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Project Coordinator: Convenings 🔥


Youth on Root, a fiscally sponsored project of Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (“SEE”), seeks a creative and collaborative individual to serve as our Project Coordinator for Convenings. This is a part-time, remote, hourly position, and requires some travel throughout California for major events and annual team meetings. This is a fixed-term, one-year position with the possibility of renewal and increase to full-time employment based on funding availability and performance.

About Youth on Root:

Based in California, Youth on Root’s mission is to center low-income youth and youth of color as change agents in their communities by providing tools for learning from each other and opportunities to use their unique power to promote environmental justice. We envision a self-sustaining grassroots movement led by youth who have meaningful opportunities to enact their visions of environmental justice for their communities. Youth on Root believes that youth on the frontlines of environmental harms have the most lived experience and hold the highest impact solutions, therefore making them the ideal leaders of the Environmental Justice Movement. We believe that youth are not the leaders of tomorrow, but the leaders of today. To learn more, visit Youth on Root’s website.

About the Opportunity:

The Project Coordinator will be mainly responsible for the planning and implementation of Youth on Root’s Annual Environmental Justice Youth Leadership Summit (“the Summit”), and also support all core programs including the Youth on Root Environmental Justice Curriculum, strategic partnerships, and community outreach.

The Summit: In the spirit of the People of Color Environmental Leadership Summits in 1991 and 2002, high school youth and youth environmental justice leaders from regions across California will attend the Summit as delegates for their communities. The Summit’s goals are to create an empowering space for college and high school-aged youth to collaborate and organize, gain exposure to higher education institutions and related opportunities, and connect with other frontline youth from across California.

Candidate Profile:

Passion for Environmental Justice, Youth Development, & Diversity

The ideal candidate will:

  • Uphold the Jemez Principles for Democratic Organizing, the Principles of Environmental Justice,
  • the Principles of the Youth Environmental Justice Movement, and the Youth-to-Youth and
  • Youth-to-Adult Principles of Collaboration in all of Youth on Root’s programmatic work
  • Bring experience working with diverse youth in a professional capacity, such as organizing, civic engagement, environmental education, or similar fields
  • Lead by example in centering and prioritizing diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice in all facets of the organization’s work 

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