[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.

[job]: Island County Natural Resources Water Quality EH Specialist, Coupeville, WA

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good, entry-level position working with water quality sampling. Looking for people with some Envir. Health coursework, GIS, and the ‘ability to maintain objectivity when dealing with individuals and groups with conflicting or competing interests’. Sounds like Environmental Studies to me! -joe

[full position announcement]

POSITION TITLE: EHS II – WATER QUALITY UNION REPRESENTED

DEPARTMENT: HEALTH

SALARY: ENTRY: $19.79/HR 6 MOS: $20.89/HR BASE: $21.99/HR

HOURS OF WORK: 8:00 A.M. – 4:30 P.M.

CLOSING DATE: JANUARY 9, 2015

Online tool lets Washington residents calculate carbon tax impacts | UW Today

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Online tool lets Washington residents calculate carbon tax impacts | UW Today

University of Washington computer scientists have partnered with members of theCarbon Washington grassroots campaign to create an online tool that lets residents calculate how a state carbon tax swap proposed by the organization would impact them financially.

The calculator offers information users can’t find elsewhere and is meant to be a neutral, unbiased tool.

*Internship* GIS Intern with Seattle Public Utilities

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*Internship* GIS Intern with Seattle Public Utilities

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Seattle Public Utilities has a great opportunity that was just posted today for an undergraduate GIS Internship. This will be working with our Water Line of Business staff, and is a wonderful opportunity for learning how GIS is used within a public Utility setting. This internship is for up to 12-18 months, depending on graduation.

Qualified and interested students are to apply on-line for this internship. Applications MUST include an attached unofficial transcript, resume, and cover letter. We do require a 1-year (26 pay periods or 12 months) commitment for this opportunity.

The link to this posting is: http://www.seattle.gov/personnel/employment/default_neogov.asp  Internships are listed alphabetically; this one is currently at the bottom of the list, and closes December 16th at 4:00 PM.

*Job* Current Use Planning Permit Manager with Island County, WA

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*Job* Current Use Planning Permit Manager with Island County, WA

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Responsible for assisting the Planning Director in the overall operation of the current use function of the Planning and Community Development Department. Provide expertise in the review and processing of development applications, supervises current use planners, develops and implements policies related to development review and approval.

Individuals are required to represent the department at public hearings and meetings and must also be capable of providing information at education and outreach seminars. The Planning Permit Manager will act on behalf of the Planning Director in his or her absence.

Reviews development proposals, issue decisions, and makes recommendations on public and private land development proposals in accordance with the goals and objectives of the Island County Comprehensive Plan, the Island County Zoning Ordinance, the Shoreline Management Master Program, the Washington State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA), and any associated land use, building, or environmental regulations.

*Job* Development Director with Bike Works

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*Job* Development Director with Bike Works

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The Development Director, in partnership with the Executive Director and Board of Directors, is responsible for meeting or exceeding the organization’s annual fundraising goals. This position provides direction and establishes priorities for a variety of areas within development including the annual campaign, major gifts, foundation grants, corporate sponsorships, special events, and agency marketing and communications. The Development Director is also key member of Bike Works Leadership Team providing direction around strategic development and organizational culture.

[scholarship]: USAID Donald M. Payne International Development Graduate Fellowship

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USAID Donald M. Payne International Development Graduate Fellowship

The Payne Program is designed to attract outstanding young people to careers in international development as USAID Foreign Service Officers. The Payne Fellowship Program provides benefits valued at up to $90,000 over two years toward a two-year master’s degree, arranges internships in Washington D.C. and at USAID missions overseas, and provides professional development and support activities. Fellows who successfully complete the program become USAID Foreign Service Officers. Fellows may use the fellowship to attend a two-year master’s program in a U.S. institution to study an area of relevance to the USAID Foreign Service, including international development, international relations, public policy, business administration, foreign languages, economics, agriculture, environmental sciences, health, or urban planning at a graduate or professional school approved by the Payne Program.

At the end of the two-year fellowship, Fellows enter the USAID Foreign Service. Applicants must be college seniors or graduates looking to start graduate school in the fall of the year they apply, have GPAs of at least 3.2 and be U.S. citizens. The program welcomes applications from those with any undergraduate major and encourages applications from members of minority groups historically underrepresented in the USAID Foreign Service and those with financial need. Information and application materials for the program are available at www.paynefellows.org. The application deadline isJanuary 20, 2015. The Program is funded by USAID and managed by Howard University.

2015 Donald M. Payne International Development Graduate Fellowship
Number of Fellowships Offered: 5
Eligibility Requirements: U.S. citizenship; GPA of 3.2/4.0; seeking to start two-year relevant grad program in fall 2015

Online Application Opens: October 14, 2014 www.paynefellows.org
Application Deadline: January 20, 2015 – Finalists selected by the end of February – Fellows selected by mid-March

Contact: paynefellows@howard.edu; 202-806-4367, (877) 633-0002; or Tessa Henry, Program Officer, (Tessa.henry@howard.edu) 202-806-5952.

*Job* Research Assistant with UW/Sound Transit

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*Job* Research Assistant with UW/Sound Transit

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This is a request for applications from students interested in an
Research Assistantship for Winter 2015 and Spring 2015 quarters.  We are working with Sound Transit to help them understand the value of
BIM-based asset data in their operations.  (See project description
attached).   For this project, we are looking for students with:

– Strong written and spoken English  (Interviews will be the primary
research method)
– Strong organizational skills  (the analysis include work process diagrams)
– Self-directed and motivated to learn in this area
– An interest in BIM technologies and work processes
– Having an understanding of transportation systems and operations a
plus, but not required
– Having an understanding of COBie and BIM a plus, but not required
– Experience with contract language a plus, but not required
– We are seeking students who are interested in doing a thesis or paper
on the topic (see MS thesis by Andrew Marsters as an example).
– Masters/Ph.D. candidates preferred, would consider exceptional
undergraduate candidates

Application Process:

1) Submit statement of interest and resume to Prof. Carrie Sturts
Dossick (cdossick@uw.edu <mailto:cdossick@uw.edu>) with subject line “ST RAship Application”

2) Sign up for interview slot via Office Hours
<https://www.google.com/calendar/selfsched?sstoken=UURYQUJ3eXk0Yll6fGRlZmF1bHR8MTFmMWFlYjAxOWVhN2FkMGU3NTIwOWZhM2Y3M2Q3MjM> for
Wen 12/10 or Monday 12/15.  NOTE: Check your calendar TIME ZONE.

See Link for more information.

*Job* Marketing and Communications Coordinator with Pacific NorthWest Economic Region

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*Job* Marketing and Communications Coordinator with Pacific NorthWest Economic Region

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PNWER seeks a motivated individual who is interested in cross-border policy and planning and is excited about the prospect of making the NW a better place to live and do business. PNWER’s office currently has eight employees and several interns. This is a rare opportunity for an innovative and creative individual to interact with high level decision makers in the bi-national region. You will learn a great deal about the unique differences between Canadian and US systems of government and you will play a major role in providing support to PNWER officers and staff.