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Are you excited to help build the movement for wild public lands in New England? Then we want you on our team! The Grassroots Mobilization and Communications Manager will use their skills to inspire, recruit, and activate volunteer advocates for wild public lands.
Job Title: Grassroots Mobilization and Communications Manager
Reports to: Executive Director
Type of position: Full time/permanent
Compensation range: $45,000 to $55,000, depending on experience
Benefits: Paid time off includes major holidays, winter break December 24 - January 1, and above-average combined sick and vacation time; $1,000/month stipend for health care and retirement; flexible work schedule; work from home.
Work location: Remote position. Strong preference for VT or NH-based applicants, but the candidate may be located anywhere in New England. Must be willing to travel within New England and work during evenings and weekends on occasion.
About Standing Trees:
Founded by volunteers in 2020, and incorporated as a nonprofit in 2021, Standing Trees’ mission is to protect and restore forests on New England’s public lands. To overcome the climate and extinction crises, Standing Trees envisions a future where New England’s state and federal public lands, spanning approximately 11% of the six-state region, are managed to restore the natural, old growth forests that evolved over millennia alongside the region’s indigenous people. To achieve this ambitious goal, Standing Trees combines creative grassroots and grasstops organizing, strategic coalition-building, policy advocacy, and legal expertise.
Standing Trees serves as a watchdog for state and federal agencies, ensuring that land-managers follow the latest climate and biodiversity science, promote the public good, and meaningfully involve the public in decision making. In addition to public land protection, we engage in policy and legal advocacy to end New England’s reliance on biomass electricity and other egregious commercial exploitation of public forests.
Standing Trees stands up for social and environmental justice, and seeks to build a diverse, inclusive, and equitable movement for public wildlands.
About the position:
Are you excited to help build the movement for wild public lands in New England? Then we want you on our team!
As an organization founded upon grassroots activism and engagement in democratic processes, we depend on our members, volunteers, and the general public to achieve the lasting change that we seek for our public lands. The Grassroots Mobilization and Communications Manager will use their skills to inspire, recruit, activate, and retain volunteer advocates for wild public lands. Through educational and inspirational events, citizen science projects, social media campaigns, phone-banking, door-knocking, peaceful protests, guided outings on public lands, and a range of other creative organizing tactics, this position will be responsible for tending and growing the Standing Trees community and fostering a welcoming, diverse, and powerful movement for public wildlands.
Essential Functions:
Help develop and implement Standing Trees grassroots engagement strategies.
Lead and/or participate in meetings for Standing Trees grassroots volunteers and meetings for regional and national coalitions.
Represent Standing Trees at public meetings, hearings, and events.
Develop a year-round calendar of online and in-person events, actions, and outings.
Recruit businesses, nonprofit organizations, student and civic leaders, faith communities, and other key constituencies to endorse Standing Trees’ campaigns and/or to join formal coalitions of like-minded groups.
Recruit grassroots community members to serve as the voices, eyes, and ears of Standing Trees in their respective corners of New England.
Develop and coordinate communications and marketing efforts, including creative uses of social media to expand Standing Trees’ reach, recruiting letters to the editor and op-eds, and maintaining the Standing Trees website and blog.
Maintain Standing Trees’ activist database and leverage this list to maximize participation in a year-round calendar of events, actions, and outings, including through periodic email newsletters and action alerts.
Supervise and support student interns and student groups on college campuses.
Other tasks as needed. Job functions are subject to change as the organization and our campaigns evolve and grow.
Desired Qualifications (please note that you do not need all of these to apply):
A passion for wild things and wild places (okay, this is mandatory!).
Ability to represent Standing Trees in a clear, friendly, honest, and professional manner through excellent verbal and written communication.
A background in forest ecology and conservation, public land management and policy, and/or grassroots organizing.
Experience with website and blog editing, social media, creating and editing videos and photos, and graphic design.
Ability to work independently and proactively, problem solve on the fly, and to work collaboratively with others.
The ability to learn, implement, and integrate software and other tools with speed and ease.
Commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice, particularly as it relates to conservation.
A desire to be a part of a small, mission-driven organization that values both a well-balanced lifestyle and a deep commitment to the cause.
To Apply:
Please send a cover letter, resume, list of three references, and at least two writing samples of any length in pdf format to info@standingrees.org with subject line: “Application for Grassroots Mobilization and Communications Manager.” The position is open until filled but Standing Trees will begin to review applications on November 16, 2026. The anticipated start date is mid-December to early January, 2027, with flexibility to meet candidates’ needs.
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