The Environmental Jobs Network (EJN) is Australia's leading online resource for environmental job seekers, professionals and career changers. We also offer a unique and expanding range of services to the wider environmental sector.

EJN was initiated by a team of young people who were dedicated to providing a comprehensive website where job seekers and employers could share valuable information on environmental organizations, education, careers and jobs. From our base in Melbourne, our team of volunteers and employees continues to service the whole of Australia with our innovative website, and to provide an expanding range of other services, including seminars and facilitated panel discussions.

Questions? Please go to our FAQ page.

EJN is principally a web-based service designed to:

• Facilitate job searches for people seeking environmental careers.
• Help organizations to find the best possible staff, by targeting a specific group of motivated job seekers.
• Raise awareness of an increasing variety of environmental careers.
• Promote the uptake of environmental education.
• Provide information on the evolution of the environmental jobs market
• Facilitate a dialogue between schools, universities, employers and job seekers to enable informed decision-making.
• Promote environmental events such as the Sustainable Living Festival

We achieve our goals through:

• Our website accessed by over 2500 visitors per week.
• Our jobs and events email, EJN Weekly, which is sent to more than 7000 job seekers each week.
• Our television series, EnviroPluck, which was aired on Channel 31 between July and September 2004 to a weekly audience of some 30,000. The series has been published as a reference for job seekers, as well as careers advisors in secondary schools across the country.
• Our volunteers, who provide seminars for educational institutions and for our other partners.
• Research projects into environmental industry and employment in Australia. The Guide to Environmental Careers in Australia, in which we surveyed over 600 environmental practitioners about their jobs and industry, was funded by the Department of the Environment and Heritage. The most recent was commissioned by Victoria’s Department of Sustainability and Environment, as a contribution to the Greenhouse Roundtable for Universities 2005.

As a testament to the service we run, EJN has also been endorsed by several high-profile, respected and influential mentors within the environment industry in Australia.

The EJN mentors have included:

• David Risstrom, Former Melbourne City Councilor and Greens senate candidate.
• Rob Gell, President, Greening Australia Victoria
• Frank Fisher, Director, Graduate School of Environmental Science, Monash University
• Marcus Godhino, Director, Environment Victoria
• Cheryl Battagol, Board of Directors, City West Water
• Ian Thomas, School of Social Science and Planning, RMIT University

What has EJN achieved?

• At least 150 environmental jobs advertised on the EJN website at any one time, making it the premier site in its field.
• An expanding volunteer team of committed and enthusiastic people to promote and develop EJN.
• A professionally designed website, with an easy-to-use, searchable jobs database, and an increasing range of other information services.
• A virtual Environmental Careers Office – a one stop shop for career advice and education information.
• Rapidly expanding website patronage, now exceeding 2,500 visitors per week.
• EJN initiated and participated in the annual Environmental Careers Expo’s at RMIT in 2002 and 2003.
• Wrote a submission for the House of Representatives, Environment and Heritage Committee inquiry into ‘Jobs in the Environmental Sector’, and was asked to appear before the committee.
• Wrote a comprehensive booklet published by the National Gradlink organization on Careers in the Environment
• Attended the ‘Employers of Choice Expo’ with Global Sustainability @ RMIT, to promote employment in the environmental sector.
• Participated in the Environmental Practitioners meetings – involving all universities offering environmental courses in Victoria
• Participated in, and helped to coordinate, the City of Melbourne Youth and Sustainability Forum.
• Winner of the Spanner in the Works Award 2001 from the Anna Wearne Memorial Trust.