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City of Portland Bureau of Environmental Services Grey to Green Summer Outreach Staff The City of Portland’s Grey to Green Urban Tree Canopy Program is looking for energetic and outgoing individuals to join our motivated team. We are developing innovative ways to grow and document Portland’s urban forest and to educate citizens about the importance of planting trees. Outreach staff are the public face of our effort, providing extensive face‐to‐face and telephone contact with residents as we offer them new tree‐planting opportunities. Ideal candidates will be personable, creative and adaptable, comfortable with door‐to‐door canvassing, community outreach and education, and enthusiastic about planting trees as a means of improving Portland’s environment. This announcement will be used to fill up to 10 part‐time, summer positions. Required Qualifications: • Excellent people skills, a positive attitude, and self‐motivation • Previous experience in canvassing, customer service, or other outreach work • Experience representing a governmental or other organization to the public • Strong awareness of and commitment to environmental restoration • Willingness and ability to work full shifts on foot, in the field, in varying weather conditions • Ability to work successfully with others in a team environment • Ability to provide your own transportation to and from field work in N, NE, and SE Portland. • Applicants must be at least 18 years of age and have a valid driver’s license and acceptable driving record. Desired Qualifications: • Knowledge/experience of stormwater management and/or urban forestry issues • Previous experience with detailed data entry, database software, and GIS software • Ability to speak a language other than English Duties will include, but may not be limited to: • Contacting property owners, primarily door‐to‐door as well as over the telephone, to provide information and promote participation in tree planting initiatives • Recording and maintaining accurate field data • Entering field data into GIS software • Supporting community outreach programs, including tabling at events • Attending staff meetings and training sessions Work will begin in late May and will continue into September, with a possibility of a few outreach staff staying on until the end of the year. The work schedule will generally be Tuesdays to Saturdays, mid‐afternoons to early evenings, with occasional Sunday and morning shifts; for an average of 20‐30 hours per week. Pay is $14.98 per hour with no additional benefits for these seasonal, part‐time positions. Please apply with a brief, relevant resume and cover letter by email or US Mail to the address below. Please limit your combined resume/cover letter submissions to a total of three typed pages. All materials must be received by 5:00 PM Wednesday, April 6th. Interviews will be held during the first week of May. We look forward to your application. Please submit materials to: Anita Lane, Sr. HR Analyst Portland Bureau of Human Resources 1120 SW 5th Avenue ‐ Room 1000 Portland, Oregon 97204 Phone: 503‐823‐5742 [email protected] Contact Jennifer Karps (503‐823‐2263) with questions. The City of Portland is an equal opportunity employer. PSU host a Spring Speaker SeriesMonday colloquia meet at Noon [URBN 311]
March 28 Dick Lycan Population Research Center (PRC) Applied Demographic Techniques for Private Club Membership April 4 Hunter Shobe Department of Geography Geographies of Graffiti: Barcelona, Portland, and San Francisco April 18 Lisa Bates Department of Urban Studies and Planning Assessing Equity in New Orleans Post-Katrina Recovery April 25 Katie Meehan University of Oregon, Department of Geography Greywater and the Grid: Splintered Urbanism and the Diverse Economies of Water May 16 Neba Noyan Institute for Metropolitan Studies (IMS) Capturing Community Strengths in Urban Markets May 23 Liza Mylott Institute for Metropolitan Studies (IMS) Public Policy and the Sexualization of Public Space Only FOUR WEEKS from today! Register NOW!
Click here to register. Register now for the upcoming GIS in Action conference March 29 & 30, 2011. Please mark your calendars for the NINETEENTH Annual GIS In Action Conference, hosted by the Columbia River Region of the American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) and the Oregon-Southwest Washington Chapter of the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA). Each year ASPRS and URISA collaborate to hold this informational conference on current issues in the Geospatial Information Community. Join us for what will surely be another successful opportunity to meet with colleagues in the geospatial industries and organizations, to learn about emerging topics and recent advances in GIS applications, and to discuss our problems and solutions together. Don’t miss this amazing opportunity to meet andnetwork with GIS professionals from the region. Find out who is doing what, and how. Preliminary Conference Program available Visit the GIS In Action Website for more information. To download the preliminary program, click here. Pre-registration is still available - don’t miss out. Pre-register until March 21st Click here to register. Venue: Portland State University will graciously host this year’s conference for the second consecutive year! The raving positive feedback from the 2010 conference has led us to use the PSU facility once again. Holding the conference at Portland State creates exciting opportunities to include PSU students from other departments, members of the open source community and engineering, surveying and natural resources professionals who are all an important part of the GIS community. Call for posters! Submit your entries for the poster session at the conference. Open categories for posters are: - Technically advanced application - Collaborative GIS - GIS for 'real-world' problem solving - Innovative application of GIS Information for poster submissions, please contact [email protected] Technical Tracks: There will be at least three tracks each day consisting of panel discussions debating hot-topics, traditional sessions with two-to-three presentations per session, and technical workshops providing in-depth discussion of issues and training in applications most relevant to the geospatial community. Guest speakers will present on both days. On Tuesday morning, JIM GERINGER (Former Governor of Wyoming) will speak. Wednesday , Scott Nelson (Governor Kitzhaber’s Chief Aide on Jobs and Economy) will offer the closing keynote. Conference Highlights:
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