Short-Term Campus Organizer

Key Responsibilities

• Recruiting and inspiring hundreds of students to take action.
• Helping students run strategic campaigns. Recruit and train students to run campaigns such as eliminating single-use plastics, protecting our remaining wildlife and special places, making college more affordable, and more.
• Building a coalition. Work with student volunteers and interns to build a diverse, invested coalition of organizations.
• Training students to be effective social change leaders, using skills such as generating grassroots support and coordinating lobby days and news conferences.
• Building a strong, sustainable, student-funded and student-run organization on campus by fundraising, building relationships with key players on campus, and building our organizational brand.
• Build the movement by recruiting volunteers, interns, and more organizers to work with us.
• This position requires exercising discretion and independent judgment in making decisions in matters of significance. 

Qualifications

• Have an interest in environmental, public interest and/or student issues, and have leadership experience on a campus or in your community. 
• Are looking for a short-term position to learn the ropes of organizing on important issues.
• Are goal-driven and results-oriented.
• Have excellent communication skills.
• Are driven, work well with all kinds of people, and aren’t afraid to get outside their comfort zones.
• Are passionate about making positive change. Change takes time, and is often incremental; we’re looking for people who are excited to work hard every day, even if it’s just for one small step in the right direction. 

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