General Sustainability Announcements

The Green Campus Program is looking for an experienced campus environmentalist for the position of Green Campus Program Coordinator for Spring Semester, 2008.

This position demands an organized self-starter who is intimately familiar with the UC Berkeley campus community and comfortable working with a team.

Responsibilities:

• successful implementation of the Alliance to Save Energy's Green Campus Program. Its goal is immediate energy savings on the Berkeley campus, primarily through low-cost technologies, and no-cost behavior changes.
  
• education of campus students, staff and faculty members on energy conservation
• specific objectives and workload will be consulted with the Team Leader and Program Associate.

Current Projects Include:

• Energy 101 DeCal Course
• Blackout Battles Energy Competition in Residence Halls
• Fume Hood "Shut the Sash" Campaign
• HAAS School of Business Energy Conservation Campaign
• Installing Vending Misers (energy saving devices) on Campus Vending Machines
• Light Bulb Exchange
• Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) Retirement: Researching and changing out CRT monitors for LEDs (light-emitting diodide)
  
• Green Room, Green Apartment, and Green Suite demonstration areas
• Hall Staff Outreach
• Sustainability Week, Focus the Nation, and Earth Week Events
  

Required Qualities:

• a currently enrolled undergraduate or graduate student (freshman, sophomores, juniors are preferred)
• excellent written and oral communications skills
• comfortable with basic functions of Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.

Desired Qualities:

• strong experience in on-campus environmental activism
  
• specialized skills such as:
  
• engineering or technical knowledge
• graphic design, newsletter design, web design, or editing skills
• data analysis
• teaching at a college level
• public speaking
• managing budgets
• familiarity/previous working relationship with the Green Campus Program, other environmental groups, or DeCal program.
• familiarity/previous working relationship with campus staff and administrators

Payscale: Workload will vary from 5-15 hours a week, $10/hr. Position runs from date of hire until the end of the Spring Semester; the option to terminate at any time is available to both parties at all times.

To Apply: Send a resume, cover letter and writing sample to BerkeleyGreenCampus@gmail.com or contact Desirae Early at 909.921.5807 if you have any questions. Also, click here for the Green Campus website.

Due Date: Midnight, December 5th, 2007. Interviews will be conducted on a rolling basis.