Executive Director, UC Green

Posted by UC Green on April 12, 2022

University City Green (“UC Green”) is a Philadelphia-based nonprofit focused on cooperative community greening. Through partnerships and education, UC Green empowers volunteer environmental stewardship in University City and its surrounding communities.

Each spring and fall, UC Green volunteers plant between 25 and 100 street trees and enhance public green spaces contributing hundreds of hours in service to the community. UC Green’s Pruning Club program meets biweekly during the summer to train volunteers in proper tree pruning techniques and prune trees on selected blocks each season. Since UC Green was founded in 1998, its volunteers have planted over 4,800 trees. The organization’s efforts are largely accomplished by a corps of dedicated volunteers working with the UC Green Executive Director and a volunteer Board of Directors.

UC Green is hiring an Executive Director to serve as the primary staff person with the potential of overseeing additional staff in the near future. This individual will be the motivating force behind UC Green’s stewardship of environmental education through community greening. The Executive Director reports to the UC Green Board of Directors. They are responsible for fundraising, volunteer recruitment and engagement, marketing and communications, event planning, program development and execution, and making sure UC Green continues to realize its promise to green greater West Philadelphia through the collaboration and cooperation of community members. Candidates for this position will be required to steer equitable greening practices and engagements across diverse communities in zip codes 19139, 19143 and 19104 with a focus on increased greening in environmentally neglected communities.

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