Community Rebuilds - Sustainability Coordinator

Community Rebuilds - Sustainability Coordinator

Community Rebuilds was founded in 2007 with the purpose of replacing old, dilapidated trailer homes in Moab, Utah with energy-efficient houses for low income residents. Community Rebuilds has created an innovative social enterprise, building 57 affordable housing using conventional and natural building materials and methods to meet the intersecting climate and housing crises. Our building model includes : recruiting and training volunteers, apprentices, interns, and homeowners to construct homes; utilizing simple architectural designs that reduce design costs and encourage replicability; incorporating healthy, sustainable, and natural materials such as straw and earthen plasters; and using recycled, salvaged and donated building materials wherever possible. Our homes also feature passive and active solar design with highly insulative wall systems, significantly decreasing future heating and cooling costs for homeowners. Community Rebuilds is currently partnering with the Moab Area Community Land Trust (MACLT), a fellow community-based affordable housing non-profit, to create twelve permanently affordable homes. In addition to providing education opportunities to our apprentices and homeowners, we love engaging the community and facilitating educational opportunities. Community Rebuilds regularly hosts hands-on natural building and permaculture workshops as well as extended internships and apprenticeships, and have trained over 300 apprentices in natural and sustainable building techniques. This program is available to all, without regard to race, color, national origin, gender, age, religion, sexual orientation, disability, gender identity or expression, political affiliation, marital or parental status, genetic information and military service.

Member Duties : Community Rebuilds builds affordable energy-efficient homes, provides education on construction and sustainability, and improves the housing conditions of the local workforce. The Sustainability Coordinator will contribute by performing 1700 hours of service, attend AmeriCorps orientation and meetings, participate in AmeriCorps and Community Rebuilds events and community projects, manage the Community Rebuilds ReStore (salvaged building materials and home goods sales and reuse), serve as the point person for CR campus residents, research and provide information for sustainable living, find solutions for waste streams, research building materials for affordability / regionality and low embodied carbon, pursue alternative building techniques, track energy and carbon accounting on materials and houses, collaborate and strategize on the design and implementation of campus build outs / campus design and landscaping / sustainability improvements, assist on CR job site project when time allows.

Program Benefits : Childcare assistance if eligible , Housing , Education Award $7,395, Stipend $18,700 , Training , Living Allowance , Education award upon successful completion of service .

Terms :

Permits attendance at school during off hours , Permits working at another job during off hours .

Service Areas :

Environment , Community Outreach , Health , Community and Economic Development , Education , Neighborhood Revitalization .

Skills :

Team Work , Environment , Leadership , Computers / Technology , Urban Planning , Community Organization .

Salary : $18,700