[Scpg] Green Economy Think Tank

[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.