Sustainability Coordinator

Green Corps Organizer

Department: Green Corps

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Multiple Locations

Compensation: $41,000 - $44,450 / year

Protecting the environment is the most important challenge facing our world. Nothing prepares you to meet that challenge like Green Corps. Green Corps is a yearlong, intensive, paid training program that gives you the hands‑on training and experience you need to start your career in organizing. You'll gain critical skills while making an immediate impact on environmental campaigns. Our organizers are working to save America's remaining wild places, stop plastic pollution from flowing into our oceans, reduce climate warming pollution and more.

The Green Corps Organizer program provides a unique combination of classroom instruction and field experience to give you the foundation you need to launch a career to save the planet. Over the course of the year, Organizers will:

• Run three to five campaigns throughout the year on a range of issues in multiple locations across the United States. You could be in Raleigh, North Carolina, working on a campaign to reduce single‑use plastic pollution in the fall; then move to Pueblo, Colorado, to work on a campaign to advance clean energy in the spring; and then move to Chicago to build support for wetlands protection in the summer.
  
  You will test your skills and organize in different contexts — on a college campus, in a community and knocking on doors in neighborhoods to fundraise and build support for a campaign in the summer.
• Run a grassroots canvass office for the final campaign of the year, including hiring and managing canvass staff. You and your canvass staff will educate the public, build support, sign up members, and fundraise for top environmental and public interest organizations.
• Receive eight weeks of classroom training throughout the year to learn the theory and skills of environmental organizing, including skills like how to recruit and train volunteers, develop strategic campaigns, organize events, gain media coverage and more.
• Gain the skills and experiences needed to launch your organizing career
  . After completing the year, we connect graduates with organizing jobs in the environmental and social change movements. Many groups need trained organizers to run their campaigns, and most Green Corps graduates are able to find professional positions immediately.
• This position requires exercising discretion and independent judgment in making decisions in matters of significance.

We’re looking for top candidates to join our unique training program. No previous organizing experience is required, but here’s what we look for:

• A passion for protecting the environment and an interest in dedicating your career to environmental advocacy and organizing work
• Strong communication skills, including writing, public speaking and working with others one‑on‑one and in a group
• Leadership experience on campus or in your community
• Strong work ethic and dedication to goals, and also the flexibility to adjust plans when a rapidly moving campaign changes
• Excitement to dedicate a year to learning how to be an organizer, including working on multiple campaigns with different campaign partners and in different locations

Compensation and Benefits

For positions starting in August 2027, the target annual compensation is $41,000 (but compensation may range between $41,000 and $44,450 depending on location). Green Corps offers an excellent benefits package. Our benefits package includes medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and dependents, paid sick time (60‑80 hours/year depending on location), vacation time (accruing 10 days over year
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