Green Jobs Initiative
The Fastest & Simplest Way To Find Early Career Opportunities With Green Skill Development
Net Impact UC has partnered with the career fair production board to integrate the Green Jobs Initiative into the University of Cincinnati Professional and Technical Career Fair. The initiative highlights employers that offer sustainability-based skill development within a job description or the company itself.
Approved employers receive additional identifiers and marketing to better connect students with "green" job employers. The Net Impact Career Development team approves companies via an audit of the Net Impact UC definition and criteria for a "green" job. The criteria were developed in reference to LinkedIn's Economic Graph Report and consultation with sustainability professionals.
If you are an employer looking to tap into a passionate and ambitious student talent pool to meet your green job roles, reach out to gonza2ji@mail.uc.edu. More information can be found on UC’s career fair page here. If you are a student looking for a green job, follow our Instagram and stay tuned to find out when the next opportunities will be.
Navigation
What is a "Green Job"?
A "green" job will employ specific skills to enable the environmental sustainability of economic activity. The definition is approved by Net Impact UC's External Advisory Board for Sustainable Business, including representatives from Fifth Third Bank, Kroger, Benchmark Digital, GenSuite, Donovan Energy, and Cintrifuse.
A green job must include responsibilities that develop skills in 1 of 13 categories. Roles that aren’t inherently “green” have the opportunity to provide students with the skills and knowledge needed to power the future green economy. This is why Net Impact UC is focused on the responsibilities within a job description, and not the role itself.
The transition to renewable energy and circularity will be dependent on the future workforce obtaining green skills and employing these across different industries, organizations, and roles.
Green Skill Categories
Pollution Prevention
Any work that prevents, eliminates, or reduces pollutants at the source such as air emissions, solid and hazardous waste, and/or liquid discharges.
Sample skills or tasks: wastewater treatment, green infrastructure design, air emission reporting, and sampling or point source emission reduction
Spring 2026 Green Jobs Impact
UC Technical and Professional Career Fair
27
Approved Employers
Employers represented as Green Employers by having sustainability related positions available for students.
309
Employers Over 3 Days
Total Employers in attendance over the 3 day fair.
8.7%
Green Job Representation
Representation of companies present were Green Employers.