Title

• Eco Advocacy (EA) Coordinator

Overall responsibility

• A new and exciting leadership role to organize events and initiatives geared towards structural, large-scale societal change for sustainability and environmentalism!

Key areas of responsibility

• Hosts EA meetings once a week and sets the agenda for them.
• Coordinates a team that plans and executes initiatives and events in the frame of macro-scale issues and societal change (e.g. organizing/joining rallies, petitions, applying pressure for change in businesses and organizations)
• Works with outreach and events coordinators, as well as the co-chairs, to ensure events planning and funding go smoothly.
• Keeps documentation of event planning process, to facilitate future initiatives planning.
• Communicates with members and execs throughout individual event planning processes to ensure a flow of information and updates.
• Keeps track of similar events organized by UBC and Vancouver-based groups, and provides them in an accessible format to the membership.

Qualifications

• Full-time or part-time UBC student.
• Ability to commit to weekly hour long meetings.
• Passionate about environmental issues, especially on scales of community action and advocacy.
• Initiative in planning events to help make society greener.
• Organization and communication skills are an asset.

Time commitment

• Approximately 2-4hrs a week minimum, can be greater depending on your involvement.

Contact

• If you are interested, send a small summary of your experience and why you’d be a good fit for the position to enviro@ams.ubc.ca, with “EA Coordinator Application” in the subject.