Climate Careers®

Climate Careers® offers young leaders the opportunity to gain paid, hands-on work experience while taking climate action

As an Energy Specialist, you’ll spend the summer helping residents save energy, water, and money through Green House Calls. You’ll take part in workshops, network, and gain a true feel for environmentally conscious work, culminating in a paid externship placement with one of our partners.
Apply to join Climate Careers today!

FAQ

To be an Energy Assistant, you must be:

 

  • Resident in one of the nine Bay Area counties or the City of Stockton
  • Between 15 and 24 years old
  • Committed to working and learning four days a week in a supportive environment

It’s easy!

 

Just submit your application via email to the address indicated on the job description. Descriptions for all open positions can be found on our jobs page. 

Tell me more about externship outcomes

2024 Climate Careers extern Hector discusses the personal and career impacts of his time with Quit Carbon

Is your organization interested in hosting an extern?

We’d love to connect! Reach out directly at climatecareersprogram@risingsunopp.org or use the button below.

 

You can also bring Climate Careers to your community. Drop us a note at events@risingsunopp.org to invite our team to your event! 

Calling all Climate Careers alumni!

Rising Sun provides professional development, mentorship, and networking opportunities for Bay Area and Central California Climate Careers program alumni. Stay connected through events, a monthly newsletter, 1:1 mentoring, exclusive career resources, and job placement support!

Check out our career and job resources

Rising Sun provides professional development, mentorship, and networking opportunities for Bay Area and Central California Climate Careers program alumni. Stay connected through events, a monthly newsletter, 1:1 mentoring, exclusive career resources, and job placement support!

Check out our career and job resources

Some people didn’t understand the bigger picture behind Climate Careers, and when you tell someone about climate change that’s a huge umbrella that warrants more questions. I didn’t mind sitting down with people and telling them more, small steps they could take—and sometimes, they share the information with others.

David Wilson

2022 Climate Careers Energy Specialist and Rising Sun Electrification Extern; 2022 Opportunity Build Graduate

One of the clients I was emotionally touched by was an elderly woman who lived by herself. She admitted that she rarely got to talk to anyone, especially during the pandemic, and it made me greatly appreciate the friends and family that had kept in touch with me virtually. At the end, she thanked me for assisting her in scheduling a kit because she would have been financially unable to purchase the home fixtures herself.

Chun Huang

2020 Energy Assistant

I really like outreach because a lot of it is informative. If you don’t know what’s going on, you’re not going to change anything. I don’t think it’s that people don’t want to help, I think it’s that they don’t know how.

Jordan Boker

CLEAResult Energy Specialist and 2014 Climate Careers Alum