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Diversity Hiring Statement:
Green America is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without discrimination regarding: actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, related medical conditions, breastfeeding, or reproductive health disorders), age (18 years of age or older), marital status (including domestic partnership and parenthood), personal appearance, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, family responsibilities, genetic information, disability, matriculation, political affiliation, citizenship status, credit information or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Harassment on the basis of a protected characteristic is included as a form of discrimination and is strictly prohibited.
Available Positions
Green Business Program
Time Frame: April to June 2020 with possibility of extension
Pay: $20 / hr
Reports to: Membership & Marketing Manager, GBN
Green America is looking to fill a part time position to work with the Green Business Network Team to remind members over the phone to renew their memberships.
Renewal Calling Duties:
Under guidance of the Membership & Marketing Manager, work to renew GBN memberships:
- Make phone calls to targeted lists of GBN members for membership renewals; script will be provided
- Record and track outcomes of calls for review by Membership & Marketing Manager; check in as necessary
- Send follow-up emails and/or make return calls as necessary
- Identify GBN members with the potential to become Green America program sponsors and communicate those leads to the Membership & Marketing Manager
- Answer questions about membership benefits, including Green America’s Green Business Certification, Member Profile on GreenPages.org, business services discounts, webinars, action alerts, and publications
Candidate Attributes:
- Highly organized
- Excellent communication skills
- Familiarity with Green Business Network members and membership systems (training will be provided)
- Desire to fundraise for a nonprofit focused on social justice and environmental sustainability
To Apply:
Please email Scott Kitson directly to indicate interest (skitson@greenamerica.org).
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Green America is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without discrimination regarding: actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, related medical conditions, breastfeeding, or reproductive health disorders), age (18 years of age or older), marital status (including domestic partnership and parenthood), personal appearance, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, family responsibilities, genetic information, disability, matriculation, political affiliation, citizenship status, credit information or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Harassment on the basis of a protected characteristic is included as a form of discrimination and is strictly prohibited.
Green America Center for Sustainability Solutions
Innovation Network Manager, Climate Safe Lending
Hours: Full-time (4-days, 32 hours/week)
Salary: $50-55,000/Grant Track Position
Benefits: Generous medical, dental, holiday & sick leave, 401(k) benefits
Supervisor: Director, Green America Center for Sustainability Solutions
Climate Safe Lending (CSL) is an action-focused multi-stakeholder network of banks and bank influencers – including investors, insurance companies, consumers and civil society leaders – that seeks to redirect credit away from fossil fuels and towards climate-responsible clean energy projects on a massive scale. The goal of the Network is to align bank lending with the Paris Climate Accord by making lending carbon neutral in North America and Europe by 2025.
CSL is an Innovation Network (IN) of Green America’s Center for Sustainability Solutions (Center). Green America is a non-profit organization dedicated to creating a just and sustainable society by harnessing economic power for positive change. We use a collaborative innovation methodology that brings representatives of the entire system together in a deep collaboration to rapidly develop, test, and bring solutions to scale. This world-class strategic design and facilitation approach helps stakeholders find and implement solutions quickly by engaging a diverse range of stakeholders, learning about the forces at play in the system, identifying strategic intervention points, ideating and prototyping solutions, and refining analysis and strategies. Proven across diverse systems, supply chains and industries – from solar to electronics to investing – we bring stakeholders together to solve problems that no single business or organization can solve alone.
The Coordinator of the Climate Safe Lending Network will be primarily responsible for stakeholder engagement and communication, project management of Network Initiatives and general operations and administration. You will work closely with the Network Director on network participant recruitment as well as fundraising
Duties and Responsibilities:
Communications
Participate in new participant and network member engagement, including conducting interviews with potential participants. Work closely with team to ensure that network members are effectively and efficiently engaged.
Support and engage in the design and editing of key project and network-related deliverables, including conference presentations, meeting reports, special research projects, newsletters, fundraising materials, meeting notes, and other outputs. Ensure that these deliverables are planned and produced in a timely manner.
Liaise with Director of CSL, Center for Sustainability Solutions, and CSL Initiative Groups as needed for the development of content and materials for web and print.
Meeting Logistics & Team Coordination
Responsible for planning CSL meetings and related events for up to 60 participants in either online or in remote location, including arranging online meeting technology, securing meeting venues, hotels, meals, and staff transportation; communicating with event participants; procuring A/V and meeting materials; and other aspects of event production.
Coordinate the work and participation of project staff and contract researchers and facilitators as needed.
Support and engage in the development of meeting strategy, design, and tools.
Support program team during meetings as needed.
Project Management
Support the CSL Director in managing the Innovation Network and its priority initiatives, including coordinating and facilitating multi-stakeholder, interdisciplinary working groups
Develop and manage to project timelines and roadmaps
Support the CSL Director in securing funding and project commitment from participants. Manage participation fees and invoicing for participants, including working with accounting department to create and send invoices, track payments, and maintain records. Coordinate with subsidized participants to process reimbursements.
Coordinate the participation of program team and working group participants, including meetings and virtual sessions.
Support the Director in ensuring knowledge gained is converted into “knowledge capital” for Green America, documenting best practices for managing Innovation Networks and shifting markets toward sustainability.
Serve on the Center Operations team, assisting with strategy, planning and operational needs of the Center for Sustainability Solutions as needed.
Other
Participate in Green America staff meetings and processes and other duties as required.
Manage Design and Digital Media projects for the Center for Sustainability Solutions, including development of templates and materials for both print and web.
Qualified candidates should have the following skills and qualities:
Highly organized, with demonstrated experience managing multiple projects and work streams simultaneously, delivering projects on-time and under-budget
Strong mediation and facilitative leadership skills, with experience building consensus among people and organizations with different cultures, disciplines, priorities, and communication styles
A passion for and strong knowledge of climate change and banking/finance
Scrappy self-starter experienced in navigating ambiguity, with a willingness and ability to proactively roll up your sleeves and take on whatever work needs to get done to keep projects on track
Strong communicator, with experience in customer relationship management (CRM)
Strong research and writing skills
Experience developing marketing collateral and executive presentations a plus
Experience with fundraising a plus.
Bachelors degree.
How to apply: Please email your cover letter and resume/CV to CSLHire@greenamerica.org. No phone calls.
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Green America is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without discrimination regarding: actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, related medical conditions, breastfeeding, or reproductive health disorders), age (18 years of age or older), marital status (including domestic partnership and parenthood), personal appearance, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, family responsibilities, genetic information, disability, matriculation, political affiliation, citizenship status, credit information or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Harassment on the basis of a protected characteristic is included as a form of discrimination and is strictly prohibited.
Green America Center for Sustainability Solutions
Full Time (4 days/32 hours) Supervisor: Center Director Location: Washington DC or Remote/Telework
Salary: $65,000 - $70,000 plus benefits
Green America is a non-profit organization dedicated to creating a just and sustainable society by harnessing economic power for positive change. Our unique approach involves working with consumers, investors and businesses to create a world that works for all. We deploy marketplace solutions to solve the most pressing social and environmental problems facing society today.
The Center of Sustainability Solutions builds on Green America’s work over the years, where we’ve brought together industry groups across supply chains to create major shifts in such areas as solar, community investing, sustainable agriculture and fair labor. The Center supports Innovation Networks, focused working groups of stakeholders with the objective of making significant, industry-wide system change. Current networks focus on clean electronics, climate and banking, regenerative agriculture, carbon farming.
The Partnership Engagement Director will have primary P&L responsibility for ensuring the revenue targets of the Center Networks. Current revenue targets are approximately $1.5 million to $2 million per year. Together with the network managers/directors, the Director will develop and execute a plan to cultivate and recruit collaborative leaders to participate in the networks. Working with program directors, project managers, and senior Center staff, the Director will help to ensure progress against project objectives, timelines, and targets.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Secure revenue to meet the network financial goals. Revenue sources include: network participant fees, corporate sponsorships, conference fees, and special project funding.
- Work closely with senior staff and Design Team members of each network to develop strategy for new participant outreach and solicitation; identify new participant prospects, lead and direct efforts to initiate contact, develop relationships, and close new memberships in support of all working groups and initiatives.
- Work closely with network teams to lead outreach and support of current participants to ensure that participant renewals are on time, on target and hit a minimum 85% renewal/retention rate.
- Contribute to developing participant strategies, coordinate follow up, manage database/CRM entries and track invoices/billing. Lead efforts to orient and on-board new participants and members.
- In concert with senior Center staff, participate in the development and implementation of network strategies and ensure that network plans contribute to greatest possible value for network participants and materially support progress toward the big goal.
- Track engagement & outreach progress against targets and shape strategy accordingly.
- Attend and contribute to network meetings.
- Travel to events to cultivate new and existing network members.
- Participation in all required departmental meetings and Green America staff meetings including annual operating and budgeting process.
The position involves domestic travel up to 30% travel for network meetings, conferences and business development client meetings, staff training, and other purposes. Travel may vary seasonally.
Qualified Candidates should have the following skills and qualities:
- Strong interpersonal skills, including the ability to develop trusting relationships with senior executives and high-level leaders across a range of sectors.
- The ability to understand and converse competently about complex supply chain issues with a broad range of stakeholders, and to provide useful frameworks for analysis and action on key supply chain issues.
- Strong project management skills, with 10+ years of experience managing multiple projects simultaneously.
- Negotiating experience and the ability to move groups both quickly and collaboratively on key priorities. Experience facilitating large and small group discussions.
- Proven experience with business and client development.
- Strong research and writing skills.
- Strong speaking skills.
- Bachelor’s degree required. Advanced degree strongly preferred
To Apply: Email your resume and cover letter to Alisa Gravitz and Fran Teplitz at partnerships@greenamerica.org.
Green America is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without discrimination regarding: actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, related medical conditions, breastfeeding, or reproductive health disorders), age (18 years of age or older), marital status (including domestic partnership and parenthood), personal appearance, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, family responsibilities, genetic information, disability, matriculation, political affiliation, citizenship status, credit information or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Harassment on the basis of a protected characteristic is included as a form of discrimination and is strictly prohibited.
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