The Public Interest Network
Austin, TX, USA
As a Field Office Director, you will run your own canvass office and work on campaigns with groups like Environment America and U.S. PIRG. You’ll recruit supporters, raise money and mobilize thousands of people to take action. Being a director requires that you work independently, exercise good judgment and work hard to meet the office’s staffing, campaign, and fieldwork goals. You’ll build the people power it takes to create positive change. You could work on issues like tackling climate change, stopping throw-away plastics from polluting our oceans, powering more of our cities and states with clean energy like wind and solar power, and more. We are hiring for immediate positions as well as positions beginning August 2020.
You should apply to work with us if you want to:
Canvass and Raise Money
Directors canvass three to four times a week
Train new staff in the field
Raise money
Identify and activate members
Educate the public on the issues
Run the Office
Oversee administrative functions related to campaign goals, staff management, fundraising and membership development, and general office management
Ensure that funds raised and member information collected gets to the partner organizations
Complete your staff’s payroll accurately and in a timely fashion
Recruit, Train and Manage Staff
Recruit, hire and manage a campaign staff of 10-40 canvassers
Train staff on effective canvassing and campaigning techniques
Run staff meetings and skills trainings
Evaluate staff performance and give ongoing feedback
Identify strong staff, teach them leadership skills and promote from within
Meet the Goals for Your Campaign
Reach or exceed your office’s fundraising and membership goals. Most offices have goals of educating 100,000 people, gathering 35,000 political actions, raising $250,000 and identifying 5,000 members each year.
Qualifications
We are looking for college graduates who have leadership experience and excellent communication skills, and who are willing to work hard to make lasting, positive change on important issues.
Training
We have an excellent training program—it’s one of the things for which we’re most widely recognized. All positions have a month-long initial training, most of which is spent working in an existing field office and getting hands-on training. After that, we follow up with a classroom-style training.
Throughout the year, new and experienced canvass directors will participate in advanced trainings on staff management, canvassing, campaign strategy, media and public speaking.
Locations
We work on the campaigns and the issues that we think are the most pressing and set up our ground operations where we think we can make the biggest difference. We are running campaigns in CA, CO, CT, FL, GA, IL, MA, ME, MD, MI, MN, NC, NJ, NM, NY, OH, OR, PA, TX, VA, WA, WI, and Washington, D.C.
Pay and Benefits
The target annual compensation for Field Office Directors is $28,000-$31,500 in the first year, depending on the position. The Fund offers a competitive benefits package. We also offer an excellent training program and opportunities for advancement.
Things To Know When You Apply
Fund for the Public Interest has a vision of a better future, a set of core values, and a strategic approach to making positive change. Visit https://fundforthepublicinterest.org/core-values.html for things you should know about our organization when you apply.
Fund for the Public Interest is an equal opportunity employer.
Los Angeles-based positions: Fund for the Public Interest will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring.
As a Field Office Director, you will run your own canvass office and work on campaigns with groups like Environment America and U.S. PIRG. You’ll recruit supporters, raise money and mobilize thousands of people to take action. Being a director requires that you work independently, exercise good judgment and work hard to meet the office’s staffing, campaign, and fieldwork goals. You’ll build the people power it takes to create positive change. You could work on issues like tackling climate change, stopping throw-away plastics from polluting our oceans, powering more of our cities and states with clean energy like wind and solar power, and more. We are hiring for immediate positions as well as positions beginning August 2020.
You should apply to work with us if you want to:
Canvass and Raise Money
Directors canvass three to four times a week
Train new staff in the field
Raise money
Identify and activate members
Educate the public on the issues
Run the Office
Oversee administrative functions related to campaign goals, staff management, fundraising and membership development, and general office management
Ensure that funds raised and member information collected gets to the partner organizations
Complete your staff’s payroll accurately and in a timely fashion
Recruit, Train and Manage Staff
Recruit, hire and manage a campaign staff of 10-40 canvassers
Train staff on effective canvassing and campaigning techniques
Run staff meetings and skills trainings
Evaluate staff performance and give ongoing feedback
Identify strong staff, teach them leadership skills and promote from within
Meet the Goals for Your Campaign
Reach or exceed your office’s fundraising and membership goals. Most offices have goals of educating 100,000 people, gathering 35,000 political actions, raising $250,000 and identifying 5,000 members each year.
Qualifications
We are looking for college graduates who have leadership experience and excellent communication skills, and who are willing to work hard to make lasting, positive change on important issues.
Training
We have an excellent training program—it’s one of the things for which we’re most widely recognized. All positions have a month-long initial training, most of which is spent working in an existing field office and getting hands-on training. After that, we follow up with a classroom-style training.
Throughout the year, new and experienced canvass directors will participate in advanced trainings on staff management, canvassing, campaign strategy, media and public speaking.
Locations
We work on the campaigns and the issues that we think are the most pressing and set up our ground operations where we think we can make the biggest difference. We are running campaigns in CA, CO, CT, FL, GA, IL, MA, ME, MD, MI, MN, NC, NJ, NM, NY, OH, OR, PA, TX, VA, WA, WI, and Washington, D.C.
Pay and Benefits
The target annual compensation for Field Office Directors is $28,000-$31,500 in the first year, depending on the position. The Fund offers a competitive benefits package. We also offer an excellent training program and opportunities for advancement.
Things To Know When You Apply
Fund for the Public Interest has a vision of a better future, a set of core values, and a strategic approach to making positive change. Visit https://fundforthepublicinterest.org/core-values.html for things you should know about our organization when you apply.
Fund for the Public Interest is an equal opportunity employer.
Los Angeles-based positions: Fund for the Public Interest will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring.
4ocean
Austin, TX, USA
4ocean is here to help end the ocean plastic crisis, and we are looking for a Mechanical Engineer (aka Design Engineer) for our New Product Development team to help us achieve our mission. About 4ocean 4ocean is a purpose-driven business. We clean the world’s ocean and coastlines while working to stop the inflow of plastic by changing consumption habits. Unlike many other environmentally-focused companies, we are not a nonprofit, and believe in creating sustainable business solutions to achieve our goals rather than relying on donations or grants. We were founded in 2017 by two surfers who dedicated themselves to cleaning the ocean and working to end the ocean plastic crisis. They launched the company by creating a handmade bracelet and promising to pull a pound of trash for every bracelet sold. With the money raised from the sales of these bracelets, we have been able to employ hundreds of people to clean the ocean full-time and pull over 7 million pounds of trash from the ocean and coastlines. Bracelet sales are just the beginning. We are building an assortment of high quality, sustainably-made products that will help people reduce their dependence on single-use plastic, reuse the materials we collect from the ocean, and celebrate the 4ocean brand and ocean-conscious lifestyle. Beyond our products, we combat the ocean plastic crisis through technology, cleanups, influence, and education. Our ocean clean-up operations, currently in the U.S., Haiti, and Indonesia, are meticulously documented and audited for transparency, and we are regularly expanding to new locations and deploying new clean-up technologies. About This Position We are looking for a Mechanical Engineer within our New Product Development team, a role that will be located in our recently opened Austin, Texas office. We are willing to relocate the right candidate as needed. Reporting to the Head of Product, you will play a key role in the design and development of our expanding product line. This will include lifestyle products made from sustainable materials (including materials collected from the ocean) and products that help people reduce their own consumption of single-use plastics. As a key member of a small development team, your responsibilities will include product design, mechanical engineering, project management, and working with suppliers to resolve manufacturing challenges. You will be asked to take products from an approved industrial design concept through manufacturing. Other fun stuff you’ll get to do:
Translate marketing specs to technical performance requirements
Establish product architecture including part breakout and material selection
Create proof of principle prototypes
Own all aspects of 3D and 2D CAD
Utilize CAE analysis tools to raise confidence in design
Establish product manufacturing specifications and critical to quality metrics
Collaborate closely with Industrial Design team and vendors to balance intent with manufacturability and performance
Create and lead design validation testing based on DFMEA
Drive IP clearance and filings
Technical documentation of key project decisions and design changes
Provide regular updates to cross-functional and leadership teams on key project indicators – schedule, budget, and quality
Qualifications You will bring at least 3 years of relevant experience and a passion for designing and creating sustainable products that will help change the consumer behavior for the long haul. You will have enough experience to be confident in leading NPD projects and not afraid to make bold suggestions that will make our products and our company better. All 4ocean employees must naturally live and embrace our core values:- Ocean first- Transparency- Think big, act quickly- Nudge don’t judge- We’re in this together- Get stoked! Here are a few other things we will need you to have:
Engineering degree is a must
Expertise in design engineering after working with consumer goods for at least 3 years
Experience with plastics manufacturing, especially injection molding
Demonstrated experience working with cross-functional teams utilizing your creative problem-solving skills, which are coupled with solid engineering fundamentals
Expert-level skills in 2D, 3D CAD software
Strong understanding of how consumers will interact with our new products
Well trained in working with both industrial design and marketing teams to ensure a successful, collaborative result is achieved
Willingness to travel as needed
Comfort in a fast-paced, always changing start-up environment
Team-first, optimistic, solution-driven orientation
Drive to play an important role in a business that makes a difference in the world
Personal passion for sustainability and cleaning the world’s oceans
Bonus points if you have:
Experience with multi-component assemblies (mechanisms a plus)
Strong communication and presentation skills
Experience in DFMEA, validation and test plan creation
End-to-End product development experience
Experience and knowledge of metal component fabrication preferred
FEA analysis experience
4ocean PBC is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.
4ocean is here to help end the ocean plastic crisis, and we are looking for a Mechanical Engineer (aka Design Engineer) for our New Product Development team to help us achieve our mission. About 4ocean 4ocean is a purpose-driven business. We clean the world’s ocean and coastlines while working to stop the inflow of plastic by changing consumption habits. Unlike many other environmentally-focused companies, we are not a nonprofit, and believe in creating sustainable business solutions to achieve our goals rather than relying on donations or grants. We were founded in 2017 by two surfers who dedicated themselves to cleaning the ocean and working to end the ocean plastic crisis. They launched the company by creating a handmade bracelet and promising to pull a pound of trash for every bracelet sold. With the money raised from the sales of these bracelets, we have been able to employ hundreds of people to clean the ocean full-time and pull over 7 million pounds of trash from the ocean and coastlines. Bracelet sales are just the beginning. We are building an assortment of high quality, sustainably-made products that will help people reduce their dependence on single-use plastic, reuse the materials we collect from the ocean, and celebrate the 4ocean brand and ocean-conscious lifestyle. Beyond our products, we combat the ocean plastic crisis through technology, cleanups, influence, and education. Our ocean clean-up operations, currently in the U.S., Haiti, and Indonesia, are meticulously documented and audited for transparency, and we are regularly expanding to new locations and deploying new clean-up technologies. About This Position We are looking for a Mechanical Engineer within our New Product Development team, a role that will be located in our recently opened Austin, Texas office. We are willing to relocate the right candidate as needed. Reporting to the Head of Product, you will play a key role in the design and development of our expanding product line. This will include lifestyle products made from sustainable materials (including materials collected from the ocean) and products that help people reduce their own consumption of single-use plastics. As a key member of a small development team, your responsibilities will include product design, mechanical engineering, project management, and working with suppliers to resolve manufacturing challenges. You will be asked to take products from an approved industrial design concept through manufacturing. Other fun stuff you’ll get to do:
Translate marketing specs to technical performance requirements
Establish product architecture including part breakout and material selection
Create proof of principle prototypes
Own all aspects of 3D and 2D CAD
Utilize CAE analysis tools to raise confidence in design
Establish product manufacturing specifications and critical to quality metrics
Collaborate closely with Industrial Design team and vendors to balance intent with manufacturability and performance
Create and lead design validation testing based on DFMEA
Drive IP clearance and filings
Technical documentation of key project decisions and design changes
Provide regular updates to cross-functional and leadership teams on key project indicators – schedule, budget, and quality
Qualifications You will bring at least 3 years of relevant experience and a passion for designing and creating sustainable products that will help change the consumer behavior for the long haul. You will have enough experience to be confident in leading NPD projects and not afraid to make bold suggestions that will make our products and our company better. All 4ocean employees must naturally live and embrace our core values:- Ocean first- Transparency- Think big, act quickly- Nudge don’t judge- We’re in this together- Get stoked! Here are a few other things we will need you to have:
Engineering degree is a must
Expertise in design engineering after working with consumer goods for at least 3 years
Experience with plastics manufacturing, especially injection molding
Demonstrated experience working with cross-functional teams utilizing your creative problem-solving skills, which are coupled with solid engineering fundamentals
Expert-level skills in 2D, 3D CAD software
Strong understanding of how consumers will interact with our new products
Well trained in working with both industrial design and marketing teams to ensure a successful, collaborative result is achieved
Willingness to travel as needed
Comfort in a fast-paced, always changing start-up environment
Team-first, optimistic, solution-driven orientation
Drive to play an important role in a business that makes a difference in the world
Personal passion for sustainability and cleaning the world’s oceans
Bonus points if you have:
Experience with multi-component assemblies (mechanisms a plus)
Strong communication and presentation skills
Experience in DFMEA, validation and test plan creation
End-to-End product development experience
Experience and knowledge of metal component fabrication preferred
FEA analysis experience
4ocean PBC is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.
