Sustainable Living

The Green Campus Program seeks an experienced campus environmentalist for the position of Green Campus Program Coordinator for the Fall of 2008.

The Program Coordinator Position is an internship that demands an organized self-starter who is intimately familiar with the UC Berkeley campus community and comfortable working on a team.

The Program Coordinator is responsible for the successful implementation of the Alliance to Save Energy's Green Campus Program, the goal of which is immediate energy savings on the Berkeley campus, primarily through low-cost technologies and no-cost behavior changes, as well as the education of campus students, staff, and faculty members on energy conservation.

The Program Coordinator will determine his/her specific objectives and workload through ongoing consultation with the team, Team Manager, and Alliance to Save Energy's Program Associate.

Current UC Berkeley projects include:

* Energy DeCal Course (ER 98/198)
* Applications of Energy Efficiency and Conservation Course (ER 199)
* "Blackout Battles" Energy Competition in the Residence Halls
* Fume Hood "Shut the Sash" Campaign
* Haas School of Business Energy Conservation Campaign
* Installing Vending Misers (energy saving devices) on Campus Vending Machines
* Light Bulb Exchange in Residence Halls
* Campus Building Lighting Audits
* Hall Staff Outreach
* Sustainability Week and Earth Week Events

Please see our website for more information on the specific projects: http://greencampus.berkeley.edu/

Applicants must:

* Be currently enrolled graduate or undergraduate (Freshman, Sophomores, and Juniors preferred) students.
* Possess excellent written and oral communications skills.
* Be comfortable with the basic functions of Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.
* Have leadership and teamwork experience.
* Effective time management skills.

Desired Qualities:

* Strong experience in on-campus environmental activism.
* Specialized skills such as:

– Engineering or technical knowledge

– Graphic design, newsletter design, web design, or editing skills

– Data analysis

– Teaching at a college level

– Strong communication: writing and public speaking

– Managing budgets

* Familiarity / previous working relationship with the Green Campus Program, other campus environmental groups, or DeCal program.
* Familiarity / previous working relationship with campus staff and administrators

The weekly workload for the Program Coordinator position will vary between 5 and 15 hours per week, as arranged with the Team Leader, and is compensated at $10 dollars per hour. The position runs from date of hire until the end of the 2009 Spring semester; the option to terminate at any time is available to both parties at all times.

Application Materials:

To apply please send a resume, cover letter, and writing sample to BerkeleyGreenCampus@gmail.com, Please email BerkeleyGreenCampus@gmail.com or contact Kameron Kitajima (510) 552-1271 if you have any further questions about the program.

All applications must be received by midnight on August 14th, 2008.

Interviews will be scheduled on a rolling basis. Good luck!

Please go to our website, http://greencampus.berkeley.edu for more info on our program and an electronic copy of this application.

Head-quartered in Washington, DC, the non-profit Alliance to Save Energy (www.ase.org) promotes energy efficiency worldwide to achieve a healthier economy, a cleaner environment, and greater energy security.

The Green Campus Program seeks energy savings on 13 California university campuses through a student-led campaign to identify and reduce energy waste through improvements in energy use behaviors, student purchasing decisions and operations changes.

See details below, and contact Lee Schipper (schipper@berkeley.edu) with
questions or interest.

Greenhouse gas emissions from transportation are a significant part of the
US GHG footprint. World Resources Institute's Climate and Energy team
consists of over 35 staff working to bring ideas into action to protect the
planet and stabilize the earth's atmosphere. The U.S. must begin managing
its emissions immediately if the world is to reach a global climate change
agreement in 2009. WRI, as a Washington-based think tank, builds
partnerships with academic institutions, civil society, businesses and
governments at all levels to create policy options and design for change.

WRI and UC Berkeley will work together to provide snapshots of the emissions
profiles of fuels and fuel policies. This quantitative analysis will be
depicted visually/graphically and will be written up in "policy brief"
format. The goal is track progress towards a reduced climate footprint from
fuels policies and technology. An analogy can be found in WRI's "A
Comparison of Legislative Climate Change Targets in the 110th Congress"
which charts emissions reductions from different cap and trade proposals (
http://www.wri.org/publication/usclimatetargets#).

The candidate should have an interest and understanding of a variety of
factors driving transportation emissions - he/she should be willing to
engage a variety of individual and institutional analytical approaches and
modeling assumptions. Familiarity with modeling approaches for fuel GHG
performance is important, and strong communications skills and ability to
work independently is essential.

WRI's climate and energy team seek to complement existing energy technology
and federal policy staff with a set of research and analytical tasks that
can help frame and bound a policy dialogue on approaches and trade-offs with
fuels policies in conjunction with UC Berkeley. WRI will also seek to
integrate lessons from this analysis with broader climate and transportation
issues addressing a variety of transport/climate links including
transportation funding and cap and trade design. This work will focus on
one part of the broader effort to engage in a more comprehensive approach to
transportation emissions - there is potential for follow-on work and
research.