Environmental Campaign Organizer

Green Corps is seeking an Environmental Campaign Organizer for a yearlong paid training program in Chicago, IL. The program combines classroom instruction and field experience, focusing on skills such as recruiting volunteers, running campaigns, and gaining media coverage. Candidates should have a passion for environmental work and strong communication skills. Graduates are connected to organizing jobs post-program. Compensation ranges from $38,000 to $43,347 with benefits. 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 Receive eight weeks of classroom training to learn the theory and skills of environmental organizing, including 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 is 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 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, including 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. 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. Apply Apply online here: https://jobs.publicinterestnetwork.org/en/postings/0de04af5-f34c-45ef-af92-2136747a4f1d Equal Opportunity Employer 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. J-18808-Ljbffr