Position Available
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>Director, San Francisco Emerald Cities Collaborative
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>Starting Date:
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>As soon as possible.
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>The San Francisco Emerald Cities Collaborative
>is a newly formed initiative to retrofit the
>building stock of the City to achieve greater
>energy and water efficiency, with consequent
>environmental benefits. We are committed to
>environmental equity, and we will prioritize
>service to underprivileged neighborhoods. We
>are committed also to access to high-road
>employment and careers to residents of those
>neighborhoods, and to providing opportunities to
>local businesses that share this commitment.
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>As a local branch of the National Emerald Cities
>Collaborative
>(<http://emeraldcities.org/>http://emeraldcities.org/
><http://emeraldcities.org/> ), we are like it a
>partnership of government, labor, business, and community organizations.
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>This is a program with great potential for
>growth and accomplishment and for positive social impact.
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>Position Description:
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>The Director of the San Francisco Emerald Cities
>Collaborative must combine knowledge of local
>communities, local government, business
>principles, and the unionized construction
>industry with a devotion to social justice, with
>excellent communication skills, and with
>personal initiative. This is an inaugural
>position; the Director will be the first
>full-time employee of the Collaborative, and
>will be responsible for establishing its first
>office and its initial practices. The Director
>must therefore also have basic knowledge of
>office management and of finance in the nonprofit sector.
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>The position will pay $70,000 a year, plus
>benefits. Extension of employment will be
>contingent in large degree on success in fundraising.
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>Duties will include the following:
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>1. Establishing an office;
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>2. Creating basic documents and
>manuals for the operations of the Collaborative;
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>3. Scheduling, staffing, and
>maintaining basic documents such as agendas and
>minutes for meetings of the Collaborative and its committees;
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>4. Working with funders to assure
>compliance with their requirements;
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>5. Pursuing new sources of funding;
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>6. Creating business plans for
>retrofits in various segments of the City’s building stock;
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>7. Identifying and planning retrofit
>projects, including their financing;
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>8. Establishing and/or strengthening
>working relationships with the Oakland Emerald
>Cities Collaborative and other local Emerald
>Cities Collaboratives, with the National Emerald
>Cities Collaborative, with businesses, community groups, and government;
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>9. Representing the Collaborative
>before the public and the media, and developing
>and employing tools for this purpose; and
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>10. Related tasks and others, as assigned by the Steering Committee.
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>Qualifications sought
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>Education and Experience:
>1. Three to five years experience in
>a leadership position for programs or campaigns
>related to environment, social justice, labor,
>the unionized construction industry, or community advocacy or organizing;
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>2. Bachelors degree required,
>graduate degree preferred, with special
>preference to degrees in Urban Planning, Public
>Policy, Labor Studies, Environmental Sciences,
>Business, or Construction Management.
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>3. LEED certification a plus.
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>Some knowledge or experience in the following:
>1. Retrofit of buildings, especially
>for energy and water conservation;
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>2. Construction project planning, finance, and implementation;
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>3. Pre-apprenticeship and Joint
>Labor-Management apprenticeship programs;
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>4. Construction labor agreements,
>including master agreements, project labor
>agreements, and community workforce agreements;
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>5. Nonprofit agency management;
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>6. Financial analysis;
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>7. Policy and legislative analysis; and
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>8. Working with diverse stakeholders
>including various ethnic, language, and income
>groups, business and labor, elected officials,
>financial institutions and others.
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>Additional skills (required):
>1. Facility with computer and
>communications technology use and with basic
>office programs, including for bookkeeping;
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>2. High abilities in verbal and written communication; and
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>3. Organization and attention to detail.
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>Finally, we require a commitment to social
>justice and to the principles of the Emerald Cities Collaborative.
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>Application process:
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>Please submit a résumé and a cover letter
>describing your qualifications for the position
>by email to
><sfemerald@gmail.htm>sfemerald@gmail.com. Only
>electronic applications will be accepted.
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>Emerald Cities
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>The National Emerald Cities Collaborative (ECC)
>is a start-up, national coalition of diverse
>groups that includes unions, labor groups,
>community organizations, social justice
>activists, development intermediaries, research
>and technical assistance providers, socially
>responsible businesses, and elected
>officials. We are united around the goal of
>rapidly greening our nation’s central cities and
>their surrounding metropolitan regions in
>equitable and democratically accountable ways.
>We envision a future in which American cities
>are the greenest and most equitable in the
>world, leading the way to head off global
>climate change while creating a vital new economic sector.
>Climate change is an international challenge
>that must be met by a national response. We
>recognize that existing market-driven models of
>green retrofits tend not to be the most
>sustainable because retrofits pass over
>low-income neighborhoods; weaken labor
>standards; and threaten the quality of work.
>Instead, we propose an alternative energy
>efficiency model implemented city by city that
>greens our cities, builds our communities, and
>strengthens our democracy. We believe that we
>can achieve these goals through efforts to:
>· Substantially increase the energy
>efficiency of citywide building stock over ten
>years while prioritizing poor communities;
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>· Implement deep, not simple, retrofits wherever possible;
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>· Support high-road job creation through
>the requirement for labor standards;
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>· Expand access to high-quality jobs and
>contracts to minorities, women, and low-income residents;
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>· Build lasting democratic capacity to shape the urban economy; and
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>· Endorse and advocate for regulations and
>legislation furthering these goals.