Applying for positions within Office of Environmental Justice Affairs
Position(s)
- Laundry Loads of Love Chair
ABOUT ASSOCIATED STUDENTS
The Associated Students of the University of California San Diego are the elected and appointed representatives of the UC San Diego undergraduate student body. ASUCSD works to promote student engagement through its services and leadership opportunities. We also seek to foster a cohesive community through active interaction and communication with students, the administration, and the greater San Diego Community. Our mission is to facilitate and encourage students to grow and develop through their involvement in student government, its services, and auxiliaries. We promote student engagement in all areas of campus life through leadership, advocacy, and service to build and strengthen our campus community and UCSD identity.
ABOUT THE OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AFFAIRS
The Office of Environmental Justice Affairs works to highlight the intersections of environmental and social justice, to ensure assembly and university decisions reflect principles of sustainability, and to advocate for marginalized communities. We are a small, dynamic team with a broad mandate: building platforms for environmental advocacy, aggregating data and resources to promote equity, and strengthening partnerships across campus.
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ABOUT THE ROLE
Time Commitment: 10-15 hours per week, 37 weeks
Pay: $80/week
Laundry Loads of Love (LLoL) is an initiative started by current A.S. President William Simpson and Senator Moazzma Chaudhary to collect gently-loved, unwanted clothes from laundry rooms around campus to be washed and distributed to local NGOs.
Duties of the Laundry Loads of Love (LLoL) Chair of the Office of Environmental Justice Affairs include, but are not limited to:
- Coordinating the distribution of physical LLoL bins around laundry facilities around campus and developing college partnerships to promote the program
- Coordinating advertising to promote the initiative amongst the student body
- Identifying and building a standing partnership with a local NGO that has sufficient capacity and need for consistent donations of clothing
- Coordination with the technical members of this office to develop an networked tracking system for clothes deposits in bins around campus
- Performing the physical labor needed to transport bin contents to the relevant dropoff locations
Candidates should be comfortable with a fast paced environment, have excellent time management skills, and be able to coordinate effectively with other members of the office and broader campus community.
After submitting an application, applicants should expect to be contacted no later than 2 weeks after the deadline.
Have questions? Contact Dhruv Kannan, Associate Vice President of Environmental Justice Affairs, at avpenvironmental@ucsd.edu.
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