Job Title: Digital Community Climate Organizer

Compensation: $20–$30/hour, commensurate with experience

Employment Type: Part-time, temporary (contract)

Hours: ~5–15 hours/week for 3–4 months

Location: Flexible/remote, with preference for candidates in or near Evanston, IL. 

About Run on Climate (ROC)

Run On Climate (ROC) is a nonprofit focused on accelerating bold climate policy at the local level—supporting candidates, collaborating with elected officials, and equipping advocates with practical tools and training. ROC runs the Local Climate Policy Network to help leaders share ideas and advance cutting-edge policies, and provides candidate and policy support across U.S. communities. Founded in 2021, ROC has partnered with counties, cities and towns across the country, to help move strong decarbonization and other local climate priorities forward.

Position Overview: A part-time digital communications organizer to help increase local climate action in Evanston, IL, by mobilizing community members to encourage their local elected officials to adopt stronger climate policies.

Organizer will work with ROC's partner organization in Evanston -- Climate Action Evanston -- to advance local climate policy objectives. Organizer will work to advance successful policy outcomes while strengthening ROC's partnership with CAE.

Key Responsibilities:

1) Mobilization via Paid Ads

• Partner with the ROC Policy Team, including regular meetings, to identify specific digital activism opportunities that could mobilize local residents. For example: A building decarbonization policy is going to be voted on in the city council in the next month.
• Create action pages, petitions, letter writing and public comment pages that explain the issue clearly, and that drive meaningful participation by residents in support of the policy.
• Produce creative ads that drive sign-ups and conversions on action and donation pages.
• Set up conversion-focused ad campaigns; implement and verify tracking (pixels/UTMs).
• Report performance to leadership; recommend ways to lower cost per acquisition and increase online revenue (i.e. donations).

2) List Building and Engagement

• Use existing data and strategic targeting to build a list of potential local climate action takers in each community.
• In “down periods” between specific call-to-action, use generic petitions and general engagement to increase the size of that list, filter out those who do not with to engage, and keep those who are interested engaged and familiar, priming them for future action.
• Execute a consistent cadence of action alerts 
• Monitor and report engagement metrics; iterate to improve open, click, conversion, and revenue KPIs.
• Design retargeting campaigns for subscribers and recent site visitors.

3) Skill Sharing

• Train CAE and ROC staff/volunteers on designing effective, targeted ads and audience segmentation.
• Share best practices for creative testing, email and web content creation, and campaign measurement.

Desired Skills & Qualifications

• Background in digital marketing and digital organizing.
• In-depth understanding of social media performance marketing, including campaign setup in Meta Ads and Google Ads.
• Experience executing high-quality email campaigns, including high quality content creation and editing.
• Strong spreadsheet skills (Google Sheets or Excel) for tracking and reporting.
• Background in political organizing, ideally at the municipal level is a plus.
• Experience with Action Network (or similar CRM/email/action platforms) is a plus.

Equal Opportunity

ROC is an equal opportunity organization. We value a diverse team and strongly encourage applications from people of color, LGBTQ+ candidates, people with disabilities, and individuals from communities most impacted by climate change, environmental injustice, or economic marginalization.