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- PLEASE NOTE: A cover letter is required when applying for this job. In your letter, please describe, as specifically as you can, how your experience, interests, and values are a good fit for this position and with EarthCorps. In addition, please share how your lived and/or professional experiences inform your understanding of what it means to be anti-racist.
ABOUT EARTHCORPS
EarthCorps is a Seattle-based non-profit that cultivates leaders and community partnerships to advance environmental justice. We believe in the power of people – acting through their collective responsibility to one another and our planet – to tackle the most pressing challenges facing our world. We envision an equitable world where all people and nature thrive together. EarthCorps is committed to becoming a more liberated and anti-racist organization. Through a lens of diversity, equity, and inclusion, EarthCorps is building a network of leaders who have the cultural competency and skills to build a new future, while restoring vital lands and waters and connecting people to nature. This work is ongoing and the organization is committed to being transparent with program participants about our work, as well as including their input to drive the direction of the organization towards a healthier, equitable, and sustainable community for us all. To cultivate this important work, we train young leaders in ecological restoration. We bring together young adults – who we call corps members - from the US and across the globe for an environmental leadership development and green-jobs training program where we care for the lands and waters of Puget Sound. Corps members gain hands-on leadership experience, cross-cultural skills, and learn technical environmental restoration while building a close-knit community as they care for our natural world. These emerging environmental leaders “think globally and act locally” in leading community volunteers to complete restoration projects such as native tree planting, invasive plant removal, salmon stream restoration, wetland and shoreline restoration, and trail construction. Under new leadership EarthCorps is embarking on our next chapter: we are in the early stages of implementing a new Strategic Plan, a bold guide that is leading us as we transform our organization to meet the environmental justice and racial equity needs of today. Come be a part of the transformation of this organization!
COMMITMENT TO RACIAL EQUITY
EarthCorps strongly believes in the values of racial equity, diversity, and inclusion. EarthCorps works to ensure that everyone feels engaged and supported in all areas of the organization's operations as we work to become a fully inclusive, multi-cultural, and anti-racist organization.
POSITION DESCRIPTION
Crew Leaders lead environmental restoration projects throughout the Puget Sound region (in urban, suburban, and rural settings). The Crew Leader is responsible for: project coordination between land management agencies, EarthCorps project managers, and 5-6 Crew Members; facilitation of crew safety and well-being, productivity, morale and quality of work; and Crew Member training and education in the field. This position is managed by an EarthCorps program manager and supervised by EarthCorps project managers, and is offered through the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS). As such, all applicants must meet the requirements to become an AmeriCorps member and abide by AmeriCorps policies.
PROGRAM OPPORTUNITIES, RESPONSIBILITIES AND INTENDED OUTCOMES:
Crew Leadership & Delegation:
Crew leading provides individuals with an opportunity to experience a peer leadership model as they work on restoration projects alongside crew members. Crew leaders receive an extended orientation that prepares them to teach and coach members on their crew. Leading others in restoration strengthens skills in communication, delegation, team building and interpersonal support.
- Motivates, directs and coordinates a crew of young adults in a structured program of service, restoration, and training.
- Responsible for the quality, safety and efficiency of crew work.
- Maintains positive crew morale and fosters teamwork amongst corps members.
- Enforces the standards of behavior as well as policies and procedures of EarthCorps and ensures adherence to program goals and mission, including attendance policies.
- Oversees and enforces EarthCorps policies relating to public health and the spread of infection, including the wearing of face coverings and necessary distancing between crew members in the field
- Leads by example while serving alongside corps members.
Coordination & Project Implementation:
Crew leaders develop project management skills over the course of the term of service as they implement and coordinate projects with the support of project managers. Through their work on project, crew leaders develop skills in project planning, risk management, troubleshooting, and environmental restoration techniques.
- Coordinates fieldwork projects with project managers and the field operations manager.
- Serves as on-site project leader for EarthCorps in the absence of a project manager.
- Maintains project and equipment logs/records as directed by a project manager.
- Assists project manager in maintaining production, quality, and safety goals/standards for crew.
- Responsible for implementing environmental restoration projects throughout the Puget Sound region.
These projects (with typical percentages per year) include but are not limited to:
- Initial invasive plant removal (manual/ mechanical) 25%
- Invasive plant control (herbicide) 20%
- Native plant installation (planting) 15%
- Stewardship/ Site maintenance 20%
- Trail construction/maintenance 20%
- Multiple camping trips (up to 10 days/trip)
Education, Training and Instruction:
Fosters and encourages quality service and interaction amongst corps members. Conducts trainings and presentations in areas such as: proper tool use, first aid, workplace safety, leadership skills, & community service.
Communication:
- Prepares oral and written reports of service projects, equipment use and maintenance, corps member feedback and coaching, education and training completed, attendance and incident reports.
- Conducts regular, individual crew meetings to discuss corps member progress and communicates status to program manager.
- Counsels and motivates individual corps members.
- Demonstrates sensitivity to and awareness of cultural differences and their effect on crew and corps leadership.
- Participates in other meetings as directed.
- Crew Leader Terms of Service
PERIOD OF SERVICE: January 15th, 2023 – November 22nd, 2023 RATE OF PAY: Living stipend of $3,185/month (before taxes). Monthly housing stipend of $340. TYPICAL HOURS OF SERVICE: 7:20 a.m.– 5:30 p.m. Monday – Friday, alternating Mondays off, occasional Saturdays. STATUS: Temporary, enrolled through AmeriCorps. AmeriCorps members must abide by policies set by CNCS and complete 1,700 hours of service, including mandatory trainings. Criminal history checks conducted to fulfill AmeriCorps requirements
Benefits
- Training and Education
- For eligible participants: AmeriCorps education award up to $6,895 upon completion of 1,700 hours
- Wilderness First Responder (WFR) training provided if needed
- Days off, Holidays and sick time permissible as designated by EarthCorps
- Medical, Vision and Dental Insurance
- Subsidized ORCA Pass for bus transportation
- Boots, pants, t-shirts, rain gear and safety equipment provided