Climate Justice Community Connector at Americorps in New Orleans, LA will engage residents in grassroots campaigns focused on climate resilience and social services. Responsibilities include door-knocking, community events, and collaboration with various stakeholders to build community preparedness and resilience against climate impacts. Ideal candidates are quick learners, articulate, and have a passion for community organization and environmental justice.
About the position

The Climate Justice Community Connector will work closely with Everett Community Growers Civic Engagement and Advocacy Manager to carry out grassroots, base-building campaigns focusing on climate resilience including sea-level rise, flooding, green infrastructure, and heat island impacts among other environmental and public health impacts caused by a changing climate. The work of the Climate Justice Community Connector will result in broad-based resident engagement, particularly among the most ethnically and racially diverse, lowest-income, and hardest-to-reach residents who are most vulnerable to climate impacts. They will do this by engaging residents through door-knocking, community events, meetings, workshops, training, and community-based research. The Climate Justice Community Connector will work with residents, members, partners and allied organizations, academic partners, municipal and state agencies, businesses, and other stakeholders to increase knowledge and connect communities to social services available to prepare, respond to, and recover from climate-caused events. The Climate Justice Fellow will develop and implement strategies to ensure our communities are prepared for and resilient to climate change including fostering strong and identifying new, social networks to ensure neighborhood cohesion. Additionally, the Climate Justice Community Connector will work in partnership with the rest of the Everett Community Growers team to build on strategies of engagement, base building, and political education around environmental justice, food justice, climate justice, and urban development.

Responsibilities
• Carry out grassroots, base-building campaigns focusing on climate resilience.
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• Engage residents through door-knocking, community events, meetings, workshops, training, and community-based research.
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• Work with residents, partners, and stakeholders to increase knowledge about climate impacts and available social services.
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• Develop and implement strategies for community preparedness and resilience to climate change.
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• Foster strong social networks to ensure neighborhood cohesion.
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• Collaborate with the Everett Community Growers team on engagement and political education strategies.

Requirements
• Quick learner
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• Articulate and innovative
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• Takes initiative and respects lived experiences and community expertise
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• Enthusiastic, flexible, self-motivated, dependable, responsible, and creative

Nice-to-haves
• Bilingual
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• Experience in community organization
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• Knowledge of environmental justice, food justice, and climate justice

Benefits
• Education award upon successful completion of service
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• Training
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• Stipend
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• Health Coverage