[paid part-time energy outreach internship]: Colehour + Cohen

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Do you have an interest in community education and outreach, and a desire to do work that’s

good for the environment?

Public Relations and Social Marketing firm Colehour + Cohen (www.colehourcohen.com) is looking for dynamic, paid outreach interns for part-time work from January – August 2015.

Interns will be part of a team doing on-the-ground outreach to homeowners in King, Kitsap, and Pierce Counties, engaging the public with free giveaways and educational materials, helping them understand how they can reduce their energy consumption, and encouraging them to take simple steps at home to help save energy.

The successful candidate will have:

• A love for interacting with people

• Ability to multi-task

• Ability to talk to people while staying focused on campaign goals

• Flexibility

• A sense of humor

• Great communication skills

• Proactive and able to work well alone or with others

• A valid driver’s license

• Reliable transportation

• Be available to work weekend events

Desired but not required:

• Experience educating the public about environmental issues

• Knowledge of environmentally friendly products and practices, especially as pertains to

energy efficiency and energy conservation

This is the perfect opportunity for the right applicant to jump into a high-level outreach situation

and get their hands dirty, have some fun and see what it takes to run successful consumer-
focused events. Applicants will also receive in-depth training on successful outreach strategies

and learn how to take their skills to the next level. This position is paid at $15.00 per hour and

travel expenses are covered where applicable. Successful applicants will need to be available,

at a minimum, for afternoon-evening shifts for the following dates:

• January 27-30

• February 10-13

• March 17-20

• March 31-April 3

If interested, please send a resume and cover letter to:

Jessica Lenderts

Colehour + Cohen

206-262-0363 ext 120

jlenderts@colehourcohen.com

[student job]: Student Assistant, School of Aquatic & Fishery Sciences

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For those who haven’t been there, the SAFS offices are located steps away from Environmental Studies – just across the parking lot. This could be a very convenient location for a student job if you are in this major. -joe

Hourly Student Assistant – Fiscal Support

 Department: Aquatic and Fishery Sciences in the College of the Environment

 General Duties/Description: Provide administrative support in fiscally-related duties such as:

  • Assist with monthly budget reconciliation including follow-up on missing documents
  • Create budget and grant file folders
  • Copy, fax and sort various documents
  • Maintain records, perform electronic mail tasks
  • File reports, receipts, and other documents
  • Enter data and maintain various accounting of grant/budget logs or databases including verify and process fiscal/accounting data, perform basic computing, calculating and manual or automated posting of data; make corrections as required
  • Assist with travel-related accounting processes
  • Might occasionally deliver or pick up grant proposal/award documents between the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences department and the Office of Sponsored Programs, the Grant and Contract Accounting office, the Payroll Office or other campus departments
  • Serve as back-up telephone and in-person contact, receive visitors, respond to inquiries regarding office/departmental policies and procedures (requires substantial knowledge of school policies and procedures)
  • Sort and distribute office mail if needed
  • Perform other related duties as required/assigned

Requirements: 

  • Experience in administrative support and office operations
  • Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, database management software; familiarity with Access is desirable 
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills 
  • Ability to interact with a wide variety of audiences and individuals including students, donors, faculty, administrators, and students is essential
  • Team work orientation 
  • Flexibility to meet changing needs 
  • Ability to take initiative on projects, prioritize project work, and use good discretion in contact and communications with various audiences
  • Creative problem solving skills and ability to independently identify solutions to a variety of issues
  • Detail-oriented
  • Must be a UW student

Position is available January 15, 2015. Hourly wage based on experience. Send your resume to Jessica Roshan at jroshan@uw.edu

[student job]: UW Admissions tour guide (deadline Monday, January 12)

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Friendly reminder: The application for Admissions Office student tour guides is open until 5:00 p.m. on Monday, January 12.

 Please share this opportunity with students whom you feel would be excellent representatives of the University and your department. We are keenly interested in students who are fluent in more than one language.

 The position pays $10/hour and is open to all undergraduate students. Tour guides usually work two to four hours per week, except during the spring rush in March and April, where they can work upwards of 19.5 hours per week.

 Please refer students to the following contacts:

 ·         Brent Nagamine, ’13, Admissions Counselor, bnaga@uw.edu |206.221.2304

  • ·         Matt Sekijima, ’14, Student Director, mattsek@uw.edu
  • ·         Philip Arbaugh, ’15, Student Director, pca5@uw.edu

*Job* Youth Garden Educator at Interagency Academy for Seattle Tilth

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*Job* Youth Garden Educator at Interagency Academy for Seattle Tilth

cepmakinithappen:

The Youth Garden Educator will be responsible for providing and creating garden lesson plans and tasks for a crew of approximately 8 high school students. In addition to supervising and guiding the garden program sessions, the Educator will provide garden maintenance schedules, basic landscape maintenance techniques, harvesting, and possibly a program to market and sell the produce at a local farmer’s market. The Educator will work alongside YouthCare’s Interagency Career Coordinator, who will help provide supervision, training, direction, and ensure youth’s school retention. The Educator and the Coordinator will have time to plan together once per week.

*Job* Solar Sales Rockstar with SolTerra Systems

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*Job* Solar Sales Rockstar with SolTerra Systems

cepmakinithappen:

SolTerra Systems is a progressive, growing, youthful, disruptive, detail oriented, adventurous group of talented individuals who want to be involved in the most sustainable, livable, and innovative buildings in the world. We are a design + build firm with a growing portfolio of some of the most innovative and forward thinking solar solutions in the PNW.

And we’re looking for a Salesperson with a solid real world understanding and an incredible ‘can-do’ attitude. Someone who wants to put their own mark on the world, and tell their story with us.

What will you be doing?

-Effectively take leads throughout entire sales process
-Help generate leads (i.e. networking events, trade shows, etc)
-Represent SolTerra at industry events
-Assist in developing and identifying growth opportunities
-Work amongst an incredible team
-Be a part of real change and innovation
-Make your mark on Seattle!

Alumni Peace Corps Blog

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Alumni Peace Corps Blog

Perceptions and reflections of my Peace Corps Service in Ethiopia

thinking about working with the Peace Corps following graduation? You might consider following the blog of new alumna Ciera Mead (2014) as she starts her two year posting in Ethiopia. Follow the link above!

[job]: Green Corps

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Early Winter Application Deadline: January 15th, 2015

Click here to learn more about Green Corps’ paid environmental organizing fellowship.

Green Corps is looking for college graduates who are ready to take on the biggest environmental challenges of our day.

In Green Corps’ yearlong paid program, you’ll get intensive training in the skills you need to make a difference in the world. You’ll get hands-on experience fighting to solve urgent environmental problems — global warming, deforestation, water pollution, factory farming and many others — with groups like Sierra Club and Food & Water Watch. And when you graduate from Green Corps, we’ll help you find a career with one of the nation’s leading environmental and social change groups.

For more information, read on or visithttp://www.greencorps.org.

In your year with Green Corps:

Be trained by the best: Green Corps organizers take part in trainings with leading figures in the environmental and social change movements: people like Phil Radford, Executive Director of Greenpeace USA, and Bill McKibben, author and founder of 350.org.

Gain experience across the country: Green Corps sends organizers to jumpstart campaigns for groups such as Corporate Accountability International, Food & Water Watch, and Toxics Action Center in across the nation.

Make an impact on today’s environmental challenges: Green Corps organizers have built the campaigns that helped keep pass the first GMO labeling law; led to new laws to support clean, renewable energy; convinced major corporations to stop dumping in our oceans; and much, much more.

Get paid! Green Corps organizers earn a salary of $25,000. Organizers also have a chance to opt into our health care program. We offer paid sick days and holidays, two weeks paid vacation and a student loan repayment program for those who qualify.

Launch your career: Green Corps will help connect you to environmental and progressive groups that are looking for full-time staff to build their organizations and help them create social change and protect our environment.

The application process:
In the next few months, we‘ll invite 35 college graduates to join Green Corps in 2015 – 2016. We’re looking for people who are serious about saving the planet, people who have taken initiative on their campus or community, and people who are willing to roll up their sleeves and work for change over the long haul.

If you think you’re one of those people, visit www.greencorps.org to apply to join the 2015-2016 class of Green Corps’ Field School for Environmental Organizing.

Green Corps’ yearlong program begins in August 2015 with Introductory Classroom Training in Boston, and continues with field placements in multiple locations across the U.S. Candidates must be willing to relocate.