Bike Job: Work For Green Streets

Got this in the email, looks like a sweet part time job for someone in Cambridge or thereabout.

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CAMBRIDGE – Are you passionate about helping people explore and use sustainable transportation? Do you like working creatively and in collaboration with others? Would you like to help promote a positive and powerful environmental and public health initiative, and better know your city, hundreds of key players and decision-makers, employers and other citizens of all ages?

Overview: The City-Wide Walk/Ride Day Coordinator develops, oversees, and orchestrates all the Walk/Ride Day involvement, relationships, and activities within the community. The Coordinator is supported by the Green Streets Initiative’s central organization, which provides the coordinator with materials, a website framework, examples, and experienced advisors. The Coordinator organizes the efforts of a network of Walk/Ride Day volunteers who plan Walk/Ride Day activities and communication in their own organizations. Internet, email, and other electronic communication are combined with in-person communication and gatherings. The Coordinator will work with the community’s ongoing environmental, health, safety, and educational programs and help focus programs to address community concerns within the Walk/Ride Day framework. The Coordinator is responsible for the following:
1) Establishing ongoing relationships, recruiting and empowering volunteer coordinators, and developing incentives that will generate interest and excitement in Walk/Ride Day Program in groups throughout the community, including:

· Schools, workplaces, and other organizations and locales where people gather and spend time

· Environmental, government, business, health, religious, community, human service and other organizations

· Retail sponsors

· City officials and staff
2) Preparing for and reporting back on monthly Walk/Ride Days, including:

· Developing new information and updates to the website

· Reaching out to community calendars and press

· Preparing e-newsletters

· Developing events and publications that will target and interest under-served groups

· Designing, administering, and analyzing surveys to measure the impact of Walk/Ride Days

· Administering check-in/raffle
3) Working with other members of Green Streets team, including Coordinators of other communities, to continue to create a replicable system, including:

· Creating marketing and educational materials for outreach

· Planning for and reflecting on completed Green Streets work

The person stepping into the City-Wide Coordinator role needs to be an enthusiastic user and proponent of active transportation. He or she should have a sense of adventure, flexibility, the ability to multi-task, and ability to respond quickly to the needs of others. The Coordinator will need to work evenings and weekends
FUNDING: This contract position is part time and the assumed time commitment is 20-30 hours/week. Start date: October, 2011.

TO APPLY:
Please send letter of interest*, resume and salary requirements to

Green Streets Initiative, Inc.

Nicole Rioles

City Hall Annex, 50 Evergreen Ave

Somerville, MA 02145

[email protected]

Please be sure to let us know why you are interested in the position, how you have done other kinds of multi-focused community organizing, volunteer management and building of a social movement. We look forward to hearing from you.

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Free Walk/Ride Day Breakfast In Harvard Square And Mayor’s Challenge: January 30, 2009

Free Walk/Ride Day Breakfast In Harvard Square and Mayor’s Challenge: January 30, 2009

Mayor E. Denise Simmons will attend and kick off her “9 in ’09” Mayor’s Walk/Ride Day Challenge

WHEN: Friday, January 30, 7AM to 9AM
WHERE: Holyoke Center & Forbes Plaza, 1350 Mass. Ave., Harvard Square (Next to Au Bon Pain) WHY: Harvard Square businesses want to encourage people to go green! This event is part of Harvard Square’s Winter Green Carnival 2009, with festivities from from January 15 to February 1.

MORE: There will be special raffles and gifts for Walk/Ride Day participants, courtesy of the Harvard Square Business Association, MassBike, Green Streets, and others. Artist George Lynde is also preparing a special game about Bike Racks of Cambridge.

SPREAD THE WORD: Here are some materials to help spread the word about the breakfast event and the Mayor’s Challenge:
• To download an event flyer, click here.
• For blurbs for newsletters and invitations you can modify, click here.
• A downloadable “Mayor’s Challenge Passport” will be available by January 27 on the Green Streets website, so check back for that!

QUESTIONS: For more information or to let them know you are coming, feel free to email Green Streets. However, there’s no need to RSVP — they are prepared to feed all who come!

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Green Streets & Public Health Lecture Social

Tuesday, November 11
6:30 – 8:30 PM
German International School Boston
(formerly St. Anthony’s School)
57 Holton St., Allston

Come to two presentations from the Green Space Advocates. The first presents design plans for a low impact development greening project at the St. Anthony’s site along Everett Street. We are excited about working with our partners at the German International Day School and St. Anthony’s on this project.

The second is a presentation concerning the connection between public health and open space with particular attention to Allston Brighton.

There will be food and refreshments and time for mixing and mingling.
To RSVP, please email Kate or call her at 617.787.3874 x216.

The Allston Brighton Green Space Advocates meet on the 3rd Wednesday of the month. Next meeting will be Nov. 19, 7PM at ABCDC’s office.

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