May 2024
Now Hiring: Biden Administration Launches Website for Climate Corps Applications
Your Climate Career Starts Here.
So reads the tagline on the home page of the new American Climate Corps (ACC) website, where the Biden administration urges would-be applicants to the jobs and training program to “join the next generation of creators, thinkers, leaders and doers, working together to tackle the climate crisis.”
The new website will feature nearly 2,000 openings across 36 states, Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico; positions that are hosted by hundreds of organizations advancing clean energy, conservation and climate resilience, according to an AmeriCorps statement detailing the new site.
Launched in beta form, the site will be regularly updated with new ACC positions, according to AmeriCorps, which says the website’s goal is to “make it easy for any American to find work tackling the climate crisis while gaining the skills necessary for the clean energy and climate resilience workforce of the future.” The first class of the American Climate Corps is set to be deployed to communities across the country in June 2024, according to AmeriCorps.
Launched in September 2023, the ACC initiative is designed to ensure young talent has access to the skills-based training necessary for good-paying careers in the clean energy and climate resilience economy, according to the White House.
The Biden administration foresees the program ultimately putting more than 20,000 Americans to work “conserving and restoring American lands and waters, bolstering community resilience, deploying clean energy, implementing energy efficient technologies and advancing environmental justice, all while creating pathways to high-quality, good-paying clean energy and climate resilience jobs in the public and private sectors after they complete their paid training program.”
The recently launched website and application portal marks the latest in a series of steps designed to advance the ACC initiative.
In December 2023, for example, seven federal agencies—the Departments of Commerce, the Interior, Agriculture, Labor and Energy, the Environmental Protection Agency and AmeriCorps—formally entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) intended to serve as a blueprint for the multiagency ACC program. In addition to outlining the program’s mission, goals, priorities and next steps, the MOU was also meant to establish a set of guiding principles by which the participating agencies will abide.
And, earlier this year, senior Biden administration officials oversaw a series of virtual listening sessions, during which they heard directly from potential ACC applicants and others with their ideas on how to shape the program.
Noting in a statement that clean energy is “growing into one of the greatest economic opportunities of our lifetimes, Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm stressed the importance of ensuring that America “has a skilled workforce to fill the millions of good-paying jobs this industrial revolution will create.”
The American Climate Corps, said Granholm, will ultimately “connect young people to future-facing careers in clean energy, position our country to dominate this industry and accelerate our path to saving the planet.”
17 May 2024
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