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PLEASE NOTE: Applicants will need to apply here: https://form.jotform.com/StewardsIPP/cva-application-fall-2024. Application form requires a resume, cover letter, professional references.
Location: Tucson, AZ
Position Details:
Stewards Individual Placements, a program of Conservation Legacy, provides individuals with service and career opportunities to strengthen communities and preserve our natural resources. The Community Volunteer Ambassador (CVA) Program combines the strength of a national leader in conservation service with the National Park Service to train a diverse group of emerging leaders to assist park units in building lasting connections to communities.
The CVA will play an important role in connecting existing volunteer groups and recruiting new volunteers along the Santa Cruz River and Gila River corridors in southern Arizona. These include several volunteer groups supported by the Anza Trail and volunteers associated with partner sites and organizations that manage recreational trail segments and interpret this historically and ecologically rich corridor. This position will play an important role in bolstering volunteerism ahead of the 250th anniversary of the Anza Expedition. Additionally, the CVA will build off the work of previous staff to assist the volunteer program manager in assessing the effectiveness and efficiency of the Anza Trail volunteer program, which includes a Trails & Rails program that partners with Amtrak to place volunteer guides on the train between Santa Barbara and San Jose, CA.
National Heritage Areas along the trail – Santa Cruz River Valley National Heritage Area and Yuma Crossing National Heritage Area – represent a collaborative opportunity to network with other NPS sites and community partners to create a more dynamic and inclusive volunteer corpus. This work would call in established and experienced volunteers and reach out to new volunteers from marginalized and underrepresented groups to create robust trail stewardship focused on tenets of the Anza Trail leadership: creating space for dialogue around colonial heritage through the Anza expedition history, focus on Native communities, and highlighting emergent culture along trail corridor.
This work is challenging and requires the CVA to focus on relationship and partnership building, which means being in-person at these places and building on the work of current and previous Anza Trail staff - which includes previous CVA contributions. This as an excellent opportunity to serve as a catalyst for greater volunteer engagement, inter-organizational communication, and community development along the trail in Arizona, and to some extent in southern California.
Whether entwined with a city or isolated from civilization, the Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail offers adventure, diverse cultural perspectives, multiple narratives, and an opportunity to experience history and landscape by linking the past with the present. The Anza Trail commemorates and interprets the route, complex story, and compelling landscapes of the 1775–1776 Anza Colonizing Expedition from Sonora, Mexico, to current-day San Francisco, California. Working with volunteer trail groups, trail managers strive to develop, maintain, and steward the trail for present and future generations to use and enjoy.
Additional Information:
The CVA position will start on Monday, September 9, 2024, and run for 48 weeks until Friday, August 8, 2025.
PLEASE NOTE: Applicants will need to apply here: https://form.jotform.com/StewardsIPP/cva-application-fall-2024. Application form requires a resume, cover letter, professional references.
Please ensure your cover letter addresses how your experience aligns with the CVA program, your experience working with diverse populations, and position details for this park/position. You may submit one application for multiple positions by selecting all sites you are interested in.
Applications Deadline
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. First review will occur in early June. Final deadline is Sunday, July 7, 2024.
Please contact James Gasaway, Program Director at jgasaway@conservationlegacy.org
Conservation Legacy is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to hiring a breadth of diverse professionals and encourage members of diverse groups to apply. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, political affiliation, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during application or recruiting process, please send a request to the hiring manager.
Volunteer
Civic & Environmental Advocacy
$56k-75k (estimate)
05/22/2024
07/21/2024
conservationlegacy.org
TAMARRON, CO
200 - 500
1998
HARRY BRUELL
$10M - $50M
Civic & Environmental Advocacy