Youth Programs Organizer

Green Roots, Inc., is a grassroots community-based organization with over a 30-year track record of achieving significant environmental justice accomplishments and public health victories in Chelsea, East Boston, and the Greater Boston region. Green Roots’ mission is to achieve environmental justice and greater quality of life through collective action, unity, education, and youth leadership across neighborhoods and communities. We do so through deep community engagement and empowerment, youth leadership, and implementation of innovative projects and campaigns.

The Youth Programs Organizer (YPO) oversees the planning, preparation, administration, and implementation of our high-school youth engagement program and events. The YPO supervises, supports, mentors, inspires and leads our Environmental Chelsea Organizers (ECO) through yearlong programming focused on organizing, movement building, political education, and environmental justice. The YPO works collaboratively with the Director of Food Justice and Youth Programs to create, manage, support, facilitate and evaluate educational and youth engagement and leadership programming for ECO in order to advance Green Roots mission while expanding a powerful youth organizing network in Chelsea and East Boston.

Equipped with environmental and climate justice organizing and education expertise and a strong commitment to equity, the YPO will develop and implement a curriculum and foster partnerships to empower ECO youth to lead local and statewide youth‑led organizing efforts and campaigns. The YPO oversees and supports ECO centering direct learning, curricular resourcing, and collective action.

ECO is a core component of Green Roots mission; and is one of our longest standing programs. We firmly believe in youth power. Thereby, ECO is our primary means of engaging youth. ECO is intended to lead campaigns for youth, by youth, around environmental, social and economic justice issues facing young people in Chelsea, East Boston and the Greater Boston area.

ECO is a seven member team of young people who work year round, after school and during school breaks. Through this work, ECO members grow their leadership skills, career readiness, and relationship‑building skills through urban agriculture, environmental justice, and civic engagement projects and campaigns. ECO are BIPOC youth between ages of 14 and 18 from Chelsea and East Boston.

School Year:
September to June 4PM - 7PM, Monday to Thursday

School Vacations and Summer:
Monday to Thursday, 9AM - 2PM

Youth Time Commitment: 12 hours/week during school year and 20 hours/week during school vacations and summer

YPO is a full‑time, in person position.

• Encourage and model the core values of Green Roots through leadership and program development implementation.
• Oversee and support the development of ECO’s goals and objectives, manage new and existing youth‑led campaign implementation, and evaluate pre and post‑activities.
• Develop the program curriculum to include age appropriateness, effectiveness, social justice, antiracism education, environmental justice, political education, critical thinking, leadership, and more.
• Lead recruitment, selection, scheduling, training, development, and evaluation of all ECO members.
• Supervise and support ECO members and Junior Youth Organizer.
• In coordination with the Communications Organizer, assist in developing the Youth Programs marketing plan to promote all youth programs through community partnerships, special events, print, online, GR’s website, and social media outlets.
• Develop and maintain relationships with other community organizations, educators, informal/formal educational organizations, and other…