GREEN CORPS -
TRAINING THE NEXT GENERATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL LEADERS

Can you imagine yourself running a campaign to defend old growth forests from corporate logging companies, protecting local communities from pesticides or starting your own environmental group? Green Corps' one-year, full-time, paid Environmental Leadership Training Program gives you the best training available to launch an organizing and advocacy career.

ORGANIZATION: Green Corps is a non-profit field school for environmental organizing, founded by leading environmentalists in 1992 to identify and train the next generation of environmental leaders. Our program includes intensive classroom training, hands-on experience running urgent environmental and public health campaigns, and placement assistance in permanent positions with leading environmental groups.

TRAINING: The Introductory Classroom Training, held in Boston, MA, teaches you to mobilize grassroots support, train community leaders, and work with the media. You will learn about issues you care about - from endangered species, to corporate responsibility to toxic threats to communities. You will learn from environmental leaders who have real-life experience fighting to protect our environment like Dolores Huerta, Co-Founder of United Farm Workers, and Bob Bingaman, National Field Director of Sierra Club. Four subsequent week-long classroom training sessions held throughout the year teach you additional skills and hone your ability to plan and implement effective campaigns.

RESPONSIBILITIES: As a Green Corps Field Organizer, you'll plan and implement a series of campaigns conducted on behalf of groups like Rainforest Action Network and Pesticide Watch. Your job will include recruiting, training and supervising volunteers, interns and staff; working with the media; fundraising; and mobilizing grassroots support.

JOB PLACEMENT: Our graduates are in high demand and quickly find jobs working on issues they care about. After you complete the training program, Green Corps will connect you to organizations with job openings as well as other opportunities for full-time social change work.

QUALIFICATIONS: We will invite 35 people to participate in the 2002-2003 Environmental Leadership Training Program. We are looking for people who are serious about saving the planet, have experience working with environmental or social change issues, and have demonstrated leadership experience.

LOCATIONS AND DATES: We place Field Organizers in 20 cities across the nation, which may include Washington, DC, and cities in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Florida, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Washington and Wisconsin. The program begins in August 2002, with the Introductory Classroom Training in Boston, MA, and concludes with graduation in August 2003.

SALARY AND BENEFITS: Salary of $18,500, health care coverage, paid sick days and holidays, two weeks paid vacation, and a student loan repayment program.

TO APPLY: We encourage you to apply on-line at our website, www.greencorps.org, Contact me at 617-426-8506, or email jenna@greencorps.org for more information.

posting valid through 15 April 2002

Remember to reference this EnvironmentalCAREER.com job posting.