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POSITION SUMMARY The Policy Director leads TransForm’s advocacy work to advance its goals and vision for the future of our region’s transportation and housing systems. We believe that the Bay Area should be a place where people can afford to live, access opportunities, and have an abundance of climate-friendly ways to get around. The person in this role will spearhead efforts to increase funding for transit and active transportation, reorient our streets away from cars, and create equitable, affordable housing opportunities.The Policy Director will manage their team to identify effective policy solutions, develop strategic campaigns, and build the diverse coalitions necessary to make change. A successful Policy Director will have a clear understanding of how we need to move policy and shift investment to redress inequities and reduce emissions to lessen climate change. This is an exciting opportunity for a policy buff who has always wanted to guide a top shelf change-making...

The director of high school science is responsible for overseeing the development of Ascend’s Common Core-aligned curriculum and assessment, which incorporates both explicit teaching and inquiry learning in grades 9-12. To ensure vertical alignment, the director collaborates with the directors of lower school science and middle school science and any writers and curriculum directors who write, adapt, curate, and pace research-based curricula materials and assessments. This person also collaborates strategically with the managing director of high school math, and the high school leadership team.

COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR FOR THE GREEN NEW DEAL NETWORK The Green New Deal Network (GNDN) seeks a seasoned, dedicated, and driven leader who can lead our communications team as we support state coalitions and national partners working to turn the 2020s into the decade of the Green New Deal. This is a full-time, exempt position. About the Green New Deal Network GNDN unites diverse national organizations and allied local coalitions across states, tribal nations, and in commonwealths & territories to shift narrative, build power, and win local, state, and federal Green New Deal policy change. GNDN member groups work in concert on organizing, policy, and political campaigns to demand and win bold change, and to build grassroots power of social movements. Position Responsibilities The Communications Director will be the lead staff person responsible for implementing and evolving GNDN’s overall narrative and communications strategy, centering frontline community...

Conservation Law Foundation (CLF) is seeking a Vice President for Healthy and Resilient Communities (HRC) to join our team working for a healthy and thriving New England for all.  CLF’s Healthy and Resilient Communities (HRC) program works in partnership with communities, civic leaders, universities, and impact investors to advance CLF’s mission and create lasting change on the ground. Staff in HRC bring expertise in law, planning, policy, research, and finance to the most urgent challenges facing New England’, from climate change to disinvestment and displacement. Together with our partners, we have built the largest participatory action research study in the country focused on health and place; launched three impact investment funds for healthy neighborhoods totaling $85 million; produced more than 500 units of workforce housing, connected 800 New England farmers and food entrepreneurs with pro bono legal support; and successfully advocated for more equitable, inclusive, and...