Energy Service Corps Organizer

Energy Service Corps is a joint project of the California Public Interest Research Group Foundation (CALPIRG) and AmeriCorps that works to improve energy efficiency in California.  This year we are hiring graduating college students to join our program and work to tackle one of the most pressing environmental issues in California: energy efficiency. We organize service projects that bring together the community, educate local youth in classrooms about the importance of environmental stewardship, and provide our community members with energy assessments and home weatherization. (More Information)

Campus Organizer

Campus organizers recruit students, faculty and community members to investigate problems and build support for solutions. Campus organizers, and the volunteers they train, research issues, build coalitions, work with the media, educate the public, and generate citizen support on issues ranging from poverty to environmental protection. Through their actions, they win concrete reforms, acquire the skills necessary to be a leader in the public interest movement, and leave a legacy of skilled, trained leaders capable of tackling society's most pressing problems. (More Information)

Fellowship

The goal of a CALPIRG Fellowship is to help develop leaders for the public interest movement. You might see yourself becoming a field organizer, advocate—or even director of a public interest group someday. As a CALPIRG Fellow, you gain hands-on experience in organizing, advocating and leading public interest campaigns in your first year on staff. More importantly, you get real results, whether at the local, state or federal level. And your experience is complemented by intensive training and the direction and advice of a senior mentor. (More Information)

Issue Advocate

CALPIRG advocates spend every day working to create exciting and rewarding political change on behalf of the public interest. On the local, state and federal levels, advocates achieve concrete victories on their issues by employing the time tested techniques of investigative research, media exposes, grassroots organizing, advocacy and litigation. More specifically, CALPIRG advocates are responsible for duties including policy development, campaign strategy, lobbying, media outreach and fundraising. (More Information)

Summer Campaign Staff

Now is the time to work for change. This summer we are working on a campaign for Safe Food, Healthy Kids. But there's one thing that we know we need to win--citizen support and grassroots action. That's why we've partnered with the Fund for the Public Interest to hire college students, graduates, and activists across the state to go out into communities to talk with citizens about the issues, raise money, and build membership for CALPIRG. Staff also have the opportunity to work with the media, build coalitions and mobilize activists. Similar positions are available in more than 50 offices across the country. For more information or to apply, visit www.jobsthatmatter.org.