Green Corps was founded in 1992 by leading environmental advocates with an important mission: to train the next generation of environmental leaders while making a difference on critical environmental campaigns. Green Corps’ niche is working at the grassroots level, bringing people into the movement.
Our goals are to train talented aspiring environmental leaders in the essential skills and strategies of organizing and advocacy, provide critical field support to urgent environmental campaigns, produce significant campaign victories, and increase the number of Green Corps graduates entering and staying in leadership positions within the environmental community. Since our founding in 1992, Green Corps has partnered with more than fifty environmental organizations, provided critical field support to seventy campaigns, and secured dozens of significant victories in conservation, corporate accountability, and public health.
Over the last fourteen years, Green Corps has graduated 200 emerging environmental leaders from our yearlong Environmental Leadership Training Program, with eighty-five percent of our graduates continuing their careers in the environmental and social change field. Today, our graduates work as field directors, campaigners, advocates and grassroots organizers with leading regional and national groups such as National Wildlife Federation, Friends of the Earth, Natural Resources Defense Council, Defenders of Wildlife, Clean Water Action, U.S. PIRG, Sierra Club and Greenpeace.
Recruitment Team Internship Description
The Recruitment Intern will help coordinate the following projects:
- Online Outreach: The interns will coordinate our online recruitment campaign to raise the visibility of Green Corps’ Leadership Training Program. This will include planning and implementing targeted outreach to websites, job boards, blogs, and social-networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook.
- Event Planning: The interns will coordinate the planning of Green Corps’ 2nd Round Interview weekends with an expected attendance of 300 candidates. This includes duties such as VIP outreach for invited guests and major donors, weekend locations and logistics, travel and housing arrangements for candidates and materials creation and duplication.
- Career Center and Campus Outreach: Interns will contact career centers across the country to coordinate recruitment, visibility events and on-campus interviews. Interns will also recruit top student leaders for the Green Corps program with campus outreach.
Hours
The start and end dates are flexible, although most interns begin in January and work through April or May, with the possibility of continuing year-round. Interns typically work between 10-40 hours/week, and the level of commitment can be tailored to your schedule.
Qualifications
We are looking for people who are serious about saving the planet, have a desire to strengthen and grow the environmental movement, and have demonstrated leadership experience.
Benefits
The internships are unpaid, but interns will gain valuable skills and training working with a professional grassroots environmental non-profit. Skills and training include: planning, time-management, written and verbal communication, database management, and online research.
Additionally, interns are given the opportunity to audit portions of Green Corps’ Classroom Trainings (in October, February and April), which features training from top environmental leaders in organizing, advocacy, and leadership skills.
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