DESCRIPTION OF THE POSITION: University of Illinois Business Innovation Services is a not-for-profit training and consulting group dedicated to improving processes, efficiencies, and systems in manufacturing, municipalities, businesses, and healthcare with a 27 year track record of success helping organizations to become high performing and sustainable. U of I BIS received a grant to develop Illinois’ local food and farm economy, by creating a vibrant food system ”that revitalizes rural and urban communities, promotes healthy eating with access to fresh foods, creates jobs, ensures a readily available supply of safe food in an emergency event, and supports economic growth through making local farm or food products available to all Illinois citizens.” (Illinois Local Food, Farms and Jobs Act of 2009).

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:
1. Council Membership: Develop memberships in the Council from individuals, businesses and organizations; create local chapters of the Council in each county in Illinois.
2. Stakeholder Relations & Partnerships: Develop and nurture strategic relationships and partnerships that advance the purpose and priorities of the Council; manage communication vehicles that encourage stakeholder information sharing and cooperation (including the Council list serv).
3. Public Relations and Promotion: Represent the Council, as appropriate, at public events and as spokesperson to the media; may serve on the boards of affiliated organizations; establish relationships with key leaders in the community as a means of supporting the Council’s purpose and priorities; provide oversight for the communications plan; and assist in the development, writing, and production of key promotional materials such as press releases, reports, etc.
4. Policy Advocacy: Keep elected officials abreast of developments and advocate for policies that further
the development of a local food and farm economy in Illinois; oversee the production of the Council’s
annual report and engage elected officials and government personnel in the issues presented therein.
5. Other Responsibilities: The Policy and Outreach Specialist may be assigned additional duties as determined by the Council Chair and executive committee.

ADMINISTRATIVE RELATIONSHIP: This position reports to the Director of the Illinois Local Food, Farms and Jobs Council in Cooperation with the Co-Chairs of the Council.

APPLICATION PROCESS: Please create your candidate profile at jobs.illinois.edu and upload your letter of interest (that states the job title and search number), current resume, a current writing sample, and names,addresses, and telephone numbers of three current references by: August 25, 2010. All requested information must be submitted for your application to be considered. Applicants may be interviewed prior to the closing date; however, no hiring decision will be made until after that date. For additional information about the position, please contact Sandra Malikowski at 630/505 -0500 x222.

Illinois is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer and welcomes individuals with diverse
backgrounds, experiences, and ideas who embrace and value diversity and inclusivity.
(www.inclusiveillinois.illinois.edu).

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
•       A minimum of ten years experience in senior leadership roles in nonprofit organizations,
•       business, and/or government.
•       Strong outreach skills and knowledge of administrative systems.
•       Knowledge of building networks.
•       Experience with advocacy or lobbying.
•       Excellent interpersonal and oral communication skills.
•       Excellent writing and editing skills.
•       Supervisory experience.
•       Positive team player and successful experience working in coalitions, associations, boards and
•       other cooperative cross-sectoral initiatives.
•       Reliable self-starter, with excellent ability to prioritize multiple responsibilities and meet deadlines.
•       Highly organized, with excellent attention to detail.
•       Windows and internet literacy, and proficiency using Microsoft Word and Excel.
•       A Masters Degree.
•       A commitment to the Council’s work to build local food systems.
•       Ability to travel on a periodic basis and participate in occasional evening/weekend meetings and events.

DESCRIPTION OF THE POSITION: University of Illinois Business Innovation Services is a not-for-profit training and consulting group dedicated to improving processes, efficiencies, and systems in manufacturing, municipalities, businesses, and healthcare with a 27 year track record of success helping organizations to become high performing and sustainable. U of I BIS received a grant to develop Illinois ’local food and farm economy, by creating a vibrant food system”that revitalizes rural and urban communities, promotes healthy eating with access to fresh foods, creates jobs, ensures a readily available supply of safe food in an emergency event, and supports economic growth through making local farm or food products available to all Illinois citizens.” (Illinois Local Food, Farms and Jobs Act of 2009).

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:
1. Fiscal Viability: In partnership with the Council (board of directors), ensure the financial health of the Council through the management of an effective resource development program and sound fiscal management/planning.
2. Administrative Management: Responsible for training and supervision of all staff, volunteers, and interns; work in partnership with executive committee to ensure growth and development, a positive working environment, and a collegial team model. Develop and assist other staff in implementation of effective administrative and management systems.
3. Program Oversight: Ensure that the programmatic activities of the Council are conducted in a thorough, timely and responsive manner. Ensure that the program agenda is responsive to Council’s stated purpose
and priorities. Ensure that all programs are carried out in alignment with the Council’s “core values” and operating guidelines (i.e., subsidiary, noncompetition, and facilitation).
4. Planning and Organization Development: Work with Council members and stakeholders to complete annual and long-range plans for Council; carry out annual evaluations and assessments of the Council’s work according to identified outcomes and indicators; complete organizational incorporation (including bylaws and other legal and organizational documents). 5. Other Responsibilities: The Council Director may be assigned additional duties as determined by the Council Chair and executive committee.

ADMINISTRATIVE RELATIONSHIP: This position reports to the Executive Director of Business Innovation Services, in Naperville, Illinois in coordination with the Co-Chairs of the Illinois Local Food, Farms and Jobs Council.

APPLICATION PROCESS: Please create your candidate profile at jobs.illinois.edu and upload your letter of interest (that states the job title and search number), current resume, a current writing sample, and names, addresses, and telephone numbers of three current references by: August 25, 2010. All requested information must be submitted for your application to be considered. Applicants may be interviewed prior to the closing date; however, no hiring decision will be made until after that date. For additional information about the position, please contact Sandra Malikowski at 630/505 -0500 x222.

Illinois is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer and welcomes individuals with diverse backgrounds, experiences, and ideas who embrace and value diversity and inclusivity. (www.inclusiveillinois.illinois.edu).

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
•       A minimum of ten years experience in senior leadership roles in nonprofit organizations, business, and/or government.
•       Strong management skills and knowledge of administrative systems.
•       Demonstrated experience with strategic planning and evaluation.
•       Successful track record with resource development.
•       Excellent interpersonal and oral communication skills.
•       Excellent writing and editing skills.
•       Supervisory experience.
•       Positive team player and successful experience working in coalitions, associations, boards and
•       other cooperative cross-sectoral initiatives.
•       Reliable self-starter, with excellent ability to prioritize multiple responsibilities and meet deadlines.
•       Highly organized, with excellent attention to detail.
•       Windows and internet literacy, and proficiency using Microsoft Word and Excel.
•       A Masters Degree.
•       A commitment to the Council’s work to build local food systems.
•       Ability to travel on a periodic basis and participate in occasional evening/weekend meetings and events.

The Environmental Law and Policy Center (ELPC) seeks to hire a dedicated public interest attorney advocate with three to six years of trial court and administrative litigation experience for a full-time position in our Columbus, Ohio office. This staff attorney will principally work on: (1) ELPC’s initiatives in Ohio to promote positive clean renewable energy and energy efficiency development solutions to meet energy needs in the regional power market, and help to solve global warming pollution problems; and (2) ELPC’s high-speed rail and other transportation reform policy initiatives in Ohio.

ORGANIZATION:  ELPC is the Midwest’s/Great Plains’ leading public interest environmental legal advocacy and eco-business innovation organization, and among the nation’s leaders.  ELPC’s major program areas include: promoting clean energy development strategies that solve global warming problems and reduce environmental degradation by encouraging renewable energy development and energy efficiency alternatives to conventional power plants; promoting innovative transportation approaches, such as the development of a Midwest high-speed rail network, that will lead to cleaner air and more jobs; and protecting and preserving vital natural resources and improving the quality of life in our communities. One of ELPC’s premises is that environmental progress and economic development can be achieved together.  ELPC’s multidisciplinary professional staff includes 45 attorneys, M.B.A.s, public policy advocates and communications specialists. ELPC is headquartered in Chicago and has additional offices and professional staff in Columbus, OH, Des Moines, IA, Jamestown, ND, Minneapolis, MN, Madison, WI, Sioux Falls, SD, and Washington D.C.  ELPC was established in 1993 and has an annual budget of $6.75 million.  Please see www.elpc.org.

RESPONSIBILITIES:   The Ohio Attorney will work with ELPC’s senior attorneys on litigation and policy initiatives including, ELPC’s Clean Energy and Global Warming Solutions Projects and Transportation and Land Use Reform Project.  The Ohio Attorney will also engage with ELPC’s multidisciplinary project teams including, energy policy advocates, eco-business and communications specialists and others to advance the organization’s policy agenda in the Midwest. The Ohio Attorney will ideally be based in Columbus, Ohio.   

QUALIFICATIONS:  Three to six years of trial court or administrative litigation experience with substantial clean energy knowledge especially preferred.  Strong academic record and excellent writing, speaking and analytical skills.  Smart self-starter with track record of initiative and success.  An inspired and demonstrated commitment to public interest advocacy and the ability to work productively as a member of a fast-paced team of skilled professionals is required.  Licensed to practice in Ohio or willing to become Licensed.

SALARY:  Commensurate with experience and with ELPC’s salary structure that is competitive with other major public interest environmental law organizations.  Excellent benefits provided. 

APPLICATION PROCESS:  Applicants should send a cover letter, resume and professional references by email to: OhioAttorney@elpc.org.  Telephone inquiries are discouraged.  The Environmental Law & Policy Center is an equal opportunity employer and is continually seeking to diversify its staff.

The Environmental Law and Policy Center (ELPC) seeks to hire a full-time transportation policy advocate.   This policy advocate will work to promote environmentally sustainable transportation policies and projects around the Midwest, including development a Midwest High-Speed Rail Network.

ORGANIZATION:  ELPC is the Midwest’s leading public interest environmental legal advocacy and eco-business innovation organization.  ELPC’s major program areas include: promoting clean energy development strategies that solve global warming problems and reduce environmental degradation by encouraging renewable energy development and energy efficiency alternatives to conventional power plants; promoting innovative transportation approaches that will lead to cleaner air and more jobs; and protecting and preserving critical natural resources and improving the quality of life in our communities. One of ELPC’s premises is that environmental progress and economic development can be achieved together.  ELPC’s multidisciplinary professional staff includes 40 attorneys, M.B.A.s, public policy advocates and communications specialists. ELPC is headquartered in Chicago and has additional offices and staff in Columbus, Ohio; Des Moines, Iowa; Jamestown, North Dakota; Sioux Falls, South Dakota; Madison, Wisconsin; and Washington, DC.  ELPC was established in 1993 and has an annual budget of $6.7 million.   For more information, please see www.elpc.org.

RESPONSIBILITIES:   The policy advocate will work with ELPC’s Deputy Director and other members of ELPC’s transportation team to promote environmentally sustainable transportation policies and projects around the Midwest.  Responsibilities include public education and outreach, policy research and development, policy advocacy and grassroots organizing in support of a Midwest High-Speed Rail Network and other transportation projects and policies.  The policy advocate will be engaged in work on statewide, regional, and national transportation reform. This position requires occasional travel throughout the Midwest.  

QUALIFICATIONS:  Candidates should have at least two years of experience in policy analysis and advocacy and should understand and enjoy strategic advocacy that involves media, legislative, policy analysis and organizing.  Candidates should have strong academic records, excellent oral communication and writing skills, strong analytic abilities and a demonstrated interest in public interest and environmental advocacy.  An inspired and demonstrated commitment to public interest advocacy and the ability to work productively as a member of a team of skilled professionals is required.

SALARY:  Commensurate with experience and with ELPC’s salary structure that is competitive with other large public interest environmental organizations.  Excellent benefits provided.

APPLICATION PROCESS:  Applicants should send a cover letter, resume and professional references by regular mail or email to:  Fidelia Gaines, Administrative Assistant, Environmental Law & Policy Center, 35 East Wacker Drive, Suite 1600, Chicago, IL  60601, or Email:  Fgaines@elpc.org.   Telephone inquiries are discouraged.  The Environmental Law & Policy Center is an equal opportunity employer and is continually seeking to diversify its staff.

CROPP Cooperative (Organic Valley and Organic Prairie brands) is seeking a Social Media Specialist to complement its Interactive Marketing Team.
The ideal candidate for the Social Media Specialist position is tech and net-savvy and loves interacting with people, both in person and online. You are knowledgeable about organic farming, cooperatives, nutrition, health and sustainability, and these issues are important to you. You are exceptionally well qualified to fuse our unique farmer-owned brand personas to the social space and are prepared to make an impact quickly. You are thrilled about the prospect of interacting with people on blogs, microblogs, social networks, media sharing sites and other online communitieson behalf of CROPPs nationally recognized brands (Organic Valley and Organic Prairie). The challenge to develop and execute strategies that will grow CROPPs social communities and make them more valuable to the cooperative is exciting to you.
You understand the need to validate your work and will develop useful social engagement analytics and provide regular reports regarding your social media efforts. You have the intelligence, instincts and experience required to understand the complexity and uniqueness of CROPP Cooperatives structure, history and mission, and you will have demonstrated professional experience communicating with the public about those types of issues.
Strong writing skills and very good technical capabilities are required for this position. Close collaboration with internal stakeholders is a fundamental element of your position at CROPP; your ability to effectively work with others and understand diverse viewpoints is critical. You should be the type of person who enjoys bringing clever and creative ideas to the table. CROPP expects you to be a self-reliant innovator who can effectively work independently with limited supervision.

Duties:
- Understand and articulate CROPPs mission, including why it is unique, important and worthwhile.
- Collaborate with a variety of internal individuals and groups in order to help achieve shared cooperative goals.
- Assume a role as the primary day-to-day voice for CROPP and its brand in the social media space, engaging in dialogue, answering questions, and offering helpful advice.
- Plan and implement social marketing campaigns, including advocacy initiatives, marketing/new concepts, community-building efforts and promotions.
- Create, obtain and/or coordinate content for all social media campaigns.
- Communicate key themes and messages that support the cooperatives mission, marketing programs, product launches, campaigns, etc.
- Listen to and monitor all social media outlets and respond in a timely and effective manner where appropriate.
- Develop and maintain content calendars for all social media vehicles and synchronize them with overarching CROPP marketing initiatives.
- Establish a social engagement analytics system to measure our social media efforts to determine those that are working and those that need to be improved and/or replaced.
- Recommend new social tools and techniques as technology and methods emerge or evolve.
- Identify emerging social mobile trends and help position the cooperative to leverage them.
- Work closely with PR team to ensure CROPPs public relations efforts are properly supported.
- Work closely with interactive team members to ensure that all online marketing endeavors are properly synchronized.

Additional Duties and Responsibilities:
- Other duties as assigned by supervisor.

Qualifications:
- Professional experience with organic food, farming, sustainability, health and nutrition preferred.
- Excellent writer with a clear understanding of audience, tone and nuance.
- Ability to think strategically and act tactically.
- Self-starter with the ability to work collaboratively with others and under limited supervision.
- Strong social media experience required.
- A probing sense of curiosity  someone who will question the status quo.
- Actively engaged in social media and technology.
- Ability to write quickly and well on deadline.
- Able to bring many ideas to the table, run with the ones that work, and dispose of the ones that dont.
- Ability to jump from the creative to the analytical as required.
- A critical thinker who dwells comfortably and passionately in the world of social media.
- Collaborative and comfortable in dynamic corporate environs.
- Innate passion for communicating through new media channels and understanding what motivates people to engage in social media.
- Strong project management skills.
- Ideally with communication and/or journalism background.
- Ability to travel as needed.

Reports to:
Interactive Marketing Manager

Job Status:
Regular, Full-Time

Wage:
D.O.E.

Location:
La Farge, WI

To apply visit the job listing at the following link: http://ov.coop/2ph

This newly created position will manage the identification, cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship of individual supporters at all gift levels. This will include collaboration with board members, the executive director, program staff, development director, and our communications department. Fresh Energy continues to experience steady growth in its base of individual supporters. We are seeking an accomplished fund raising professional to design and implement a comprehensive program that will build upon this success and create long-term growth.

Qualifications

 At a minimum, the position requires a bachelor’s degree plus significant experience and demonstrated success managing a similar effort. Experience with Raiser’s Edge is preferred. Competitive salary based upon qualifications plus benefits package including life, health, dental, and disability insurance, tax-deferred retirement plan, and a transit use subsidy.

Applications will be accepted until the position is filled.

Email resume and cover letter to:

Bob Fitzwilliam, Deputy Director
 fitzwilliam@fresh-energy.org

No phone calls, please.

COWS is about to launch a new project called the State Smart Transportation Initiative (SSTI). Current transportation policy and practices are draining public budgets, degrading the environment, worsening inequality, retarding competitiveness, and failing most measures of efficient democratic government project on transportation reform. SSTI aims to reform current U.S. transportation policy and practice from the ground of state and local transportation decisions up. Most transportation decisions are made at the state or local level, either by the state and local governments, or by individual and firms navigating the built environment those governments create. Many state and local transportation decision-makers (e.g., DOT CEOs, MPO and transit authority executives, Governors, Mayors, and County Executives) recognize the deficiencies of current practice, and they support Smart Transportation (ST) policies and practices that meet mobility needs without compromising achievement of high-road ends, but they need help in implementation.

The SSTI aims to provide that help. SSTI will convene ST-supporting transportation decision-makers as a community of practice, provide members of that community with technical assistance in implementing transformative and replicable ST reforms, and communicate the results in national discussion

SSTI will employ up to two staff members as policy analyst/outreach specialists. These staff members, reporting to SSTI’s director and managing director, will:
- Perform policy research to help inform decisions of the SSTI executive board, especially in its vetting of state DOT proposals for Technical Assistance
- Support the community of practice discussions, with policy advice either by own research, or gaining input from external expertise.
- Help provide technical assistance to states in concert with SSTIs contracted technical assistance providers.
- Compile and disseminate policy innovation and best practice information for SSTI states.
- Produce content for and maintain the SSTI web site.
- Take a leading role in providing points of contact to the states as needed.
- Support the managing director in tracking progress of Technical Assistance providers deployed to various states.
- Work with and advise the managing director in organizing the content of board and community of practice meetings.
- Provide other policy and communication support as needed.
    A criminal background check will be conducted prior to hiring.
    A period of evaluation will be required
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                                                            Appointment type:
                                                  Academic Staff
                                                                            Department(s):
                                                  L&S/SOCIOLOGY
                                                                            Full time salary rate:
                                                  Minimum $42,000 ANNUAL (12 months)
            Depending on Qualifications
                                                                            Term:
                                                  This is a renewable appointment.
                                                                            Appointment percent:
                                                  80% – 100%
                                                                            Anticipated begin date:
                                                  AUGUST 30, 2010
                                                                            Number of positions:
                                                  2
                                                TO ENSURE CONSIDERATION
    Application must be received by: AUGUST 25, 2010
    HOW TO APPLY:
    Unless another application procedure has been specified above, please send resume and cover letter referring to Position Vacancy Listing #64850 to
                                                            Matthew Wyndham
                                                  Phone: 608-265-8665
                                                                            Center on Wisconsin Strategy
                                                  Fax: N/A
                                                                            1180 Observatory Drive, Suite 7122
                                                  Email: mwyndham@cows.org
                                                                            Madison, WI 53706

    Relay Access (WTRS): 7-1-1 (out-of-state: TTY: 800.947.3529, STS: 800.833.7637) and above Phone number (See http://www.wisconsinrelay.com/ for further information. )
    NOTE: Unless confidentiality is requested in writing, information regarding the names of applicants must be released upon request. Finalists cannot be guaranteed confidentiality.
    UW-Madison is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. We promote excellence through diversity and encourage all qualified individuals to apply.

ORGANIZATION: ELPC is the Midwest’s leading public interest environmental legal advocacy and eco-business innovation organization. ELPC’s major program areas include: promoting clean energy development strategies that help solve global warming problems and reduce environmental degradation by encouraging energy efficiency and renewable energy alternatives to conventional power plants; promoting innovative transportation approaches, such as the development of a Midwest high-speed rail network, that will lead to cleaner air and more jobs; and protecting and preserving critical natural resources that improve the quality of life in our communities. ELPC’s primary mission is to achieve environmental progress and economic development together. ELPC’s multidisciplinary professional staff includes 40 attorneys, M.B.A.s, public policy advocates and communications specialists. ELPC has offices located in Chicago, IL, Des Moines, IA, Jamestown, ND, Sioux Falls, SD, Columbus, OH, Madison, WI, Minneapolis, MN, and Washington, D.C. ELPC was established in 1993 and has an annual budget of $6.7 million. For more information, please see www.elpc.org.

RESPONSIBILITIES: The Development Associate – Foundations works closely with ELPC’s Development Team and Executive Director to raise support from foundations. This job focuses on marketing ELPC’s mix of policy and legal advocacy projects to national , regional, state, and local foundations, and includes: (1) Identifying foundation prospects; (2) Work with program staff to develop grant proposal content; (3) Drafting and revising full grant proposals and letters of inquiry; (4) Writing reports to funders; and (5) Working with other members of the development team to evaluate and plan long-term development activities.

QUALIFICATIONS:  Candidates should have a Bachelor’s degree, and at least three years of development experience, preferably in the environmental sector. Prior job experience writing  persuasive documents (e.g., journalism, policy advocacy work) are a plus.  The successful candidate will have an entrepreneurial approach to fundraising, excellent interpersonal and communication skills, and a passion for ELPC’s mission and vision.   He or she must be able to work productively with a team of skilled professionals in a fast-paced deadline-driven environment where attention to details and follow-through is critical.

SALARY:  Commensurate with experience and with ELPC’s salary structure that is competitive with other major public interest environmental organizations.  Excellent benefits provided.

APPLICATION PROCESS:  Applicants should send a: (1) cover letter, (2) resume; (3) contact information for two professional references; (4) salary history; and (5) writing sample to:  DevAssociate@elpc.org.  Telephone inquiries are discouraged.  ELPC is an equal opportunity employer and is continually seeking to diversify its staff.

The Environmental Law and Policy Center (“ELPC”) seeks to hire a public interest attorney advocate who is a recent law school graduate for a one-year Environmental Attorney Fellow position in one of our Chicago, Des Moines or Minneapolis offices starting in Fall 2011.  The Environmental Attorney Fellow will work on ELPC’s environmental litigation and policy issues in the Midwest/Great Plains states and on related federal issues. The Fellow will begin with an orientation process in ELPC’s Chicago office.  The Fellowship position is potentially renewable for a second year.
 
ORGANIZATION:  ELPC is the Midwest’s/Great Plains’ leading public interest environmental legal advocacy and eco-business innovation organization.  ELPC is headquartered in Chicago and has additional offices and staff in Des Moines, Iowa; Jamestown, North Dakota; Sioux Falls, South Dakota; and Madison, Wisconsin, and Ohio.  ELPC’s major program areas include: promoting clean energy development strategies that solve global warming problems and reduce environmental degradation by encouraging renewable energy development and energy efficiency alternatives to conventional power plants; promoting innovative transportation approaches that will lead to cleaner air and more jobs; and protecting and preserving critical natural resources and improving the quality of life in our communities. One of ELPC’s premises is that environmental progress and economic development can be achieved together.  ELPC’s multidisciplinary professional staff includes 45 attorneys, M.B.A.s, public policy advocates and communications specialists. ELPC was established in 1993 and has an annual budget of $6.75 million.  Please see ELPC’s website for additional information at www.elpc.org.

RESPONSIBILITIES:   Work with ELPC’s Executive Director and Senior Attorneys on litigation and policy initiatives for ELPC’s Clean Energy and Global Warming Solutions Projects, Transportation and Land Use Reform Project, and Wild and Natural Places Preservation Project activities.  Assist on special projects. Participate as member of multidisciplinary project teams of policy advocates, communications specialists and organizers.

QUALIFICATIONS:  Recent law school graduate, including attorneys who are completing judicial clerkships or have no more than two years of other legal practice.  Strong academic record and excellent writing, speaking and analytical skills.  Smart self-starter with track record of initiative and success.  Interest in and substantive law and policy knowledge in at least one of the following fields: energy, environmental, transportation, air quality, land use and/or natural resources law. The attorney should also understand and enjoy multifaceted public policy strategic advocacy that involves media, legislative, policy analysis and organizing approaches coordinated with strong and effective legal advocacy. An inspired and demonstrated commitment to public interest advocacy and an ability to work productively as a member of a team of skilled professionals is required.

SALARY:  $48,000 annual salary for the fellowship for new law school graduates, plus excellent benefits.  ELPC encourages applicants to seek funding that will help to support their salary (in full or part) from sources such as law schools’ grants for post-graduate public interest law work, Equal Justice Works and others.

APPLICATION PROCESS:  Applicants should send a cover letter, resume and professional references by email to:  LawFellowship@elpc.org.   Telephone inquiries are discouraged.  The Environmental Law and Policy Center is an equal opportunity employer and is continually seeking to diversify its staff.  (Posted 7/15/2010)

Salary and Benefits: Depends on experience. Benefits include: generous vacation & holiday pay; health and dental insurance, employer contribution to 403(b) (retirement) plan.

Details of Position:
Work with Director of Development, Executive Director and senior program staff to set and achieve fundraising goals. Maximize revenue from foundations, corporate and government sources. Write grant proposals, reports, letters of inquiry, and acknowledgment letters. Create and manage grant budgets. Monitor compliance with grant deliverables. Convene post grant acceptance meetings with appropriate staff to finalize implementation and reporting schedules and responsibilities. Actively research and pursue new funding prospects. Maintain contact with funders to communicate progress of programs, arrange site visits, and explore funding opportunities. Collaborate with other staff members to develop proposals for organization-wide and program-specific requests. Participate in and support fundraising events throughout the course of the year.

Qualifications and Desirable Skills:
2-3 years non-profit grant-writing experience; natural resources background a plus. Excellent research, writing, proof reading, editing, planning, conceptual and strategic thinking skills. Ability to communicate in a compelling and succinct manner. Solid understanding of financial reporting and budgeting. Ability to communicate and work with diverse constituents, including funders, Board members, and community group leaders. Ability to manage multiple projects and meet deadlines. Well organized, self-starter, and team oriented. Familiar with grassroots organizing, lobbying, and media relations.

Application process: Please submit a cover letter, a resume detailing education, work experience and skills, three professional references with contact information (phone and e-mail) and a sample of professional writing.

Submit complete application materials to: Becky Bains, Clean Wisconsin, 122 State Street STE 200, Madison, WI
53703 or bbains@cleanwisconsin.org by July 27, 2010.