Sustainable Seattle’s volunteers are tomorrow leaders in sustainability. Volunteering at Sustainable Seattle is a great way to get involved in your community, gain some experience in sustainability and work with wonderful people on challenging, fun and rewarding programs and projects.

We always have the need for volunteers to work on our programs and projects.

Short term Volunteer Opportunties

Tour de Fat needs volunteers for 2 hour shifts on July 31. Email Eldan@sustainableseattle.org

Volunteer opportuntities:

Dream a Sound Future Project Co-Lead
This position co-manages the development of Sustainable Seattle's "Dream a Sound Future" competition, a design competition that focuses on a holistic approach to improving sustainability in the Central Puget Sound and Seattle City region. Working cooperatively with the organizing committee and the Executive Director of Sustainable Seattle, Project Leads will organize the activities of the youth version of the competition, as well as engaging and involving the general public in the larger community competition. We are looking to fill this position immediatly.  Check our website for more information.  Please email: ania@sustainableseattle.org

Dream a Sound Future Community Outreach Coordinator /Community Organizer
Main responsibility of this position is to engage the diverse community of Seattle in participating in the Dream a Sound Future program. COC will take the lead in devising and implementing marketing strategies to reach the community. This position will require a great deal of interaction with the community in the form of meetings and community forums. We are looking to fill this position immediately . Check our website for more information. Please email: ania@sustainableseattle.org

Dream a Sound Future Youth Challenge Chair
This position supports the development and re-vamping of Sustainable Seattle's "Dream a Sound Future" Youth Challenge, a design challenge that focuses on a holistic approach to improving sustainability in the Central Puget Sound and Seattle City region. The volunteer works with the Dream a Sound Future Lead to implement the program, from activities including outreach, curriculum development, event planning and logistics, contestant logistics, and other activities. We are looking to fill this position immediatly. Check our website for more information. Please email: ania@sustainableseattle.org

Whole Environment Building Recognition & Awards Program Volunteer
The WEB program needs people willing to gather and work with local participating organizations to assess sustainability endeavors against our B-Sustainable measures.  Volunteers will work directly with the Program Lead and members of the organization toward reaching continually growing sustainability efforts for businesses, non-profits and governmental agencies.  Please email Tysan at tysan@sustainableseattle.org

Community Development Neighborhood Indicators Lead
Community Development Indicators Lead works with community agencies to develop sustainability indicators and data collection methods for organizations, projects and leaders to use to measure their actions progress towards sustainability.  This position requires an understanding of sustainability, indicators and data collection or a basic understanding of performance management and an ability to learn its application to sustainability quickly.  This position requires working closely with other Sustainable Seattle staff.  Please email laura@sustainableseattle.org for more information.

Communications Volunteer
Do you love to live on the social web?  Are you able to translate the latest internet jargon and still get your important message across?  Do you have a passion for spreading the information and news of the sustainability movement in the greater Seattle region and just need a forum in which to express?  You sound like someone we could use.  Please email us at nathan@sustainableseattle.org
 
Grant Writer
Sustainable Seattle is a grass roots organization, but even grass has needs.  We are looking for a volunteer Grant Writer that has the dedication and passion to help this organization become more sustainable and able to weather the fickle storms of finances.  We are looking for someone with experience who is looking to apply her or his knowledge, work in a community of youth and inspired people.  Please email us at ed@sustainableseattle.org

STARs brownbag co-ordinator
Our Sustainability Training And Resources program consists of two parallel tracks: a set of fee-for-service workshops, and a series of free brownbag talks.  We are looking for a volunteer to make a long-term commitment of around 5 hours per week, to co-ordinate the brownbags.  These are short talks over lunch or early in the evening, and we are hoping to hold roughly one per month.  The brownbag co-ordinator will help recruit speakers (in concert with the program lead, Eldan Goldenberg), discuss class topics with them, book venues (we can give you a list of free venues that work well) and market the events.  Please email eldan@sustainableseattle.org for more information.

STARs instructor recruiter
The Sustainability Training And Resources program needs help reaching out to potential workshop instructors.  This is a very flexible opportunity; it can consist of anything from putting us in touch with contacts you already have to contacting a list of people we supply.  This is well suited to an ad hoc volunteer as it does not require an ongoing, consistent commitment.  Please email eldan@sustainableseattle.org for more information.

STARs instructors/speakers
We are always looking for more speakers and workshop instructors for our Sustainability Training And Resources program.  Workshops which charge a fee also pay the instructor a commission; for the free talks we're asking for volunteer speakers who can benefit from the publicity we give you.  See this page for more details: http://sustainableseattle.org/Programs/emergingppi/STARs/instructor_resources/

Sustainable Cities bloggers
We are looking for guest bloggers to write about urban sustainability efforts around the world for our Sustainable Cities Activity Network blog [ http://sustainablecitiesblog.blogspot.com/ ].  For more information, please see the contributor FAQ at http://sustainablecitiesblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/write-for-scan.html  Please contact info@sustainableseattle if you would like to blog.

Photographers
We always appreciate photodocumentation of our events!  Email info@sustainableseattle.org if you'd like to discuss specific needs and opportunities, or just bring your camera to any of our public events, snap away and submit the best shots to our Flickr group: http://www.flickr.com/groups/s2/

Other positions available:

Sustainable Cascadia Passport Program Manager

Apply via email to inquiries@sustainablecascadia.org
Contacts:  Malcolm Best        Ken Cousins
                  
                425-288-8241      206 -552-9242
Volunteer Opportunity: Sustainability Passport Program Manager
Closing Date: April 1st, 2010
The Program Manager will manage the development and expansion of the Sustainability Passport (www.sustainablecascadia.org), an emerging program to improve ecological literacy throughout our region. This is currently a volunteer position, pending the development of revenue-producing products and services and/or grant funding. The Development Manager will work with Sustainable Seattle and Sustainable Cascadia personnel and volunteers to deepen collaboration with these and other organizations, reporting directly to the Sustainable Cascadia Core Team. This is an exciting opportunity to get in on the ground floor and make an imprint on a creative and impactful emerging initiative that will improve collaboration between schools and local sustainability organizations and experts.

About Sustainable Cascadia
Sustainable Cascadia gathers citizens and community leaders throughout the bioregion to invoke a shared passion for sustainability and the cultivation of practices that lead to more resilient, rewarding and enduring ways of life. We are currently focused on connecting students and educators with local learning resources, through a program we call the Sustainability Passport.
About the Sustainability Passport
Teachers are busy people. Imagine that it was easy to find local organizations and individuals who offer free learning activities, with materials designed with teacher input to support K-12 state learning standards. Imagine also that teachers and students (of every age) could track learning achievement online and in personalized “passports,” rich with local civic, social and environmental knowledge. This is the objective of the Sustainability Passport – a system to emphasize local knowledge and learning opportunities, while encouraging deeper awareness and understanding of the Cascadian bioregion, and a stronger commitment to community engagement and sustainability.
Most users would initially experience the Sustainability Passport project as a website with profiles for learners, educators and schools, and local experts. Learners and teachers alike will be able to create, download and print customizable passport-like documents that provide a tangible measure of achievement. For learners, passports would record their steps towards a deepening understanding of place, while facilitating development of the civic responsibility, similar to scouting's “merit badge” system. For educators, the passport system would provide easily accessible learning opportunities based on the local topics more likely to resonate with students. K-12 activities and materials will be identified based on their support for specific state educational standards, with rigorous quality control, including user feedback. The passport system will also help local experts (e.g., scientists, community organizations, elders) to share their knowledge and encourage greater civic involvement. Over time, we believe the passport system will dramatically improve our community's understanding of local ecological and social processes, while transforming our understanding of sustainability and leading to greater community engagement.

Volunteer Program Manager Responsibilities
•    Develop and implement a prototype of the Sustainability Passport system
•    Develop, facilitate and manage a steering committee
•    Coordinate with Sustainable Cascadia staff and volunteers
•    Recruit and manage volunteer staff, including managerial roles such as Development Manager, Design Manager, Research Manager, Technical Manager and Liaison Manager.
•    Monthly reports to the Core Team, weekly review with a Core Team member
•    Other responsibilities as needed for development and implementation of the program
•    Develop this position into a funded position

The Ideal Candidate is:
•    Passionate and committed to sustainability for the greater good of the natural, built, social and personal environments and good of the individual
•    Has an entrepreneur spirit, and experience developing and managing non-profit business models or strategies
•    Excels at working independently and within a group
•    Understands the interlinked nature of sustainability, as well as that sustainability is a journey
•    Able to communicate effectively to audiences based on their understanding and level of commitment to sustainability
•    Loves to learn, have fun and turn the challenges into opportunities along the way `to sustainability
•    Loves the Pacific Northwest, and is committed to creating a Sustainable Cascadia