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Each year, the Sierra Nevada Alliance places AmeriCorps members with partner conservation organizations throughout the Sierra Nevada mountain range in California. During their terms of service, members restore and monitor impaired Sierra watersheds, educate local residents and visitors on environmental issues, and recruit and manage volunteers for various programs. SNAP members gain skills and technical training, are mentored by outstanding environmental leaders, and provide a meaningful contribution to the communities of the Sierra Nevada.
To apply visit https://sierranevadaalliance.org/join-snap/
Applications submitted only through employment websites will not be considered.
Service Commitment:
Service Commitment: May 16th or June 1st, 2024 – September 30, 2024. Members make an 4-month, full-time commitment to serve a nonprofit organization or public agency in the Sierra Nevada. OPEN UNTIL FILLED
Compensation and Benefits
Monthly stipend of $2,318 per month
$2,626.27 Education Award
Housing Provided
Standard health and dental insurance
Up to 135 hours of technical, ecological, and skills-development training with a $125 stipend
Child Care Reimbursement Options
Full and additional position descriptions are available on our website:
Positions include: Outreach and Education Assistant with the Feather River Land Trust and Field Assistant Vegetation Monitoring Inyo County Water Dept.
Position Description: Outreach and Education Assistant with the Feather River Land Trust
The position would include supporting a variety of activities and is a great opportunity to be part of building strong and inspiring public programming for a brand-new Nature Center in a beautiful remote watershed in the Sierra Valley. This unique and fun role will assist the Public Programs Manager to:
Staff the Nature Center: help with general operations/function of Center, help open/close the facility, greet guests, share information and answer questions, guide the public as they interact with the exhibits, inform folks about upcoming events and sign them up for emails, membership or event registration. As a small team, we all pitch in to keep things tidy and running smoothly, from tidying restrooms to cleaning up after events.
Support environmental education/interpretive events: assist in hosting unique and educational public events, such as speaker events, naturalist hikes and workshops. Event themes include botany, birding, art & music, mindfulness, agriculture, indigenous knowledge, astronomy, natural history, general history, conservation and children’s events. Assist with the Grand Opening and Dedication events on June 29th and June 30th, 2024.
Coordinate volunteer program: help to schedule volunteers, facilitate communications with volunteers, help develop and implement volunteer systems, training and appreciation events.
Implement K-12 outdoor education program curriculum: assist in educator and school outreach, develop outreach materials and co-lead field trips for K-12 schools that visit the Preserve.
Develop communications and provide public outreach. Help to develop marketing and outreach materials for Preserve and Nature Center Programming. Facilitate outreach to local business, organizations and media. If interested, assist with storytelling on our social media and website.
Other opportunities to learn about land stewardship activities, Land Trusts, conservation, conservation easements, monitoring, water management, watersheds, agriculture, natural history and birding will be abundant!
Site-Specific Training Provided: Training will be provided on all aspects of this service position including: event management, communications, marketing, public outreach, strategic plan implementation, volunteer management, K-12 outdoor education, Nature Center interpretation, public speaking and general operations.
Position Description: Field Assistant Vegetation Monitoring Inyo County Water Dept.
Compensation and Benefits
Monthly stipend of $2,318 per month
$2,626.27 Education Award
Standard health and dental insurance
Up to 135 hours of technical, ecological, and skills-development training with a $125 stipend
Child Care Reimbursement Options
Full and additional position descriptions are available on our website:
Positions include Field Assistant Vegetation Monitoring Inyo County Water Dept.
Position Description: The Water Department’s SNAP member will be primarily responsible for field vegetation sampling across the Owens Valley, CA, which spans from just north of Bishop to just south of Lone Pine. Owing to the various types of environmental monitoring data that ICWD collects, the SNAP member will be exposed to various vegetation, soil, or hydrologic sampling techniques.
Primary activities will involve vegetation sampling as part of novel riparian studies or within groundwater dependent vegetation communities. Riparian studies will involve working in a crew of 2 or 3 with a team leader, locating new transect startpoints, setting up transects, marking start and end locations, recording vegetation along the centerline, recording canopy cover, and identifying and recording riparian tree positions within a 10-m wide belt transect. At these riparian transects, members may also collect soil samples, record fluvial geomorphic surfaces, or assist in collecting tree core samples. Ongoing long-term vegetation monitoring includes revisiting permanent vegetation transects within groundwater dependent vegetation using a combination of GPS and printed maps and identifying and recording plant species present.
SNAP members will also be involved in assessments of riparian tree recruitment sites on the lower Owens River to help identify locations for future restoration work, such as recording riparian sapling size and height measurements, and possible vegetation removals to assess the role of competition in successful tree recruitment. Finally, SNAP members may assist in condition assessment at mitigation sites identified in the Long Term Water Agreement to help determine if goals are being met.
Site-Specific Training Provided:
- Line point vegetation sampling technique
- Vegetation identification skills
- Riparian vegetation sampling techniques including running belt transects, identification of fluvial geomorphic surface types, and riparian tree species
- Assist with tree core sampling
- Use of a spherical densiometer and a GRS tube densitometer for measuring tree canopy
- Training for work in adverse conditions
- ArcGIS data collection and navigation
The full position descriptions for this and other positions are available on our website: www.sierranevadaalliance.org
Questions? Find answers in our SNAP pages at sierranevadaalliance.org
The application period is open until positions are filled!
Program information: More information about the program can be found at sierranevadaalliance.org/join-snap. Full position descriptions are available at: https://sierranevadaalliance.org/snap-position-descriptions-2/
Application Instructions are available at: sierranevadaalliance.org/join-snap.
Application period open until positions are filled!