Title: Ancestral Lands Conservation Corps Individual Placements Program Coordinator

Date: February 6, 2025; Will be starting April/May 2025

Reports to: ALCC IP Program Manager

Starting Salary: The starting wage range for this position will be in the $22.93/hr to $23.62/hr range, 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: One of our five Ancestral Lands office locations (Albuquerque, Gallup, Acoma, Hopi, Zuni)

Status: Full-time, Hourly, Non-exempt

Posting Period: Please apply before March 7, 2025

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.  

Program Summary:

Ancestral Lands Conservation Corps (ALCC) is a program of Conservation Legacy (CL).  ALCC provides conservation service opportunities for indigenous youth, young adults, and recent-era military veterans in Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona and works with other Native American communities and conservation corps across the country to provide similar opportunities. Our vision is to lead our Nations back to ecological and cultural well-being and we do this by empowering individuals to positively impact their lives, their communities, and the environment. ALCC’s crews are supported from operational bases in Acoma Pueblo, Albuquerque, Zuni Pueblo, Gallup, and Kykotsmovi (Hopi).

Position Summary:

The ALCC Individual Placements Program Coordinator is responsible for implementing effective and efficient administrative support of individual placement and intern cohort programs within Ancestral Lands, recruiting and placing between 10-15 AmeriCorps interns per year within the geographic region served by ALCC. This position interacts with other Conservation Legacy staff on admissions processes, member tracking, and other areas of administrative support. This person will work with the ALCC IP Program Manager and ALCC IP Program Director to support and manage the IP program across the region. The ALCC IP Program Coordinator will report directly to the ALCC IP Program Manager.

Essential Responsibilities and Functions: 

Individual Placement Recruitment, Interviewing and Selection

• Work with local community organizations, colleges and universities, and Tribal programs to recruit applicants for open IP positions, up to 15 positions
• Identify and develop new recruitment opportunities
• Review applications, sometimes in collaboration with project and community partners or ALCC IP Program Coordinator, and schedule and conduct interviews
• Select and offer positions
• Work with administrative staff to onboard IP's

Partner Support and Position Development

• Work with ALCC IP Program Manager and ALCC IP Program Director to manage and support current partner sites and site supervisors for all intern
• Work with agency partners to manage and support current sites and supervisors for all IPs.
• Collaborate with host agency sites to develop position
• Coordinate and support other initiatives that support the program(s)

Program Support and Administration

• Implement effective and efficient administrative systems for recruitment, enrollment, evaluation, exiting, reporting, and
• Create and develop Ancestral Lands social media
• Collect and compile information for reports and internal/external news and
• Communicate regularly with program staff to determine the effectiveness of administrative systems and make changes as necessary for continuous
• Provide ongoing support for all members including the development and implementation of orientation and training and member development
• Work closely with other staff to identify areas of additional support needed and meet needs as applicable.
• Ability to be flexible and work on diverse projects as the work needs
• Ensure the enforcement of program and risk management
• Collect and manage tracking of receipts, expenses, reimbursements, and other basic budgetary
• Collaborate with crew-based program support staff to help develop and implement recruitment

Participant or Member Management

• Develop AmeriCorps positions with many different project partners
• Select and place interns across the region based on partner interest and funding availability.
• Ensure that all open positions are filled in a reasonable amount of
• Collect, compile and process all required intake and enrollment
• Manage online systems that are necessary for successful program
• Help support and improve systems for member selection and admissions
• Coordinate timesheet and payroll processes for all IPs, and provide appropriate information to Conservation Legacy business office as
• Assist with management of current AmeriCorps slot allocations and changes as they happen.

General Administration

• Assist with workers compensation and state tax identification concerns as needed
• Participate in weekly staff meetings and support staff as
• Participate in weekly statewide, regional, and development staff meetings and support other staff as
• Coordinate across Conservation Legacy’s Individual Placement programs for systems development.
• Lead or participate in organizational-wide intern efforts to develop support of other Conservation Legacy intern

Regional and Organizational Support

• Maintain productive relationships and interface significantly with the other staff to provide assistance and communication regarding administrative details, program items and potentially assist with internship placement activities.

Other Duties

• Successfully engages, leads and supports an inclusive work environment for those of underrepresented populations within the organization and the communities we
• Leads and/or participates in organizational-wide teams, projects and initiatives that support the work of the Strategic Plans

Physical Requirements:

Periodic overnight travel and non-traditional work hours, inclusive of weekend and evening hours. To successfully perform essential functions this position is required to sit, stand, walk, speak and hear. This position may be required to climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl on an infrequent basis. They must be able to operate office equipment, telephone, and computer. The ability to drive an organizational vehicle is also required. Reasonable accommodations may be made for qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Previous programmatic experience with a Corps, AmeriCorps, youth serving organization or Federal Agency highly
• Current Wilderness First Aid certification, or willingness to obtain
• Experience with human resources management and admissions/hiring
• Outstanding organizational and time management skills, and ability to
• Self-motivated, decisive, and able to work
• Flexibility, adaptability and capacity to work in a fluid, changing work
• The ability to communicate effectively with all staff in the organization and to understand administrative needs as they
• 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
• Insurable driving record and the ability to pass Conservation Legacy’s criminal history checks.
• Proficient in all Microsoft Office Suite applications and ability to manage information in an organizational
• Positive, entrepreneurial attitude and attentiveness to detail.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Minimum of 1 year of managing administrative systems in non-profit or similar organizations.

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

To Apply: please go to www.ancestrallands.org/staff-positions or click here.

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. 

Salary : $23 - $24