Senior Campaigner; Climate, Food, and Agriculture
Mighty Earth is accepting applications for a Senior Campaigner to drive climate action across the U.S. food and agriculture sector. A key focus of our efforts is transforming the meat and dairy industry, the source of more climate pollution than the entire transportation sector, to adopt climate friendly agricultural policies and practices and shift to sustainable plant-based protein.
Who We Are
Founded in 2016, Mighty Earth is a growing global advocacy organization with a goal to protect Nature and secure a climate that allows life to flourish. We aspire to be the most effective environmental advocacy organization in the world.
Headquartered in Washington D.C., Mighty Earth has built strong partnerships globally, and currently has staff based across the United States, South America and Europe. We have played a leading role in persuading the world’s largest food and agriculture companies to adopt policies to eliminate deforestation, reduce emissions as well as land-grabbing, slave and child labor, and other human rights abuse from the palm oil, cocoa, beef and soy and rubber industries, and driven adoption of multi-billion-dollar shifts to clean energy. We are working to drive similar transformation in the meat industry, the largest agricultural driver of rainforest destruction and climate pollution.
Your responsibilities will include:
Strategy and Implementation:
- Developing and executing Mighty Earth’s work in the United States climate, agriculture, and food systems to reduce methane emissions and protect the climate, including launching high impact markets campaigns focused on U.S. supermarkets and food brands.
- Producing reports, briefings and other campaign materials.
- Maintaining expertise on food and agriculture systems and their intersection with methane emissions and climate change.
- Leading US focused Mighty Earth investigations, including field-investigations and desk-based analyses to support the outcomes of the campaign.
- Reaching out to and building relationships with key stakeholders and partners, including organizing and participating in meetings and coalitions.
Communications and Engagement
- Participating in meetings with senior corporate executives and sustainability teams to advance progress and address climate issues.
- Developing relationships with and strategic interventions for policymakers to implement policy and legal levers to reduce agricultural emissions.
- Working with outside lawyers on legal strategies to address agriculture’s climate impact.
- Working with the communications and digital teams to co-create powerful communications and digital strategies.
Organizational Support
- Working closely with other Mighty Earth communications, investigations, policy and campaign staff.
- Identifying opportunities for funding our work and participating in discussions with funders and the development of grant proposals.
- Fulfilling all compliance requirements, including supporting grant reporting and time tracking.