Team Leader, Agriculture Conservation Corps

The
Accokeek Foundation is one of many potential Host sites for the 2015-16
Chesapeake Conservation Corps service year.

The Chesapeake Conservation Corps
Program, administered by the Chesapeake Bay Trust, provides service-learning
opportunities and green job training for young people through environmental and
energy conservation projects.

Internship Overview  

The Trust matches young adults 18-25 with
Maryland nonprofits and government agencies to work fulltime in the environmental
field gaining hands-on environmental, leadership, and technical training opportunities
for a one-year term of service ($16,000 annually).

The
purpose of the Corps is 1) to enable stipend volunteers to work with host
organizations and communities throughout Maryland to implement on-the-ground
restoration and energy conservation projects, and 2) to provide leadership and
training opportunities for young adults pursuing environmental and conservation
careers including conferences, trainings, grant writing, project management and
so on.

Corps volunteers will work fulltime on projects in the realms of environmental
restoration, energy conservation, agriculture, forestry and environmental that
will promote and sustain the Bay and its surrounding environment as well as
provide young adults with the opportunities to gain career skills and become more
engaged through meaningful community service.

If
successfully matched with the Accokeek Foundation, the Corps Volunteer will be
involved in all aspects of expanding the Agriculture Conservation Corps (ACC) program
at the Accokeek Foundation. With the Agriculture Education Manager, the Corps
Volunteer will administer and implement this farm-based internship program for
area youth.

The program will feature applied learning at the Foundation's
National Colonial Farm and certified organic Ecosystem Farm to introduce high
school students to careers in sustainable agriculture. This position is ideal
for a candidate interested in pursuing a career in farming, agriculture
education and/or Colonial history. 

Responsibilities  

Primary responsibilities will include:   

• Develop an implementation and evaluation
  toolkit for the ACC program;
• Plan and facilitate experiential
  programming on sustainable agriculture and environmental stewardship;
• Build positive working relationships with
  students and staff;
• Participate in and lead agricultural tasks
  including seeding, transplanting, weeding, harvesting, and animal
  husbandry;
• Conduct outreach throughout the year at
  area high schools and career fairs to promote the ACC program;
• Educate the
  public about organic/sustainable agriculture; and
• Document and evaluate programming. 

The Chesapeake Bay Trust (CBT) anticipates
placing around 25-30 Corps Volunteers, young adults 18-25, with nonprofit
organizations and government agencies throughout Maryland for a paid year of
service ($16,000) beginning on August 25, 2015. 

To Appy 

• First, click here to download a CBT Application, and then use the email address beow to send it in.  
• Applications
  due on April 17, 2015.
• For any questions about becoming a volunteer or
  about the Chesapeake Conservation Corps, contact Program Officer Tara Baker,
  410-974-2941, ext. 102.