Careers
Join our crew of brave, curious and hard-working thinkers and doers.
We’re working for a world where people and the planet are treated as indisposable - and businesses and communities thrive without waste.
We invite you to create this future with us.
At Upstream, we believe in the power of inspirational invitation. Within the larger plastic pollution and reuse movements, we are conveners, initiators, and story-tellers working to catalyze and amplify solutions for the better world already being built. We foster a creative, proactive culture where a rich mix of talented people want to come, stay, connect as both colleagues and humans, and co-create a more joyful, just world every day.
Over the past few years, Upstream has undergone a metamorphosis to maximize our ability to transform the US and Canada’s throw-away society to a culture of stewardship. As an organization, Upstream is unique in its singular focus on reuse, position as a thought leader, and access to a large network of stakeholders from the NGO, business, and government sectors. Given the distributed, small nature of our team and large geographic focus, we take a high level role and focus on serving the movement in a way that is impactful and scalable.
Philanthropy Director
Policy Intern
Are you an innovative fundraiser with a passion for sustainability and environmental impact? Do you thrive on building meaningful relationships and driving creative philanthropic strategies? If so, Upstream invites you to apply for our Philanthropy Director role—a pivotal position that will shape the future of our fundraising efforts and help advance the reuse movement.
This position’s responsibilities will support our policy team as we convene and support reuse advocates across the US and Canada in our Reuse Solutions Network. This role will also support the policy team’s tracking of reuse funding opportunities and municipal, state / provincial, and federal reuse policy.
Applicants must be located in AZ, IL, MD, NH, ME, NC, CA or TX.