Tceq Campaign Coordinator
4 weeks ago
**GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF POSITION**: The TCEQ Campaign Coordinator will oversee a new campaign to hold the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) accountable for failing in its mission to protect public health and the environment. We are looking for a skilled advocate with experience working with the TCEQ. The TCEQ Campaign Coordinator will report to the Texas Director and work out of our Austin, TX office. The position is a one year grant contingent, full-time and hybrid work-from-home and in-office.
**Responsibilities**:
- Monitor TCEQ activities and develop critiques of the agency.
- Attend TCEQ meetings, review agendas and identify priorities, report on agenda activities.
- Maintain a roster of issue-area experts-including community experts-to weigh in on specific agency actions or matters.
- Provide a point of contact for media, and provide spokespersons for different topics from relevant organizations or community leaders.
- Coordinate reports with data-driven critiques such as enforcement, pollution, and permitting.
- Prioritize specific agency actions or issues for potential earned or social media campaigns.
- Provide written or verbal testimony at TCEQ meetings.
- Convene and maintain a table of environmental stakeholders to include advocates, experts, and members of the public.
- Coordinate meetings with agency staff and leadership.
- Produce periodic written updates of agency actions and public response efforts.
- Coordinate responses to opportunities including through written and oral comments, meeting attendance, and public and media outreach.
- Build power in communities to help people understand and engage with the TCEQ effectively.
- Identifying common values that will generate a culture-shift in public accountability and agency oversight of industrial pollution.
- Assist in basic education about the agency including its role, its failures, and how they affect public health and the environment.
- Coordinate technical assistance needed to enable public participation at TCEQ including with public comments.
**Qualifications**:
Knowledge: Working knowledge of environmental policy in Texas. General knowledge of state administrative law and environmental policy. Familiarity with the work of environmental and public health advocacy and community organizing in Texas.
Skills: Excellent written and oral communication skills. Basic competence with Microsoft Office suite, videoconferencing, and social media preferred.
Work Experience: Professional experience of 5-7 years with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) preferred. Nonprofit advocacy experience beneficial but not required.
Capabilities: Self-motivated, works well with a wide range of people in a fast-paced environment, works well independently and as part of a team, manages work under pressure, adapts to changing situations, desire to learn about and advance progressive causes.
**SALARY AND **BENEFITS**: Competitive non-profit salary commensurate with experience; good medical and dental coverage; three weeks paid vacation for new employees. Salary range: $76,598 to $91,016
Benefits include:
- Great medical and dental coverage, 100% paid by PC, including full coverage for children
- Three weeks paid vacation for new employees, plus five personal days
- 401K plan with a 5% contribution from PC after one year of employment
- 12 weeks of paid parental leave after one year of employment
- Sabbatical after 10 years of employment
- Student loan reimbursement program
**TO APPLY**:
**About Public Citizen**:
Public Citizen is a national, nonprofit advocacy organization founded in 1971 to represent the public interest in Congress, the executive branch and the courts. We fight for openness and democratic accountability in government; for social and economic justice in globalization and trade policies; for clean, safe and sustainable energy; for strong health, safety and environmental protections; for safe, effective and affordable medicines and health care and for the right of consumers to seek redress in the courts. We have six divisions based in our Washington, D.C. offices and an office in Texas.
The mission of Public Citizen’s Texas office is to empower citizens to be effective advocates for the environment and against corporate and governmental irresponsibility. Since 1984, the Texas state office has worked to combat global climate change, promote the use of clean renewable energy, reduce the use of coal, and get environmental policies enforced to reduce air and water pollution. We work with numerous partner groups, including other national nonprofits and local organizations. Public Citizen has achieved important victories in Texas on energy efficiency, renewable energy and air quality issues over the past 40 years. Among our victories, we were involved in legislation that led to Texas’ wind boom; we helped draft energy efficiency legislation that led to Texas being the first in the nation to have an efficiency p
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