Night Advocate

NRDC (the Natural Resources Defense Council) works to safeguard the Earth, its people, its plants and animals, and the natural systems on which all life depends. NRDC combines the power of more than 3 million members and online activists with the expertise of some 800 policy advocates, lawyers, scientists, and communication experts to confront the climate crisis, protect nature, ensure the rights of all people to clean air, clean water, and healthy communities. As an international nonprofit environmental organization, NRDC is working to address the world’s most urgent environmental challenges, and advance innovative, science-based, and enforceable solutions.
Since our founding in 1970, NRDC has helped craft and deliver many of America’s foundational environmental laws, including the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act and Safe Drinking Water Act. Today, we continue to lead in advancing and defending strong environmental protections at the local, state, federal and international levels, as well as through the marketplace. Supported by our members and online activists, NRDC is driving impactful solutions that confront the climate crisis, defend nature and safeguard public health across Asia, Africa, and the Americas. NRDC is seeking an Advocate to work with NRDC’s Pollinators & Pesticides Team. As the biodiversity crisis has worsened in the last two decades, pollinator populations have dramatically declined, threatening food security and the viability of whole ecosystems. NRDC works to eliminate wasteful use of the pollinator-killing pesticides that not only drive these losses, but also contaminate water, devastate ecosystems, and threaten human health on a vast scale.
The Advocate would work as a member of the Pollinator & Pesticides Team to advance its all-of-the-above strategy to protect our pollinators, our health, and our planet from dangerous pesticide use. This includes a focus on big-tent state campaigns to pass leading model laws; advocacy before Congress and federal agencies making decisions with nationwide impact; cutting-edge litigation to hold decisionmakers and polluters to account; The position you are applying for is part of the bargaining unit represented by The Washington Baltimore News Guild (WBNG / The Newsguild-CWA Local 32035).
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the following essential functions:

Partnering with senior staff to develop and execute strategies to support our: nation-leading state campaign work to pass vanguard model laws that safeguard pollinators, people, and the environment; advocacy before Congress, federal agencies, and other key decisionmakers to secure nationwide protections against harmful pesticide use; Along with senior staff, meeting regularly with policy makers, agency staff, and other decisionmakers at the state and federal level to influence policy outcomes and cultivating policy makers to be champions for protecting pollinators, other wildlife, clean water, and human health against harmful pesticides.
Working to build and maintain relationships with a diverse set of partner organizations, coalitions, and other stakeholders to mobilize our collective power in support of curbs on pollinator and community-harming pesticide uses.
Developing deep scientific and regulatory expertise in our issue areas and bringing that to bear creatively and persuasively in factsheets, reports, petitions, technical or legal comments, blogs, op-eds, and issue narratives.
Advocacy/organizing/political experience (e.g., lobbying, campaign, or coalition-building experience; work experience with a federal, state, or local official);

• Policy/administrative/technical experience (e.g., policy development, work experience with a federal or state agency, or relevant subject matter expertise); Legal experience (e.g., legal research, case-building).
• Bachelor’s degree required; a relevant graduate degree preferred

Demonstrated interest in environmental and/or public interest issues.
The desire to build relationships with a set of diverse stakeholders and build strong coalitions to advance our advocacy.
The desire to gain deep expertise on technical or legal issues related to pollinator loss and pesticide pollution and to communicate that expertise simply, persuasively, and with a rigorous dedication to accuracy.
Ability to travel as needed to support our advocacy and campaign work.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position within the described work environment.
Frequently : Perform desk-based computer tasks
Ability to attend events and activities in the office or offsite
Work is sometimes performed primarily in office. The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet in office settings and moderate in other situations. Hours of employment may sometimes require working flexible and/or longer hours, including nights and weekends, when necessitated by projects. The job includes work-related situations such as those involving challenging, important, urgent, time-sensitive, or multiple matters.
NRDC is committed to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion, both in our work and in our workplace. We believe that celebrating and actively welcoming diverse voices and perspectives is essential to solving the planet's most pressing environmental problems, and we encourage applications from candidates whose identities have been historically under-represented in the environmental movement.
We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate in hiring or employment on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. Internal equity will be reviewed and considered to determine a final offer. NRDC operates under a hybrid work model. Employees are required to come to the office 8 days per month.
Enjoy a generous time-off policy, highlighted by a company-wide year-end Rest & Recharge Week to reset for the new year.
Family – First : Generous family leave policy beyond federal requirements
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