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Periodically, Acterra receives announcements of job opportunities in local environmental organizations. The following is therefore a list of job openings sent to us. For more information about these opportunities, please visit the posting organization's website as Acterra will not have any further information.
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Autodesk
Closing date for opportunity: Open Until Filled.
PR Manager, Sustainability ![]()
Drive external communications and market awareness for Autodesk's role in sustainable design.
Codexis
Closing date for opportunities: none listed.
Accounting Manager
GL and Reporting responsibilities, reporting to the Director of Technical Accounting & Revenue and Director of SEC Reporting, respectively.
Associate Director/Director of Fermentation
Work with an interdisciplinary, dynamic and enthusiastic team responsible for integrating Codexis’ core technologies with the design, understanding, optimization and establishment of commercial fermentation processes for the production of fuels and chemicals.
Environmental Health & Safety (EH&S) Engineer
Responsibilities include: providing support in maintaining the facilities’ environment, industrial, health and safety programs; assisting in monitoring environmental compliance and industrial health and safety programs (such as: chemical safety, ergonomics, illness and injury prevention).
HR Generalist (Compensation)
Responsible for managing and participating in general human resource duties plus administering compensation programs. This position will report directly to the Director of Employment Services and will act as a valuable resource to the Company.
Scientist, Fermentation
Responsibilities include: Design, performance and analysis of microbial fermentation experiments within flasks as well as fermenters, to maximize the understanding of the cellular physiology.
Senior Financial Analyst, Pharmaceuticals
Support traditional FP&A activities such as business analysis, decision support, financial reporting, forecasting, and planning and will partner closely with business leaders.
Collective Roots
Closing date for opportunity: Open Until Filled.
Food Systems Change Agent ![]()
Implement innovative community- and school-based programs and activities designed to increase food access, improve health outcomes, and engage local community members in advocating for positive change in their food system.
Garden Educator ![]()
Responsibilities include: work with the Collective Roots K-5 Instructor and/or Middle School Garden Educator to prepare for and implement garden, environmental, nutrition and food curriculum in programs for K-5, middle and high school grades.
De Anza College
Closing date for opportunity: Open Until Filled.
Environmental Studies Instructor ![]()
Instruct community college environmental studies/sciences courses to a diverse student population. The instructor will be expected to teach in two
or more topic areas. Course topic areas are typical of lower division undergraduate work in environmental studies/sciences.
Environmental Literacy Curriculum Project (ELCP)
Closing date for opportunity: none listed.
Marketing Consultant/Intern for Environmental Non-Profit ![]()
Help raise the profile of ELCP's green jobs training curriculum and help ELCP reach programs around the county that serve low-income populations and communities interested in supporting the environment.
GreenTown Los Altos
Closing date for opportunity: not listed.
Part Time Executive Director ![]()
Seeking a part time ED that can aid us in exploiting our vast potential, aid us in the development and management of our vision, our volunteer base and our fundraising efforts.
Literacy for Environmental Justice
Closing date for opportunity: open until filled.
Wetland Ecologist for Heron's Head Park ![]()
Bears direct hands-on responsibility for directing the stewardship of Heron’s Head Park (HHP), a 24-acre wetland in Bayview Hunters Point owned by the Port of San Francisco.
OPOWER
Closing date for opportunities: not listed.
Director, Government Affairs
Work with the Senior Director of Government Affairs to strategically analyze the regulatory landscape as it affects energy efficiency, reach out to utility commissioners and other stakeholders, and use the regulatory process to expand OPOWER’s market.
Director of Engineering
Work in a startup environment that uses Agile development methodologies to successfully deliver software that is used by millions of customers on a monthly basis.
Lead Software Engineers
Lead a team to design and implement features of our product suite, code in Java using open-source technologies, contribute to the improvement of our software development process, and analyze requirements of projects and collaborate with other software engineers during the design phase.
Senior Product Manager
Drive the development of new products and features designed to motivate and educate consumers to reduce their home energy use.
Senior Software Engineers
Collaborate on the design of OPOWER's newest features, implement those features in a robust and maintainable fashion, write unit and integration tests to ensure those features never break.
Senior Software Engineer in Test
Create and extend automated testing frameworks, and design and build automated tests that allow the whole team to move faster.
Software Engineer in Test
Need first class software engineers that are interested in building software to validate and verify OPOWER products.
Save Mount Diablo
Closing date for opportunities: none listed.
Land Conservation Associate II ![]()
Duties include: Land Use Program development project analysis, review and interpretation, and in developing strategy, land campaigns and other responses to development proposals, including public testimony, document and report creation.
Save the Bay
Closing date for opportunities: open until filled.
Director of Major Gifts ![]()
Develop and lead implementation of the strategic direction, work plan, and staff/volunteer complement that will cultivate, solicit, and steward individual and family-foundation donors who contribute $1,000+, including planned gifts.
Online Communications Manager ![]()
Further professionalize Save the Bay's online marketing program and implement a creative online strategy to build a larger, and informed and engaged constituency of supporters who are actively helping protect and restore the Bay.
Tuolumne River Trust
Closing date for opportunities: September 3, 2010.
Bay Area Education Coordinator ![]()
Duties include: Coordinating with teachers and schedule “That’s the Tuolumne in my Tap” presentations, and organizing volunteer trainings and schedule volunteers to give approximately 200 classroom presentations.





