Energy & Climate Justice Organizer

Kentuckians For The Commonwealth is seeking an Energy & Climate Justice Organizer in Lexington, KY. The role involves advancing clean energy campaigns, holding utilities accountable, and promoting just transitions. Key responsibilities include recruiting grassroots leaders, supporting policy agendas, and implementing organizing strategies. Candidates should have at least 3 years of relevant experience and a commitment to anti-racist and anti-colonial principles.
Kentuckians for the Commonwealth seeks an Energy & Climate Justice Organizer in Lexington, KY. The role focuses on advancing campaigns for clean energy, holding utilities accountable, and promoting a just transition. Responsibilities include recruiting grassroots leaders, supporting policy agendas, implementing organizing strategies, and fostering community engagement. Candidates should have at least 3 years of relevant experience and a commitment to anti-racist and anti-colonial principles.
Kentucky Energy and Climate Justice Organizer

This position is responsible for advancing local, state, and federal campaigns related to clean and affordable energy, holding electric utilities accountable, and shaping a just transition.

The organizer will work closely with our Urban Energy & Climate Justice Organizer to strengthen KFTC's organizing, organization, and alliances in ways that advance the organization's vision, values, and long-term goals.

Key responsibilities include:
• Recruiting, supporting, and activating a growing, diverse, skilled, informed, and value-aligned set of grassroots leaders in Kentucky whose lived experiences and values motivate them to work for racial, economic, and environmental justice; energy, land, and climate justice; and Just Transition.
• Supporting KFTC's New Energy and Transition Committee, members, and allies to advance a visionary, anti-racist, anti-colonial policy agenda related to energy, land, climate justice, and Just Transition.
• Implementing organizing campaigns and strategies related to energy, land, climate justice, and Just Transition, including speeding a just transition to clean energy by Kentucky's monopoly utilities, transforming governance practices and clean energy programs offered by Kentucky's rural electric cooperatives, and pushing local governments to invest in equitable clean energy programs.
• Cultivating opportunities for thousands of Kentuckians to grow as energy, land, and climate justice leaders through workshops, coaching, webinars, conferences, and community meetings.
• Representing KFTC within several key just transition, energy, land, and climate justice alliances and cultivating strong and healthy relationships among allies at local, state, regional, national, and global levels.
• Contributing to important organizational goals and priorities, including centering anti-racist and anti-colonial principles and practices, building a strong and effective staff team, and helping to raise resources through grassroots and foundation fundraising.

We are looking for an experienced organizer who is deeply committed to KFTC's vision and values, as well as grassroots organizing as an approach to change. Key attributes and guiding principles include:
• A minimum of 3 years of experience in a similar role.
• A visionary spirit, bringing innovative thought and creativity to the work and culture of the organization.
• Persistent effort to understand the specific experiences of historically marginalized groups in the U.S., particularly Black and Indigenous groups.
• Employment of anti-racist and anti-colonial values, practices, and principles in personal and professional life.
• Direct anti-racism and anti-colonial experience, such as direct experience in and/or with Black and Indigenous led justice movements.
• Understanding of grassroots community organizing and social justice issues in Kentucky, including the political, economic, and energy landscape.
• Alignment with values, interests, principles, and policies related to Just Transition and Black and Indigenous led energy, land, and climate justice movements.
• Experience with grassroots organizing campaigns and fundraising, preferably ones centered around Just Transition, energy, land, and climate justice through an anti-racist and anti-colonial lens.
• Familiarity with local, state, and federal political institutions relevant to climate and just transition policy in Kentucky.
• Familiarity with KFTC and our allies in the Just Transition, energy, land, and climate justice movement.
• Strong interpersonal communication, group facilitation, and listening skills.
• Organized and reliable, with the ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Strategic, able to cope with changing and uncertain circumstances.
• Ability to work independently as this job is very self-directed, but also skilled at working collaboratively in teams with volunteers and co-workers.
• Experience with spokesperson development and media relations.
• Comfortable using technology, including Google platforms, databases, email, and Slack communication and various social media platforms.
• Commitment to being a lifelong learner, open to flow and change, and capable of giving, receiving, and applying critique.
• Prioritizing self-care for the purpose of collective care.