Clean Energy Associate, Environment California

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If you’re looking to make a meaningful, long-lasting impact on the environmental challenges we’re facing today, apply to be the Clean Energy Associate with Environment California.

You can complete an online application here. (Interested in working outside of California? No problem. We’re hiring nationwide.  You can indicate your preferences in your online application.)

Work with Environment California to promote a clean energy future for California and fight global warming

Too much of our energy comes from coal, oil and other dirty sources that harm our health and wreak havoc on our environment. From the wind and waves to the power of the sun, California has enormous potential to repower with renewable energy. And as we do, we can lead the country and the world down the road toward generating 100% of our electricity from clean energy sources.

Environment California has worked to make the state a leader in solar power. We launched our Million Solar Roofs program in 2006. Now, six years later, there is more than eight times more rooftop solar power in the state. In fact, California generates more energy from solar power than all but five nations in the world. And Governor Jerry Brown recently called for our state to build 12 gigawatts of local clean energy across California by 2020 – the equivalent of 12 dangerous nuclear power plants.

We have the opportunity to protect our health and environment and strengthen our economy by repowering California. But we have to overcome powerful special interests – utility companies and the fossil fuel industry will stop at little to stymie any progress toward a renewable energy future. So we're working to rally our leaders and the public around the promise of more clean energy in California.

Environment California's Clean Energy Associate will help to lead and run our efforts to demonstrate widespread support for shifting from dirty sources of energy to clean ones, including working with clean energy professionals, public health groups, and small business owners; generating media attention; educating and mobilizing average Californians through face-to-face conversations; and weighing in with the our state legislators.  Environment California's Clean Energy Associate will also take the lead on local clean energy campaigns in the city of Los Angeles.

You’ll work with one of the leading environmental groups in California

Environment California is a statewide, citizen-based environmental advocacy group. Our professional staff combines independent research, practical ideas and tough-minded advocacy to overcome the opposition of powerful special interests and win real results for California's environment. Environment California draws on 30 years of success in tackling top environmental problems. We have led efforts to cap global warming pollution, keep plastic pollution out of the ocean, improve the gas mileage of new cars and trucks, and much more. Learn more about the changes we’ve made atwww.environmentcalifornia.org/results.

You’ll learn how to run winning campaigns for the environment

Environment California is a part of the Environment America federation, a group of 29 state-based environmental advocacy nonprofits. Each year, Environment America hires passionate, talented and committed recent college graduates like you to join its two-year Fellowship Program, a program designed to give you the training you need, and put you in the right place at the right time, so you can roll up your sleeves and make a difference right away. 

You’ll work with experienced advocates and organizers to make an immediate impact

If you’re hired to be the Environment California Clean Energy Associate, you will be a member of the 2012-2014 Fellowship Program. As a Fellow, you’ll help plan, run and win campaigns. You’ll learn how to research and identify effective solutions to critical problems – like California's dependence on dirty energy – and how to build and mobilize powerful constituencies to get behind your campaign. You’ll lobby lawmakers, publish opinion pieces in major newspapers and on key websites, set up and speak at news conferences, organize town hall meetings and rallies, and run citizen outreach campaigns to educate the public, build membership and raise money for our work. You’ll even recruit interns, activists, and future Fellows to join Environment America.

In your second year, you’ll polish your skills and take on even more responsibility. Learn more about the Fellowship Program atwww.environmentamerica.org/jobs/available-positions/fellowship-program.

In addition to getting guidance and feedback from Environment California’s Clean Energy Advocate, you’ll participate in classroom-style trainings throughout the year with other Environment America staff, including some of the nation’s top environmental advocates and organizers.

The Fellowship is only the beginning

You will develop relationships with lawmakers and community leaders throughout California, earn media coverage for important issues, raise funds, build membership, recruit and manage volunteers, and run grassroots campaigns to protect California’s environment. Bottom line: you’ll make a real difference.

After just two years of hard work, you’ll have the skills and experience that will set you apart from most recent college graduates and you’ll be prepared to take on even more leadership at Environment California, elsewhere in the Environment America federation, or in the larger environmental community.

Location
Los Angeles, California

Qualifications
Environment California is seeking a recent college graduate who is ready to commit his or her time, skills and passion to grassroots political action on behalf of the environment. We look for smarts, academic excellence, creativity, top-notch written and verbal skills, and an eagerness to learn. We value leadership experience with campus and activist groups. 

Salary and Benefits 
As a recent graduate, you’ll earn $33,408. You’re eligible to opt into our group health plan. You accrue two weeks of paid vacation over the course of your first year, and an additional three weeks in your second year. You’re eligible to apply for college loan assistance after your third month, and to participate in our 401 (k) plan at the end of your first year. 

How to learn more and apply

You can complete an online application here. (Interested in working outside of California? No problem. We’re hiring nationwide.  You can indicate your preferences in your online application.)

Call Bernadette Del Chiaro, Energy Program Director with Environment California, with any questions. You can reach her in Sacramento at 916-446-8062 x 103.