Reducing Consumption Coordinator

Environmental Paper Network Published: September 9, 2017
Location
Skill Level
Entry Level
Job Type
Part-time
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Project Management

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Description

~ The Environmental Paper Network (EPN), founded in 2002, is a network of not-for-profit organizations dedicated to empowering and motivating consumers, corporations, organizations and governments to protect forests, climate, air, water and communities through more sustainable production and consumption of pulp and paper. ~

EPN member organizations are working to create transformational change in the pulp and paper industry in accordance with the Global Paper Vision and its seven priority areas. For more information, visit environmentalpaper.org. There are regional EPN networks in North America (environmentalpaper.org), Europe (environmentalpaper.eu) and China (environmentalpaper.cn).

Position Overview

EPN, a project of Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs, is seeking a candidate to join our network team and help shape the future of paper consumption in North America and beyond.

The Reducing Consumption Coordinator will lead our “Paper Use Efficiency Project” and work closely with Environmental Paper Network staff and member organizations on educational and advocacy efforts to achieve reductions in the consumption of wasteful, unwelcome and high volume paper products (for example receipts, junk mail and phone books) and to help facilitate our network members’ in collaborating toward this goal.

  • Location: Asheville, NC but possible to work remotely
  • Job Status: Part-Time Temporary, Paid, Hourly, 12 hours per week
  • Experience Level: Open to all qualified and motivated applicants
  • Equipment: Not provided

Responsibilities

Under the supervision of the Environmental Paper Network Director, the Reducing Consumption Coordinator will play an active role in Environmental Paper Network initiatives. Activities may include, but are not limited to:

  • Organize and facilitate regular virtual meet-ups of a Working Group of Environmental Paper Network members with active projects focused on reduction.
  • Help to gather, track and evaluate data on paper consumption, especially in areas and sectors where our members are working.
  • Lead the production of original fact sheets, resources, and an educational sticker campaign.
  • Outreach to media, including press releases.
  • Creatively utilize social media and develop original web content and blog posts highlighting the campaigns.
  • Work with partners to help scale their communications and strategy.
  • Liaise with the international EPN Paper Savings Working Group.
  • Organize and participate in joint actions and synchronous publications/events to maximize impacts.
  • Identify and engage in opportunities such as public and private sector policies that target paper waste reduction.
  • Attend/present at relevant industry-related conferences.
  • Seek additional sources of funding for paper waste reduction projects and campaigns.
  • Develop and conduct surveys, reports and evaluations.
  • Document progress and create a final summary report with case studies of our members’ efforts as models for replication and taking the ideas to a bigger scale.

Qualifications

  • The successful candidate will be a motivated, well-organized individual that can develop a work plan and deliver on-time results;
  • Possesses strong communication and writing skills;
  • Excels when working in a team environment; has at least basic computer skills; and
  • Is a creative problem- solver.

Project Description

The project is a multi-year partnership with our members with a goal to deliver more efficient use of paper and reductions in volume, thereby reducing waste of raw materials used in making pulp and paper, including trees, energy and water, and reduce climate change and other polluting emissions.

The project goals are:

  • Provide coordination and acceleration for our network members’ planned campaigns to reduce wasteful paper consumption in 2017/2018
  • Support our member organizations by helping to develop, grow and collaborate on activities and campaigns focused on paper waste reduction, targeting paper products and sectors and/or companies that buy or use large quantities of paper
  • Build our members’ capacity by providing tools, educational resources and communications supporting paper waste reduction initiatives and campaign activities

The Reducing Consumption Coordinator will facilitate and support a national working group of representatives of member organizations that are campaigning on this issue in order to create synergy through an intellectual cohort, sharing of resources, speaking with one voice where possible and supporting each other’s campaigns.

Through national level coordination the project seeks to add value and impact to work being done by our North American member organizations, including but not limited to Stand, Green America Better Paper Project, Catalog Choice, Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE), Product Stewardship Institute, Rainforest Relief, Green Sports Alliance, Canopy and the Law Firm Sustainability Network, and to create linkages to paper saving initiatives by network members being implemented globally.

Background

Even in the age of the so-called “paperless office,” Americans still consume more paper per capita than anyone else on earth. On average, a person in the United States uses more than 700 pounds of paper every year. That’s about 5 times more than a person in Asia and 30 times more than a person in Africa.

To fuel this consumption, the U.S. paper industry is the fourth largest industrial emitter of greenhouse gases, the largest industrial user and polluter of water and the third largest industrial consumer of energy. Paper is also the single largest component of our landfills. And rising global demand for paper is driving fiber sourcing deeper into intact forest landscapes around the world. Reducing wasteful consumption of paper products and ensuring fair access is the first goal of the Environmental Paper Network’s Global Paper Vision and delivers the greatest conservation and climate benefits. The paper with the least environmental impacts is the sheet that wasn’t wastefully used.

Note: Working with our team you will gain skills in network-building, collaboration, outreach and communications, a deeper understanding of forest, paper and sustainability issues, and more. This is an opportunity to work with cutting edge sustainability, communications and advocacy experts.

Compensation: $20.00 per hour plus $50.00 per month equipment stipend.

To Apply

  • Please click "Apply" below to email a brief cover letter and resume to:  Kim Porter, EPN Development Coordinator.
  • Subject heading must read: Reducing Consumption Coordinator.
  • The deadline for applying is September 29, 2017.

~ We are an Equal Opportunity Employer ~

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