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We’re the Field School for Environmental Organizing
Are you passionate about the environment? Are you ready to learn how to
run campaigns to help solve the climate crisis or save our last wild
places? We offer a year-long, paid training program that will prepare
you for a career in environmental organizing. Here’s how it works:
Part One: Classroom Training
You’ll participate in roughly eight weeks of intensive classroom
training conducted by representatives from a wide range of organizations
and campaigns.
Our staff and trainers present overviews on the biggest issues facing
our environment, as well as teaching our organizers a variety of
valuable skills such as volunteer recruitment, campaign planning, public
speaking and much more.
Part Two: Field Training on Real Campaigns
As a Green Corps organizer, you’ll receive the bulk of your training
through hands-on experience working on behalf of organizations such as
the Wilderness Society and Climate Reality Project. Job responsibilities
include recruiting, training and supervising volunteers; organizing
visibility events; securing media coverage; and building strong
coalitions.
You’ll lead three to five different campaigns in communities across the
country. By working with several different campaign partners, you’ll
gain experience tackling a diversity of issues and working with a
variety of individuals.
For example, a team of organizers recently helped run a campaign that
persuaded Kellogg’s, the cereal company, to pressure its supplier of
palm oil to stop destroying tropical forests. Other Green Corps
organizers have played critical roles in the retirement of more than a
dozen coal-fired power plants on the Beyond Coal campaign.
Part Three: Launch Your Career
After completing the training program, Green Corps connects graduates to
groups looking to hire full-time staff. Our alumni now work with
organizations such as Environment America, Greenpeace, Corporate
Accountability International, Rainforest Action Network, National
Wildlife Federation, 350.org and NRDC, among others.
Location and Compensation
The target annual compensation for this position is $26,000. Green Corps
offers a competitive benefits package. We also offer an excellent
training program and opportunities for advancement. Green Corps
organizers go where the fight is and wherever they can make the biggest
impact. They could work on campaigns almost anywhere in the country and
while location preferences are considered for placements, we require all
organizers to be geographically flexible.
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, disability, pregnancy, sexual
orientation, gender identity or veteran status.