Community Organizer

For 50 years, Northern Plains Resource Council has helped Montanans organize to protect water quality, family farms and ranches, and our unique quality of life.

Each of our organizers works with Northern Plains’ grassroots membership as a whole, with our local affiliates (mostly in small, rural communities), and with our issue task forces to further the mission of Northern Plains. As a Northern Plains organizer, you won’t be tied to a desk, you’ll meet lots of people, and you’ll make change happen at the grassroots level.

This particular organizer works most closely on our Good Neighbor Agreement (GNA), a formal agreement between Northern Plains and two platinum/palladium mines in Stillwater and Sweet Grass Counties, Montana. It’s an unusual job and a rare opportunity to sit at the table with a large mining company, help our members advocate for themselves and their communities, and help protect an important watershed.

This role does not require technical expertise, but it does require some level of interest in technical information – water quality reports and the like. You’ll be supported by three professional technical consultants who provide the expertise.

During non-pandemic times, overnight travel averages perhaps 2-3 times a month for this position.

This is very much a “people” job.