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About the Brownsville Climate Justice Collaborative
Texas is ground zero for greenhouse gas emissions in the United States and was responsible for releasing 636 mmt of carbon in 2019 – almost twice as much as the next state, California. The far west side of Texas is home to the Permian Basin, the world’s largest oil and gas production field, and the highest emitter of methane in the country. A growing industry has sprung up along the Texas Gulf Coast to refine, liquify, and manufacture a global supply of these fossil products despite the arrival of increasingly severe climate disasters in the region and across the world. If the dozens of proposed new refineries, liquefaction, and petrochemical facilities currently proposed for the region are built, they will equate to a carbon bomb that will evaporate any hope of meeting global climate goals.
Residents and Tribal community members along the Texas Gulf Coast are tired of being considered sacrifice zones for the fossil fuel industry and have begun to fight back. Two organizations and one tribal nation are partnering on shared work to resist the spread of these pernicious forces in the lower Rio Grande Valley region. These groups include: Border Workers United, the Carrizo/Comecrudo Tribe of Texas, and the South Texas Environmental Justice Network. Together, they make up the Brownsville Climate Justice Collaborative.
Together, they are organizing at the intersection of multiple issues:
- Challenging the land grabs and pollution caused by the growth of the space exploration and fossil fuel development industries;
- Resisting the correlated increases in militarization;
- Staying prepared for and responding to ongoing climate crises.
About the Role:
Part-Time Collaboration Fundraising Strategist + Coordinator (5-10hr/week)
The Brownsville Climate Justice Collaborative is seeking a person with experience in project planning, grant writing, and philanthropic relationship management to support the members of an early-stage collaborative effort. This person would serve as a project manager of the fundraising effort, and general coordinator for collaborative calls. They are someone who excels in a highly collaborative environment, and is able to take on full ownership of the actions required to support the collaborative fundraising process. The deadline to apply for the position is February 25, 2026.
Role Responsibilities
- Coordinate periodic (biweekly/monthly) collaboration member calls (establish agendas, take notes, send invites + reminders)
- Work with collaboration members to further establish clarity around the core objectives and associated budgets that the groups will conduct joint fundraising for the collaborative
- Support collaboration members to identify how funds received will be spent by and/or disbursed among the organizations participating
- Work with collaboration members to identify which entity within the collaboration can receive funds and redistribute them
- Work one-on-one with collaboration members in between calls as needed to ensure alignment, seek insight, and refine work products
- Manage all aspects of shared fundraising:
- Develop a list of potential funders in collaboration with partners and their current funders
Research additional funding opportunities - Develop and submit funding proposals for the collaboration’s core objective
- Provide monthly fundraising updates/reports to the coalition’s partners
- Draft a final report of collaboration activities at the end of the funding cycle.
Required Qualifications
For success in this role, well-qualified applicants should have:
Demonstrated expertise in:
- Writing grant proposals and building associated budgets
- Building a prospective funder list
- Creating and executing on a funder/prospect relationship building/ management calendar
- Ability and willingness to perform administrative functions of the role (budgets, calendaring, note taking)
- Ability and willingness to develop meeting agendas and serve as facilitator of the calls / project manager of the fundraising
- Commitment to liberation and willingness to learn about and embrace decolonial perspectives and approaches
Ideally, this person may also possess some or all of the following types of skills:
- Demonstrated expertise in developing grant proposals for newly-designed fundraising programs or projects
- Has helped fund collaborative / coalition projects before
- Prior knowledge or experience working in climate justice, especially in South Texas
- Prior knowledge or experience working with climate philanthropy
- Spanish/English bilingual strongly preferred.
- Computer skills in Microsoft Office, Google Sheets, Google Docs, and Google Forms are strongly preferred.
Compensation
Compensation is approximately $100/hr for 5-10 hours per week.
How To Apply:
Submit a resume with references, a cover letter saying why they’d like the role and how they’d be a fit, and 2 relevant work samples from previous projects they’ve fundraised. Please submit your application here. The deadline to apply for the position is February 25, 2026.
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