Field Crew Member
Conservation Corps Minnesota & Iowa
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Term length
2/3/2025 - 12/12/2025
Application window
9/16/2024 - 12/31/2024
Location
Multiple Locations, Minnesota
Hourly pay equivalent
$12.69
Project summary
AmeriCorps Field Crews serve outdoors restoring habitat, managing natural resources, and occasionally responding to natural disasters or community needs. The Field Crew program prioritizes personal and professional growth while teaching hands-on conservation skills in the field. Members develop technical skills throughout their term while completing challenging and impactful conservation projects.
Opportunity description
AmeriCorps Field Crews serve outdoors restoring habitat, managing natural resources, and occasionally responding to natural disasters or community needs. The Field Crew program prioritizes personal and professional growth while teaching hands-on conservation skills in the field. Members develop technical skills throughout their term while completing challenging and impactful conservation projects.
Benefits
- Education benefit
- Healthcare
- Childcare
Requirements and qualifications
Requirements
Flexible schedule to accommodate week-long out of town assignments and emergency response; Willingness to learn and adapt to changing plans, work, and project needs; Ability to perform the Essential Service Functions; Ability and desire to work well with others in a team setting, outdoors and in all weather conditions; Must be a US Citizen
Preferred qualifications
No experience required.
Opportunity details
Focus area
- Natural resource preservation and conservation
- Biodiversity protection and restoration
- Wildfire prevention and fuels reduction
- Waterway restoration
- Reforestation or afforestation
- Outdoor recreation access improvements
- Forestry
- City parks and greenspaces creation and maintenance
- Stormwater management
- Tree planting and urban forestry
- Disaster preparedness and recovery
- Disaster response
- Local ecosystem restoration
- Soil and water conservation
Work environment
- Team based
- Rural
- Urban
- Traveling
- Outdoor