Environment Maryland Field Associate

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If you are looking for the opportunity, training and experience to make a powerful and long-lasting impact on the policies that will shape Maryland’s environment, apply to be the Field Associate with Environment Maryland.

You can learn more  here.

You’ll work to protect the Chesapeake Bay and support wind power off the coast

Environment Maryland has a strong track record as a group that gets results.  We have led efforts to pass one of the nation’s strictest global warming pollution caps, required big developers to minimize polluted runoff, and pushed automakers to improve the mileage of new cars and trucks. 

Right now, Environment Maryland is working to bring more clean energy to the state, by supporting new wind turbines off the coast of Maryland, and curbing pollution from factory farms that creates a dead zone in the Chesapeake Bay.

No major victory is possible without mobilizing grassroots support.  The Field Associate will develop and implement the grassroots side of all of our campaigns.

You’ll learn how to run winning campaigns for the environment

Environment Maryland is a part of the Environment America federation, a group of 29 state-based environmental advocacy nonprofits. Each year, Environment America hires passionate, talented and committed recent college graduates like you to join its two-year Fellowship Program, a program designed to give you the training you need, and put you in the right place at the right time, so you can roll up your sleeves and make a difference right away.

You’ll work with experienced advocates and organizers to make an immediate impact

If you’re hired to be the Environment Maryland Field Associate, you will be a member of the Environment America 2012-2014 Fellowship Program. This means that in addition to getting guidance and feedback from your staff director in Maryland, you’ll participate in classroom-style trainings throughout the year with other Environment America staff, including some of the nation’s top environmental advocates and organizers.

As a Fellow, you’ll learn how to plan, run, and win state and national campaigns.  You’ll learn how to research and identify effective solutions to critical problems – like those facing Maryland – and how to build and mobilize powerful constituencies to get behind your campaign. You’ll lobby lawmakers, publish opinion pieces in major newspapers and on key websites, set up and speak at news conferences, organize town hall meetings and rallies, and run citizen outreach campaigns to educate the public, build membership and raise money for our work. You’ll even recruit interns, activists, and future fellows to join Environment Maryland and Environment America in our work.  In your second year a fellow, you’ll polish your skills and take on even more responsibility.

The Fellowship is only the beginning

You will develop relationships with lawmakers and community leaders throughout Maryland, earn media coverage for important issues, raise funds, build membership, recruit and manage staff and volunteers, and run grassroots campaigns to protect Maryland’s environment. Bottom line: you’ll make a real difference.

After just two years of hard work, you’ll have the skills and experience that will set you apart from most recent college graduates and you’ll be prepared to take on even more leadership at Environment Maryland, elsewhere in the Environment America federation, or in the larger environmental community.

Location
Baltimore, Maryland

Qualifications
Environment Maryland is seeking a recent college graduate who is ready to commit his or her time, skills and passion to grassroots political action on behalf of the environment. We look for smarts, academic excellence, creativity, top-notch written and verbal skills, and an eagerness to learn. We value leadership experience with campus and activist groups. 

Salary and Benefits 
As a recent graduate, you’ll earn $23,750 in your first year and $24,250 in your second year of the Fellowship. You’re eligible to opt into our group health plan. You accrue two weeks of paid vacation over the course of your first year, and an additional three weeks in your second year. You’re eligible to apply for college loan assistance after your third month, and to participate in our 401(k) plan at the end of your first year. 

How to learn more and apply
You can complete our online application here.

Contact Tommy Landers, Director with Environment Maryland, with any questions at (410) 467-0439.