Our victories happen not by chance, but because we have dedicated people working on our team. Our staff work together to create a greener, more just world. Green America has been named a top 10 green employer by Flexjobs. We have a positive and collaborative office culture, great benefits, and are an equal opportunity employer.
Diversity Hiring Statement
Green America is committed to the principle of equal opportunity. We seek and value diversity and inclusion in our workplace.
All job descriptions and all postings of open positions at Green America should include the following statement of diversity:
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, or credit information.
Green America is dedicated to this policy with respect to recruitment, hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, training, compensation, benefits, employee activities and general treatment during employment.
The Organization will endeavor to make a reasonable accommodation to the known physical or mental limitations of qualified employees with disabilities unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business. If you need assistance to perform your job duties because of a physical or mental condition, please let the HR Director know.
The Organization will endeavor to accommodate the sincere religious beliefs of its employees to the extent such accommodation does not pose an undue hardship on the Organization's operations. If you wish to request such an accommodation, please speak to the HR Director.
Available Positions
Green Business Program
Green America's Green Business Network® Intern
- Compensation: $65 travel stipend per week
- Supervisor: Scott Kitson, Membership & Marketing Manager
- Dates: Year-round, 12 weeks, with possibility for extension
- Hours: 20 hours/week (Monday – Thursday)
Green America's Green Business Network® is the first, largest, and most diverse network of socially and environmentally responsible businesses in the country. This internship works with some of the most cutting-edge, social enterprise businesses in the county. Comprised of 3,000 businesses, the Green Business Network is home to both rising social and eco enterprises and the most established green businesses around. We provide the tools, the information, and the consumer base to help businesses thrive in today's competitive green marketplace.
Responsibilities for the Green Business Network Intern may include:
- Researching and writing blog posts about emerging issues related to green businesses and social entrepreneurship.
- Assisting with production of print and online materials, such as newsletters, social media posts, website updates, and membership renewal invoices.
- Database maintenance, including updating addresses and other membership information.
- Outreach to prospective members.
- Participating in and note-taking for Green Business Network department meetings.
In addition, this internship provides an inside look at how a nonprofit, green business association operates.
Qualifications:
- Available at least 20 hours a week in Downtown Washington, DC office.
- Strong eye for effective and eye-catching design.
- Detail oriented and effective problem-solver.
- Self-starter and willing to speak up and make recommendations to improve processes.
- Comfortable with multiple tasks and competing deadlines; ability to prioritize.
- Proficiency in Microsoft programs (Word, Excel, SharePoint, Outlook).
- Experience with content management systems (preferred, but not required).
- Experience with HTML/CSS (preferred, but not required).
Visit our website to learn more about the Green Business Network.
HOW TO APPLY:
If interested please send cover letter and resume to Scott Kitson at businessintern@greenamerica.org. No calls please.
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, or credit information. Harassment on the basis of a protected characteristic is included as a form of discrimination.
Green Consumer Mobilization and Technology Services
Reports to: Director of Digital Products
Summary
The Digital Products intern works closely with the director of digital products, editorial staff, program staff, and other team members, on a variety of digital projects, supporting the Green America main website, the Green American magazine, the Green Business Network, the Green Pages, and other sub-sites and specialty projects.
The intern will conceptualize and manage the organization’s website as well as ideate, research, format and design digital products such as mailings, sub-sites, micro-sites, and/or new features on the existing platform.
This position helps to extend the resources of the organization in order to better assist and meet the needs of our members.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Support the maintenance and updating for the back-end of public website.
- Publish approved content on the website and/or various social media platforms.
- Work closely with the director, staff, and outside parties such as consultants, to develop content for the main digital engagement platform, our public website, electronic newsletters, and/or social media platforms.
- Work in iterative cycles to develop our software, including: researching needs, coordinating with teammates, developing functional specifications, identifying priorities, articulating data architecture, understanding desired metrics, laying out tasks, managing the rollout schedule, and gaining feedback.
Qualifications
- The ideal candidate will be a team player who is willing to pitch in to support the community.
- An “all-hands-on-deck” attitude, along with excellent communication skills and the ability to think holistically about complex problems will be required.
- The intern will be an essential member of the global headquarters team.
- Candidates are placed in our Washington D.C. office. Remote work is also available.
- Passion for social & environmental justice and making real change in the world.
A Few of our Recent Victories
(Because we want you to be as excited about this work as we are.)
- Pushing Apple to improve worker conditions in its partner factories.
- Getting National Geographic to start transitioning to recycled paper in the paper it uses for the magazine.
- Moving Cheerios, Hershey, Hellmann’s, Similac, and Campbell’s to offer non-GMO products Getting Hershey to remove child labor out of its cocoa supply.
- Coordinating national stakeholders to identify and implement sustainable sources of gmo-free wheat
If the above doesn’t describe you perfectly but you think you should be working at Green America, please get in touch anyway and tell us why you want to work with us. We find the most compelling candidates exist outside the resume.
Desired qualifications
- Knowledge of HTML or other digital coding.
- Effective communicator – both written and oral.
- Ability to work independently as well as in partnership with a team.
- Ability to define and work to deadlines.
- Be self-directed and willing to take initiative, and detail-oriented.
- Respect and maintain confidentiality of organization staff, volunteers, donors, and members.
- Enthusiasm for the mission of the organization.
Additional qualifications (optional)
- Knowledge of git or SFTP.
- Proficiency in technical web development tools (Drupal, WordPress, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc.) and firm grasp of the back-end and digital space.
- Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, InDesign, Photoshop, or other visualization tools.
- Proficiency in in Microsoft Office.
- Proficiency on social media platforms.
Training & Supervision
Training and supervision conducted by: director of digital products, including weekly checkin and shared work plan.
Time Commitment
- 10-20 hours/week (can be spread over multiple days of the workweek)
- Preference will be given to those who can commit to a minimum of 10 weeks of service (200 hours)
- Green America is open four days a week, Monday-Thursday, 9:00am-5:00pm. Work may be completed in office and/or remotely.
Benefits
- Build your portfolio of work
- Flexible scheduling
- Help meet an important social need in an organization with an national reach
- $65 travel stipend
How to Apply
- Upload your resume and cover letter and online portfolio to a Google Doc, your own website, strikingly, wix, weebly, LinkedIn, gitlab, github, or some other shareable link.
- Apply here: https://www.greenamerica.org/form/intern-application
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, or credit information. Harassment on the basis of a protected characteristic is included as a form of discrimination.
- Sample Project plan: This is a sample project plan. Duplicate this and use as a base for your own plan. http://bit.ly/plandrupalinternship
This is the list of skills that the digital products associate will focus on:
Skills List for Digital Product Associates
Documents
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Google Drive http://drive.google.com
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Google Docs http://docs.google.com
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Google Sheets http://sheets.google.com
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Google Analytics http://analytics.google.com
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Google Maps http://maps.google.com
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Google Forms http://forms.google.com
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Google Hangouts http://hangouts.google.com
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Project Management
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Trello http://www.trello.com
Communications
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Slack http://slack.com (messaging)
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Skype http://skype.com (phone and video calls)
Design
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Prezi.com http://prezi.com (Slideshows)
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Slideshare http://www.slideshare.net (Powerpoint/PDF upload)
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Infogr.am https://infogr.am (infographics)
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LucidChart http://www.lucidchart.com (charts)
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Balsamiq https://balsamiq.com (visualization)
Coding
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HTML/CSS http://www.w3schools.com/html/
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Bootstrap http://getbootstrap.com/
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FileZilla https://filezilla-project.org/
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Sublime https://www.sublimetext.com/
Content Management System
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Drupal http://drupal.org
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WordPress http://www.wordpress.org
Professional Development
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LinkedIn.com Profile http://www.linkedin.com
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Portfolio/Professional Website (e.g. strikingly.com or weebly.com)
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GitHub account http://github.com or GitLab account http://gitlab.com
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Payment processing, e.g. http://paypal.com or http://stripe.com
Green America Center for Sustainability Solutions
Hours: Full-time (4-days, 32 hours/week)
Salary: $65,000 - $68,000, commensurate with experience, Grant Track Position
Benefits: medical, dental, sick days, holidays
Supervisor: Director, Green America Center for Sustainability Solutions
Deadline: October 23, 2018
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. Our workplace reflects our goal of creating a more cooperative, environmentally sound economy. We have a participatory decision-making process, which aims to build consensus within the departments and teams.
The Clean Electronic Production Network (CEPN) is a multi-stakeholder, cross-industry collaboration (Innovation Network) that launched in 2015. The goal of the network is to move the electronics industry towards zero exposure to toxic chemicals in the manufacturing process.
CEP is an Innovation Network of the Center for Sustainability Solutions, which brings all of Green America’s green economy supply-side work into a powerful new flagship program for Green America. The Center convenes multi-stakeholder initiatives dedicated to accelerating the shift to environmental sustainability and social justice, while eliminating environmental and human abuses in key areas such as energy, agriculture and manufacturing.
The Center 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, recycled paper procurement, and sustainable agriculture.
The Director of CEPN will provide strategic direction, lead stakeholder engagement, and oversee the facilitation, coordination, and program management of the network and work of participants toward the Network goal(s). The Director will also oversee the work of a Program Manager who is responsible for coordinating meeting logistics and providing project management support.
The position involves travel for Innovation Network meetings and key stakeholder briefings. The position would preferably be based Washington, DC at the Green America offices (with a work-from-home allowance for up to 8 hours a week as determined by supervisor).
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Continue developing new strategies to move the project forward as opportunities evolve.
- Lead the effort to successfully support the CEPN, including but not limited to development of strategy, securing funding and project commitment from participants.
- Lead new participant and member engagement, including conducting interviews with potential participants. Work closely with team to ensure that network members are effectively and efficiently engaged. Identify new participants and guide/support process for outreach and engagement in network projects.
- Build and lead the Design Team meetings and strategy discussions and Co-facilitate working group meetings.
- Serve as the point person responsible for producing key project deliverables in a timely manner, including meeting reports, special research projects and other outputs.
- Lead the effort to successfully launch, maintain, and evaluate specific initiatives within IN. Develop and implement strategy for advancing the work of the initiative groups with support from Green America and design teams.
- Hire and oversee the work of project staff and contract researchers and facilitators as needed.
- Lead program budgeting and revenue generation ensure we meet the project’s financial goals. Manage Participant engagement and recruitment for participant fees and coordinate with the Center Development Director to secure foundation grants and special project funding from private entities.
- Produce communications materials for variety of audiences.
- Ensure knowledge gained is converted into “knowledge capital” for Green America, including how to successfully launch new working groups and manage existing Network activities and shift markets toward sustainability. Support strategy, planning and operational needs of the Center for Sustainability Solutions.
- Liaise with Green America’s Programs Team, participating in Green America staff meetings, and planning processes.
Qualified Candidates should have the following skills and qualities:
- Strong interpersonal skills, including the ability to developed trusting relationships with senior executives and high-level leaders across the electronics sector.
- 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 strategic planning, leadership skills and project management skills, with 5+ years of senior management experience and experience managing multiple projects simultaneously.
- Proven experience with fundraising.
- Proven management skills, including strategy and operations.
- Negotiating experience and the ability to move groups both quickly and collaboratively on key priorities.
- A strong knowledge of the electronics industry manufacturing and supply chain.
- Bachelor’s degree required, Master’s degree preferred
Ideal candidates will also have the following skills and qualities:
- Strong research and writing skills.
- Strong speaking skills
- A compelling combination of confidence and humility that fosters confidence among the Center’s various stakeholders.
- Ability to rapidly develop new strategies and ideas in a quickly changing environment.
- Advanced collaborative leadership skills including advanced facilitation, ability to hold the center for divergent views, and the ability to manage polarities.
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, or credit information. Harassment on the basis of a protected characteristic is included as a form of discrimination.
How to Apply:
Send cover letter and resume to centerjobs@greenamerica.org or to Green America, 1612 K Street NW, Suite 600, Washington, DC 20006
No calls, please.
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