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Description
The Hualapai Tribal Goverment is a progressive organization that maintains it's tradiitonal life-ways and values. With the emerging Green concepts being already a part of native peoples ways it is an intuitive step to have the emerging concepts be taught to the at risk youth. The Hualapai Reservation covers one million acres of Northwest Arizona and a hundred and eight miles of the Grand Canyon/Colorado River in a prestine area.
Position Overview:
The applicant will have a complete holistic overview of sustainable urbanism practices and the green components of the deployment of this community model. Thorough knowledge of renewable/green energy, building, agriculture and ethobotony is required. this position requires working with the community at large on the mulit-systemic solution while working from a base location at the tribes juvenile detention rehabilitation center where at risk youth will be taught.
Responsibilites:
They include: project management of federal funded Department Of Justice (DOJ) Green Education Deployment Grant requirements, reporting and accounting.
Prepare reports and deliverables to core and tribal council as well as fulfilling compliance requirements, taking the lead in the educational training and specific green components to the youth and maintaining the continuity of the program to the outreach partners scheduled in the community outreach plan. Develop base model measurements for monitoring the success and modifications that may be necessary.
The program is established by the grant approval agency and the youth will be tracked, employed, and given follow up attention after training while incarceration.
Qualifications:
4 year degree and 4 years experience specific to this field or extensive proof of equivalent, teaching experience preferred related to this field. Knowledge of green sustainable-climate change, practicing eco-centric paradiagm shift. Excellent communication skills and the ability to use intuitive senseabilities around at risk youth.
Previous experience interacting with indigeneous cultures in some capacities. Experience in commuity collaborative efforts including the levels of the goverment process in project development, willing to be mentored by the Hualapai Planning Director. Strong committment to same. Drug Testing and Background testing will be required.
Compensation: 45,000 per year plus benefits, 6 month evaluation.
Position Type: Permanent, 3 Year Grant