Student Sustainability Center

Leadership Programs

Looking to engage in sustainability leadership on campus for a term or year?

Volunteer Program (2-4 Hours a Week, Term Commitment) 

Leadership Fellows (6-8 Hours a Week, Term Commitment, Paid) 

Student Employment (Fall- Spring Commitment, Stipend) 

 

Sustainability Volunteer Program (2-4 hours Week/Term)

A group of people next to a mound of dirt is shown. They are crouching with garden tools and smiling.

Garden Volunteer Team

Help care for PSU's campus gardens and envision new garden initiatives through seasonal maintenance, creative projects, workshops, and advocacy.

Volunteer Program application
Two students smiling and holding a sunflower picture frame with the words "sustaining community"

Environmental Justice Volunteer Team

Contribute to environmental justice programming and events designed by and for students including events, field trips, campaigns, and programming that center an intersectional environmentalist lens. 

Volunteer Program application

Multi-Term Commitment Opportunities

Seven students are shown holding a white flag that reads Student Sustainability Center with a honeycomb logo.

Leadership Fellows

The SSC Leadership Fellows program is a year-long leadership development opportunity for student leaders. SSC convenes this cohort with support from Student Activities and Leadership Programs. Fellows will take on projects and responsibilities within SSC programs and meet regularly to reflect.

Benefits of becoming a Leadership Fellow:

  • Practice leadership skills that you can use in your student leadership position
  • Develop understanding, knowledge, and skills that you can use in your career and community work
  • Meet other student leaders and share insights
  • $600 scholarship per term
  • Optional three 400-level credits per term (for up to 6 credits; applies toward Civic Leadership Minor practicum)
  • Option to earn a microcredential or digital badge for Leadership Fellows participation. The microcredential will be a badge in Reflective Leadership Practice.

 

To become a Leadership Fellow, students must...

  • Be an undergraduate with over a 2.5 Portland State GPA and plan to take 6 credits per term or be a graduate student with over a 3.0 Portland State GPA and plan to take 5 credits per term.
  • Be open to new experiences, motivated and hardworking, service oriented, and have a desire to develop as a leader

 

 

Positions for the 2025-2026 school year are currently open. Apply by Sunday, March 11th at 11:59 PM.  Open positions include environmental justice, garden, and event planning positions. 


 

Leadership Fellows Positions about this content

Student Employment 

Eight student employees in the SSC garden

Work at SSC

Are you passionate about sustainability and climate action? The SSC is hiring 2024-2025 student employee positions including:

Student employee positions