Job Title: Campus Organizer
Reports To: SSC Conservation Committee
Scope : The primary job of the Campus Organizer is to be responsible for creating or maintaining an effective Sierra Student Coalition group to run campaigns on a high school or college campus. Campaigns should be driven by the Organizer’s group and ideally be a part of the SSC’s national priority campaign (Climate Campaign). If possible, the campaign should be run in cooperation with the local Sierra Club chapter. Campus Organizers are the grassroots foundation of the SSC and therefore the position comes with the responsibilities described below.
Requirements :
- Organizing Experience: Campus Organizers are not required to have past organizing experience. This is an entry-level position in the SSC and high school students are encouraged to sign up.
- Membership: Campus Organizers must be paying members of the Sierra Club (Join today and get a Sierra Club bag).
- Accessibility: Campus Organizers should be open to having their name, email and phone number listed on The SSC Leader List.
Job Activities:
1. Campus Environmental Group:
- Create, revive or maintain an environmental group on campus, or in the case of home-schooled students, a network of home-schooled students.
- Build the group organizationally and foster leadership development in order to ensure the group's survival post-graduation. This can be achieved by bringing SSC trainings to campus, sending activists from their group to summer programs or other SSC trainings, hosting speakers, etc.
- Maintain the group’s affiliation with the SSC.
- Attend at least one conference-call program in the course of the semester.
2. Campaign Planning:
- Plan, organize and run a campaign for your group. Your campaign should be in line with the Sierra Club’s priority issue focus, which currently is energy. Find out more information on the SSC’s Climate Campaign.
- Write a campaign plan matrix (samples can be found in Campaign Resources) and submit it to the SSC by emailing sierra.student [at] sierraclub.org. Alternatively you may integrate the group’s activities into an existing campaign (such as one being run by the local Sierra Club).
