Environmental Campaign Organizer

We’re the country’s most respected training program for environmental organizers.

Are you determined to make the biggest positive impact you can on issues like climate change and clean water, but you don’t know where to start? Green Corps offers a yearlong, paid training program that will prepare you for a career in environmental organizing. Here’s how it works:

Learn skills from environmental leaders

You’ll participate in eight weeks of intensive classroom training conducted by environmental organizers and leaders from a wide range of organizations and campaigns.

Our staff and trainers present overviews on the biggest issues facing our environment, as well as more specific trainings on proven organizing tactics. Topics include volunteer recruitment, campaign planning, public speaking and much more. You’ll learn how to run campaigns that inspire the public, and build organizations and political support needed to save our planet.

Hands-on experience on real campaigns

The bulk of your training will come through hands-on experience working on important campaigns to transition our country to clean energy, protect wildlife, and more. You will use the skills you learn in classroom trainings to work on some of the most pressing issues of the day.

Over the course of the year, you’ll lead three to five different campaigns in communities across the country. By working with several different campaign partners, you’ll gain experience tackling a wide range of issues and working in a variety of communities.

Last fall, for example, three organizers worked on behalf of Mighty Earth to keep our oceans healthy and our fisheries sustainable, developing more than 80 volunteer leaders and ultimately preventing rollbacks of critical protections for U.S. fisheries. In the spring, another Green Corps team worked with Audubon Society in Arkansas, mobilizing hundreds of people across the state to generate support for a bill that dramatically expanded access to solar energy for residents and business owners. 

Launch your organizing career

After completing the training program, you will be connected to groups looking to hire full-time staff. Our alumni are at work today on everything from fighting climate change, to reforming our food system, to protecting local places such as Lake Tahoe. Thanks to Green Corps’ rigorous training program and the great need for trained organizers in many environmental organizations, Green Corps organizers are often able to find professional positions immediately after completing the program.

Location and compensation

The target annual compensation for this position is $28,500 in the first year. Green Corps offers a competitive benefits package. We also offer an excellent training program and opportunities for advancement.

Green Corps organizers go where the environment needs them, and wherever they can make the biggest impact. They could work on campaigns almost anywhere in the country, and while location preferences are considered for placements, we require all organizers to be geographically flexible. For the foreseeable future, all of our staff are working remotely due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Green Corps part of The Public Interest Network, which operates and supports organizations committed to a shared vision of a better world and a strategic approach to social change. Please visit our website to learn more.

Green Corps is an equal opportunity employer.