[ESSP] FW: [Job]Rainforest Action/San Francisco

[Vanessa Paulman]

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Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 10:15:32 -0500
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Subject: [Job]Rainforest Action/San Francisco

 
Job Title:    Old Growth Organizer
Supervisor:Campaign Director
Status:    Full-time, salary
Application deadline:January 14, 2005

Position Description:

Rainforest Action Network campaigns for the forests, their inhabitants and
the 
natural systems that sustain life by transforming the global marketplace
through grassroots organizing, education and non-violent direct action. RAN
operates hard-hitting campaigns designed to challenge the U.S. logging
industry 
to end its trade in old growth wood products, get off U.S. public lands, and
embrace truly sustainable forestry practices. RAN's Old Growth Campaign
eliminates the consumption of wood products derived from the logging of the
planet's remaining primary/old growth forests thereby bringing to an end all
industrial logging of old growth forests. The campaign galvanizes the
public's 
existing belief that cutting old growth forests to turn them into 2x4's and
pulp is simply unethical and that a mature, modern society has outgrown such
practices. 

RAN's Old Growth Organizer will work as part of a campaign team, and within
the 
old growth organizing team with an additional Old Growth Organizer, the Old
Growth Campaign Director and Markets Campaigner to change the way business
is 
done in the logging industry.

Qualifications: 

The Old Growth Organizer position requires demonstrated written and verbal
communication skills, coalition building skills, and networking skills.
Prioritizing tasks, volunteer coordination, the ability to engage with
corporate and municipal wood and paper buyers, and the ability to empower
and 
motivate grassroots activists in carrying out campaign tactics are
necessary. 
The position requires good decision-making skills, professional initiative
and 
results-oriented behavior. Previous successful campaign experience is
required; 
nonviolent direct action experience is an asset.

Responsibilities and Priorities:

·Grow grassroots pressure to move corporate America (and the logging
industry 
in particular) out of endangered forests and into sustainable alternatives;
·Maintain communications with RAN activists through periodic correspondence
and 
monthly e-mail updates and online action alerts;
·Directly engage major wood and paper buyers through written, verbal and
other 
creative communications to shift them away from purchases from destructive
logging companies; 
·Strengthen, broaden, and diversify the network of grassroots indigenous
rights, rainforest conservation, and climate change activists and groups;
·Build capacity within local and regional groups through organizing
training, 
resources, materials and collaborative planning;
·Recruit for, facilitate, and participate in regional trainings;
·Coordinate annually (and as needed) with the old growth campaigns team to
design the strategic plan and budget for the Old Growth Campaign;
·Represent RAN at environmental conferences and provide motivation and tools
to 
grassroots constituencies. Act as a public spokesperson for RAN as needed;
·Co-coordinate RAN’s intern program, supervise interns and volunteers
working 
on campaign activities, including research, execution of outreach, etc, and
facilitate intern recruitment and assignment within RAN;
·Participate in RAN's organizational planning and training sessions. Share
office responsibilities to maintain a healthy and safe work place;
·Report to Campaign Director regularly on accomplishments and plans of
action. 
·Participate in semi-annual performance reviews with the Campaign Director
as 
well as weekly campaign team meetings;
·Conduct as-needed research and writing that further RAN’s campaign
objectives. 

RAN is an equal-opportunity employer and does not discriminate based on
race, 
color, national origin, ancestry, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion,
creed, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status,
citizenship, military service status, or any other characteristic protected
by 
state or federal law or local ordinance.

How to Apply:
Please send résumé and letter of interest to: HR/FM, Rainforest Action
Network, 
221 Pine St., Suite 500, SF, CA 94104, fax 415/398.2732, or e-mail:
oldgrowthsearch at ran.org. No phone calls, please.

Job posted on: December 21, 2004
Education:Bachelor (BA, BS, etc.)
Organization:Rainforest Action Network
Area of Focus:Environment
Location:San Francisco, California, 94104

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