Green Corps Team Member

Groundwork Southcoast (GWSC)is an environmental justice organization. We do so by focusing on developing environmental justice resident leadership through youth and adults: Workforce Development, Stewardship, and Engagement. The Green Corps is a new team focused on high quality stewardship outcomes in Fall River and New Bedford. We’re seeking candidates for 4* positions who are 18-26 of age, and able to work 20-25hrs a week* on a team. The schedule is tentatively set for 9am-2pm Monday-Thursday.

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.

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: # of people contacted, #of trees residents want planted, # of trees pruned and/or gleaned)
• Resilience and Restoration sites: installing native plantings/ restoring habitat and maintaining (measure: 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:

• 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 lift more than 40 lbs 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 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;

Compensation: Hourly rate of $17-18. This is a grant funded position reporting to the Corps Leader. This is a non-exempt, part-time position requiring some evening and weekend hours, and very occasional overnights (we spend one week with youth at a National Park and/or 5-9 days at a National Summit each year).

Hiring Policy: City of New Bedford and City of Fall River residents are encouraged to apply. GWSC is an equal opportunity employer, committed to maintaining and growing a team that reflects the environmental justice communities we serve with a particular focus on: centering the cultures in our community, People of Color, immigrants, low-income, women, gender non-binary, and neuroatypical folks.

Job Type: Part-time

Pay: $17.00 - $18.00 per hour

Expected hours: 20 – 25 per week

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday
• Weekends as needed

Ability to Relocate:

• New Bedford, MA 02745: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in New Bedford, MA 02745

Salary : $17 - $18