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Senior Environmental Justice Organizer
full-time•Detroit•$60k - $65k
About this role
The Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition (MEJC) is building a future rooted in justice, sustainability, and community power. To keep our movement strong, we’re seeking a Senior Organizer I to strengthen our movement through leadership development, member engagement, and strategic campaigns. This hybrid-onsite/remote role based in Detroit, MI, is a great opportunity for someone who thrives in collaborative environments, values equity, and wants to be part of a dynamic team driving change across Michigan.
What you’ll do
This position plays a key role in strengthening community engagement, supporting campaigns, and growing our statewide base of environmental justice leaders. Our Senior Organizer I will lead the development and execution of MEJC’s organizing strategies, with a focus on advancing utility accountability and environmental justice in Michigan. This role combines campaign management, staff leadership, and strategic organizational planning. Day to day, you can expect to:
- Build the leadership and capacity of members, partners, and community residents
- Support and engage members through meetings, trainings, and relationship-building
- Participate in and support action-based campaigns, advocacy efforts, and community mobilization
- Collaborate with staff and partners to design and implement organizing strategies
- Help build a strong base of environmental justice leaders across the state
- Represent the organization in community spaces, coalition settings, and public forums
- Contribute to statewide alliance-building efforts with social and environmental justice partners
- Support electoral and advocacy work, including organizing community participation
- Engage residents in movement-building efforts for a clean, healthy, and safe future
- Travel statewide
- Lead and manage staff, oversee data/metrics, and guide campaign evaluation and strategy
- Coordinate higher-level advocacy and electoral (C3/C4) tactics and represent the organization in statewide coalitions
- Manage project budgets and resource allocation
What you need to thrive in this role
- 4-7 years of experience
- Intermediate NGP Van software experience
- Experience with relational organizer software (Mobilize, Impactive)
- Intermediate understanding of policy issue areas
- Large event planning of experience – over 100+ people
- Direct action planning experience
- Experience managing social justice issue campaigns
- Excellent interpersonal skills, community-building, and movement building practices
- Self-starter with the ability to work independently and take initiative
- Love for Earth, all our relations, and understanding of how resources impact lives
- Collaborative in spirit and practice with clear ability to bring others into meetings, facilitate well, and mobilize people for collective action
- Structured and outcomes-driven organizing experience with demonstrated time management and task management
About us
The Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition (MEJC) is a statewide coalition working to achieve a clean, healthy, and safe environment for Michigan’s most vulnerable residents. We focus on the Jemez and EJ Principles through popular education, grassroots policy advocacy, and organizing our communities for systems change. MEJC convened in 2011 to grow the Environmental Justice movement in Michigan. We lead campaigns to fight for Energy Justice and Clean Air as well as engage in federal and state policy. MEJC hopes to define an ambitious Environmental Justice agenda for Michigan that centers Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities and is free of fossil fuels and false solutions.
What we offer you
- Salary: $60,000 - $65,000/year, depending on experience and position level
- Medical, dental, and vision (Individual coverage is 100% paid for by MEJC)
- 401k with employer match
- Disability insurance options
- Generous PTO including parental leave
- Professional development
- Community involvement
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What you'll do
- The Senior Organizer I will lead the development and execution of organizing strategies focused on utility accountability and environmental justice. This role involves strengthening community engagement, supporting campaigns, and growing the statewide base of environmental justice leaders.
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