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Salary– $4,235 living allowance, plus $1,678 Education Award
Build your future with Northwest Youth Corps
Make a Better Planet:
Northwest Youth Corps’ young adult conservation crews integrate team-based work projects, education, and professional trainings into a program that stresses personal growth and the development of resource management skills. Spend 9.5 weeks working on conservation projects such as tree planting, fuels reduction/fire recovery, invasive plant removal, trail construction, and fencing. Play a vital role in improving our public lands and the environment.
NYC is partnering with the National Park Service to offer an award-winning program for youth and young adults who identify with the LGBTQ+ community the opportunity to learn, grow, and experience success. Crewmembers will learn valuable work and outdoor skills, create new friendships, learn more about the LGBTQ community and themselves, and make memories that will last a lifetime!
Build a Better You:
Gain certifications, work experience and references needed to open career pathways and get you moving towards your dream job.
Crew members can use this opportunity as a steppingstone towards starting a career in natural resource management, outdoor recreation, forestry, or working for other environmental nonprofits. Others, who may not be interested in working in the green jobs sector, use this work experience as a chance to gain easily transferable job skills, travel to new places, meet new people, and spend weeks immersed in the beautiful nature of the pacific northwest.
Benefits: This Northwest Youth Corps position is operated in partnership with AmeriCorps, our country’s national service program. AmeriCorps members complete paid terms of national community service to address our nation’s most pressing issues. As an AmeriCorps member you will receive a living allowance of $4,235 prorated throughout your term of service, along with earning a $1,678 AmeriCorps Education Award. Learn more about additional benefits here https://americorps.gov/members-volunteers/your-benefits .
Required qualification:
- 19+ years old with High School Diploma or GED
- Ability to lift 50 lbs., hike several miles, and be on foot for 8 hours per day
- Positive mental attitude, willingness to learn and have commitment to success
- Ability to pass a criminal history background check and follow our COVID safety protocols
- Member of the LGBTQ+ Community