UndauntedK12

Program Manager

• Develop and lead state and local strategies that advance healthy, resilient, decarbonized schools.
• Shape and drive work in priority states, including our advocacy priorities, programs, partnerships, operations, and fundraising support.
• Represent UndauntedK12 with partners and media, build alliances around K-12 climate action.
• Equip state and local leaders with tools and resources to raise awareness about climate action in schools.
• Collaborate with teammates and partners to advance national campaigns and contribute to organizational development.

Program Director

• Advance ongoing state campaigns to advance equitable access to healthy, resilient, decarbonized school buildings and grounds, including collaborating with partners and stakeholders, mobilizing grassroots groups, engaging district leaders, connecting with organizations, and monitoring campaign metrics.
• Advance the Climate Ready Schools Coalition’s (CRSC)’s advocacy, initiatives, and operations, and help marshal the network’s resources for impact.
• Develop state-specific advocacy materials including policy briefs, toolkits for advancing climate action, youth leadership programming, and assets to support campaigns.
• Conduct policy research, landscape scans, informational conversations, and synthesize external reports to support development of campaigns and strategies.
• Serve as an ambassador of Undaunted and steward relationships with partners, elected officials and staff, government agencies, district stakeholders, coalitions, and prospective partners.
• Develop and maintain data-related products for public consumption, likely in partnership with aligned organizations.
• Help the Undaunted team efficiently engage new partnerships, allies, school districts, and communities by providing support, resources, and tools as needed.
• Create, maintain, and improve systems for managing Undaunted’s state specific contact database, distribution lists, and listservs.
• Identify, collect, and manage performance indicators related to campaigns and broader impact metrics, and develop practices that enable the organization to utilize collected data to inform decision making and communicate with donors and partners.
• Manage logistics for webinars and other virtual and in-person events.
• Draft communications and materials, including visual content, for a variety of audiences including schools, state and local leaders, partner organizations, and private sector partners.
• Write, research, and edit reports, presentations, fundraising materials, blog posts, website copy, op-eds, and social media for both state and national audiences.
• Collaborate with the Undaunted team, communications partners, and reporters to support placement of news articles, op-eds, and letters to the editor.
• Manage and enhance UndauntedK12’s state-related communication channels including state pages, state network emails, and state campaign spaces.
• Strengthen and organize the Climate Ready Schools Coalition webspace and handle incoming communications from possible members and stakeholders.
• Create communications assets for the California Youth Climate Policy Fellowship and support efforts to scale youth programming to additional states.
• Support UndauntedK12 staff with research and outreach related to core issues and inform policy proposals and landscape analyses.
• Support efforts to expand youth leadership programming to new states and engage alumni in K-12 climate action.
• Represent UndauntedK12 in state and national meetings with coalitions, elected officials and staff, government agency staff, district stakeholders and partners.
• Develop and communicate clear work-plans aligned to organizational priorities and engage on emergent projects as needed.