Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Green Corps Career Opportunity

In Green Corps' year-long paid program, you'll get intensive training in the skills you'll need to make a difference in the world. You'll get hands-on experience fighting to solve urgent environmental problems — global warming, deforestation, water pollution, factory farming and many others — with groups such as Sierra Club and Food & Water Watch. And, when you graduate from Green Corps, we'll help you find a career with one of the nation's leading environmental and social change groups.
For more information, read below or visit our web site:www.greencorps.org
In your year with Green Corps:
You'll get great training with some of the most experienced organizers in the field: Green Corps organizers take part in trainings with leading figures in the environmental and social change movements: people such as Phil Radford, former Executive Director of Greenpeace USA and GC alum, and Bill McKibben, author and founder of 350.org.
You'll get amazing experience working on environmental issues across the country: Green Corps sends organizers to jumpstart campaigns for groups such as Climate Reality Project and Food & Water Watch across the nation.
You'll have a real impact on some of the biggest environmental problems we're facing today: Green Corps organizers have built the campaigns that helped keep the Arctic safe from drilling, that led to new laws that support clean, renewable energy, that convinced major corporations to stop dumping in our oceans and much, much more.
You'll even get paid: The target annual compensation for this position is $25,500. We also offer a generous benefits package. Green Corps offers a competitive benefits package. We also offer an excellent training program and opportunities for advancement.
And when you graduate from the program, you'll be ready for what comes next: Green Corps will help connect you to environmental and progressive groups that are looking for full-time staff to build their organizations and help them create social change and protect our environment.
In the next few months, we'll invite 35 college graduates to join Green Corps in 2016 -2017. We're looking for people who are serious about saving the planet, people who have taken initiative on their campus or community, and people who are willing to roll up their sleeves and work for change over the long haul.
If you think you're one of those people, visit www.greencorps.org to apply to join the 2016-2017 class of Green Corps' Field School for Environmental Organizing.
Green Corps' year-long program begins in August 2016 with Introductory Classroom Training, and continues with field placements in multiple locations across the U.S. Candidates must be willing to relocate.
For more information, visit www.greencorps.org or contact Amanda Becker, Recruitment Director, atjobs@greencorps.org.

Green Corps is an equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of race, color, national or ethnic origin, religion, age, sex, handicap, pregnancy, sexual orientation, or veteran status.

Amanda Becker
Recruitment Director
Green Corps
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amanda@greencorps.org
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Green Corps is looking for college graduates who are ready to take on the biggest environmental challenges of our day. We are looking for the next generation of environmental organizers.