Community Service Cleanup Coordinator

Our Community Service Cleanup (CCS) program matches up businesses in search of worthy community service projects with municipalities, parks, and beaches in need of volunteer help. Typical projects include litter cleanups, park improvements, and other beautification efforts. We work closely with companies’ event-planning staff to organize rewarding community service events for their employees. In most cases, these community service projects include a local litter cleanup or a DCR park beautification project near a business’s location. We strive to provide each company’s employees with a rewarding, first-class community service experience.

Our Community Service Cleanup program includes:

• A customized community service event for companies and their employees
• Coordination with local government and/or nonprofit agencies
• A Keep Massachusetts Beautiful representative on-site to oversee volunteer activities
• Supplies
• Public relations support, including photos and press releases, along with publicity on Keep Massachusetts Beautiful’s social media channels, website, and e-newsletter

Job Responsibilities:

Manage and grow the day-to-day operations of KMB’s Community Service Cleanup (CCS) program, including the following ongoing tasks and responsibilities:

• Respond to incoming email inquiries and phone calls from companies that are interested in participating in our CCS program.
• Find suitable locations for cleanups and manage the schedule
• Determine cleanup routes in advance and communicate all details with the company’s liaison prior to the cleanup
• Request liability insurance certificate for each event
• Determine who will be responsible for removing collected trash (DCR, municipality, or a private hauler)
• Collect and transport supplies to the event
• Act as on-site event leader. Deliver pre-event instructions/pep talks to volunteers
• Participate as necessary in the event
• Coordinate photos of the event and provide them to the KMB executive director
• Collect data on the number of volunteers, total hours, and volume of trash collected
• Collect supplies and return them to storage
• Follow up with corporate liaison to thank them and solicit further feedback and/or donations
• Coordinate with the KMB executive director to update the KMB website and/or post photos to social media channels
• A typical CCS cleanup involves 4-6 hours of time on the day of the event, including travel time
• The total hours for this position will vary widely from one week to the next, but the busiest times of year are in the spring and fall

Requirements and Skills

• A passion for Keep Massachusetts Beautiful’s mission: taking action to make Massachusetts a cleaner, greener place to live, work, and play
• Strong communications skills, including writing/email and public speaking (other language skills beyond English are a bonus)
• Enthusiastic demeanor and good “people” skills
• Strong organizational skills
• Physically able to lift up to 30 pounds and walk up to one mile
• A reliable vehicle that is large enough to transport supplies