The Position: This employee is responsible for creating and sustaining public-private partnerships to engage youth in protecting watersheds. Specifically, this position will create and support partnerships among educators, local environmental organizations, volunteers from corporate sponsors and community stakeholders to engage young people in watershed research-to-action projects.
Specific duties include:
∑ Sustaining community-corporate partnerships for supporting and funding local schools in watershed research-to-action projects. Position involves locally-based trainings of watershed organizations, educators, school district officials and corporate employees who serve as mentors in the classroom and field. Ongoing support is provided by facilitating communication among Earth Force, corporate mentors, educators and watershed partner organizations.
∑ Supporting civics-based watershed education programs in communities to engage students in creating lasting solutions to environmental problems in their local watershed. This employee will work with teachers from social studies, science and language arts at multiple schools at one time. Ongoing support can include: classroom presentations, teacher meetings, resource development, equipment ordering, evaluation, end-of-year student summits, and community and media outreach.
∑ Building a national network and coalition through regional meetings, training workshops and presentations about watershed assessment, service-learning, youth voice and community partnerships.

The Ideal Candidate: The ideal candidate will be a creative problem solver who is equally comfortable working with corporate partners, educators and nonprofit managers and has a proven track record of success. The candidate should have 2-3 years of experience working in the environmental nonprofit field and have a background in watershed assessment or water quality monitoring, as well as some experience working with educators.

Candidates must be able to regularly travel to locations around Michigan and to national conferences and meetings several times a year. Earth Force is looking for innovative thinkers who are committed to engaging young people and educators in the process of community decision making around environmental issues.

Closing Date: Until filled
Salary: Commensurate with experience; competitive benefits package
To Apply: Send resume and cover letter to Alyssa Hawkins, Director of GREEN, 1908 Mt. Vernon Ave., 2nd Floor, Alexandria, VA 22301, [email protected]