Communications Coordinator
Sierra Club
Administration, Marketing & Communications
Denver, CO, USA
USD 70k-70k / year
Posted on Nov 13, 2025
Job Title: Communications Coordinator
Department: Colorado Chapter
Location: Denver, CO. The position requires the ability to travel.
Reports To: Chapter Director
Supervises: N/A
Context: At the Sierra Club, we believe in the power of interdependence. Together, we remain committed to the fight for a healthy climate built on a foundation of environmental, racial, economic, and gender justice – a future where all people benefit from a healthy, thriving planet and a direct connection to nature. As the climate crisis and deeply entrenched systemic racism all fuel injustice, we will continue to fight for a bold, transformational agenda that recognizes the interconnectedness between our planet, our humanity, and our future. By recognizing that our destinies are tied, we continue to name that all things are fundamentally connected, and the overlap between ecology, race, gender, and representative government will move to either advance our collective humanity or to oppress it. Sierra Club has close to 800 staff across the country and a network of 64 local chapters that are led and fueled by thousands of volunteers. We are also proud to be a unionized employer, with three labor unions representing more than half of our employees.
Scope: The Communications Associate will help support the Colorado Sierra Club’s efforts to communicate with our base, volunteers, the general public, and donors about our priorities of advancing climate justice, protecting the places that make our state special, and defending clean air and water. This is a full-time position focused on building relationships and communicating with press, developing and maintaining our digital communications, and producing materials to support fundraising and organizing efforts. This position will work with chapter staff and volunteer leaders to develop and share messages to promote our campaigns and action opportunities with our members and followers.
Job activities include but are not limited to:
- Press and Public Relations management. Pitches Sierra Club stories to the media. Writes and releases statements to the press. Helps coordinate responses to the media on all appropriate topics. Builds and maintains relationships with reporters. Coordinates with National colleagues on press strategies. Supports and coordinates the drafting, submission, and amplification of opinion pieces with staff and volunteers.
- Mass emails, texts, & action alert management. Write copy for, create, and send emails for campaigns, fundraising, and cultivation in Marketing Cloud. Help schedule, prepare, and send mass text messages using Hustle. Develops action alerts to engage and recruit supporters.
- Social media management & website content development. Schedule engaging daily posts and stories that highlight Colorado Sierra Club’s work and issue areas on our social media accounts. Maintain our website with blog posts and up-to-date static content. Use Sierra Club’s Campfire Events platform to maintain our online events calendar. Coordinate with staff and volunteer teams on content.
- Multimedia content creation for Chapter communications and outreach platforms. Ensure content (such as newsletters, impact reports, etc) for donors, supporters, and volunteers is consistent with broader Sierra Club messaging goals and implemented strategically. Develop, implement, and coordinate communications and digital engagement strategy for the full range of chapter campaigns. Create eye-catching shareable content and graphics.
- Communications Training & Support. In coordination with organizing and campaign staff and volunteers, provide communications training and support to staff and volunteers. Lead trainings on topics including but not limited to: interacting with the press, message development, press releases, mass email, and social media strategies, and using communication tools. Recruits, onboards, and supports volunteers for communications activities and/or a communications team.
- Other miscellaneous duties as assigned.
The successful candidate must demonstrate the following skills, experience and competencies:
- Compelling and inclusive visual and written content creation. You aim for accuracy, creativity, and attention to detail. You can learn, internalize, and incorporate our “voice” across platforms. You organize and share information effectively — whether writing an internal email or delivering a presentation. You are keenly aware of the power of language and representation. You use references and examples that speak to the experiences of a diverse audience, particularly the communities we aim to reach.
- Software competency and graphic design. You are comfortable with using a wide range of computer software and are quick to learn new software. You proactively learn new tools and stay ahead of the curve in an ever-changing technology environment. You have a knack for designing and formatting visually-appealing content for social media posts, emails, and/or printed materials.
- Entrepreneurial and resourceful. You can manage a high volume of work and multiple strands of work with efficiency. You have, or can create, a system for keeping tasks from slipping through the cracks. You are able to juggle competing demands and prioritize without sacrificing quality. You consistently overcome challenges and leverage resources to creatively solve problems. You propose solutions to issues without much guidance (but aren't afraid to ask questions). You proactively ask for help, anticipate problems, and pivot as needed. You are able to work independently, but always within a framework of teamwork, collaboration, and clear communication with others.
- Environmental, social and climate justice, and equity analysis & practice: You have an understanding how climate change, environmental degradation, and limited access to nature disproportionately impact different communities or groups of people; how to develop inclusive campaigns at the intersection of environmental action and social justice; how your own personal group identities have shaped your life and experiences at work; and how to use your experience and skills for working effectively with colleagues and the public across group identities, positions, and roles.
- Equity commitment to evolution: continuously deepening and evolving your own understanding of systems of oppression through study, openness, and humility; easily recognizing your own relationship to privilege and power; and examining and shifting your behaviors as appropriate.
- Equity commitment to be uplifting and additive: viewing mistakes as opportunities for growth and problems as catalysts for solutions; inspiring others along the journey, and carrying a constructive approach, can-do attitude, sense of humor, and authentic kindness wherever you go.
The strongest candidates will also demonstrate the following skills, experience and competencies:
- Experience supporting digital communications and/or fundraising at an advocacy-based nonprofit
- Experience working with the media
- Experience using Salesforce, Marketing Cloud, Hustle, Drupal, Google Workspace
- Knowledge of and/or interest in climate change, clean energy, environmental, and social justice issues, particularly in Colorado
- Fluency in Spanish
To Apply
The Sierra Club provides equal employment and advancement opportunities to all staff members. Employment decisions are based on merit, qualifications, lived experience and skills. The Sierra Club does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, immigration status, socioeconomic status, ancestry, age, size, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, familial status, veteran status, disability, AIDS/HIV status, medical condition, prior conviction, arrest history, traits historically associated with race, including, but not limited to, hair texture and protective hairstyles, or any other characteristic protected by law.
The Sierra Club values applicants who are people that identify as Black, Indigenous, and other minoritized groups; women; queer, transgender, gender non-conforming, and gender fluid people.
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Applications will be accepted through December 1, 2025.
Compensation and Benefits
The salary range for this position is $70,000 annually.
The Sierra Club offers a competitive salary package commensurate with skills and experience plus excellent benefits that include medical, dental, and vision coverage, and a retirement savings 401(k) plan.
This is a category 5, exempt, represented position.
Sierra Club values the expertise and talents of foreign nationals. Sierra Club sponsors both nonimmigrant and immigrant visas when certain criteria are met, based on immigration laws and organizational needs. Such sponsorship is at the discretion of the Department Head and Sierra Club People Department in consultation with the employee’s manager. The Sierra Club cannot guarantee the approval of a visa petition. The Sierra Club is an equal opportunity employer committed to workforce belonging.