Toxics Campaign Director

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Base Pay Range

$40,500.00 / yr - $55,000.00 / yr

PIRG is hiring a Toxics Campaign Director to lead our work to protect our health by making polluters pay for the toxic messes they create and eliminating the use of toxic chemicals that threaten our health and our communities.

There are more than 80,000 chemicals on the market in the United States, most of them put directly into use without testing the long‑term consequences for our health or their impact on our environment. And, too often chemicals are found to be toxic and still remain on the market. The emergence of the “Make America Healthy Again” movement has brought new attention to these issues, particularly our failure to apply the precautionary principle to the introduction of chemicals into the environment and products.

Key Responsibilities

• Coalition building : Build support for our campaign goals from a broad range of organizations and affected constituency groups across the political spectrum at the campus, state and national level.
• Advocacy : Take our policy ideas and proposals directly to key decision‑makers in state legislatures, Governors’ offices, Congress, corporate boardrooms, and other forums. Run lobby days for students and staff to make their voices heard on this issue.
• Media Outreach : Serve as the spokesperson for our campaigns through media events, press releases and opinion writing. Keep abreast of important toxics issues and raise the profile of toxics issues and our campaign goals in the media.
• Campaign strategy : Assess opportunities for building political support for our agenda through coalition-building, grassroots organizing, media coverage and message development.
• Program development : Evaluate new research on the issue, create viable policy solutions and propose the right political strategy and messaging.

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