Boston, MA

Application deadline:  April 4, 2008

Background
Green Corps was launched by U.S. PIRG in 1992. The mission of Green Corps is to train organizers, provide field support for today’s critical environmental campaigns, and graduate activists who possess the skills, temperament, and commitment to fight and win tomorrow’s environmental battles. Since our founding in 1992, Green Corps has partnered with more than 75 environmental organizations, provided critical field support to 100 campaigns, and secured dozens of significant victories in conservation, corporate accountability, and public health. Over the last fifteen 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, Environment America, Sierra Club and Greenpeace. 

Internship Description
The Recruitment Outreach Interns will help coordinate the following projects:

·                     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.

·                     Online Outreach: The interns will coordinate our online recruitment campaign to raise the visibility of Green Corps’ Field School for Environmental Organizing. This will include planning and implementing targeted outreach to websites, job boards, blogs, and social-networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook.

·                     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 May and work through August, with the possibility of continuing year-round. Interns typically work between 20-40 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 are given the opportunity to audit portions of Green Corps’ August Introductory Classroom Training, which features training from top environmental leaders in organizing, advocacy, and leadership skills. 

To Apply
Email a compelling resume and cover letter to: jesse@greencorps.org.  Application deadline is March 29, 2008.

Contact: Jesse Littlewood
Green Corps
44 Winter Street, 4th floor
Boston, MA 02108
Phone: 617-426-8506, ext. 1