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ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION
The California Environmental Justice Alliance (CEJA) is a statewide coalition of grassroots, community-based organizations. We organize among those most affected by environmental and climate injustice – low-income communities and communities of color – to advance statewide policy that protects the environment and our health. We are committed to a Just Transition and to the right of every person to a healthy environment. We practice self-determination through the democratization of land, labor, and resources in ways that repair and reverse the long course of environmental racism, the climate crisis, and colonialism. One of the foremost environmental justice (EJ) alliances in the country, CEJA advances an EJ agenda in statewide California policy, guided by the lived experiences of the communities we serve.
CEJA’s work is based in the belief that no one EJ organization can win by itself; we need to be in a strategic alliance with each other to address the root causes of environmental and climate injustice. As such, CEJA brings together ten of the foremost EJ organizations in California in a strategic alliance: Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN), Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy (CAUSE), Communities for a Better Environment (CBE), Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice (CCAEJ), Center on Race, Poverty, and the Environment (CRPE), Environmental Health Coalition (EHC), Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability (LCJA), People Organizing to Demand Environmental and Economic Rights (PODER), Physicians for Social Responsibility – Los Angeles (PSR-LA), and Strategic Concepts in Organizing and Policy Education (SCOPE). For more information about CEJA and our Members, visit www.caleja.org.
CEJA is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. CEJA also runs a 501(c)(4) organization (CEJA Action) and a Political Action Committee, both of which are fiscally sponsored projects of Tides Advocacy.
For more information about CEJA and our members, visit www.caleja.org.
ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY
CEJA is looking for two (2) exceptional, strategic, and collaborative leaders to fill our newly created Co-Executive Director positions. Through a shared leadership model, the Co-Executive Directors will steward CEJA as we enter a new chapter of growth, stability, and impact – while centering our commitment to social and racial justice and staff well-being. We seek two leaders who will work together to build and strengthen CEJA’s organizational infrastructure, culture, policies, practices, and programs. The Co-Executive Directors will share certain core responsibilities, such as Board and staff management, while each leading distinct areas of CEJA’s operations. The Co-Executive Director – Programs will oversee CEJA’s complex and high-profile programs, including our Energy Justice, Climate Justice, Land Use, Legislative, and Civic Engagement programs. The Co-Executive Director – Development & Operations will oversee CEJA’s thriving fundraising and communications work, as well as administration, finance, and human resources.
The Co-Executive Directors will report directly to CEJA’s Board of Directors and supervise, coach, and lead CEJA’s 20+ staff. These are remote positions, but with occasional travel to CEJA’s hubs in Los Angeles, Oakland, Sacramento, and elsewhere in California and beyond.
A FEW KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Shared by both Co-Executive Directors:
- Establish a culture of care and belonging at CEJA that is centered around anti-oppressive leadership and relationship-building and creates a professional, positive, and equitable work environment.
- Specific to the Co-Executive Director – Development & Operations
- Develop and maintain sustainable financial and administrative systems, ensuring that CEJA upholds the highest possible fiduciary and organizational standards, manages risk, and creates transparency and clarity; work with the Finance Director to create and implement a comprehensive organizational budget; oversee CEJA’s annual external financial audit.
- Specific to the Co-Executive Director – Programs
- Oversee the development, implementation, and evaluation of CEJA and CEJA Action’s programs, including the development of annual program plans to operationalize the Alliance’s strategic plan and its focus on fossil-fuel phase-out and the building of resilient communities.
Our Commitment to Equity, Diversity, Inclusion & Justice
Nonprofit HR is committed to fostering and maintaining a work environment where equity, diversity, inclusion & justice (EDIJ) are fully integrated into everything we do for the benefit of our employees and the clients that we serve. To fully realize our goal, we prioritize our understanding of the complexities of DEI within our workforce to inform our approach to talent management. We believe that this guides how we do our work, advise our clients to operationalize EDIJ and position our content and educational opportunities to help strengthen the talent management capacity of the social impact sector. See the full statement.