Regional Campaign Manager (Northern California)

Greenlight America; Washington (District of Columbia); Remote; USD 75,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Greenlight America is seeking a Regional Campaign Manager to lead and orchestrate campaigns for clean energy projects across a designated region. You will develop campaign strategies, support partner organizations, and cultivate volunteer leadership while tracking deliverables to mobilize grassroots support.

A successful candidate will blend strategic planning, organizing, communications, lobbying, and coalition management, with a flexible, learning mindset.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of relevant campaign experience.
• Strong strategic judgment with winning campaign strategies.
• Proven track record leading cross-functional teams without direct authority.
• Excellent written and verbal communications.
• Experience with digital campaigning tools and tactics.
• Passion for accelerating the clean energy transition and policy advocacy.

Responsibilities

• Lead campaigns for clean energy projects and ordinances across regions.
• Develop campaign plans with goals, strategies, and timelines.
• Coordinate with partners, volunteers, and consultants to execute plans.
• Oversee volunteer mobilization, events, and leadership development.
• Build alliances with environmental, labor, faith, and business groups.
• Monitor deliverables, grant reporting, and budgets.

Skills

Campaign management

Grassroots organizing

Strategic planning

Coalition building

Digital campaigning

Communications

Project management

Power analysis

Tools

Campaign tools

Power mapping

CRM/databases

Job description

Job Title:

Regional Campaign Manager

Reports to:

Senior Manager, Campaigns

Start Date:

ASAP

Salary Range:

$75,000-$100,000

Location:

Remote in Northern California, with frequent travel required.

Greenlight America is the leading grassroots campaign force powering the nation's clean energy transition at the local level. Our team supports local residents and organizations working to get clean energy built in their communities. Since our founding in 2023, we have enabled volunteers to advance thousands of megawatts' worth of utility-scale projects across the country, helping hundreds of communities to say yes to the benefits of a clean energy future.

Position Overview:

The Regional Campaign Manager leads Greenlight America’s campaigns for clean energy projects across their assigned region. They develop campaign strategies, support partner organizations, cultivate the leadership of volunteers, and track deliverables to ensure that Greenlight America effectively mobilizes grassroots support for clean energy projects. A successful candidate for the position will be a multi-disciplinary campaigner with a blend of skill sets in strategic planning, organizing, communications, lobbying, and coalition management. They will also have a willingness to continually learn new things and approach challenges with a flexible and creative mindset. The position is remote in the assigned region and reports to the Senior Manager, Campaigns.

Primary Roles and Responsibilities:

• Lead campaigns for clean energy projects and ordinances across a wide range of strategic contexts. Work with partner organizations and local leaders to mobilize volunteers and win permitting approvals for clean energy.
• Develop strong campaign plans, including goals, strategies, and tactical timelines. Bring creative, power-map informed strategic thinking and draw on a comprehensive range of tactics across grassroots, grasstops, communications, and digital strategies. Track campaign milestones and seize opportunities.
• Lead campaign work across teams without direct management authority, working with colleagues, consultants, and partners to carry out campaign plans.
• Ensure strong execution of tactics across their campaigns, including volunteer mobilization, outreach, community events, supporter groups, and volunteer leader development. Carry out tactics directly or oversee others in carrying them out, depending on the needs of each campaign.
• Build relationships with organizations in the assigned region, including but not limited to environmental groups, labor unions, faith communities, agricultural organizations, social justice nonprofits, trade associations, business groups, and clean energy developers, in collaboration with Greenlight America’s partnerships team. Navigate conflict and disagreement to build shared alignment among partners.
• Provide support to partner organizations and volunteer leaders. Conduct regular check-in calls, host training sessions, and create advocacy materials.
• Oversee grant agreements with partner organizations and ensure deliverables are met. Engage in regular reporting of campaign data.
• Oversee consultant contracts and hold consultants accountable for deliverables.
• Develop and manage campaign budgets, including proposals for regrants, consultants, digital ads, and other major expenses
• Be an engaged member of the campaigns team, sharing insights and lessons from campaigns to support excellence across the department.
• May occasionally take on campaigns outside of their assigned region.
• Between 10-25% time spent traveling is expected.
• Other duties as assigned.

Experience and Qualifications:

We are looking for candidates who have the following qualifications:

• 3+ years of relevant experience. Strong candidates for this position may have a background in grassroots organizing, issue advocacy, community engagement, political campaigns, coalition management, or similar.
• Successful track record of achieving ambitious campaign outcomes. Experience at the local level is a strong plus.
• Strong strategic judgment, with experience developing winning campaign strategies grounded in power analysis and adapting them as conditions change.
• Demonstrated team leadership, including leading people across teams to deliver results without formal authority.
• Strong project management skills and attention to detail. Skilled facilitator of groups.
• Experience leading work through coalitions of partner organizations and groups of volunteers. Willingness to meet people where they are and build alliances across the political spectrum.
• Excellent communications skills, both verbal and written, and comfort talking to people at all levels of expertise and seniority.
• Comfort giving and receiving clear and actionable feedback regularly. Eagerness to learn and apply feedback quickly.
• Experience with digital campaigning tools and tactics.
• Demonstrated ability to think creatively, take risks, objectively evaluate results, and iterate in a fast-paced environment.
• Passion for accelerating the clean energy transition.
• Must have access to reliable transportation.

Diversity and Equity in Opportunity:

Greenlight Action is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and an anti-racist organization that prohibits discrimination in its governance, programs and activities on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, disability, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, reprisal, marital status, amnesty, status as a covered veteran, because all or part of an individual’s income is derived from public assistance or for any other non-merit based factor. Women, people of color, LGBTQ+ people, and members of other historically and presently disenfranchised populations are strongly encouraged to apply.

Our goal is for a work experience that has meaning and impact on the world and on our professional lives, and a workplace where you can feel supported and proud. You can learn more about us at greenlightamerica.org.

This position also supports Greenlight Action, an affiliated 501(c)(4) organization. While motivated by the same core values, Greenlight Action and Greenlight America operate independently of one another and each organization has its own board of directors.