Individual Placements Program Director

Title: Individual Placements Program Director – Appalachian Conservation Corps

Starting Salary Range: The starting salary range for this position will be 61,100-62,933, depending on experience, education, and skills relevant to the position. Please note that the indicated starting salary range describes the range for an incumbent in this position. Most new staff generally start at the beginning of the range percentile to ensure internal salary equity.

Location: Partially remote eligible

Status:  Full-Time, Exempt

Benefit Eligible: Health, Vision, Dental, Short/Long-Term Disability, Basic Life Retirement, Paid Time Off, Supplemental benefits including critical care, pet insurance, supplemental life, and others.

Reports to: Corps Director

Posting Period: Please apply before 2/24/2025

Organizational Summary: 

Conservation Legacy is a nationwide non-profit. The Corps programs within the organization engage participants in diverse conservation and community projects that serve public and private lands. These projects provide opportunities for personal and professional development and strive toward a high priority of needs for public land managers and community partners. Through the mission of engaging future leaders who protect, restore and enhance our nation’s lands through community-based service; Conservation Legacy works toward a world with healthy lands, air and water; thriving people and resilient communities.

Appalachian Conservation Corps is the leading conservation career program in the Mid-Atlantic region. Through partnerships with federal, state and local agencies, the Individual Placement Program creates opportunities for young people to gain valuable experience in the fields of conservation, parks and recreation, and cultural resources.

Position Summary:

The Individual Placement Program Director oversees operational excellence and functions while supporting established relationships with partners and assisting in the identification and establishment of new partnerships. 

This position interfaces significantly with other Conservation Legacy programs and staff on all program aspects. The Program Director will supervise and mentor program staff and is responsible for providing leadership for staff who carry out day-to-day programmatic and administrative operations. The Program Director will also serve as a representative of ACC on Conservation Legacy Committees and be expected to work collaboratively across Conservation Legacy with staff of sibling programs. The Program Director must develop and maintain good working relationships with staff, agency partners, members, and site supervisors.

Essential Responsibilities and Functions:

Program Operations:

• Oversees program administration including invoicing, member payroll and reimbursements, worker’s compensation claims, benefit enrollment, and systems management.
• Reviews, updates, and documents all policies and procedures to ensure ethical, safe, and well documented processes for field placements.
• Collects feedback from partners, members, sites, and staff and implements programmatic changes to create a culture of continuous improvement.
• Guarantees member activities follow project agreements requirements.
• Manages and coordinates incident response, processing, documentation, and includes those that lead to worker’s comp claims.
• Ensures compliance of all AmeriCorps provisions. Facilitates process for gathering necessary data and information for AmeriCorps reporting.
• Oversee the collection of images, data and narrative and ensures content meets Conservation Legacy communication standards. Develops content for outreach purposes across multiple social media platforms.

Project Management:

• Strives to develop new partnerships with organizations that have mission alignment.
• Develops and maintains a positive relationship with existing partners to ensure support is provided and needs are met by staff through regular check-ins and formal evaluations; maintains high retention of sites, ensuring that all projects are completed per CNCS and partner goals.
• Leads partner communication from initial project development, supervisor orientations, and check-ins as each partnership requires/determines.
• Manages portfolio of partners, ensuring agreement trackers and budgets are up to date throughout projects.
• Verifies that agreements and projects are properly entered to Salesforce and that agreements are fully executed (or approved) prior to allowing members to begin service, oversees Salesforce CRM record creation, maintenance, and use.

Member Engagement:

• Works with Member Support Coordinator to enhance member support structures and ensure opportunities are being communicated through check-ins, newsletters, and website edits.
• Coordinates multiple in-person events for Individual Placements throughout year, including AmeriCorps Week, Earth Day, and Intern Day.
• Leads the identification, selection, implementation, and evaluation of training and professional development trends to support members through agreement budgets.

Staff Supervision:

• Supervises, supports, guides, and evaluates staff in managing their responsibilities and expectations.
• Works closely with Member Support Coordinator for smooth facilitation of program and identify areas of program growth.
• Leads staff professional development.
• Recruits, hires, and trains new program staff.
• Approves timesheets, PTO requests and credit card expenditures of staff.
• Establishes weekly check-ins with supervised staff to address questions, ensure procedures are being followed, and foster a collaborative work environment.
• Works with program staff to coordinate distribution of responsibilities, and step in as necessary to cover staff responsibilities when a staff member is unavailable.

Other Duties:

• Manages program budget and updates Corps Director on additions or edits as needed.
• Successfully engages, leads, and supports an inclusive work environment for those of underrepresented populations within the organization and the communities we serve.
• Leads and/or participates in organizational-wide teams, projects and initiatives that support the work of the Strategic Plans goals.
• Responsible for raising public and partner awareness of ACC programs.
• Compiles IP program contributions to ACC website and communication content.
• Reports any potential complaints within the organization as identified in the Personnel Policy Manual.

Other “Hats” You May Wear: Customer Service, Relationship Development, Marketing, Administrative, Supervision or Mentorship to Others, Facilitator, Trainer, Facilities, Human Resources, Supervisor

Minimum Qualifications:

• Exhibits the ability to effectively work on diverse teams or with a variety of populations, including those underrepresented at our organization and those of BIPOC communities.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in youth development or corps field.
• Minimum of 1 year of experience supervising diverse employees to achieve common goals.
• Experience keeping others, in remote locations, accountable to expectations.
• Ability to communicate effectively, manage complexity cultivate innovation, drive and motivate results of oneself and others.
• Proven ability to work collaboratively and maintain positive partner relationships.
• Flexibility, adaptability, and capacity to work in a fluid, changing work environment.
• Ability to carry out assigned work independently or with minimal supervision.
• Ability to work well with others and to seek assistance when needed to carry out assignments.
• Must be able to pass the organization’s criminal history check requirements.
• Valid Driver’s License and Insurable Driving Record

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Conservation Legacy programs, members, or administrative systems.
• Demonstrated experience supporting budget tracking.
• 3 years supervising and mentoring employees to achieve common goals.
• Familiarity with managing AmeriCorps and internship-based programming.
• Past experience working at or in collaboration with public land agencies (National Park Service, U.S. Forest Service, or other similar agencies.)
• Familiarity with Microsoft Office programs and applications, or similar platforms.
• Willingness to travel.

Other Competencies Desired for this Position’s Success: Manage Complexity, Resourceful, Effectively Communicate, Cultivate Innovation, Drive and/or Influence Results, Plans & Aligns.

To Apply:

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. 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. Where a significant portion of the population eligible to be served needs services or information in a language other than English, the recipient shall take reasonable steps to provide written material of the type ordinarily available to the public in appropriate languages.

We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or reasonable accommodations due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please send a request to the hiring manager.