What are the responsibilities and job description for the Green Corps Leader position at Groundwork Southcoast?
Applicants are encouraged to apply directly at www.groundworksouthcoast.org
Position Type:
Part-time. If the chosen candidate desires to enter into training to eventually become full-time, that is an option that will be considered in the fall of 2025; it is expected to be a 2-3 year process to transition into a Programs Coordinator.
Position Summary:
The Green Corps is a new team focused on high-quality stewardship outcomes in Fall River and New Bedford. 4 Corps members will work 20 hours a week on a team to start. The schedule is tentatively set for 10:30 am-2:30 pm Monday-Friday during the cool/cold weather and will likely switch to 9:00 am - 1:00 pm (or earlier) during the warm/hot weather. We are seeking 1 Leader to lead this team who is over 21 and has had a driver's license for at least 6mo., a clean driving record, CORI, and SORI, and able to work 25 hrs- a week part-time to start.
The Green Corps will be the lead team on installing and maintaining all of our stewardship sites, year-round in all safe weather conditions including rain, snow, and heat.
Key Responsibilities:
Stewardship Sites (80% of work):
- Multiple food access sites: Riverside Park, Sister Rose Garden, and additional sites TBD (measure: ensure grow at least 2,100lbs of produce each 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: number of people contacted, number of trees residents want planted, number of trees pruned and/or gleaned)
- Resilience and Restoration sites: installing native plantings/ restoring habitat and maintaining (measure: the amount of mi, sq ft, planted/maintained, signs (and other items) installed)
Groundwork Southcoast Coordination (20%):
- Attend all staff meetings, meetings with supervisor, and staff trainings, workshops, and retreats as required
- Communicate with Supervisor about Stewardship progress
- Complete all electronic timesheets daily
- Support volunteer and donor engagement efforts including participating in stewardship tours of our sites and our 6 engagement events each year that are outside of normal work schedule
- Be a part of growing our organization including being willing to do other duties as needed
Qualifications: If some of this sounds like you even if it isn’t a perfect fit- please apply!
- 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 lifting 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 are willing to learn basic hardware and software skills: ClickTime, Google Docs and sheets, Zoom, logging work, and recording of videos and photos for documentation
- 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
Job Type: Part-time
Pay: $18.50 - $20.00 per hour
Expected hours: 25 per week
Schedule:
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
License/Certification:
- Driver's License (Required)
Ability to Commute:
- New Bedford, MA 02745 (Required)
Ability to Relocate:
- New Bedford, MA 02745: Relocate before starting work (Required)
Work Location: In person
Salary : $19 - $20