Programs and Volunteer Opportunities

Coordinate Alumni and CTO activities to ensure that the opportunities for alumni to participate in internal and external events are maximized.   Work with events, PR, and marketing chairs to understand upcoming events and opportunities and communicate them to the alumni newsletter publisher.  Work with Alumni SIG and workshop leaders to ensure that all Alumni specific activities are added to the CTO calendar.

• Identify external events that are appropriate venues for alumni to participate in
  • Investor conference presentations
  • Cleantech conferences
  • Panels/speaking engagements
  • Workshops, seminars, educational opportunities
  • Press opportunities
• Produce a list of potential and scheduled activities monthly for the general CTO calendar; quarterly for the alumni newsletter
• Develop a priority rating to categorize the potential value of events to alumni
• Liaise with events team, alumni workshop leads and SIG leaders to coordinate invitations and attendance of alumni at specific events.
• Work with marketing team to promote events to alumni and CTO community
• Work with PR team to obtain press coverage of alumni appearances

• Business expertise and understanding of cleantech community
• Good network and access to cleantech community activities
• Excellent communication skills
• Collaborative spirit

Work with the writers, alumni directory publisher, CTO marketing and PR team to assemble and publish a quarterly newsletter with content appropriate and interesting to the Alumni audience.   Update with CTO news, Alumni successes and metrics, events and other news of note. 

• Develop a standard project plan for quarterly newsletter assembly and production, and execute
• Design and build a quarterly newsletter template
• Solicit information from alumni team, marketing, PR for content
• Incorporate designs, logos, layouts, as appropriate and/or dictated by CTO marketing team
• Communicate to alumni community to solicit updates and feedback

• Effective written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to produce and adhere to a project plan
• Ability to coordinate with multiple stakeholders

• Design/layout acumen or skills helpful
• Experience in PR/Marcom helpful
• Working knowledge of cleantech and investment helpful

Work with Alumni directory team to solicit information from alumni and ensure that database profiles are updated regularly.  Develop incentives, contests, etc, to encourage participation and create a sense of community.  Perform outreach by phone or email as required to ensure that information is current prior to quarterly directory update.

• Ensure that directory profiles are updated regularly
• Devise incentives to create community, and participation
• Develop scripts or outreach emails to solicit and encourage profile updates and news
• Work with Directory Publisher and Database Liaison to produce reports with appropriate metrics, and determine additional information needed

• Effective verbal and written communication skills
• Marketing/marcom experience very useful
• Willingness and ability to make multiple follow up phone calls

Work with the CTO system administrator to maintain the existing alumni database, including soliciting updates from the alumni, scrubbing data as required, writing up new feature requests, and managing the implementation of search and social networking features as they become available.  Develop reports to capture appropriate metrics and provide information to writers, and database publisher in support of the Alumni Directory publication.

• Identify areas for improving database
• Ensure that data is current and in usable form
• Communicate to alumni community to solicit updates and feedback
• Work with Directory Publisher to determine appropriate data for alumni directory
• Work with CTO-IT  to produce appropriate data for alumni directory updates and provide to marketing team as requested, including metrics
• Work with Database Outreach Manager to solicit information & participation from alumni

• Working knowledge of database structures
• Understanding of search and social networking functionality from a user perspective
• Effective written and verbal communication skills
• Working knowledge of CTO Business Plan Competition

Call the <20 Alumni attending the first Alumni Workshop to remind them of the event details.

Call and speak to or leave messages with the 15-20 Alumni who are attending the February 24th Alumni Workshop.  Must be completed before February 24th. Volunteer will be provided with a call list and event details.  A phone provided by CTO is an available option to make the calls.

• Clear speaking skills
• Comfortable with cold calling

Manage the mentor program for CTO Alumni.  Working closely with the mentor chair and existing mentor program, create and implement a year-round mentoring program that focuses on alumni business needs and provides temporary support for specific issues.  The program will be participant driven. 

• Identify alumni needs for coaching and mentoring.
• Identify appropriate mentors and skills, and developing a matching system that allows alumni and mentors to meet and qualify one another.
• Work with CTO IT to use/build on/customize existing matching tools
• Develop a set of rules of engagement for mentor/alumni that manage:
  • Conflict of interest
  • Time limitations
  • Assignment goals
  • General objectives of the program
  • Relationship to business plan mentoring program
• Develop a feedback mechanism to measure the impact of the program for each mentoring transaction from both alumnus and mentor.

• Business expertise and understanding of startup business requirements
• Excellent communication skills
• Management experience
• Good problem solving skills

Work with CTO team and event leaders to coordinate event venues, registrations, on-site logistics for alumni events such as workshops, breakfast briefings, external panels and speaking events.

• Ensure that venue is secured and that participants know how to access
• Coordinate registration as needed with CTO staff and marketing team
• Attend the event and manage participants as necessary
• Liaise with workshop leader to determine specific support requirements for each event

• Effective verbal communication skills
• Ability to work with multiple teams
• Organizational skills
• Problem solving skills

Work with the Alumni chair to plan and execute the mission and activities of the CTO Alumni program.  The mission of the program is to create a community for past contestants of the CTO business plan competition that will foster innovation, connection and communication, and will help the alumni companies to continue to build business momentum.   The role of the second chair includes involvement in the five 2009 project areas:  Alumni database and directory, education and networking, quarterly newsletter, alumni mentor program, and events.

• Assist in management of alumni programs as needed
• Manage volunteers for specific programs as assigned
• Get to know alumni companies and help to create opportunities for them
• Build relationships with alumni companies to strengthen their ties to the community and to assist them in taking advantage of programs
• Support other chair initiatives that intersect with alumni programs
• Take ownership for a series of programs in one or more of the project areas
• Attend alumni events
• Two-way communications with alumni community to solicit needs and collect feedback

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to produce and adhere to a project plan and deadlines
• Ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously
• Diplomacy and flexibility
• Strong relationship-building and negotiation skills
• Business experience and acumen

• Cleantech domain expertise helpful
• Non-profit experience helpful
• Fundraising/sponsor management experience helpful
• Organizational skills

Act as liaison for a specific domain.  Own the agenda and communication for a specific Special Interest Group.   Organize telecons and subject matter workshops or meetings; liaise with other groups and with Alumni Chair to coordinate events, activities and communicate opportunities.

• Organize quarterly conference calls
• Track the interest areas and agendas for the group
• Act as spokesperson to represent the SIG interests and agenda for workshop and event content to other CTO constituents
• Solicit participants for CTO and external events as needs arise
• Act as communication coordinator for the SIG

• Interest in SIG domains of Energy Efficiency and/or Smart Power; actual experience in a related industry is a plus
• Business expertise and understanding of startup business requirements
• Good communication skills
• Ability to organize and coordinate events and meetings

Produce workshops for alumni education from concept design to execution.   Develop content, obtain speakers and/or materials, schedule and work with CTO volunteers to execute.   Workshops may be delivered by webinar or in person.   Work with CTO staff and volunteers to coordinate venue, registration and followup.   Work with Alumni Chair to coordinate sponsorship and funding.

• Develop workshop concept and content-preferably a series of two or more.
• Schedule workshop events, and coordinate with CTO master calendar.
• Provide workshop description and outcomes to CTO staff for advertising and registration.
• Solicit domain experts for workshop content and delivery as needed.
• Work with workshop content deliverers to review and approve content.
• Provide appropriate materials to CTO staff/volunteers for dissemination.
• Solicit feedback from attendees to measure success and document.

• Subject matter expertise and network
• Ability to manage event details with help from volunteers

Assist workshop leads in producing webinars and face-to-face workshops, managing the webinar technology, and/or audio-visual technology.

• Determine appropriate technical requirements for each workshop
• Set up webinars on requested dates
• Ensure all parties have appropriate access
• Coordinate rehearsal if required
• Provide technical (user) support during webinar
• Provide technical (AV) support during physical workshop (microphones, projectors, laptops for presentation

• Working knowledge of webinar applications
• Working knowledge of teleconferencing and video conferencing
• Working knowledge of AV and presentation technology
• Good communication skills

Writing feature and news articles for quarterly newsletter featuring Alumni success stories, featured companies, news that affects Alumni specifically and the community generally.  Involves interviews with Alumni, research of relevant news items, and coordination with CTO marketing team.

• Work with publisher to determine the quarterly focus
• Interview alumni, CTO staff and community, sponsors as directed
• Produce articles and profiles quarterly
• Conduct research as necessary
• Write/edit profiles for inclusion in alumni directory

• Excellent writing skills
• Editing skills
• Good overall communication skills
• Ability to manage to a deadline

• Working knowledge of clean tech and venture investment
• PR experience helpful

There are a wide variety of clean tech conferences, symposia, job fairs, talks and panels where potential CTO contestants may be found. Attend these events in Northen California (especially the Bay Area) with CTO collateral to reach out to these clean tech start-ups.

• Volunteer to attend as few or as many events as desired
• Receive brief training on how to talk to potential contestants
• Take collateral to events and talk about CTO
• Get contact information from all potentials
• Pass along information to Chair

• Personally follow up with potential contestants from events

• Interest and availability to attend events
• Very outgoing!
• Great evangelist for CTO
• Familiarity with the competition entry process

There are a wide variety of clean tech conferences, symposia, job fairs, talks and panels throughout Central California where potential CTO contestants may be found. Attend these events with CTO collateral to reach out to these clean tech start-ups.

• Volunteer to attend as few or as many events as desired
• Receive brief training on how to talk to potential contestants
• Take collateral to events and talk about CTO
• Get contact information from all potentials
• Pass along information to Chair

• Personally follow up with potential contestants from events

• Interest and availability to attend events
• Very outgoing!
• Great evangelist for CTO
• Familiarity with the competition entry process
• Located in Central California, specifically the Central Valley or similar location

There are a wide variety of clean tech conferences, symposia, job fairs, talks and panels where potential CTO contestants may be found. Attend these events in Denver and other parts of Colorado with CTO collateral to reach out to these clean tech start-ups.

• Volunteer to attend as few or as many events as desired
• Receive brief training on how to talk to potential contestants
• Take collateral to events and talk about CTO
• Get contact information from all potentials
• Pass along information to Chair

• Personally follow up with potential contestants from events

• Interest and availability to attend events
• Very outgoing!
• Great evangelist for CTO
• Familiarity with the competition entry process

There are a wide variety of clean tech conferences, symposia, job fairs, talks and panels throughout Southern California where potential CTO contestants may be found. Attend these events with CTO collateral to reach out to these clean tech start-ups.

• Volunteer to attend as few or as many events as desired
• Receive brief training on how to talk to potential contestants
• Take collateral to events and talk about the Cleantech Open
• Get contact information from all potentials
• Pass along information to Chair

Personally follow up with potential contestants from events

• Interest and availability to attend events
• Very outgoing!
• Great evangelist for the Cleantech Open
• Familiarity with the competition entry process
• Located in Los Angeles

There are a wide variety of clean tech conferences, symposia, job fairs, talks and panels where potential CTO contestants may be found. Attend these events in Portland and other areas in Oregon with CTO collateral to reach out to these clean tech start-ups.

• Volunteer to attend as few or as many events as desired
• Receive brief training on how to talk to potential contestants
• Take collateral to events and talk about CTO
• Get contact information from all potentials
• Pass along information to Chair

• Personally follow up with potential contestants from events

• Interest and availability to attend events
• Very outgoing!
• Great evangelist for CTO
• Familiarity with the competition entry process

There are a wide variety of clean tech conferences, symposia, job fairs, talks and panels where potential CTO contestants may be found. Attend these events in Salt Lake City and other parts of Utah with CTO collateral to reach out to these clean tech start-ups.

• Volunteer to attend as few or as many events as desired
• Receive brief training on how to talk to potential contestants
• Take collateral to events and talk about CTO
• Get contact information from all potentials
• Pass along information to Chair

• Personally follow up with potential contestants from events

• Interest and availability to attend events
• Very outgoing!
• Great evangelist for CTO
• Familiarity with the competition entry process

There are a wide variety of clean tech conferences, symposia, job fairs, talks and panels throughout Southern California where potential CTO contestants may be found. Attend these events with CTO collateral to reach out to these clean tech start-ups.

• Volunteer to attend as few or as many events as desired
• Receive brief training on how to talk to potential contestants
• Take collateral to events and talk about CTO
• Get contact information from all potentials
• Pass along information to Chair

• Personally follow up with potential contestants from events

• Interest and availability to attend events
• Very outgoing!
• Great evangelist for CTO
• Familiarity with the competition entry process
• Located in San Diego

There are a wide variety of clean tech conferences, symposia, job fairs, talks and panels where potential CTO contestants may be found. Attend these events in Seattle and other areas in Washington with CTO collateral to reach out to these clean tech start-ups.

• Volunteer to attend as few or as many events as desired
• Receive brief training on how to talk to potential contestants
• Take collateral to events and talk about CTO
• Get contact information from all potentials
• Pass along information to Chair

• Personally follow up with potential contestants from events

• Interest and availability to attend events
• Very outgoing!
• Great evangelist for CTO
• Familiarity with the competition entry process

Make contact with local business incubators and with local environmental business plan contest organizers to recruit candidate companies to join the CTO.  We emphasize the strong educational aspect of the CTO process and help incubator managers and contest organizers understand that the CTO process can be a valuable part of their program.

• Network with organizers of local business plan contests to recruit their better contestants.
• Network with local business incubators to recruit likely candidate clients

• Phone calls and emails to constantly follow up with potential CTO applicants
• Phone calls, email and (where possible) personal visits to incubators and events to promote the CTO

• Self starter, outgoing.
• Experienced at networking in your local area.

Need enthusiastic volunteers to call potential contestants to encourage competition entrance.

• Willingness to call, speak, and/or leave a message to potential contestants, encouraging competition entrance and answering questions.
• Answer contestant email questions as needed.
• Follow through to determine and provide information to contestants as needed.
• Volunteer will be provided with call list and all necessary contestant information.

• Clear professional English speaking and writing skills
• Comfortable calling and speaking on phone
• Basic computer and internet skills
• Access to phone and computer with internet connection (A phone and calling list provided by the Cleantech Open is an available option to make the calls)

Support Event Planning efforts. Help Operations Manager manage a variety of activities associated with pre-event planning and managing areas during the event.

• Manage exhibitors after they are recruited for events
• Manage gathering and transportation of event materials
• Drive breakfast briefing venue identification and venue logistics
• Work with Recruitment Chair to determine need for briefings
• Work with Marketing Chair to advertise the briefings

• Event experience
• Experience with creation and printing of marketing materials, signage, etc.

• Detailed
• Organized
• Experienced with Word, Excel, Publisher
• Experience with Adobe Suite desirable

Manage online registration process and get registration materials ready for events.

• Manage opening of online registration
• Track online registrations for each event
• Print badges for each event
• Compile event attendee list and required materials that will be provided to Event

• Experience with web-based registration platform
• Event experience

• Detailed
• Organized
• Experienced with Word, Excel, Publisher
• Experience with Adobe Suite desirable

The Clentech Open LA Events Chair leads event planning, coordination and logistics for the Los Angeles chapter of the Cleantech Open.

• Work with the Cleantech Open LA Chair and national organization to understand, develop and execute a coordinated events plan that supports CTO’s mission of nurturing cleantech innovation and maximizes local participation in the Cleantech Open competition.
• Develop relationships with the events groups from professional networks, government organizations, investor groups and local universities & research labs to drive a coordinated cleantech community events plan that drives awareness and involvement in the Cleantech Open and demonstrates cooperation across Los Angeles area cleantech organizations.

• Build out a CTO LA volunteer events team.

• Ability to commit 8-10 hours per week
• Passion for Cleantech and developing entrepreneurship in Southern California
• Experience in event planning, logistics and execution are a plus 
• Existing area business and engineering school and/or professional networks are a plus

The Speaker Team works under the National Operations Manager to coordinate the speakers for the two large national events:

 1. Cleantech Open Conference - July 15, 2010 in San Jose
 2. National Awards Gala - November 17 in San Francisco

The Cleantech Open currently has a list of speaker contacts, as well as a list of targeted contacts for outreach.  The Speaker Team is responsible for:

• meeting with the event team to go over the details of both events
• map out the topic areas for speakers for both events
• brainstorm, from the list and from other sources, potential speakers for both events
• invite those speakers for the target event (one event per speaker)
• be the main contact point for each confirmed speaker leading up to the event, conveying appropriate information about the event logistics, obtaining speaker slides, and acting as the host during the event to the speaker

The opportunity includes a great chance to meet some prominent cleantech experts and players in the field.  Speak Team members will hold the relationships with all speakers they connect with, which offers a great chance for personal development.

Transcribe the almost 30 hours of videos taken from the 2008 competition. Create an organized quote library. Great for virtual volunteer.

• Listen to and transcribe 50+ YouTube videos and other archives videos recevied from CTO staff.
• Edit transcribed content for clarity and cohesion
• Compile quotes in quote library by: Speaker Name, Title, Affiliation, Date, Subject Matter/Topic, and Quote Content

• Catalogue current YouTube postings so all the links are in the quote library

• Internet connection
• Familiarity with YouTube
• Video viewing software
• Efficienct typer
• Good editor
• Good with Excel
• Able to organize data into a library (Excel)

Work closely with the Development Director to develop Cleantech Open financial information required by foundations grants. Provide the main Cleantech Open focal point for gathering and creating financial information to be submitted with foundation grants.

• Prepare Cleantech Open budgets and the budget narrative required for grant submission for chosen foundations.
• Work with Cleantech Open leadership to obtain key program budget detail requested by foundations. Include national plans for sustainability in subsequent years.
• Work closely with Development Director and Grant Proposal Leads to ensure that all financial information is developed and submitted with foundation grants
• Work directly with Cleantech Open financial consultants to obtain financial detail and sponsorship information.
• Create reusable financial spreadsheets for typical foundation requests: Balance Sheet, Income Statement, Program Budget, etc.
• Main contact with Acterra, if prior audited financial information or fiduciary detail is required by foundation. 
• Upload all documents created on Grants team wiki.

• Attend regular foundation grant meetings to stay current on key priorities of team
• Communicate foundation financial information to Grant Proposal Leads

• Demonstrated skills and experience in developing financial statements and spreadsheets
• Management experience
• Ability to work in a variety of capacities with both Development Director and Proposal Leads
• Strong communications skills

Work closely with the Development Director to identify key foundations that match Cleantech Open mission and programs and assist when necessary, to develop the foundation relationships with identified contacts.

• Help identify if there's a connection between a CTO stakeholder group member and the foundation; query stakeholders as determined by Development Director.
• Drive efforts to make go/no go decision on proceeding with a foundation
• Assist Development Director in following through with relationship building;
• Fill in as the right-hand person for relationship building when Development Director not available.
• Lead logistics and coordination for foundation sponsored events on behalf of Cleantech Open and awarded program team, plus recruiting appropriate volunteers for events and CTO event calendar, and event registration coordination.
• Check with Acterra about LOI and proposal conflicts 
• Upload all documents created on Grants team wiki.

• Attend regular foundation grant meetings to stay current on key priorities of team
• Help communicate foundation relationship information to Grant Proposal Leads

• Demonstrated skills and experience in developing alliances and partnerships
  Program Manager experience
• Ability to work in a variety of capacities with both Development Director and Proposal Leads
• Strong leadership experience and communications skills

Prior Foundation Contacts and Relationships Preferred

Work closely with the Development Director on requirements for writing grants for established foundation relationships. Lead 2 -3 person teams of grant writers to completion for submission.

• Lead Foundation Proposal process from start to finish.
• Lead foundation research efforts as identified with Development Director.
• Lead volunteer foundation researchers; assist them in obtaining access to resources for research; Document research and post on Grants wiki.
• Lead team to obtain the minimum information needed to send an LOI and/or grant. Review assigned foundation(s), research to date, and web site specifics; research the Foundation Center, CTO wiki, foundation web site, etc.
• Obtain application deadlines, content & format.
• Gather/review standard CTO info: previous grants, Sanjay template, other grant applications
• Create a proposal timeline with milestones
• Oversee all details of grant writing process, review, and approval with Cleantech Open management team
• Upload all documents created on Grants team wiki.

• Attend regular foundation grant meetings to stay current on key priorities of team
• Communicate progress and team needs to Development Director regularly

• Prior Project Manager experience
• Lead 2-3 person grant teams, setting meeting schedule as necessary
• Regular communication with Development Director; provide conduit to grant team assigned for particular foundation(s)
• Enthusiastic - ability to corral assigned grant writers and meet milestones set
• Strong communication skills

• Grant Writing experience preferred, although not required
• Multi-functional management experience

Work closely with a Grant Proposal Lead on requirements for writing grants for established foundation relationships. Work in 2 -3 person teams of grant writers through completion of grant submission.

• Work on particular Foundation Proposal(s) from start to finish.
• Research assigned foundation(s), as identified by Grant Proposal Leadbtain .
• Obtain the minimum information needed to send an LOI and/or grant. Review assigned foundation, research to date, and web site specifics; research the Foundation Center, CTO wiki, foundation web site, etc.
• Gather/review standard CTO info: previous grants, Sanjay template, other grant applications
• Upload all documents created on Grants team wiki.

• Strong writing skills required
• Ability to work in a variety of roles, both in foundation research and grant writing
• Role may be intermittent based on relationship development activity prior to grant writing

• Previous grant writing experience preferred
• Technical writing experience a plus

Manage outreach to the Silicon Valley Angel Investor community, to engage individuals to become involved in the CTO via outbound communications, a email campaign, guerilla/grassroots networking, etc.  Get the Angel community excited about a variety of means of participation:  mentoring, giving us access to their networks, advice on pitches, participation in our new “Angel Investor Forum”, bringing raw/unproven deal flow into CTO as competition entrants (spring), first access to CTO Finalists as Angel investment deal flow (fall), etc. 

•    Develop and execute a messaging and communications plan
•    With the Angel Chair, set goals for number and timing of Angels recruited into our program.  Drive and measure the results.
•    Drive sign-up of Angels for our “Angel Investor Forum” (to be run coincident with CTO Mock Judging), and get commitments for Angels to play specific roles within that event.
•    Act as go-between for matchmaking between CTO finalists and appropriate prospective Angel investors.  (And/or, help facilitate a mechanized process for matchmaking.)
•    Develop a feedback mechanism to assure that Angels who engage with us are pleased with our program, are seeing results, and that we are hearing their inputs.

•    Passionate team player, who thrives within a small, focused group
•    Business expertise and understanding of startups (ideally, startup experience).   Appropriate experience would likely include Marketing, Sales or Business Development.
•    Ideally:  understanding of the Venture and Angel funding ecosystem and deal screening processes
•    Excellent communication skills – both verbal and written. 
•    Have a strong network of your own, and an ability to expand it in support of this program
•    Availability of about 5 hours/week (with a surge around 2-3 key events), ability to attend a weekly team meeting at a fixed time

This person will build the processes and infrastructure in support of our goal of engaging the Angel Investor community as active participants in the CTO:  mentoring, giving us access to their networks, advice on pitches, participation in our new “Angel Investor Forum”, bringing raw/unproven deal flow into CTO as competition entrants (spring), first access to CTO Finalists as Angel investment deal flow (fall), etc. 

•    In conjunction with the Chair, develop and maintain a master project schedule for the Angel program.
•    Establish our Angel investor database, and means for sharing it among appropriate CTO individuals.   (Perhaps something like Google Docs.)   Develop the process for occasional email communication to the Angel community as fed by the database.
•    Develop matchmaking process(es) to enable CTO finalist to tap into the Angel community for advice during the competition and most importantly, to tap the Angel community for potential investments at the end of the season.
•    Orchestrate the mechanics and logistics of the Angel Investor Forum event.  Provide a feedback mechanism after the event, to enable the contestants to learn from the feedback of the Angel participants.

•    Passionate team player, who thrives within a small, focused group
•    Business expertise and understanding of startups (ideally, startup experience)
•    Ideally:  understanding of the Venture and Angel funding ecosystem and deal screening processes
•    Organized and structured style, with excellent project management skills
•    Familiarity with Web 2.0 tools for communication and team collaboration
•    Availability of about 5 hours/week  (with a surge around 2-3 key events), ability to attend a weekly team meeting at a fixed time

The Judging team recruits and selects judges for all three rounds of judging. The team members act as scribes during the judges and also mamke final decisions on difficult judging decisions. The Co-Chair position has a cyclical cycle, with much volunteer time needed at the beginning of June, at the end of September and the beginning of October, and again at the end of October.

• Work with the other Co-Chair to oversee the Judging team and all Judges
• Recruit, interview, and select Judges from members of CTO's sponsors, academia, technical experts, and past Judges
• Communicate with selected Judges all dates, judging criteria, and appropriate material
• Interview and select team members to act as scribes and program assistants
• Make executive decisions on specific judging questions
• Handle sensitive information in the form of Executive Summaries, Business Plans and presentations
• Present judging program overview and criteria to national expansion affiliates in March

• Able to commit many hours during the high judging seasons
• Experience working with high-level executives and professionals
• Experience managing a team
• Familiarity with the CTO judging process
• Great written and oral communications skills
• Highly organized
• Able to make executive decisions for special cases to apply to national programming
• Comfortable with working with nataional expansion programs
• Interest and ability to jump right into the Judging program and work solo for a few weeks

The first round of judging calls will take place June 17, 18 and 19. The calls will be three hours long for each category, with two categories being judged per day. Scribes are needed to call into these judging calls and take note of all the conversations.  Notes will be turned into the Judging Chair.

• Call into the conference line for three hours
• Take concise, detailed notes on the judges' comments, questions and debates.
• Take note of any conversations with contestants, if judges call them into the conference line.
• Edit and compile all notes and turn into Judging Chair.

• Good writer
• Great note-taker
• Have some understanding of the CTO judging process
• Able to spend three hours on the phone on one of the judging call days
• Ability to maintain confidence of judging results

Consistent branding and messaging is important to a growing organization like Clean Tech Open. With many new volunteers, we need help spreading the word on exactly how to talk about CTO. Presentations will be made to different volunteer groups, sponsors, mentors, contestants and Alumni.

• Work with the Marketing Chair to present to different groups about CTO's message
• Help maintain consistency of the brand and message image throughout all stakeholder groups

• Interest in marketing
• Some experience with branding
• Interested in learning more about Clean Tech Open and the brand
• Interested in expanding experience level of messaging

The Cleantech Open LA Marketing Chair leads the marketing team on development and execution of the annual CleanTech Open marketing plan in an effort to build CTO brand awareness, draw LA area contestants into the annual competition, draw volunteer interest, provide value to LA area CTO partners and sponsor and highlight our alumni businesses.

• Coordinate with CTO national PR group to develop a local marketing plan aligned with and leveraging the activities of the national PR campaign.
• Develop relationships with local media resources, professional networks and celebrities to drive awareness for Cleantech Open LA.
• Communicate Cleantech Open’s mission and impact through a variety of channels to draw high energy, dedicated individuals to the Cleantech Open volunteer community
• Define and build CTO LA volunteer marketing team.
• Coordinate with other CTO LA chairs on their marketing requirements.

• Ability to commit 8-10 hours per week
• Passion for Cleantech and developing entrepreneurship in Southern California
• Existing area marketing and advertising networks are a plus
• Experience in managing volunteers a plus

The California Clean Tech Open seeks student interns who will act as hands-on resources for our semi-finalist teams.  Each contestant team will have a team of mentors - typical accomplished executives who have built successful tech businesses both large and small - to coach them through the competition.  Working under the auspices of the mentors, student interns will provide assistance to our start ups as a competition resource. 

Typical tasks include:

• Competitive assessments
• Business case development and financial modeling
• VC pitches

We are accepting applications from talented seniors, grad students or new grads with expertise or a passion in  entrepreneurship, finance, engineering, and clean tech.  Time commitments are 3-4 hours/week from July through the end of Sept.  This un-paid position will help train students on what it takes to build a winning clean tech start up and will expose them to a powerful network of clean tech execs, entrepreneurs and investors.

You must be willing to commit to being available from the beginning of July through the end of September, for approximately 3-4 hours per week. 

Work with the CTO alumni and the Alumni Chair to develop profiles, interviews, updates, and other interesting content for use on the CTO blog. Ideally, provide 1-2 posts each week to keep readers informed about CTO’s numerous alumni companies.

• Ability to interview and develop interesting Q&A-style stories on a wide range of clean technologies
• Develop an editorial plan that spans as many CTO alums as possible
• Write 1-2 posts each week, for posting to the Clean Tech Blog. These articles will be by-lined by the author

• Familiar with blogging platforms and how to post on Wordpress

• Be a writer! Ability to develop and maintain an appropriate editorial tone in keeping with the CTO blog
• Good interpersonal skills

• Some familiarity with various clean tech sectors would be very useful

Twitter can be a valuable resource to track clean tech trends, watch for events, and get word-of-mouth exposure. This role entails catching up on Twitter for a few minutes each day throughout the week to track any exposure.

• Monitor the Twittersphere for mentions of clean tech
• Evaluate each Tweet for its relevance to the CTO; determine whether to follow the author from twitter/cleantechopen
• Notify PR Chair of anything noteworthy

• Have a Twitter account
• Familiarity with Twitter
• Familiarity with clean tech issues, categories
• Ability to determine ‘authority’ of bloggers and Twitters
• Make recommendations to CTO/PR re. individuals we need to fold into the PR campaign

The Ideas Competition started in 2009 as a way for the Cleantech Open to expand globally.  Any country can participate for free.  Idea entries are judged and each country winner participates in the Cleantech Open Awards Gala in November.

• Maintain Ideas Competition web content
• Connect with and follow up with potential country organizers
• Recruit additional country organizers
• Assist with outreach within country
• Answer any email questions regarding recruitment, judging and the final Gala logistics

• Assist with winner video submission for Awards Gala
• Assist with prize package buidling for global winner
• Co-Present award at National Gala

• Outgoing, self-motivating and organized
• Interested in global outreach
• Patience with translation difficulties
• Some knowledge of video transmissions for Gala use

• Adept at learning web platform (from Cleantech Open for entries)

The Executive Summary Webinar takes place May 4th from 5pm to 7pm Pacific time.  Potential contestants from across the country will participate to learn about writing their executive summary entry, ask questions about the competition, and find out the next steps in the competition.

• Assist with cirriculum creation
• Assist with PowerPoint creation
• Assist with rehearsal of participants
• Assist with executiion of webinar

Follow up with potential contestants' questions.

• Be profient in PowerPoint and WebEx
• Have some past experience with instructing or teaching
• Have an interest in entrepreneurship

The volunteer coordinator leads the volunteer recruitment, placement and management efforts for the Los Angeles chapter of the Cleantech Open.

• Develop relationships with local universities, professional networks and recruiters to create awareness for volunteer opportunities within the Southern California chapter of the Cleantech Open
• Communicate Cleantech Open’s mission and impact through a variety of channels to draw high energy, dedicated individuals to the Cleantech Open volunteer community
• Attend area cleantech, entrepreneurship and business plan events on occasion to drive CTO volunteer recruitment.
• Coordinate with Cleantech Open national volunteer chair to understand and help develop best practices in attracting and retaining productive volunteers.
• Coordinate with other Cleantech Open SoCal chairs on their group volunteer requirements.

• Ability to commit 8-10 hours per week
• Passion for Cleantech and developing entrepreneurship in Southern California
• Existing area business and engineering school networks are a plus
• Experience in managing volunteers

The Volunteer Data Manager is responsible for receiving and processing the volunteer requests through the website and via email.  The Data Manager interacts with the Staffing Manager to ensure that programs areas are filled with volunteers.

• Receive and respond to all emails sent to volunteers@.
• Continually update the volunteer system with expired volunteer postings and new volunteer needs.
• Be the main point of contact for all new volunteers, before they are assigned.
• Send out monthly emails to all volunteers including job postings, new volunteer roles, and other information about the organization.

• Write several blog postings about the volunteer experience, volunteer needs and more.

• Very personable
• Highly organized
• Comfortable communicating via email and phone
• Comfortable learning a new web platform for recruitment volunteers

The Volunteer Staffing Manager is responsible for receiving the newly processed volunteers and assigning them to the appropriate program areas, based on their interest and availability.  The Staffing Manager receives this information from the Data Manager and works directly with the chairs to receive their volunteer needs.

• Liase with the Program Chairs to receive new volunteer posts, and post them to the volunteer system on the website.
• Follow up with all placed volunteers six months after placement to review success

• Assist with volunteer party planning

• Able to properly vet volunteers for certain positions
• Comfortable with interacting with all program chairs to pull out volunteer needs
• Capable of reviewing placement success or need for improvement

There are continual updates to the static site that can be made in basic HTML. Help us to make these edits in a time efficient manner by updating the site for us.

• Receive updates and edits from one of several different volunteers from various programs (Alumni, Innovation Partners, Mentors, and staff)
• Update the static pages within the website, double checking spelling and compatibility with various browsers
• Update sponsor logo gifs with links and appropriate layout
• Confirm updates with response to original party

• Fluent in HTML
• Ability to access www.CleantechOpen.com to make edits (need appropriate framework and will be given access codes by developers)
• Some experience with static web page updates
• Ability to update sponsor logo pages: http://www.cleantechopen.com/app.cgi/content/sponsors/california