Immediate Opening
State and Local Field Director
The Apollo Alliance

The Apollo Alliance is a coalition of business, labor, environmental, and community leaders working to catalyze a clean energy revolution in America to reduce the nation’s dependence on foreign oil, create high quality jobs, boost industries, revitalize communities and cut carbon emissions that are destabilizing the climate. Our work is implemented at the national, state and local levels.

Position Description
The Apollo Alliance is seeking a high-level Field Director to help structure, guide and expand the Apollo Alliance’s state & local activities in key parts of the country. We are seeking an individual with excellent organizing and communication skills and a keen interest in alternative energy and/or economic development policy. Solid experience working with labor and community organizations is a plus.

Core Responsibilities:
- Strategically develop a politically powerful and effective State and Local Apollo Alliance Network throughout key parts of the country.

- Oversee, guide, support and coordinate state and local Apollo Alliances through technical assistance, organizational development, coalition building, and project implementation.

- Connect state and local Apollo Alliances to national campaign events.

- Develop an Apollo “community of practice” that will facilitate sharing and learning among staff and partners from the numerous Apollo Alliances around the country.

- Promote a unified Apollo Alliance narrative by knitting together various activities and successes at local, state, and national levels to create a coherent whole.

- Develop core programmatic initiatives for state and local Apollo Alliances that create replicable models, including “best practices” policy language, clean energy projects that create high quality jobs, and green jobs corps that offer pathways out of poverty through career ladders.

Minimum Qualifications:

1. Exceptional writing and oral communications skills
2. A 5-10 year track record of successfully managing staff, volunteers, and campaigns.
3. Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.
4. A strong commitment to economic and social justice principles and Apollo’s mission.
5. Experience working with non-profit organizations.
6. Ability to convene various stakeholder groups with divergent opinions from business, labor, community and environmental communities.
7. Flexibility, positive initiative, big-picture thinking and a sense of humor a must.
8. Minimum four-year degree.
9. Willingness to travel extensively.
   

Special consideration will be given to candidates with:

• Solid experience in the field of national and state energy policy
• Solid experience working with labor and community-based organizations.

This position reports to the National Co-Director.

To Apply:
Please email a resume, two (2) writing samples (including one research-based piece of writing), and a cover letter addressed to Kate Gordon as attachments to: lynch@apolloalliance.org, and include "Field Director" in the email subject line.

The Apollo Alliance has a strong institutional commitment to the principle of diversity. People of color, veterans, disabled individuals and LGBT candidates are strongly encouraged to apply. We offer excellent benefits and a competitive salary commensurate with experience. Location is flexible.

Background on the Apollo Alliance:
The Apollo Alliance was launched in the aftermath of the 9/11 tragedy to catalyze a new, green industrial revolution in America, a revolution in the way our country generates and uses energy so profound that it will touch literally every quarter of American life. Harkening back to President Kennedy's visionary call to meet the challenge of the Sputnik launch with an aggressive national commitment to landing the first man on the Moon within the decade, the Apollo Alliance spoke directly to the core values we share as Americans: our can-do spirit, our inherent optimism, and the pride we feel (or want to feel) about our country's place in the world. The subtext was clear: we did it before, we can do it again. This is America, the richest, most technologically advanced and industrious country in the world. If anyone can do it, we can do it. And we will.

The Apollo Alliance works at the local, state and national levels to transform our nation's approach to energy and, in so doing, to make America stronger and more secure: strategically, economically, and environmentally. Working with allies in the labor movement, the clean energy business sector, urban America, and the environmental community, Apollo builds the political support for energy investments that will provide a quadruple return to American taxpayers by: 1) reducing our dependence on foreign oil; 2) cutting carbon emissions that are destabilizing our climate; 3) restoring America to its rightful place as the world's leading innovator and developer of clean energy products and services; and 4) creating a new generation of well-paid, green-collar jobs for people across America. For more information, go to: www.apolloalliance.org.