All the qualifications you really need for these opportunities are enthusiasm and ability to work in the great outdoors, a great attitude, and a desire to make this world a better place.

This isn’t an easy job or an easy feat, but every day on the job you will return home knowing you made your community better.

Pierce County Parks Department and Planning and Public Works in conjunction with Americorp/Washington Service Corps has some work for you *CLICK ON JOB TITLE TO APPLY:

Riparian (Rivers and Streams) Restoration Technician – You will be a part of an 8-person crew performing removal of invasive vegetation by manual and/or mechanical means from riverbanks, river levees, streams, ditches, ponds, floodplain properties, and other related areas. When necessary performing soil and substrate preparation of designed and appropriate native planting.

Some Notable AmeriCorps Benefits:

• Monthly stipend of $1,450 before deductions and withholdings
• $6,195 education award that can be used for future schooling or to pay off existing qualified student loan debt (upon successful completion of the service term, subject to federal tax)
• Basic health insurance (not including vision coverage)
• Workers compensation coverage
• Assistance with childcare costs
• Forbearance (temporarily postponing paying off a loan) of qualified student loans during the service term
• Payment of interest on qualified student loans that accrued during the service term (paid after successful completion of service term)
• Serving in a full-time AmeriCorps position qualifies as “employment” towards the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program

Questions? Contact Peter Asai, Recruitment Manager:
Peter.asai@piercecountywa.gov
253-798-8532­