Join Our Team!
Hello Run For One Planet Community!
Our tour is growing! And with it, so are the opportunities to get involved with our awesome team! We have THREE positions now open to enthusiastic individuals who want to help make a difference in the world through our tour.
Please e-mail your application to Steph at Steph@RunForOnePlanet.com.
Duration: June, 2008 – April, 2009
Hours: 2 – 3 hours per week
VOLUNTEER POSTINGS
1. ECO-ACCOMMODATIONS MANAGER
2. RUNNING GROUP MANAGER
3. FESTIVALS MANAGER
1. Eco-Accommodations Manager
As Eco-Accommodations Manager your role will consist of:
Creating a database of specific “eco-accommodations”, such as eco-retreats, eco-villages, and hotels with sustainable practices, located across Canada and around the USA, based on the tour’s route
Initiating contact with such eco-accommodations, through professional and engaging email correspondence, requesting nightly sponsorship for the tour (1 – 2 rooms, for 1 – 2 nights)
Building and maintaining strong relationships with the company representatives, mostly through online dialogue, to successfully book accommodation sponsorship.
Correspondence to last up to the point where the tour stays in their location, and sending one follow-up ‘thank you’ note
2. Running Group Manager
As a Running Group Manager your role will consist of:
Researching specific running groups/ companies coordinating community-based running groups across Canada, and around the USA, to ensure compatibility (working with the Co-Founders and Race Director to ensure a good fit),
Initiating contact through professional and engaging email correspondence
Building and maintaining strong relationships with the group representatives, mostly through online dialogue
Coordinating running route logistics for all parties to run together!
3. Festivals Manager
As Festivals Manager your role will consist of:
Researching specific festivals en-route with the tour’s run schedule and route, focusing on those with a green bent. Festivals including music festivals, art festivals, eco-fests, etc.
Initiating contact with Festival coordinators through professional and engaging email correspondence, requesting support of the Run for One Planet through on-stage promotion, inclusion in literature, booth presence, showcase of eco-RV, etc.
Securing partnership agreement(s)
For all three management positions, you will be working out of your home and interacting with our home support team (especially our Tour Manage, Race Director and Events Director).
QUALIFICATIONS PREFERRED:
Strong verbal and written communication skills
On line research
Desire to contribute to the environmental movement through creative selling
High level of reliability and organization
Attention to detail and follow through
Team player