Community Engagement and Government Information Specialist
Multiplier
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • California • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $36 per hour
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Expand EDGI’s Public Comments Initiative to develop thorough, accessible informational resources about proposed rules and rules at risk of deregulation
- Expand EDGI’s Community-Led FOIA project and resources about effective use of public records in environmental advocacy
- Develop and lead workshops to support individuals and organizations in writing public comments and using public records requests
- Write, process, and liaise with government bodies and communities about public records requests
- Coordinate and lead volunteers to advance the Public Comments Initiative
- Coordinate internal EDGI learning sessions about relevant issues
- Collaboratively help build EDGI’s advocacy strategy and enhance EDGI’s community-engaged practices
- Report to Gretchen Gehrke
Requirements
- Demonstrated environmental policy experience
- Demonstrated community engagement experience
- Experience working with government information
- FOIA and public comments knowledge required
- Ability to work independently and collaborate well with others
- Excellent written and oral communication
- Support EDGI Code of Conduct and mission, vision, and values
Benefits
- EDGI is a distributed collaboration operating under the fiscal sponsorship of the non-profit Multiplier, with volunteer members across North America.
- Investigate and analyze the inner workings of federal environmental policy through agency staff interviews, as well as data and documentary collection and analysis.
- Monitor and analyze changes to web-based information about the climate and environment provided by the federal government.
- Develop new ways of making federal environmental data more accessible to the public.
- Imagine, conceptualize, and move toward environmental data justice.
- Advocate for improved federal data and information governance policies and practices.
- Prototype new organizational structures and practices for distributed, collective, effective work rooted in justice.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
FOIApublic records requestsenvironmental policy
Soft skills
community engagementindependent workcollaborationwritten communicationoral communication