Community Organizer - New Hampshire/ Maine (candidates can be based anywhere in NH or Southern Maine)

• Craft and facilitate group workshops on core organizing skills like campaign planning, messaging, and fundraising.
• Build relationships with leaders in most impacted communities, identify local environmental threats, and develop creative strategies to protect health and environment.
• Increase Slingshot’s media presence through local events, press releases, campaign materials, and online organizing.
• Cultivate relationships with local foundations, write grant applications, and deepen connections with grassroots donors.

This role creates positive change by building community power to combat environmental health threats, particularly in Black, Indigenous, and poor communities and communities of color, and by strengthening the environmental movement in New Hampshire and Maine.

• At least three years of related work experience, such as community organizing or grassroots campaign coordination.
• Experience living in or working with people in frontline communities, especially people of color, Indigenous communities, immigrants, and low-income people.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills; strategic thinking and effective facilitation skills.
• Experience with leadership development, campaign planning, and a passion for racial, economic, and environmental justice.

Salary: $60,000-68,000 depending on experience. Benefits include medical and dental coverage, retirement savings plan, vacation, sick time, holidays, and Fridays off during the summer. Professional development opportunities and a supportive, inclusive work environment.

Slingshot is a growing organization that serves as the go-to hub for environmental health and justice organizing in the Northeast, bringing together leaders to build powerful statewide and regional networks and taking on some of the worst polluters in the region.