Campaign Director

Earth Quaker Action Team (EQAT, pronounced “equate”) is a Philadelphia-area, faith-based, intergenerational activist group that uses nonviolent direct action to push corporations toward environmental, economic, and racial justice. EQAT is primarily volunteer-led and is looking for a new co-director to help us navigate a time of many transitions. Read more about our values and practices and our current campaign targeting Vanguard, the world’s largest investor in fossil fuels. 

The Campaign Director leads volunteer teams to effectively execute strategic tactics to advance our campaign. Together with the Operations Director, they lead the organization and ensure the goals and vision set by the board are met. The Campaign Director focuses on external partnerships and ensuring our campaign work is strategically advancing the campaign, as well as internally building EQAT’s membership and skills. As of this posting, there are additional volunteer structures under development to further support the work that is currently listed in the Campaign Director responsibilities; the Campaign Director’s leadership is envisioned to be flexible, drawing back when capable volunteer leadership emerges in an area, and stepping in when capable volunteer leadership is lacking. The role also involves supporting the organization as a whole in successfully navigating significant transition, including around the roles of staff and volunteers. 

Supervision: The Campaign Director and the Operations Director co-supervise one another and each also receive supervision from the board via the Staff Supervisor and the Personnel Committee.

Time & Location: This is a full-time (40 hours per week) exempt position. EQAT is a remote organization based in Philadelphia. This position will need to attend meetings and events during and outside of typical working hours (including occasionally on weekends), and both in-person and online. Candidates must live in or be willing to relocate to the Philadelphia metropolitan region.

A selection of responsibilities include:

• Volunteer support, leadership development, & coaching:
• Provide support and coaching to experienced volunteers to step into increased leadership, including stepping back for others to lead as useful
• Identify needs for continuing education in our organization, especially towards meeting strategic goals and winning our campaign; design and lead trainings to meet those needs
• Ensure the organization and members are continually learning and growing from our experiences
• Provide resources, coaching, and direction to volunteer groups within EQAT
• Strategy development:
• Analyze how our work and our campaign target’s response fit into the larger campaign landscape, and support the board and organization to shift strategy appropriately
• Hold and guide planning and execution of strategy arcs, 6-12 month long strategic plans that guide actions and messaging
• Provide support to the Board to make strategic decisions about the use of organizational resources
• Partnerships:
• Tend to existing organizational relationships, such as frontline communities, climate and environmental organizations, faith-based groups, justice-oriented groups, and generationally-defined organizing groups
• Storytelling:
• Along with the board co-clerks, serve as a public face of EQAT’s campaign 
• Regularly communicate strategy analysis by telling the internal story of where we are to volunteers and the larger network of supporters with attention to the morale of the group
• Manage the organization’s public narrative, ensuring that messaging is aligned at all levels including press outreach, campaign newsletters, website, social media, action talking points, etc.

For a comprehensive list of responsibilities, please see the job description.

This position might be perfect for you if you:

Required qualifications:

Some additional skills and experience that might benefit a candidate in this role (these are not requirements, and no one is expected to have all of them):

The base salary for this position is $72,000 per year. A $700/month health insurance stipend and $50/month technology stipend that goes to offset the expenses of employee’s home internet and phone service brings total annual take-home pay for the position to $81,000.

Extensive time off benefits include:

• 4 weeks paid vacation
• 10 paid sick days
• 13 paid holidays, including floating holiday options
• Paid parental leave
• Paid family and medical leave.

Other benefits include paid home office improvements, funds for professional development, and bonus opportunities under certain circumstances. 

Please note that EQAT does not negotiate salaries at the time of hire, as it privileges those who are skilled at negotiation.

• Submit application materials via Workable here.
• In lieu of a cover letter, please respond to each of the following questions (roughly 150 words for each prompt)
• Why are you interested in working for EQAT in this role?
• How does your work or volunteer experience relate to the requirements for the role? 
• Pick one of our organization’s values and practices that you think connects to your own experience. Then tell us a bit about why.

Applications received by April 12, 2026 at 11:59pm ET will receive full consideration.

Salary : $72,000