- Graduate Assistantship in Sustainable Communities
- Northen Arizona University’s Sustainable Communities Program seeks a graduate student for a two-year, fully funded graduate assistantship during the 2024-2026 academic years.
- The student will be an integral part of a faculty/student team that is developing a new USDA-NIFA-funded project, “Addressing Barriers to HSI Student Retention through Community Engaged Sustainable Food Systems Education.”
- The Graduate Assistant will work toward an MA degree in Sustainable Communities while helping to coordinate and oversee a team of funded undergraduate interns who will work in Flagstaff public school gardens.
- Because the project focuses on underserved populations, the Graduate Assistant is required to have a high level of Spanish-language fluency.
- This position requires working 20 hours per week on the project during the two academic years, and 40 hours a week during the intervening summer.
- Interested students must first apply to and be accepted into the Sustainable Communities MA Program.
- Please direct questions to Kari Henquinet (kbhenqui@mtu.edu) or program PI Peter Friederici (peter.friederici@nau.edu).
- Sustainability Data Analyst
- This position will work for CVS to support data collection and monitoring of enterprise sustainability initiatives, emissions and energy, plastic, water, waste and other environmental sustainability data. There are two open positions. One will cover the Enterprise Data and the other will support Supply Chain Data.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience is required.
- This position is ideally located in New England, but remote work is negotiable.
The Climate Leaders Academy is a two-semester program with the goal of providing formal climate training and professional development to fellows through direct engagement with national and international climate change frameworks, formalized mentoring and collaboration with a diverse set of institutions. Applications are due March 15, 2023, at 11:59 p.m. CDT.
Climate Leaders Academy Fellows will be entitled to:
- $10,000 stipend ($5,000 per semester)
- Four transferable course credits
- All travel expenses covered (to and from kickoff workshop, climate change conferences, etc.)
- One-on-one mentoring by a Climate Leaders Academy faculty member
- Tuition coverage for Climate Leaders Academy course