Environmental Sustainability Volunteer

Salary: $0.00 Annually
Location : 777 Sawgrass Corporate Pkwy. Sunrise, FL, FL
Job Type: Volunteer / Internship
Job Number: 2025-027
Department: UTILITIES
Opening Date: 10/18/2024
Closing Date: Continuous
Bargaining Unit: PT


Description
Join the CITIZEN VOLUNTEER CORPS today!
The Citizen Volunteer Corps program is designed to inspire community engagement by encouraging residents to get involved in the nuts and bolts of local government through volunteering their time and talents in various city departments. This program seeks to create an innovative partnership between the City and the citizens we serve, by providing volunteers the opportunity to directly impact programs and services that our residents count on every day.

Who joins the corps? A diverse range of dedicated people who discover that volunteering offers tangible benefits including:

• remain active between jobs & want to keep their skills sharp
• retired with years of knowledge & experience to share
• graduate program candidates in need of an internship opportunity
• high school students looking to serve civic volunteer hours
• new graduates seeking work experience
• civically engaged people who take the time to get involved in this community!
• earn recognition
• inspire community engagement
• help expand & improve City services
• meet new people & make new friends
• develop marketable job skills
• gain experience with a great organization
• explore careers / build a resume
• make a difference in our community

Examples of Duties
Environmental Sustainability

• The City of Sunrise is committed to making every day Earth Day! Assist with our Good & Green Community engagement initiatives, which invites everyone to join us in conserving resources, supporting a sustainable economy, and practicing stewardship. Visit for information.

Requirements
IMPORTANT DETAILS ABOUT THE CITY'S VOLUNTEER PROGRAM

• Volunteers do not need to live within the City of Sunrise, but must be at least 15 years old.
• Potential volunteers will need to submit the online application and may be subject to background checks depending on where they will be placed.
• Citizen Volunteer Corps members are eligible to earn special recognition and awards from the City for their creditable volunteer service hours.

Supplemental Information

Ways To Be Good & Green
SAVE WATER: Be a water champion!

• Sunrise Water Utility customers are eligible for FREE kitchen and bathroom faucet aerators and shower heads. How about a $100 rebate for replacing your older toilets? For info call View phone number on click.appcast.io or visit
• Did you know landscaping accounts for about 40% of water use here in South Florida? Consider making your landscape a

SAVE ENERGY

• Conserve energy by switching your old light bulbs to LED bulbs, and startinghabits.
• Evaluate your energy usage and find ways to save by using
• Residences and businesses can complete a FREE and can schedule an on-site evaluation!
• You can also reduce peak energy demand and get paid, contact
• Income eligible households may be eligible for weatherization home improvements, call View phone number on click.appcast.io for more information.
• Did you know that aggressive driving is expensive? Save on gas by driving smoothly, avoid idling, and keeping your tires properly inflated.
• is a financing option for energy efficiency and conservation property improvements available to homeowners and businesses.

REDUCE WASTE: Reduce, reuse, and then recycle!

• Reduce waste by refusing single-use plastics like plastic bags, straws, cups, and utensils. Pledge to with the City of Sunrise.
• Reduce waste by reclaiming your mailbox.
• Reuse instead of throwing away, like reusing shopping bags and water bottles. Donate usable goods like clothing, toys and furniture.
• Recycle Right by placing plastic bottles, paper, cardboard, metal cans and aluminum cans in your blue bin. DO NOT PUT PLASTIC BAGS in your recycling bins. Review the full list of , or if you have questions call View phone number on click.appcast.io.
• Safely dispose of your household hazardous waste and electric waste at one of our !

Support our Economy

• Shop Sunrise, Source and Hire Locally.
• Buy Green: Look for the environmentally friendly option (e.g., EnergySTAR certified, or WaterSense certified products) when shopping or buying business supplies.
• Get Involved: There are a number of great organizations including the that can help your business.

Practice Stewardship

• Did you know Sunrise is a certified through the National Wildlife Federation? Help the City maintain the certification by certifying your property.
• : Your group or business are invited to demonstrate your commitment to a clean and beautiful Sunrise!

Get Involved!

• Be a Good and Green Ambassador and bring useful information to your neighbors, work place or school. Students can receive service hours!
• The City of Sunrise has a Sustainability Advisory Board that meets on the second Wednesday of each month at 6:00 p.m. These meetings are open to the public, your input is welcome!

The description of benefits for which, an employee may be eligible have been generally summarized in this information sheet for your convenience; however, you must refer to all applicable City ordinances, collective bargaining agreements and/or plan documents for specific terms and conditions. These benefits may be affected by future changes in policy, collective bargaining, City ordinances and/or legislative actions. The City reserves the right to increase, modify, decreaseor eliminate benefits at any time. No benefit is created or maintained simply based on this document, and its contents do not give rise to any contractual rights related to continuing employment or receipt of benefits between the City of Sunrise and its employees. The information contained herein supersedes any prior benefit sheet(s).
The City of Sunrise is an economic powerhouse in western Broward County encompassing more than 18 square miles. As the host of Sawgrass International Corporate Park - the largest business park in South Florida - Sunrise has its own flourishing job market and currently employs approximately 1,100 employees and numbers continue to rise.
The City takes a very active role in business development, recruitment and prides itself on creating job opportunities for its residents. There are very few communities of similar size that welcome the tens of millions of visitors that we do here in Sunrise, or that can boast the magnitude of regional assets found in our City.
Our City shines and we understand in order to shine brighter; we must continue to recognize our employees as one of our most valuable assets. The City of Sunrise takes great pride in recruiting future employees and developing and retaining current ones by offering our comprehensive compensation and benefits package throughout an employee's career.

Paid Time Off
1) PTO = Paid Time Off
o At the department's discretion and approval, regular part-time employees may use PTO.
o PTO may be used for sick or vacation time-off requests.

2) Employee must work a full fiscal quarter before they are eligible for any PTO:

Fiscal Year Quarters Applicable Months
1st Quarter January - March
2nd Quarter April - June
3rd Quarter July - September
4th Quarter October - December

3) PTO earned per fiscal quarter will be earned in accordance with the following accrual table:

Bi-Weekly Average Hours Worked PTO Earned
8 to 13.99 2 hours
14.00 to 26.99 4 hours
27.00 to 39.99 6 hours
40.00 + 8 hours
*Maximum PTO that may be earned in a fiscal quarter is 8 hours (Total of 32 max hours per year)

4) PTO earned will be calculated and posted to employee's leave accruals on the month following the end of the fiscal quarter.
o Calculation will be based on check dates within a fiscal quarter.

5) Employees may use PTO in four (4) hour increments only.

6) PTO must be requested the business day before requested time off.

7) Employees must use PTO earned in a fiscal year by the end of the following fiscal year or accrued time will be forfeited.

8) There will be no payouts upon separation of service and no cash outs of accumulated time.

9) Any PTO used within a fiscal quarter will not count as time worked for future calculations of any benefit.

10) PTO balances will not transfer with the employee if they go to full-time status.
o Employees that transfer to full-time status are treated as new hires.
o Regular part-time employees will have the ability to request time off in Kronos.
o Regular part-time employees in the Police or Fire Rescue departments will have the ability to request time off in Telestaff.

11) A new PTO code has been set-up in Tyler Munis for payroll processing.

12) Seasonal staff and interns are not eligible to receive PTO.

HOLIDAYS
1) Part-time employees are eligible to earn 4 hours of holiday pay for each official City-observed holiday.
o Currently ten (10) City holidays (4) hours of paid Holidays for a total of 40 hours per year).
o Employees receive four (4) hours of Holiday pay regardless of how many hours they work.
o No look-back period would be applicable.
2) If employee works on a City holiday, the employee will get paid for the actual hours worked plus receive four (4) hours of holiday pay.
3) If an employee is scheduled to work on a City holiday and calls out or fails to show up for work, the employee will not be eligible to receive holiday pay.
4) Holiday pay does not count as time worked.
5) A new PTO code has been set-up in Tyler Munis for payroll processing.
6) Seasonal staff and interns are not eligible to receive holiday pay.