Jobs & Internships
ENVSList
Job, internships, and volunteer positions for ENVS majors. Contact the ENVS office (envs@sfsu.edu) for access.
Information on how to recruit Environmental Studies students as interns, employees, or volunteers.
Local Opportunities - Ongoing
Internships with the Parks Conservancy
The Parks Conservancy runs conservation projects throughout the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, from Pacifica in the south to Muir Beach in the north. Students can pick which site/s to work at and what they want to do there. This can include monitoring the habitat improvements or doing the actual restoration work. For more info or to apply contact: Bob Flasher at flash@parksconservancy.org.
Internships with Leadership for Environmental Justice (LEJ)
Please see their website for more information: http://www.lejyouth.org/aboutus/jobs.html
General Resources
Database of Environmental Organizations
Good place to start looking for possible internship opportunities.
A San Francisco based site with strong connections to Bay Area & California employment opportunities. It profiles the latest jobs in the fields related to conservation including environmental education, environmental policy, forestry, wildlife management, fisheries, park management, marine science, ecology, wetlands, and more. Currently the largest conservation-specific job board with over 700 jobs and around 20 new jobs added each day.
Career Opportunities in the Climate Movement
Major list of resources put together by the panel at Powershift '09.
Fellowships
Environmental Job Sources
Environmental Career Opportunities
http://www.ecojobs.com/
Environmental Jobs and Careers
http://www.ecoemploy.com/ or http://www.ejobs.org.
Environmental Leadership Program Job Resources
http://www.elpnet.org/job-opportunities
University of Oregon, Environmental Studies Program, Environmental Jobs web page http://envs.uoregon.edu/reference/jobs.php
Green Collar Association
California Specific Job Sources
California Personnel Board – to check state jobs. From this page you can also get to separate employment web pages for the many state departments such as the Air Resources Board, California Department of Fish and Game, State Lands Commission, Department of Water Resources, etc.
http://www.spb.ca.gov/jobs/index.htm
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 9.
http://www.epa.gov/region09/careers/index.html
Internships
The Renewable Natural Resources Foundation (RNRF), has an internship database. www.rnrf.org and select "Internships/Education.
National Wildlife Federation’s Conservation Internships and Fellowship Program – Intern with the NWF in Washington D.C. or be a fellow and get funding to carry out a conservation project on campus. http://www.nwf.org/careergateway/index.cfm
General Career Help
Both the SFSU Career Center and the CHHS Student Resouce Center are good for help with anything career related – for interviewing skills workshops, advice on improving a resume, to help figuring out what type of work do you really like
