Description:
Schedule: Tuesday - Friday
Dates: 05-26-2020 - 08-07-2020
Agency: IIC
Location: Cedar City
Overview:
As a COVID Community Conservation Crew Leader, your primary responsibility will be leading a group of peers on a variety of recreation projects throughout the summer. Focus will be on re-vegetation, facilities maintenance, restoration, monitoring, recreation, and other exciting projects in public lands while assisting local communities with projects related to COVID-19 response - beyond health care. Crew work will be carried out in an outdoor setting in many different environments and elements and can be extremely intense at times.
Position Responsibilities::
- Coordinate projects and logistics with crew, IIC staff and public land managers.
- Manage all operations of specific crew efficiently and independently.
- Ensure proper clothing, equipment, essentials, and tools are brought daily.
- Maintain program structure and ensure goals and risk management procedures are met.
- Create a fun and meaningful learning/work experience for crew members.
- Communicate tasks clearly and effectively in both oral and written manner.
- Adhere to all rules and regulations as stated in the IIC Intern Guidebook.
- Must be flexible with schedules and daily duties.
- Maintain daily log and photo documentation of crew, projects, and work completed.
Qualifications:
- Must be at least 21 years or older and possess a valid driver’s license.
*The familiarity of basic hand tools as well as some knowledge of trail building, fencing, facility maintenance, vegetation, wildlife and interpretation is preferred, but not required
- Crew leaders should have solid outdoor leadership skills, teaching ability, a vigorous work ethic, Outdoor/natural resource experience, a positive attitude, maturity, and flexibility.
- Have a clean record and able to pass a background check.
- Preference given to candidates with Wilderness First Aid cert. (or greater), Leave No Trace training, chainsaw cert. and prior conservation or land management crew experience.