The Student PIRGs are hiring an Organizer to join our team in helping build a powerful student movement in to tackle today's most pressing political issues like climate change, college affordability, and poverty!
ABOUT US
The Student PIRGs work outside the classroom to take on pressing social problems. On any college campus, you find students who want to stop global warming, are fed up with big money in politics, and are driven to alleviate hunger and homelessness across the country. Students have always been a powerful force for change in social movements, so we seek to win campaigns on profound issues while simultaneously training the next generation of student leaders.
BACKGROUND
The organizer in Eugene will help run grassroots organizing campaign on these two issues:
Climate Change
The consequences of global warming are apparent. Nobody wants our kids to inherit a world where droughts, heat waves, severe storms and flooding are the new normal. The National Climate Assessment released in May highlights the immediacy of this issue: "Climate change, once considered an issue for a distant future, has moved firmly into the present."
Oregon could produce 30 times the amount of solar energy it does today by 2025, preventing 3.8 million tons of carbon dioxide pollution. That's the equivalent of 250,000 solar rooftops. Thousands of Oregonians are already working at solar companies and our state houses the nation's largest solar panel manufacturing plant--but we're falling behind states like New Jersey, Colorado, and Massachusetts. With the right policies in place, Oregon can help power a quarter of a million homes with pollution-free energy that never runs out and only gets cheaper over time, while creating jobs in our state. So we are working to put political pressure on the governor to pledge to put Oregon on a path to 250,000 solar roofs by 2025.
Stopping the Overuse of Antibiotics
When big farming operations discovered that giving antibiotics to healthy animals could prevent illness while making them fatter, faster, many of them started putting antibiotics into the daily feed of all their livestock, sick or not. The result? Bacteria that come into contact with these animals develop antibiotic resistance, and the infections these bacteria cause -- everything from pneumonia to serious infections like MRSA — become harder and harder to treat.
Millions of Americans rely on antibiotics every day to treat everything from simple ear infections, to serious and potentially life-threatening illnesses like pneumonia. But there is growing concern among public health officials, including from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), that the overuse of antibiotics renders medicines like penicillin less and less effective over time.
Believe it or not, the largest users of antibiotics are not people with infections. In fact, up to 80 percent of all antibiotics sold in the U.S. are used on animals. Factory farming operations routinely mix huge quantities of antibiotics into the feed they give to healthy livestock. The CDC recently warned that much of the use of antibiotics on factory farms is "unnecessary and inappropriate and makes everyone less safe."
Stopping the overuse of antibiotics on factory farms is common sense. But big agribusinesses and the pharmaceutical industry are pushing back against any change. So we are building a movement all across the country, to unite the tens of thousands voices that it will take to convince the Obama administration to act.
ABOUT THE EUGENE ORGANIZER
As the Organizer based on the University of Oregon campus in Eugene, your job is to recruit passionate students to get involved — and to train them to be effective leaders who can run campaigns that make an impact in the community, in the state capitol, in Congress, at the White House, or wherever it will make a difference.
Our Campus Organizers don't sit behind a desk. You'll be out in the real world—recruiting new students to join the chapter, teaching current student leaders how to organize and run an issue campaign, organizing a news event or rally, or doing whatever else it takes to empower students to solve problems in our communities and in our country and to win your organizing drive campaigns.
We think about winning and building. We want to win on climate change and public health, and recruiting student volunteers to the campaign will help us win. At the same time we can build a movement- these campaigns can be training grounds for passionate and political students to learn the skills to become life-long activists and win on even more issues in the future. The Eugene campus organizer needs to be a fighter- the job requires winning really tough campaigns and political fights, and building real student power!
RESPONSIBILITIES
QUALIFICATIONS
HOW TO APPLY
The Organizer will start January 5th. To find out more and apply go to http://jobs.studentpirgs.org. To apply candidates should submit a cover letter and resume to the website, as well as to kat@ospirgstudents.org with the subject "Eugene Campus Organizer application." If you are good match, we will contact you with next steps.
ABOUT US
The Student PIRGs work outside the classroom to take on pressing social problems. On any college campus, you find students who want to stop global warming, are fed up with big money in politics, and are driven to alleviate hunger and homelessness across the country. Students have always been a powerful force for change in social movements, so we seek to win campaigns on profound issues while simultaneously training the next generation of student leaders.
BACKGROUND
The organizer in Eugene will help run grassroots organizing campaign on these two issues:
Climate Change
The consequences of global warming are apparent. Nobody wants our kids to inherit a world where droughts, heat waves, severe storms and flooding are the new normal. The National Climate Assessment released in May highlights the immediacy of this issue: "Climate change, once considered an issue for a distant future, has moved firmly into the present."
Oregon could produce 30 times the amount of solar energy it does today by 2025, preventing 3.8 million tons of carbon dioxide pollution. That's the equivalent of 250,000 solar rooftops. Thousands of Oregonians are already working at solar companies and our state houses the nation's largest solar panel manufacturing plant--but we're falling behind states like New Jersey, Colorado, and Massachusetts. With the right policies in place, Oregon can help power a quarter of a million homes with pollution-free energy that never runs out and only gets cheaper over time, while creating jobs in our state. So we are working to put political pressure on the governor to pledge to put Oregon on a path to 250,000 solar roofs by 2025.
Stopping the Overuse of Antibiotics
When big farming operations discovered that giving antibiotics to healthy animals could prevent illness while making them fatter, faster, many of them started putting antibiotics into the daily feed of all their livestock, sick or not. The result? Bacteria that come into contact with these animals develop antibiotic resistance, and the infections these bacteria cause -- everything from pneumonia to serious infections like MRSA — become harder and harder to treat.
Millions of Americans rely on antibiotics every day to treat everything from simple ear infections, to serious and potentially life-threatening illnesses like pneumonia. But there is growing concern among public health officials, including from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), that the overuse of antibiotics renders medicines like penicillin less and less effective over time.
Believe it or not, the largest users of antibiotics are not people with infections. In fact, up to 80 percent of all antibiotics sold in the U.S. are used on animals. Factory farming operations routinely mix huge quantities of antibiotics into the feed they give to healthy livestock. The CDC recently warned that much of the use of antibiotics on factory farms is "unnecessary and inappropriate and makes everyone less safe."
Stopping the overuse of antibiotics on factory farms is common sense. But big agribusinesses and the pharmaceutical industry are pushing back against any change. So we are building a movement all across the country, to unite the tens of thousands voices that it will take to convince the Obama administration to act.
ABOUT THE EUGENE ORGANIZER
As the Organizer based on the University of Oregon campus in Eugene, your job is to recruit passionate students to get involved — and to train them to be effective leaders who can run campaigns that make an impact in the community, in the state capitol, in Congress, at the White House, or wherever it will make a difference.
Our Campus Organizers don't sit behind a desk. You'll be out in the real world—recruiting new students to join the chapter, teaching current student leaders how to organize and run an issue campaign, organizing a news event or rally, or doing whatever else it takes to empower students to solve problems in our communities and in our country and to win your organizing drive campaigns.
We think about winning and building. We want to win on climate change and public health, and recruiting student volunteers to the campaign will help us win. At the same time we can build a movement- these campaigns can be training grounds for passionate and political students to learn the skills to become life-long activists and win on even more issues in the future. The Eugene campus organizer needs to be a fighter- the job requires winning really tough campaigns and political fights, and building real student power!
RESPONSIBILITIES
· Recruiting hundreds of students to volunteer
· Teaching students to plan and run effective campaigns through internship classes and on-the-ground training
· Building relationships with faculty and administrators and key political power players
· Helping win policy reform on our solar and public health organizing drives
· Organizing news events and rallies, and generating the grassroots support it takes to win these campaigns
· During the summer, each Campus Organizer runs a citizen outreach office. This entails fundraising and building the organization, by canvassing and training others to canvass.
QUALIFICATIONS
· 1+ years of organizing experience (university or work experience)
· Strong work ethic
· Outstanding verbal and written communication
· Proven leadership skills or demonstrated experience in organizing or political campaigns
· Strong commitment to getting results
· Passion for making positive social change
· Basic knowledge of campaigns or campaign planning
· Ability to connect with different types of people and constituency groups
· Demonstrated ability to work well both in teams and independently
· Problem-solver and goal-oriented
The Organizer will start January 5th. To find out more and apply go to http://jobs.studentpirgs.org. To apply candidates should submit a cover letter and resume to the website, as well as to kat@ospirgstudents.org with the subject "Eugene Campus Organizer application." If you are good match, we will contact you with next steps.