GreenDorchester (Dorchester Environmental Health Coalition)

We are hiring! Looking for interns and other staff, including a full-time Membership & Communications Assistant and part-time community environmental outreach interns. Please call DEHC for details 617-474-1478.

Dorchester Bay Economic Development Corporation (DBEDC) is hiring a Renew Boston Neighborhood Network Coordinator.  The Renew Boston program, a service of the City of Boston in partnership with NSTAR and National Grid, is the nation’s first partnership between municipal government and investor-owned utilities for co-delivery of energy efficiency home improvements. Continue Reading »

The Dorchester Environmental Health Coalition (DEHC) is seeking a Membership & Communications Assistant to help coordinate membership and manage the dehc.org website, information dissemination and media efforts. This position Continue Reading »

Opportunities coming across our desk – employment, internships, tutoring, part-time, full-time, volunteering – please check out these latest links below, and please let us know about others? 
DEHC is also always looking for interns and volunteer help, see these internship opportunities to work with DEHC.

• Alternatives for Community & Environment volunteer opportunities
• Arnold Arboretum jobs and internships
• Boston Natural Areas Network Garden Educator position
• Boston Youth Environmental Network 
• Franklin Park Zoo employment
• Mass Audubon jobs
• Sustainable Food Jobs all over the U.S.
• The Trustees of Reservations employment openings

Job Opportunity plucked from the EnviroNetwork:
theMOVE (the MA Outdoor Volunteer Experience) is seeking out someone stellar to serve as our new (part-time) PROGRAM COORDINATOR.

POSITION: Program Coordinator (part-time)
ORGANIZATION: theMOVE (the MA Outdoor Volunteer Experience) COMPENSATION: Monthly stipend (calculated at $12-15 per hour depending on experience)
HOURS: 8-12 hours per week (flexible scheduling)
DATES: Starting ASAP and ending mid-November

theMOVE works to create a more engaged public citizenry, through farm-based social justice experiential learning. We do this by organizing reflective farm-volunteer trips for diverse groups throughout the Boston area. We organize these trips for community groups (both youth and adult), and we also set up open signup trips for individual adults and families. Our belief is that performing a bit of work on a farm – for many reasons – is an ideal platform for developing a greater understanding of our local and global connections as consumers (and producers). Continue Reading »

Bikes Not Bombs (BNB) provides community-based education and assists development projects with recycled bicycles, related technologies and technical assistance as concrete alternatives to the militarism, over-consumption and inequality that breed war and environmental destruction.

BNB’s Bicycle Recycling and Youth Training Center offers six unique, high-quality programs that empower and organize youth and their families to work towards long-term change.
Bikes Not Bombs (BNB) seeks to hire a Youth Development Coordinator to oversee our youth programs. This is a full-time, salaried position with benefits. Salary range is $30,000 – 32,000.

Responsibilities
* Practice peer supervision with Youth Programs Coordinator.
* Plan and facilitate regular team meetings with Youth Programs Team.
* Act as Youth Programs Team liaison, by reporting regularly to Executive Director about program results and needs.
* In collaboration with Youth Programs Coordinator, recruit, hire, train, supervise, evaluate and support the professional development and growth of youth staff (10-13 during the school year, 20-25 during the summer).
* Ensure that volunteer and intern needs are met for all youth programs.
* Oversee and ensure timely data entry for …please click here for complete information on this job listing.

The Green & Grow Apprentice Program is a workforce development program that helps young Bostonians become effective and reliable employees through working and learning in an urban park. The program combines job readiness training with career exploration, environmental education, academic support, team-building, personal attention from mentors and attractive compensation. The Green & Grow Apprentice Program runs after school on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays as well as on Saturdays, for ten months during the school year.
Program Overview:
Green & Grow Apprentices:
• work directly with Conservancy staff to gain hands-on experience in horticulture, park maintenance and event management Continue Reading »

In May 2010, DEHC began an Air Quality Project to study the effects of the Dorchester Avenue Transportation Improvement Project on air quality affecting travelers and residents on and near the Avenue.  We have finished collecting preliminary air quality data (ultrafine particles) at locations along Dorchester Avenue, and we are now working with CHANGE (Consulting for Health, Air, Nature & Greener Environment) to analyze the data, which we will release on the dehc.org website.  (Click here to view the presentation about air quality we created for Upward Bound and Elmhurst Street Park youth.)

This data will help identify local pollution hotspots, and may help guide other large-scale construction projects that could have air quality impacts in Boston’s neighborhoods.

In addition to DEHC’s air quality project, the Community Assessment of Freeway Exposure and Health (CAFEH), will begin a study of Dorchester’s air quality in September 2010.  CAFEH is a project by Tufts University researchers and  Continue Reading »

Boston Project Ministries is looking for a Structural Engineer:

“We would like to add a large rooftop vegetable and flower garden to The Boston Project’s garage to help with food costs, improve the environment, and to be an example in our city.  Our current need is for a structural engineer to examine the garage to assess if it can handle the weight of a garden.

If you know of someone in this field who would have interest in this volunteer project, please help connect us.  Contact Paul with any recommendations.  Future opportunities to volunteer with this project exist as well.”

The Community Assessment of Freeway Exposure and Health seeks a Community Outreach Worker:

“We seek committed and mature people who want to make a difference and care about the health and safety of their community. This initiative will study health effects as well as the knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs participants have about highway pollution. Educational information will be developed about possible health risk from highway pollution. The ideal candidates for these positions are people who communicate clearly and enjoy working with and listen to others.”

See the full job description for contact information: CAFEH Boston Dorchester Job Flyer.

The Boston Youth Environmental Network is advertising local paid internships with the Student Conservation Association, including at ReVision House Urban Farm, Boston Bikes and for ACE.