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Rachel is the Business Partnerships Manager for Green America and the Green Business Network. Rachel has years of nonprofit business development experience and has worked in digital fundraising, for-profit marketing, and direct response marketing. She earned her Master’s in Management, specializing in Marketing in the Summer of 2016 from the University of Maryland University College. Rachel is also on the board of directors for the Animal Welfare League of Montgomery County, and is an advisory board member for Second Chance Wildlife Center. Contact Rachel at 202-872-5303 or rfeldman@greenamerica.org with questions or interest in advertising with or sponsoring Green America and the Green Business Network.

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Green America seeks an experienced campaigner to lead our labor justice campaigns.

Green America is a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating a just and sustainable society by harnessing economic power for positive change. Our unique approach involves working with consumers, investors, and businesses. Our workplace reflects our goal of creating a more cooperative, environmentally sound economy. We have a participatory decision-making process, which aims to build consensus within the departments and teams.

We are looking for someone to manage or direct our social justice and labor campaigns.  We will offer the position at the manager level to a qualified candidate with 2-3 years’ experience, and at the director level for candidates with 5 or more years’ experience.

The Labor Justice Campaign Manager/Director will join Green America’s Corporate Responsibility Programs team, which works to educate consumers about various social and environmental issues and to push large companies to improve their practices. The Campaign Manager will primarily work on Green America’s labor campaigns, with a primary focus on international labor abuses caused by multinational corporations.

The Labor Justice Campaign Manager/Director will lead Green America’s various campaigns focused on improving working conditions in international supply chains. The initial focus will be on reducing forced and child labor in the cocoa sector and improving worker health and safety in the electronics and garments sectors. Campaigns may overlap with Green America’s climate work. The Labor Justice Campaign Manager will also work closely with allies to support campaigns focused on environmental justice, toxins, and climate justice.

Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Plan and execute several, simultaneous campaigns to improve working conditions in the supply chains of many popular products.  Currently, the program’s campaigns focus on the garment, cocoa, and electronics sectors.
2. Research and develop content (blogs, e-blasts, webpages, social posts, and press releases) to educate consumers about various labor justice issues.  Work with the publications team to support content on labor justice issues.
3. Create actions for Green America members and the public to take on labor justice issues
4. Speak on behalf of Green America at events and to media about labor justice issues
5. Develop and maintain strong relationships with ally organizations
6. Conduct outreach and engage productively with target companies
7. Work with Green America’s Food, Climate, Paper, and Finance campaigners where there are social justice, climate change, and health/toxins intersections
8. Work with Media Team and consultants on generating earned media.
9. Work with Web and Social Media Teams to ensure Labor and Social Justice content is well-suited for the web and social media, reaching a wide audience, and delivered on time
10. Work with Green America staff to integrate the campaign into Green America’s events, websites, social media, and publications.
11. Assist Development Team with fundraising and grant proposals
12. Take part in Green America staff meetings, annual planning meetings, and budgeting

Qualified Candidates should have the following skills and qualities:

• Strong campaign skills. The ability to conduct powerful campaigns that result in substantive change in targeted entities. Preferred: 2-3 years’ experience with labor or social justice campaigns for the manager level, and 5 or more years’ experience for the director level, and a track record of success.
• Experience with corporate campaigning, including strategy development, power mapping, and negotiating with senior management at corporations.
• Strong research and writing skills. Experience creating content for various audiences and for web and social media.
• A passion for labor and social justice issues, with particular knowledge of one or more of the following issue areas: child labor, forced labor, worker health and safety, environmental justice, climate justice, clothing, cocoa, and/or electronics.
• Experience with outreach to communities of color, women’s organizations, and/or international communities.  
• Ability to manage multiple projects at once and meet deadlines.
• Proven ability to use social media creatively and effectively, including Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
• Strong public speaking skills.
• Proven ability to lead coalitions and to reach consensus.
• Experience with fundraising.
• Bachelor’s degree preferred.
• Willingness to publicly present Green America’s campaigns and mission.
• Willingness to travel.

How to Apply: 
Provide a cover letter, resume and a brief writing sample to Todd Larsen, tlarsen@greenamerica.org

Please include LJ Campaigner/Director and your name in the subject line.

Green America is an equal opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status. Women, people of color, LGBTQ individuals, people with disabilities, and veterans are encouraged to apply.

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Register now for the first week of a 4-week series course: http://www.greenbusinessnetwork.org/women-as-game-changers/

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Green Practices

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Green Century is the first family of fossil fuel free, responsible, and diversified mutual funds in the U.S. Founded in 1991, Green Century is a pioneer in socially-responsible investing (SRI) and the divestment movement.

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1. Invests in sustainable companies and employs strict environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance rating screens.

Green Century does not invest in any companies that explore for, extract, process, refine, and transmit coal, oil, and gas; burn fossil fuels to make electricity; own carbon reserves; or any companies that produce nuclear energy, nuclear weapons, civilian firearms, military weapons, genetically modified organisms (GMOs), or tobacco.

2. Houses an in-depth and award-winning shareholder advocacy program that directly presses several dozen companies a year to improve their environmental practices.

3. Is the only mutual fund company in the U.S. wholly owned by environmental and public health nonprofits. 100% of the profits Green Century earns support the work of these nonprofit organizations.

Green Century offers three ways to align your investments with your values:

• The Green Century Balanced Fund is an actively managed Fund that invests in the stocks of solution-oriented companies and bonds, more than 50% of which are green or sustainable.

• The Green Century MSCI International Index Fund is a passively managed Fund that invests in companies with outstanding ESG ratings in developed markets outside of the U.S.

• The Green Century Equity Fund is a passively managed Fund that invests in sustainable U.S.-based companies that repeatedly has been recognized by Bloomberg, as one of the top 10 socially conscious funds in the U.S.

You should carefully consider the Funds’ investment objectives, risks, charges and expenses before investing. To obtain a Prospectus that contains this and other information about the Funds, please click here for more information, email info@greencentury.com or call 1-800-934-7336. Please read the Prospectus carefully before investing. Distributor: UMB Distribution Services, LLC 1/19

The Gabelli SRI Fund (SRIGX) is an All Cap Value, open-end mutual fund that adheres to stated social guidelines around areas such as fossil fuels, alcohol, gambling, tobacco, defense and abortion.

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