Program Manager, Campaigns, Energy Action Fund

ABOUT ENERGY ACTION FUND 

  

Energy Action Fund (EAF) is the strategy and funding hub for America’s state and local climate politics. Working in partnership with its 501(c)(3) sister organization, U.S. Energy Foundation (EF), EAF provides 501(c)(4) lobbying and accountability resources to deliver significant legislative victories, cultivate bipartisan policy leadership, and support successful lobbying strategies from the most powerful voices for change: business, conservative, equity, labor, environmental, or other impacted advocates. Our funding also supports consultants who manage coalitions, design and execute political strategies, and support communications strategies. Having tripled its budget in the past two years, EAF is currently a $50+ million organization and growing quickly. 

  

EF and EAF are headquartered in San Francisco, CA. The more than 100 total employees of EF and EAF are based in locations throughout the Midwest, Northeast, Southeast, and Western regions, where they can best serve our programs, partners, operations, and other functions. 

 

POSITION SUMMARY 

 

The Program Manager, Campaigns, will manage the day-to-day execution and tracking of EAF’s political campaigns program. They will work closely with our regional teams and EAF leadership to support political strategy across the organization and manage relationships with key national and state grantees that engage in state-level political work.  

 

The ideal candidate will have significant experience in political campaigns, bringing sharp instincts around what it takes to win, and be capable of guiding choices about everything from high-level strategy to detailed tactics. They also must be able to succinctly and clearly analyze, summarize, and communicate those complex campaigns in a compelling manner. 

 

The Program Manager, Campaigns, must be deeply collaborative, as this job requires them to develop and maintain durable relationships with an assortment of partners, internally and externally—including both grantees and funders—and they must have a solid understanding of and commitment to ​​​​​​​​EAF climate equity goals.  

 

As EAF grows, the scope of this role may expand and evolve, so a successful candidate needs to be capable of evolving as a leader and taking on new responsibilities, 

 

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES 

  

Campaign Strategy and Management 

• Support regional teams on planning and strategy for political work.  

• Support Senior Program Director, Campaigns, and Program Director, Campaigns, in ensuring political work integrates with legislative program, particularly in the context of state planning. 

• Maintain relationships with in-state consultant infrastructure to ensure EAF team remains up-to-date on political dynamics. 

• Lead in determining goals and metrics for EAF’s political campaigns, evaluating the impact of our funding and making recommendations that will improve our work and maximize our impact in the field. 

• Support EAF team in planning and executing convenings and events related to political strategy. 

• Support candidate education work in partnership with the Program Director, Campaigns. 

• Support Senior Program Director, Campaigns, in direct and aligned fundraising for political campaigns program. 

• Manage tracking systems for political work, including our annual tracker for grantee budgets and targets. 

 

Grantmaking  

• Lead grantee relationships for unrestricted grantmaking. 

• Work closely with Program Coordinator, Operations, on grantmaking execution for unrestricted grants. 

• Support Program Director, Campaigns, on political power-building strategy and grantmaking. 

 

Relationship Management and External Engagement 

• Maintain close partnerships with key multi-state or national groups who are engaged in state politics. 

• Support and engage in cross-team collaboration, and build a reputation internally as a thought partner in refining EAF’s strategies. 

• Use project management and communications tools, such as Asana and Slack, to facilitate complex workflows. 

 

TEAM AND CULTURE 

 

• Maintain collegial, collaborative relationships with peers and colleagues. Contribute to a positive working environment. 

• Recognize that we are stronger when we are diverse and inclusive, and embody these values in internal and external EAF work. 

• Generate and implement ideas for systems, program, and operational improvement. 

• Uphold EAF’s values of community, equity, learning, service, and transformational impact in both internal and external work. 

• With assistance from the supervisor and others, formulate a self-learning and development plan. Identify and seek out professional development opportunities, including networking, information interviews, training, and projects.   

 

QUALIFICATIONS 

  

We recognize that no one candidate will have all of the following qualifications and encourage people to apply with that in mind.  

 

• At least three cycles of electoral experience in progressive leadership roles 

• At least one cycle of experience working on independent expenditure campaigns 

• Hands-on experience in the non-profit advocacy community, ideally in relation to campaign design, creation, and implementation 

• Experience collaborating with multiple stakeholders on political campaign strategy 

• Familiarity with political campaign budgets 

• Skilled at coping with unexpected events, prioritizing and handling several projects simultaneously, and developing clear and realistic action plans with strong attention to detail 

• An orientation toward service, inclusion, collaboration, and clear communication, understanding that supporting others is fundamental to success in the role. Team player who is able to establish rapport internally and with funding partners, grantees, consultants, and other stakeholders. 

• Familiarity with fundraising and donor engagement 

• Familiarity with clean energy and climate policy issues, particularly at the state level 

• Strong written and oral communication skills. Able to present complex information clearly, succinctly, and in a meaningful way to leadership, funding partners, and allies.  

• A demonstrated ability to manage work across multiple stakeholders in a complex, multi-site, diverse organization, in line with the organization’s inclusion efforts 

 

SUPERVISION 

 

This position reports to the Senior Program Director, Campaigns. 

 

COMPENSATION 

 

This is a full-time position. The target salary for this position is $144,000 for a candidate based in the metro areas of San Francisco, New York City, Seattle, San Diego, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Boston, or Sacramento, and $129,600 for candidates in other areas of the U.S. EF provides a comprehensive benefits package, including competitive salary, medical, dental, vision, disability, and retirement benefits and paid time off. 

 

OTHER REQUIREMENTS 

 

Ability to travel a few times a year for three to four business days at a time.  

 

PHYSICAL DEMANDS 

 

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  

 

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to spend extended hours at the computer. 

 

WORK ENVIRONMENT  

 

The Program Manager, Campaigns, may work remotely from anywhere in the U.S.