[Lapg] Green Think Tank Day

[camille cimino]

The Green Economy Think-Tank Day will convene leaders and decision makers from various private and public sectors now building our greater Los Angeles green, sustainable economy. This day will focus on ways to further catalog and synergize the myriad of existing connections. It will also be opportunity to better understand the dynamics needed to grow the regional green economy. The Think-Tank day will:

 

      Provide a community platform to prioritize collective short and long-range objectives.

      Identify barriers, challenges and potential solutions to growing our region’s green economy.

      Define meaningful benchmarks, feedback systems and indicators to assess progress.

      Support new partnership opportunities, and strengthen existing ones.

      Examine ways to interact with organizations seeking to improve systems that impact community health, and engage diversity.

      Serve as an idea incubator to inspire new efforts and advance existing practices. 

 

We are looking for an intern with the following qualifications:

ü       Experience in research, literature reviews, internet searches and quick scans for information

ü       Skill with word, excel and web interfaces

ü       An ability to search and find research, reports and articles on specific subjects and review a large quantity of information in a short period of time, cull down the critical take-aways and summarize in excel for high level themes, issues and areas to address – ability to take macro and micro, ability to quickly review, assess and report back on a large amount of information in a short period of time

ü       Doesn’t need direct experience in green/environmental issues, just an ability and passion for green and conscious efforts

 

The intern will:

ü       Work with the Green LA project lead and facilitators to collect and review recent relevant reports on greening the economy – from within LA region and beyond

ü       Gather the reports, review the reports and identify/highlight the key themes and components of a green economy

ü       Create and work with a spreadsheet that breaks down the different reports and the key recommendations and themes/components of a green economy to help set a framework for questions for the meetings

ü       Provide any additional support to the project, including assisting on the day of event, administrative support, facilitation support, other logistical support, and preparation of pre- and post-event materials and reports, if needed.

 

We are estimating we will need between 50 and 80 hours of an interns time with these approximate estimations:

ü       Priority 1: 20-40 hours research, review and compilation of green economy themes and recommendations – in April and May 2009

ü       Priority 2: additional hours as needed on other project areas

 

Please send resume or similar description of qualifications and contact information to BOTH Pilar Stella Ingiargiola at pilar at onegiving.com and Gregory Wendt gwendt at enrightpremier.com

 

Also if candidates have questions about the position – please ask them to forward us both emails with questions.