Associate Vice President of Community, Justice, & Impact

Earthjustice is the premier nonprofit environmental law organization. We take on the biggest, most precedent-setting cases across the country. We wield the power of law and the strength of partnership to protect people’s health; to preserve magnificent places and wildlife; to advance clean energy; and to combat climate change. We partner with thousands of groups, supporters, individuals and communities to engage the critical environmental issues of our time, and bring about positive change. We are here because the earth needs a good lawyer.

Founded in 1971, Earthjustice has a distinguished track record of achieving significant, lasting environmental protections. We achieve this by hiring people who share a passion for justice and a healthy environment. Our headquarters are in San Francisco with offices in Anchorage, Bozeman, Chicago, Denver, Honolulu, Houston, Juneau, Los Angeles, Miami, New Orleans, New York, Philadelphia, Seattle, Tallahassee and Washington, D.C.

In 2025, the Community, Justice, and Impact (CJI) Department introduced the Justice Framework to meet current organizational needs and to help drive strategic and operational alignment and direction around the organization’s values and mission to advance justice. CJI serves as a strategic partner to the entire organization that must deliver the Justice Framework, strategies and tools for a practice of justice, community building, and impact assessment and analysis that connects internal and external communities, policies and practices, and effectively engages the Ecosystem of Justice.

CJI must work strategically, synergistically, and effectively to scale our efforts to meet the needs of the entire organization. Therefore, CJI must be comprised of strategic, transdisciplinary thought leaders who can effectively operationalize and execute bespoke projects, programs, and initiatives while also using the Justice Framework to help build community.

Reporting to and in deep collaboration with the SVP, the Associate Vice President of Community, Justice, and Impact will serve as an organizational leader for the department to advance the Earthjustice mission, the justice framework, institutional community building, external partnership support, impact assessment and analysis and justice ecosystem support.

This position can be based in one of Earthjustice's offices or remotely from the U.S.

Responsibilities

Institutional Leadership (20%)

• Serve as a thought partner to the SVP of Community, Justice, and Impact, as well as a high functioning, collaborative senior leadership team.
• Serve as a transdisciplinary thought leader and applied justice practice strategic partner for all departments across Earthjustice to use the Justice Framework to advance strategic organizational alignment, a collective practice of justice, and internal and external community building and impact analysis.
• Design and drive strategies and practices in alignment with organizational goals and priorities that advance justice within the internal Earthjustice community and the external communities and causes that Earthjustice serves.
• Develop partnerships and support teams across Earthjustice to steward partnerships that support the overall Earthjustice mission, communities, and causes we serve and advance an appropriate role within the ecosystem of justice.
• Serve as a thoughtful and strategic organizational ambassador for Earthjustice within the Ecosystem of Justice.
• Serve as the CJI department lead for internal and external strategies, programs and initiatives, and communications amongst staff, Board committees, partners and other stakeholders that drive Earthjustice’s mission and an organizational practice of justice.

Community / Institutional Community Building and External Community Building (20%)

Community represents a strategic imperative to help build and operationalize a cohesive sense of community amongst all Earthjustice staff grounded in Earthjustice’s values and driven by its programmatic work. Moreover, Community represents the communities and causes that Earthjustice serves through its programmatic work.

• Provide strategic and operational leadership for internal and external community building strategies, programs, infrastructure, and initiatives.
• Partner with key leaders and departments across Earthjustice to ensure a practice of justice is applied and justice impact is achieved through organizational policies and practices.
• Collaborate with the SVP to develop and manage a comprehensive portfolio of organizational relationships amongst organizations within the ecosystem of justice.

Justice / Justice Framework (20%)

The Justice Framework is a bespoke organizational framework that invites every member of the Earthjustice community to use an inquiry-based model to engage in an intentional pract