Groundwork Southcoast (GWSC)is an environmental justice organization. We do so by focusing on developing environmental justice resident leadership through youth and adults: Workforce Development, Stewardship, and Engagement. The Green Corps is a new team focused on high quality stewardship outcomes in Fall River and New Bedford. We are seeking a Coordinator to lead this team who is over 21, has had a drivers license for at least 6mo. a clean driving record, CORI, and SORI and has previous experience leading others in hands-on environmental and climate stewardship with a focus on tree and invasive species identification and maintenance. The Green Corps will be GWSC’s lead team on installing and maintaining all of our stewardship sites, year round in all safe weather conditions including rain, snow, cold, and heat.
Stewardship and Team Coordination (70% of work):
- Multiple food access sites: Riverside Park, Sister Rose Garden, and additional sites TBD (measure: ensure grow at least 2,750lbs of produce 1st season and a 10% increase in each subsequent season)
- Streetscape and open space maintenance: Acushnet Ave and adjacent lots, pocket parks, and parking lots; and additional sites TBD (measure: amount of trash picked up, mi, sq ft, and landscaping planted)
- Multiple urban trails: Peirce, Mathieu, Riverside, Brooklawn, and additional sites TBD (measure: amount of trash picked up, mi, sq ft, and landscaping planted, signs (and other items) installed)
- Tree Planting and maintenance: a mix of community outreach and multiple site tree care (measure: # of people contacted, #of trees residents want planted, # of trees pruned and/or gleaned, # and type of trees planted, canopy increase estimates)
- Resilience and Restoration sites: installing native plantings/ restoring habitat and maintaining (measure: amount of mi, sq ft, planted/maintained, invasives removed, signs (and other items) installed)
- Ensure the sustainability of Green Corps Staffing:
- Lead 3 Green Corps employment programs a year in multiple locations: Summer, Fall, Winter/Spring including creating daily and weekly session plans for work to be accomplished
- Working with municipal and other site partners, Climate Resilience Manager, and others to implement plans
- Lead (with in-put from supervisor) hiring and assessing of youth, and working with other staff to recruit; to sustain a full roster of young adult employees at the start of each program; with the expectation that this team begins with 4, and the Coordinator will be a part of the goal to rapidly grow this team
- Ensure that all Green Corps members are following the expectations in the handbook and any non-compliance results in written warnings
- Ensure that timesheets are completed weekly
- Assist with ensuring that Green Corps members are exposed to the spectrum of environmental career training opportunities
- Ensure that all workspaces are cleaned at the end of each workday and inventory maintained
Groundwork Southcoast Coordination (30%):
- Attend all staff meetings, meetings with supervisor, and staff trainings, workshops, and retreats as required
- Use planning time; weekly: to review session plans and ensure they’re up-to-date; and breaks between Green Corps programs to: evaluate and further develop all training/ curriculum needed to equip Green Corps to be successful in environmental career exploration, leadership development/ career readiness, and proper stewardship methods
- Complete all electronic timesheets, Tracking and Daily Tasks: in-put to CRM, photos, videos, measures/ data tracking, and timesheets are submitted digitally, all workspace clean-up maintained.
- Center and foster racial, social, and environmental equity and justice in all aspects of our work
- Support volunteer and donor engagement efforts including participating in stewardship tours of our sites and engagement events that are outside of the normal work schedule
- Support grant writing and reporting as needed through supporting team with up-to-date information
- Be a part of growing our organization including being willing to do other duties as needed
Qualifications:
- Living in/ or having experience in environmental justice neighborhoods, especially the North End of New Bedford
- Comfortable engaging with and connecting to people including youth and visitors to our public stewardship spaces
- Speaking English and a second language Spanish/Portuguese/Cape Verdean Creole/ K’iche preferred
- Familiar with growing food, landscaping, and trail maintenance
- Comfortable with working outside year-round and lift more than 40lbs repeatedly
- Want to work at an organization that will invest in your leadership and give you the opportunity to do the same for youth
- Have or willing to learn basic hardware and software skills: ClickTime, Google Docs and sheets, Zoom, logging work, and recording of videos and photos for documentation and communications
- Ideally an Alumni of Groundwork Southcoast’s Green Team and a former Crew Leader; or other team leading experience
- Must have a valid driver’s license, safe driving record, and ability to drive youth preferred; acceptable CORI & SORI required;
Compensation: Hourly rate of $20-$25 as a full time employee. This is a grant funded position reporting to the Programs Director. This is a non-exempt, Full-time position requiring some evening and weekend hours, and very occasional overnights (we spend one week with youth at a National Park and/or 5-9 days at a National Summit each year).
Hiring Policy: City of New Bedford and City of Fall River residents are strongly encouraged to apply. GWSC is an equal opportunity employer, committed to maintaining and growing a team that reflects the environmental justice communities we serve with a particular focus on: centering the cultures in our community, People of Color, immigrants, low-income, women, gender non-binary, and neuroatypical folks.
To apply: Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Please fill out this application: https://forms.gle/DLxUgjwbELJuanEq5
