Environmental Organizer

Green Corps; New Jersey; On-site; USD 38,000 - 44,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading organization as an Environmental Organizer, where you'll undergo a yearlong paid training program. Gain essential skills in environmental organizing while making a direct impact on critical issues like climate change and clean water. This role offers a unique combination of classroom instruction and field experience, preparing you for a career dedicated to environmental advocacy. You'll run campaigns, recruit volunteers, and work with communities to achieve meaningful policy changes. If you're passionate about the environment and eager to learn, this opportunity is for you!

Benefits

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Paid sick time

Vacation time

Commuter benefit program

Student loan assistance

Qualifications

• No previous organizing experience required.
• Passion for protecting the environment is essential.
• Excited to dedicate a year to learning organizing skills.

Responsibilities

• Receive eight weeks of classroom training on environmental organizing.
• Run three to five campaigns on pressing environmental issues.
• Manage a grassroots canvass office for the final campaign.

Skills

Communication

Leadership

Flexibility

Job description

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$38,000.00/yr - $43,347.00/yr

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Are you determined to make the biggest positive impact you can on issues like climate change and clean water, but you don’t know where to start? Green Corps offers a yearlong, paid training program that gives you the training and experience you need to kickstart your organizing career while making an immediate impact on critical environmental issues, from saving our last wild places, to protecting our oceans, to reducing climate change pollution.

Program Description and Key Responsibilities

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

• Receive eight weeks of classroom training 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.
• Run three to five campaigns throughout the year to put these skills to work on pressing environmental issues. For each campaign, which are often with different partner groups and in different locations, you will work on a campus or in a community to identify and train activists and volunteers, build and demonstrate support from the community for your campaign goals, get media coverage, and ultimately work to win policy changes to protect the environment.
• 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.
• 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.

Qualifications

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 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
• Excited 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 2025, the target annual compensation is $38,000 (but compensation may range between $38,000 and $43,347 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), accrued vacation time (accruing 10 days over year 1), a commuter benefit program, and may include needs-based student loan assistance. We also offer additional short-term campaign and training opportunities, as well as opportunities for advancement.

Start Date and Location

We’re hiring for the next Green Corps Organizer class to start in August 2025. Check out our website to learn about short-term opportunities starting in August 2025 and January 2026. Green Corps Organizers go where the environment needs them and wherever they can make the biggest impact. Organizers 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.

Why work with Green Corps? Check out 10 reasons: https://greencorps.org/about.html

About Green Corps

Green Corps trains organizers, provides field support for today’s critical environmental campaigns, and graduates activists who have demonstrated the skills, temperament and commitment to fight and win tomorrow’s environmental battles. With over 400 graduates, Green Corps has been the country’s most respected training program for environmental organizers for over 30 years.

Our Mission and Values

Green Corps is part of The Public Interest Network, which operates and supports organizations committed to a shared vision of a better world and a strategic approach to social change. Visit https://greencorps.org/core-values.html to learn more when you apply.

Green Corps is an equal opportunity employer. Green Corps will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring.

COVID-19: We take COVID-19 safety very seriously. Employees must follow our COVID safety protocols and be fully vaccinated and boosted. Accommodations are provided to the extent required by law. Staff in Texas are not required to be vaccinated. Staff in Florida are not required to be vaccinated or participate in testing.

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