Green Corps Field School for Environmental Organizing (Applications due Feb 8th – apply online at

http://www.greencorps.org)

Green Corps is the non-profit Field School for Environmental Organizing, founded by leading environmentalists in 1992 to train environmentalorganizers. Program includes intensive classroom training, hands-on experience running urgent environmental campaigns, and placement in permanent positions with leading environmental and social change groups.

Intensive classroom training combines issue briefings, workshops and skills trainings to prepare students to run a grassroots campaign. Issue briefings include Clean Cars, Renewable Energy, Forests and Endangered Species. Strategy workshops include The Legislative Process, Social Change Methodology and Effective Media: Messaging and Framing. Hands-on skills trainings include Leadership Development, Training Volunteers and Running Effective Meetings. Training is run by the Green Corps Central Staff, as well as environmental and social change experts such as John Passacantando, Executive Director, Greenpeace USA, Bill McKibben, author and climate change expert, and Wendy Wendlandt, Political Director, U.S. PIRG.

Field training puts students on the front lines of environmental campaigns in multiple cities nationwide, chosen for their ability to make an impact on critical environmental problems. Potential locations include,San Francisco, CA; Chicago, IL; Washington, DC and Boston, MA. Applicants ust be willing to relocate during year with Green Corps.

The program begins in August 2008 and concludes with graduation in August 2009.

Responsibilities: Plan and implement a series of critical environmental campaigns with groups like Rainforest Action Network, Sierra Club and Greenpeace. Secure media coverage, recruit and manage volunteers, train new leaders, and mobilize grassroots activists.

Career Development. Upon completion of the training program, Green Corps will connect you to organizations that are seeking full-time professional staff. Green Corps graduates hold positions with MoveOn.org, Sierra Club, Greenpeace, Global Exchange, Endangered Species Coalition, Global Trade Watch, Corporate Accountability International, ForestEthics, and many other environmental and progressive groups.

Qualifications. Each year 35 recent college graduates are selected to join Green Corps. They are looking for people who are serious about saving the planet, have demonstrated leadership experience, and want to work for change over the long haul at the grassroots level.

Salary & Benefits. Salary of $23,750. Optional group health care coverage, paid sick days and holidays, two weeks paid vacation, and a student loan repayment program for qualifying staff.

To apply to Green Corps, fill out online application by the Preferred Spring Application Deadline of Feb. 8th , 2008. Regional deadlines, 2nd round interview locations and online application are at http://www.greencorps.org

Contact: Amber Collett
1313 5th St, #316
Minneapolis, MN 55414
(612) 379-5745

amber@greencorps.org

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