Campaign Director: Earth Quaker Action Team (EQAT)

A $700/month health insurance stipend and $50/month technology stipend that goes to offset the expenses of employee’s home internet and phone service brings total annual take-home pay for the position to $81,000. Cause Areas: Environment & Sustainability, Religion & Spirituality, Climate Change, and Volunteering About EQAT Earth Quaker Action Team (EQAT, pronounced “equate”) is a Philadelphia-area, faith-based, intergenerational activist group that uses nonviolent direct action to push corporations toward environmental, economic, and racial justice. EQAT is primarily volunteer-led and is looking for a new co-director to help us navigate a time of many transitions. Read more about our values and practices and our current campaign targeting Vanguard, the world’s largest investor in fossil fuels. About the Position The Campaign Director leads volunteer teams to effectively execute strategic tactics to advance our campaign. Together with the Operations Director, they lead the organization and ensure the goals and vision set by the board are met. The Campaign Director focuses on external partnerships and ensuring our campaign work is strategically advancing the campaign, as well as internally building EQAT’s membership and skills. As of this posting, there are additional volunteer structures under development to further support the work that is currently listed in the Campaign Director responsibilities; the Campaign Director’s leadership is envisioned to be flexible, drawing back when capable volunteer leadership emerges in an area, and stepping in when capable volunteer leadership is lacking. The role also involves supporting the organization as a whole in successfully navigating significant transition, including around the roles of staff and volunteers. Supervision: The Campaign Director and the Operations Director co-supervise one another and each also receive supervision from the board via the Staff Supervisor and the Personnel Committee. Time & Location: This is a full-time (40 hours per week) exempt position. EQAT is a remote organization based in Philadelphia. This position will need to attend meetings and events during and outside of typical working hours (including occasionally on weekends), and both in-person and online. Candidates must live in or be willing to relocate to the Philadelphia metropolitan region. A selection of responsibilities include: Provide support and coaching to experienced volunteers to step into increased leadership, including stepping back for others to lead as useful Identify needs for continuing education in our organization, especially towards meeting strategic goals and winning our campaign; design and lead trainings to meet those needs Ensure the organization and members are continually learning and growing from our experiences Provide resources, coaching, and direction to volunteer groups within EQAT Analyze how our work and our campaign target’s response fit into the larger campaign landscape, and support the board and organization to shift strategy appropriately Hold and guide planning and execution of strategy arcs, 6-12 month long strategic plans that guide actions and messaging Provide support to the Board to make strategic decisions about the use of organizational resources Partnerships: Tend to existing organizational relationships, such as frontline communities, climate and environmental organizations, faith-based groups, justice-oriented groups, and generationally-defined organizing groups Storytelling: Along with the board co-clerks, serve as a public face of EQAT’s campaign Regularly communicate strategy analysis by telling the internal story of where we are to volunteers and the larger network of supporters with attention to the morale of the group Manage the organization’s public narrative, ensuring that messaging is aligned at all levels including press outreach, campaign newsletters, website, social media, action talking points, etc. For a comprehensive list of responsibilities, please see thejob description . The base salary for this position is $72,000 per year. A $700/month health insurance stipend and $50/month technology stipend that goes to offset the expenses of employee’s home internet and phone service brings total annual take-home pay for the position to $81,000 . Extensive time off benefits include: 13 paid holidays, including floating holiday options Paid parental leave Paid family and medical leave. Other benefits include paid home office improvements, funds for professional development, and bonus opportunities under certain circumstances. Please note that EQAT does not negotiate salaries at the time of hire , as it privileges those who are skilled at negotiation. Qualifications: This position might be perfect for you if you: Believe that huge companies can be successfully challenged through nonviolent direct action and are excited to take them on; Are able to lead with flexibility and creativity in the current political and social reality; Can independently hold the big picture of a project with many moving parts and help others plan and advance the steps necessary to achieve agreed goals; Are motivated to fight climate change and understand that it is interconnected with many other justice issues; Have a record of thinking strategically about power and mobilizing people to build power together; Love to work and connect with enthusiastic, dedicated volunteers across lines of race, class, and generation; Are passionate about nonviolent direct action as a means to create change. Required qualifications: 3+ years experience leading a group of volunteers to engage in strategic nonviolent direct action, including designing campaign strategy and implementing nonviolent direct action tactics to move a target; Facility with managing multiple complex projects successfully and experience coaching people to manage their own projects and competing priorities effectively; Strong written and verbal communicator, especially skilled in helping people to understand the context and power of our work; ; Humble leadership, which includes the ability to make the case for one’s own ideas while listening to the group wisdom, attention to power dynamics within the group, and willingness to take feedback and adapt when needed; Ability to build and/or hold organizational relationships to support a common goal, especially across lines of race and/or class; Ability to work with a volunteer board which will benefit from your strategic guidance, leadership coaching, and willingness to implement our vision; Some additional skills and experience that might benefit a candidate in this role (these are not requirements, and no one is expected to have all of them) : Facilitation and training experience, especially in participant-led models of learning; Experience with spiritually-grounded activism; Familiarity with and appreciation for Quaker values, culture, and decision making; Experience with strategic media and messaging that advances campaign goals; Experience building and supporting coalitions; Connection to a wide network of community, faith, and civic groups and leaders in the Philadelphia region; A record of winning campaigns against corporations. In lieu of a cover letter, please respond to each of the following questions (roughly 150 words for each prompt) Why are you interested in working for EQAT in this role? How does your work or volunteer experience relate to the requirements for the role? Pick one of our organization’s values and practices that you think connects to your own experience. Then tell us a bit about why. Applications received by April 12, 2026 at 11:59pm ET will receive full consideration #J-18808-Ljbffr Bryn Mawr College