Great opportunity for graduating seniors!
Application Open for the Chesapeake Conservation and Climate Corps - Columbia, MD Position
Looking to break into the environmental field and launch your career? Looking to make a difference and create change? Or know a young person who is? Young professionals gain experience, crucial career skills, a support system, and key connections within the environmental field through the Chesapeake Conservation and Climate Corps.
The Chesapeake Conservation and Climate Corps is a one-year term of stipend-supported service that places young adults with nonprofits or government agencies to serve full-time in the environmental field. Throughout the year young professionals receive experience managing projects and programs, leadership and professional development training, mentorship, a support network of young professionals, and other skill-building opportunities including networking and grant writing. Positions offered by the host organizations are in the fields of environmental restoration, community engagement,
climate change, environmental education, sustainable agriculture, energy conservation, and forestry.
This year Columbia Association (CA) Open Space is one of the many potential Host Organizations for the 2024-25 Chesapeake Conservation and Climate Corps service year. If successfully matched with CA, you would have three primary opportunities:
1. Habitat Conservation: Assist with planning and implementation of conservation/restoration projects aimed at demonstrating realistic, tangible solutions for invasive plant control and native plant conservation. Work to control invasive plants and install native plants at new and existing sites in the upper Middle and Little Patuxent watershed through direct field experience
2. Technology in Conservation: Assist with data collection, surveying, mapping, and analysis of natural areas using mobile GPS and GIS platforms
3. Community Engagement: Collaborate with citizen scientists and community groups to produce, test, and improve a public mapping application for measuring biological data in Open Space. These surveys have an emphasis on identifying and inventorying areas of significant ecological value and Early Detection Rapid Response (EDRR) species in Columbia. Assist in developing restoration site plans for volunteer community groups such as Weed Warriors and Stream Waders.
The Corps Member will also have the opportunity to work with CA scientists and professionals in several departments, including Open Space, Sustainability, and GIS.
The Chesapeake Bay Trust anticipates placing around 50 Corps Members, young adults 18-25, with nonprofit organizations and government agencies throughout the Chesapeake Bay region for a year of stipend-supported service ($31,200) beginning on August 15, 2024.
Applications for the Chesapeake Conservation and Climate Corps must be submitted through the Trust’s online system by March 7, 2022 at 4:00 pm. To learn more and apply go to https://cbtrust.org/chesapeake-conservation-corps/apply/. For any questions about the Chesapeake Conservation Corps contact Program Coordinator Hayley Rost hrost@cbtrust.org or 410-974-2941, ext. 119 or Carlton Burns cburns@cbtrust.org or 410-974-2941, ext. 125.