Deputy Director, Fertilizer (Campaigns Department)

Core responsibilities:

• Recruit and build an aligned and powerful coalition of labor, community, local economic development organizations, farmers, and more, with a shared vision of transforming the fertilizer industry for climate, jobs, and justice.
• Assess the industry landscape, identify strengths, current players, and gaps, and engage key leaders, organizations, and industry partners.
• Work with colleagues and external consultants/allies to understand the cost structure of green fertilizer, from renewable energy generation to ammonia production and transport.
• Characterize the economic benefits and risks of transforming the fertilizer industry, including job creation and tax revenue for local governments, farming practices, and the existing political economy of ammonia.

This role creates positive change by leading a campaign to jumpstart a distributed, green fertilizer industry in California that reduces climate emissions, supports good jobs and local economic development, and gives farmers a reliable, local supply while reducing overapplication.

Required qualifications:

• At least 10 years of increasing responsibility in the field, with a proven campaigning and coalition-building track record.
• Background in policy development, organizing, or leadership within advocacy or movement spaces.
• Experience designing policy campaigns and using tools like power mapping, strategy charts, and narrative development.
• Strong familiarity with how state and local agencies and venues function.
• Demonstrated relationship-building, including with grassroots groups, labor, environmental justice organizations, policymakers, and other key players in California.

Salary: $136,000 annually. Benefits include 100% employer-paid health coverage (medical, dental and vision), a work-from-home stipend, up to 5% 401k employer match, 11 paid holidays, and unlimited vacation (with a minimum of 15 business days).

Industrious Labs' mission is to set into motion unstoppable policies, people power, and analysis to make a triple impact on climate, justice, and jobs that drastically reduce dangerous emissions, and make industry accountable to communities and workers.