Green Corps!

** Applications due Oct. 26, 2007 - apply online today at

http://www.greencorps.org **

Green Corps is the non-profit Field School for Environmental Organizing,

founded by leading environmentalists in 1992 to train environmental

organizers. Our program includes intensive classroom training, hands-on

experience running urgent environmental campaigns, and placement in

permanent positions with leading environmental and social change groups.

Classroom Training. Our intensive classroom training combines issue

briefings, workshops and skills trainings to prepare you to run a grassroots

campaign. Issue briefings include Clean Cars, Renewable Energy, Forests and

Endangered Species. Strategy workshops include The Legislative Process,

Social Change Methodology and Effective Media: Messaging and Framing.

Finally, hands-on skills trainings include Leadership Development, Training

Volunteers and Running Effective Meetings. Training is run by the Green

Corps Central Staff, as well as environmental and social change experts such

as John Passacantando, Executive Director, Greenpeace USA, Bill McKibben,

author and climate change expert, and Wendy Wendlandt, Political Director,

U.S. PIRG.

Field Training. Our field training puts you on the front lines of today's

most urgent environmental campaigns. With Green Corps, you will work in

multiple cities nationwide, chosen for their ability to make an impact on

critical environmental problems. Potential locations include, but are not

limited to, San Francisco, CA; Chicago, IL; Washington, DC and Boston, MA.

You must be willing to relocate during your year with Green Corps.

Dates. The program begins in August 2008 and concludes with graduation in

August 2009.

Responsibilities. Plan and implement a series of critical environmental

campaigns with groups like Rainforest Action Network, Sierra Club and

Greenpeace. You will secure media coverage, recruit and manage volunteers,

train new leaders, and mobilize grassroots activists.

Career Development. Upon completion of the training program, Green Corps

will connect you to organizations that are seeking full-time professional

staff. Green Corps graduates hold positions with MoveOn.org, Sierra Club,

Greenpeace, Global Exchange, Endangered Species Coalition, Global Trade

Watch, Corporate Accountability International, ForestEthics, and many other

environmental and progressive groups.

Qualifications. Each year we select 35 recent college graduates to join

Green Corps. We are looking for people who are serious about saving the

planet, have demonstrated leadership experience, and want to work for change

over the long haul at the grassroots level.

Salary & Benefits. Salary of $23,750. Optional group health care coverage,

paid sick days and holidays, two weeks paid vacation, and a student loan

repayment program for qualifying staff.

To Apply. To apply to Green Corps, fill out our online application by the

Early Application Deadline of Oct. 26, 2007. Deadlines, 2nd round interview

locations and our online application are at http://www.greencorps.org.

Contact. Jesse Littlewood, Recruitment Director, at jobs@greencorps.org,

617-426-8506, x1.