Leadership

Find leadership opportunities with the Southern Energy Network, Energy Action Coalition and more below. Lead youth climate and energy work regionally and nationally!

Southern Energy Network (SEN) Steering Committee: guides the work of SEN

Southern Energy Network (SEN) Sub-Committees: partnerships & alliances, outreach, communications, fundraising & finance

Energy Action Coalition (EAC) working groups: anti-oppression (equity & justice), communication, green jobs, action, no coal/community, Power Shift 2008

We Want YOU for the SEN Steering Committee!

Southern Energy Network (SEN), the only regional, youth-led organization in the Southeast working to build a clean, just energy future, seeks active, creative and enthusiastic leaders, who are willing to guide the work of SEN. learn more about SEN in this 5 page overview of our work

You must be willing to make monthly conference calls, participate in ongoing sub-committee work and to devote 2 weekends per year (1 summer & 1 winter) to the bi-annual committee meetings. In return, you'll be able to meet awesome clean energy activists throughout your region, be actively involved in directing the course of the Southern Energy Network, get connected to regional and national coalitions (like the Energy Action Coalition) and learn the skills you'll need to affect real change. Apply Now!

send any questions to: steeringapp[at]climateaction.net

Get involved in the Southern Energy Network Working Groups

The Leadership Committees of the Southern Energy Network are an integral part of the student teams that guide the organization. The committees work with the SEN Steering Committee to achieve the organization's goals and direct the operations of its staff. The committees are made up of Steering Committee members and other at-large students interested in developing leadership and organizing skills. Below is a list of current SEN working groups:
-Finance--works with SEN Director and accountant to coordinate our expenses and budget and to draft future budgets.
-Partnerships and Alliances--build relationships, recruit diverse young people, select readings and gather materials on
anti-oppression for organization and distribution.
-Fundraising--works with SEN Director to coordinate fundraising efforts including grants, donor fundraising, and house
parties.
-Conferences and Trainings--focused on our annual regional conference (Southeast Student Renewable Energy
Conference--SSREC), but working on supporting additional trainings such as the summer trainings, Mountain Justice
Spring Break, Southeast Climate Convergence, Mountain Justice Summer Training camp, and more!
-Communications--works on coordinating email blasts, website content, our blog and outside communications strategy
including press releases and media relations.

If you are interested in getting involved with any of these committees, email steeringapp[at]climateaction.net indicating which committees interest you. Please briefly explain any related experience you have and/or explain why you are interested in working on that committee. You are welcome to join as many committees as you would like!

Energy Action Coalition Working Groups

The mission of the Energy Action Coalition is to unite a diversity of organizations in an alliance that supports and strengthens the student and youth clean energy movement in North America. The partners of Energy Action work together to leverage our collective power and create change for a clean, efficient, just and renewable energy future. The work of Energy Action is focused on four strategic areas: campuses, communities, corporate practices, and politics.

The Southern Energy Network is a founding member of Energy Action Coalition, a North American coalition of youth united for a clean energy future, which was formed in the summer of 2004. As a part of Energy Action we have coordinated our work with partner organizations around the United States and Canada, have been a part of multiple international days of action for clean energy, and we're the lead organization working on the Campus Climate Challenge in the Southeast.
Below are a list of EAC working groups:
-Anti-Oppression (equity and justice) --coordinates work to fight oppression within the EAC including semesterly readings,
drafting statements of principles, and work with the Partnerships & Actions Coordinator.
-Communications--works with EAC Communications Director to coordinate email blasts, media work especially around
national events and actions, and works to support web and blog strategy via EAC's blog and more!
-Green Jobs--working on coalition and campus initiatives that will create and support green jobs building the clean energy
future we want with jobs that lift people out of poverty.
-Action--work to bring more Action to Energy Action especially by supporting days of action (like Fossil Fools day), action
trainings and more!
-Power Shift 2009--more youth are voting and aware of politics than ever before, and we have less than ten years to
avoid a climate crisis, so now is the time to make 2009 THE climate election! working on semester and year-long
programs, 1 million person climate pledge, and another national youth climate conference: Power Shift 2009.
-No Coal/Community--working on collaboration around fighting coal around the country from mountaintop removal mining
to proposed coal plants to the banks financing coal mining and burning. they have created no coal resources and helped
to coordinate Fossil Fools Day.

To get involved with EAC working groups contact stephanie[at]climateaction.net make sure to include "EAC working group" in the subject.

Additional Leadership Opportunities will be added here

if you have any information about potential leadership opportunities, email us at info[at]climateaction.net