Campaign Director

Job Title: Director of the Beyond Coal Campaign

Department: Program - Campaigns

Location: Remote

Reports to: Senior Director for Campaign Strategy

Supervises: Up to 6 campaign staff

Context: At the Sierra Club , we believe in the power of interdependence. Together, we remain committed to the fight for a healthy climate built on a foundation of environmental, racial, economic, and gender justice – a future where all people benefit from a healthy, thriving planet and a direct connection to nature. As the climate crisis and deeply entrenched systemic racism all fuel injustice, we will continue to fight for a bold, transformational agenda that recognizes the interconnectedness between our planet, our humanity, and our future. By recognizing that our destinies are tied, we continue to name that all things are fundamentally connected, and the overlap between ecology, race, gender, and representative government will move to either advance our collective humanity or to oppress it. Sierra Club has close to 800 staff across the country and a network of 64 local chapters that are led and fueled by thousands of volunteers. We are also proud to be a unionized employer, with three labor unions representing more than half of our employees.

Scope: The Director of the Beyond Coal Campaign leads the Sierra Club ’s work to achieve an equitable transformation of the power sector away from coal and gas to 100 percent clean energy. This is a senior leadership position within the Sierra Club . The Director of the Beyond Coal Campaign serves as the campaign’s lead fundraiser and the primary relationship manager for the foundations and major donors who invest in this work, and is accountable for translating that investment into clear strategy, measurable results, and meaningful outcomes for both communities and donors.
The Director of the Beyond Coal Campaign sets high-level power sector strategy, approves local campaign plans, and raises and deploys resources to achieve the organization’s top goals The Director of the Beyond Coal Campaign will foster collaboration with Beyond Coal staff as well as teams across other Sierra Club Energy Campaigns and will be capable of managing internal and external opportunities and challenges. The Campaign Director will do all of the above in a way that ensures strategies and tactics leverage opportunities to advance justice (centered on racial justice), equity, and inclusion while building long-term power.
Job activities include but are not limited to:

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Lead fundraising for the Beyond Coal Campaign. Serve as the campaign’s principal fundraiser, responsible for securing the revenue that powers the campaign’s annual budget. Build and manage a pipeline of institutional and individual funding prospects; cultivate, solicit, and close six- and seven-figure grants and gifts from foundations and high-net-worth individuals; and partner closely with the Office of Advancement on prospect strategy, proposal development, presentations, and reporting. Set annual revenue goals, own performance against them, and adjust campaign expenses based on quarterly revenue projections and strategic opportunity.

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Steward the campaign’s donor relationships. Serve as the primary programmatic contact for the campaign’s foundation and major-donor partners. Maintain a proactive cadence of updates, briefings, and meetings; lead the drafting of grant deliverables and reports, and ensure they are completed on time and at high quality; communicate campaign impact and return on investment in terms that matter to each funder; and manage funder expectations through moments of change. Ensure knowledge of each relationship is documented so that it belongs to the institution, not only to individuals.

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Manage a large, complex budget. Ensure we are providing donors a meaningful return on investment, achieving our stated goals, and aligning resources with strategy on an ongoing basis. Owns strategy and budgetary decisions, deployi