Month: February 2020 (Page 2 of 6)

Williams College invites applications for the position of Director for the Zilkha Center for Environmental Initiatives. Reporting to the Provost, the Director serves as a visionary leader and communicator of the College’s sustainability efforts. The Director helps Williams set ambitious sustainability goals and partners with other College leaders to pursue the most effective strategies for monitoring and meeting them. 

The College is in the midst of its first strategic planning exercise, which has elevated sustainability as one of three major initiatives threaded throughout the entire process. The planning process is creating a roadmap for meeting ambitious new goals in emissions and energy; landscaping and building; education and research; food, water, and waste; health, community, and justice; and accountability and transparency. The Director will play a critical role in shaping, implementing, and communicating these strategies in partnership with College leadership and other area directors, including those in Dining, Facilities, and Planning, Design, and Construction. The Director will inform and advise senior staff, the president, and the board of trustees about opportunities, progress, and challenges in both setting and meeting ambitious sustainability goals.

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The EFC is currently seeking an Executive Director to lead and oversee the management of all activities pertaining to strategic planning, project delivery, business development, budgeting, financing, and personnel administration of the Environmental Finance Center. With assistance from senior level EFC staff, the Executive Director will primarily be responsible for designing, acquiring funding for, and implementing the multiple programs of the EFC and will manage the other EFC staff to ensure completion of projects.

J.D. or Master’s degree in public administration, public policy, business, environmental finance, or a related field required. 

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The Program Manager in the Office of Sustainability directs the following sustainability initiatives: the residential Green Advisors, including their role in New Student Orientation; the Sustainability Advocates for staff & faculty offices and their associated projects with student Green Advisors; community education and event planning for the annual UN climate conference delegation and/or other engaged scholarship activities in collaboration with Environmental Studies and the Lang Center for Civic and Social Responsibility; and design and implementation of the Zero Waste Plan. The Program manager convenes the Zero Waste Working Group and leads budgeting for and installation of campus waste stations, oversees the campus-wide compost system and the Worthmore Free Store and move-out donation process, supervises waste consultants, and designs and leads presentation of reduction and diversion educational strategies. The Program Manager also takes a leadership role with campus food growing efforts and assists with the practicum research of Environmental Studies applied learning courses. 

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George Mason University’s Office of Sustainability is excited to announce the immediate opening of a temporary, Sustainability Specialist position. Supervised by the Sustainability Director and working in close collaboration with the Sustainability Program Manager team, the Sustainability Specialist is responsible for collecting, reviewing, analyzing, and communicating information pertinent to Mason’s 2020 AASHE STARS submission.

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