TreePeople is an environmental nonprofit organization that is mobilizing people, business, philanthropists, and public agencies to work together to create green, resilient communities by planting trees, capturing the rainwater, greening schools and providing fun environmental educational activities. We inspire, engage and support the community to increase the urban tree canopy and address climate threats and environmental justice in Los Angeles and across the region.
With more than 6.2 million students in California K-12 public schools and over 20% of Los Angeles County’s 10 million residents under the age of 18, young people have held and will continue to hold a critical role in combating climate change and environmental injustice. TreePeople is determined to engage, empower and support millions of young people to take action to build healthy and equitable communities.
TreePeople is seeking an energetic, environment passionate Youth Leadership Coordinator familiar with Los Angeles County, specifically in the south and central region, to join our team. This program focuses on inspiring, engaging, training and supporting students in grades 6 - 12 to become leaders in their communities and agents for climate resilience and change. The ideal candidate must be a community-oriented individual who is adept at mobilizing and prioritizing the needs of students and teachers and have a strong commitment to improving the environment through education. This position will work closely with teachers and student groups in classes, on-campus environmental (eco) clubs, after school groups, community groups and with young people who are leaders in their communities or schools. In addition, this position is responsible for implementing current and future requirements for multiple funding sources.
Generation Earth:
The largest Secondary Student Environmental Education Program in the county, Generation Earth (GE) is TreePeople’s Environmental Service Learning program that catalyzes student environmental improvement projects in schools in collaboration with the Los Angeles County Department of Public Works. For over 25 years, TreePeople has implemented the GE program, serving approximately 15,000 middle and high school students across Los Angeles County annually.
Responsibilities
- Recruit, engage and support students around Los Angeles to participate in Environmental Education Curriculum in and out of the classroom: to promote sustainability in their schools and communities through the Generation Earth contract.
- Provide resources and tools to teachers across Los Angeles County to empower students to become environmental stewards.
- Develop, implement and lead 3 teacher workshops and support 6 additional workshops per year.
- Assist in development and implementation of large-scale events such as the Youth Summit and Summer Institute.
- Assist individual youth leaders to connect with GE and TreePeople opportunities and take on leadership roles in improving the environment and addressing climate change and eco-anxiety in their community.
- Support and facilitate the creation of GE EcoClubs in schools, including guiding the election and project selection processes. Maintain eco-clubs through on-going support.
- Support student project management, including guiding them through completing administrative and logistical tasks necessary for project completion.
- Maintain Youth Leadership programs operations through various administrative and creative tasks.
- Assist in administering evaluation instruments and collecting assessment data.
- Track and report on projects and program data on a daily, weekly and monthly basis in SalesForce with timely and accurate input.
- Write and produce high-caliber and professional memorandums, correspondence and reports.
- Initiate, coordinate and implement a minimum of 10 presentations, service learning projects and/or field trips per month.
- Create new content for in-class presentations and service learning projects on waste, water and forestry topics.
- Represent TreePeople in the community.
- Other duties as assigned.
- Maintain annual professional development goals.
