Protect tropical rainforests and campaign to transform our food system
while learning valuable skills as a Rainforest Action Network (RAN)
Outreach Leader (volunteer position)
Why volunteer with RAN?
- Channel your passion into an effective campaign that transforms America’s snack food industry
- Halt the destruction of our planet’s last ancient forests
- Save orangutans from extinction
- Stop the oppression of Indigenous communities and forest peoples
- Empower supporters and activists across the country to take action
- Learn valuable skills – campaign planning, time management, research, grassroots organizing, strategic thinking, and so much more
Rainforest Action Network (RAN) was founded with the belief that
a sustainable and just world can and must be created in our lifetime,
and that it will take individuals and communities standing together to
confront corporate power to get us there. Through education, grassroots
organizing and nonviolent direct action, RAN’s campaigns focus on
catalyzing market and investment pressure to transform corporate and
government policies and behavior in support of forests, the climate and
human rights.
In our twenty-seven years of working to support forests and forest
peoples, RAN has won major corporate policy changes that have
transformed the home building, food product, automobile, oil, paper and
banking industries. Through our two program areas, Forests, and Energy
and Finance, RAN is currently working to change the policies of the
global agribusinesses and pulp and paper industries in order to stop
deforestation and the oppression of forest peoples, and is tackling the
world’s dirtiest fossil fuels, coal and oil, and the leading banks that
make their expansion possible, to address the root causes of climate
change. For more information on the nature of the campaigns, you
can visit RAN.org/our-work.
Working directly with our Rainforest Agribusiness National
Organizer and Palm Oil Campaigner, outreach leaders will
develop organizing skills by engaging RAN Palm Oil Activists across the
nation and mobilizing them to take action. The National Organizing
Program aims to break the link between the palm oil in America’s snack
foods and rainforest destruction, orangutan extinction and human rights
and labor abuses.
As a RAN National Organizing Outreach Leader, you not only get to
work on a daily basis with experienced campaigners and program staff,
but you will also get the opportunity to participate in trainings led by
staff such as campaign issue briefings, communications/media skills,
and coaching/organizing skills trainings.
RAN's National Organizing Outreach Leader positions provide
"hands-on-learning" about our brand of corporate campaigning for the
forests, climate and human rights as well as direct experience working
in a non-profit office. Besides learning about the diverse aspects
of RAN’s Agribusiness campaign,you will have the opportunity
to participate in interdepartmental meetings and campaign planning
retreats that will give you insight into RAN as a whole.
Many RAN volunteers have later obtained employment with RAN and at a
wide range of social justice and environmental organizations.
National Organizing Outreach Leader applications will be reviewed on a
rolling basis. We are flexible with working out a schedule and are
looking for people who can contribute 15-30 hours per week for 6 months
Volunteers must be atleast 18 years of age.
In this position, Outreach leaders will be mentored and supported by
campaign staff with mandatory weekly check-ins to assess priorities and
progress as well as regular performance feedback evaluations to ensure
the outreach leader is thriving and growing his/her skill base to
his/her satisfaction.
All volunteer positions are unpaid, and volunteers are responsible
for covering their own housing. A travel stipend is provided for each
day public transit is used to get to the office.
In coalition with Indigenous communities and allies from around the
world, RAN uses non-violent direct action, grassroots organizing,
education, and strategic communications to challenge corporations to
phase out destructive operations, respect human rights, and adopt
comprehensive policies that mitigate their contributions to global
warming. RAN values diversity, educates staff on issues including
privilege and oppression, and integrates these values into all of our
work. We are seeking volunteers who have a commitment to engage in this
process and work with us to create a just, inclusive, and sustainable
work environment and world. RAN provides all people with equal
employment and volunteer opportunities.
Please send a resume and cover letter in which you describe a project
you have worked on that will help us understand your interest and
qualifications. Applications can be emailed to Jess@ran.org (please put National Organizing Outreach Leader in the subject line of your email). No phone calls please.
