Job Listing

To increase our influence and build support for issues that matter, Clean Air Council is leading an aggressive new membership recruitment effort, involving public events, direct mail, and a professional community-outreach program.You will work with a team of canvassers, performing educational outreach and speaking with about 30 people each evening. Hours are approximately 2:00 PM till 10:30 PM.

You will recruit members and volunteers, collect small contributions, and generate petition signatures, letters and phone calls on key campaign issues.

You will raise funds to finance campaign activities, identify sustainers, patrons, and other high level donors to the Council’s work.

While recruiting members and collecting contributions, petition signatures, and letters, you will also learn what it takes to build grassroots support and mobilize voters and taxpayers to take action. See firsthand how we build coalitions, run press conferences, and hold meetings with local government officials or editorial boards, and learn about environmental issues and what can be done about them.

You will learn how to motivate and mobilize a group of activists around specific campaign goals. Learn the art of effective fund-raising and how to train others. Recruit members, identify volunteers and conduct letter-writing campaigns that will have an impact.

Advanced positions require training new staff in effective community outreach and fundraising skills. You will be responsible for coordinating travel of a crew safely to and from the field each day, planning logistics of canvassing specified townships, and communicating with township officials to allow reasonable regulation of The Council's efforts in each community.