Executive Director - Public Renewables Project

Executive Director - Public Renewables Project

Department: Public Renewables Project

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Remote

Compensation: $100,000 / year

Description

The Executive Director of the Public Renewables Project (PRP) is responsible for achieving the ambitious mission of establishing a public renewable energy developer in all 50 states. To meet this goal, the Executive Director will be in charge of building a team capable of funding this vision, operationalizing the vision, and co-imagining the vision. The Executive Director will ensure personally, or in partnership with the team, that funding partners feel updated, energized, and bought into the work of the Public Renewables Project as it grows. The Executive Director will be responsible for ensuring personally and in partnership with the team that a spirit of radical empathy, inclusivity, and justice are at the foundation of PRP’s work and culture.

Key Responsibilities

Fundraising: (30%)

• Lead, with support from team and board members, building out deep relationships with institutional and individual donors to fulfill the PRP’s bold ambitions for change, and funding for our core programmatic goals.
• Steer all reporting, updates, and due diligence with funders to ensure they can have full trust in PRP’s use of their funds.

Program strategy, vision, and implementation: (40%)

• Lead the development of a national vision to drive our programmatic work
• Foster the creation and build out of our key workstreams:
  • State-by-state campaigning, the core of PRP’s work; and
  • National campaign narrative, leveraging wins to beget more wins.

Management and team building: (30%)

• The Executive Director will supervise senior staff and contractors, including the co-development of campaign visions, support with state campaign plans, and weekly or bi-weekly check ins to ensure they have support to meet their goals.
• Create hiring, onboarding, and retention processes that support a diverse and radically inclusive staff, and support the leadership of new and rising leaders as the organization grows.
• The Executive Director will be the primary builder of and point of contact with Senior Advisors, ensuring they have the right information to help support the organization’s growth and financial success.
• The Executive Director will be responsible for co-engineering, with the growing team, a work culture, procedures, and processes that achieve the DCL’s goals and also meet our values of radical inclusivity and disability justice.
• The Executive Director will be responsible for fostering a spirit of radical empathy, inclusivity, and justice that are at the foundation of PRP’s work and culture.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

Competencies

• Bold and radical vision for campaigning to shift the landscape of renewable energy development in the US.
• Strong track record of building diverse, talented teams that achieve public policy victories, and attract high-level partnerships.
• Strong written, verbal, and presentation skills.
• Entrepreneurial spirit.
• Interest in trying to build an organization founded in values of radical empathy and radical inclusion.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and work efficiently in a virtual setting
• Ability to work collaboratively with a team that is diverse and inclusive.
• Commitment to the mission of Multiplier, to protect and foster a healthy, sustainable, resilient, and equitable world.
• Commitment to the liberation of disabled people, immigrant communities, Indigenous people, Black people, LGBTQIA2S+ people, people of color, Muslim people, religious minorities, and folks at the intersections of all of the above.

Education and Experience

• 10-15+ years of experience in a combination of social justice and political organizational management, policy advocacy, and program management.
• Experience fundraising and/or grantmaking.
• Experience in startups preferred.

Workplace

• This is a fully remote, full-time position requiring a minimum of 30 hours per week.
• Business hours have some flexibility. The 30 hours should generally happen Monday through Friday between 7:00 am and 6:00 pm ET, or Friday between 7am and 4pm ET.
• This position requires a minimum of 5% travel time for meetings and retreats as well as conferences and other events.