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:

• Volunteer support, leadership development, & coaching:
• 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
• Strategy development:
• 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 the job description.