Page - January 9, 2012
Spend the semester working on some of the planet’s biggest challenges with the world’s best-known environmental activist organization!
Greenpeace’s Field Team is composed of 12 organizers working to win Greenpeace campaigns in communities across America. Right now, our team’s number one priority is shutting down coal fired power plants throughout the country. During your internship, you will support organizers’ work by coordinating materials, travel, logistics, conducting research, planning events and trainings, and helping to coordinate local organizing efforts. In the past, Field Team Administrative staff and interns have driven the Rolling Sunlight (our biodiesel truck, carrying a huge array of solar panels) up the eastern seaboard, hung out on the MY Arctic Sunrise for our 2011 Quit Coal Ship Tour, attended climbing and boating trainings, and booked travel and hotel reservations for the entire team (hey, it can’t all be glamorous).
We’re looking for someone who is enthusiastic, self-motivated, extremely organized, and ready to help out with any task, large or small.
Responsibilities:
- Logistical planning for team events
- Working with organizing managers to track team data on a weekly basis
- Managing team materials (tracking, inventory, shipping, etc)
- Monthly Data Compilation
- Research
- Supporting recruitment and hiring efforts
- Administrative duties
- Occasional travel
- DC-area campaign work, as applicable
Qualifications:
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills
- Strong online research skills
- Strong organizational, budget management, and project management skills
- Comfortable with excel and web databases
- Analytical and problem solving skills
- Ability to work independently and in teams
- Must have a laptop computer
- Ability to learn quickly in a fast-paced environment
- A sense of adventure
- Commitment to protecting the planet