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 & financeEnergy Action Coalition (EAC) working groups: anti-oppression (equity & justice), communication, green jobs, action, no coal/community, Power Shift 2008
Additional Leadership Opportunities will be added here (if you have opportunities send to info[at]climateaction.net)We Want YOU for the SEN Steering Committee
We need active, creative and enthusiastic leaders, who are willing to devote time to conference calls, both the bi-monthly Steering committee calls, and any conference calls that the finance and strategic planning subcommittees will have. The students must also be willing to devote 3 weekends per year to the annual committee meetings. In return, you'll be able to meet awesome environmental activists throughout your region, be actively involved in directing the course of the Southern Energy Network, and learn the skills you'll need to effect real change. Deadline for 2008 is March 15 Apply Now! **send any questions to: steeringapp [at] climateaction.net ** Southern Energy Network Mission Statement The Southern Energy Network builds and facilitates an inclusive student- and youth-led movement in the Southeast that empowers communities, develops leaders, and promotes a clean, just, safe, and sustainable energy future. A little background: The Southern Energy Network was created to continue building on the momentum from the first Southeast Student Renewable Energy Conference (SSREC) in 2004. Since then, we have networked more than 50 campuses, directly supported campaigns at 15 campuses and now connect over 700 students and alumni around the region. The Southern Energy Network (SEN) is composed of 6 staff members and a Steering committee, a 15 member board of energy and environmental activists from all over the Southeast. Youth and alumni from Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, South Carolina, North Carolina and Louisiana currently sit on the Steering committee, which oversees and aids the staff with outreach, finance and strategic planning. We are looking for members in Alabama and Mississippi as we work to expand our work in these states. The Steering committee has monthly conference calls, and bi-annual committee meetings. It is an exciting and fun way to get involved and help shape the growing student environmental movement in the southeast. 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 in which you are interested. In the email, please briefly explain any related experience you have that would make you a good fit for the committee 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 08--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 2008 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 liz[at]climateaction.net make sure to include "EAC working group" in the subject. you can also find out more here
