FWS - Landowner and Farmer Outreach Organizer

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FWS - Landowner and Farmer Outreach Organizer

Connecticut, Waterbury, CT, US

3 days ago Requisition ID: 3422

Salary: $20.00 Annually

Position Title: Landowner and Farmer Outreach Organizer - Remote

Department : Compliance

Reports To : Nicole Steck / Hosanna High Natural Burial Project

Rate of Pay : $20/hr

Position Summary

Community-service outreach for Hosanna High Natural Burial Project (Let's Be Trees), a 501(c)(3). The student helps locate land that could become a community-owned natural burial ground so funerals can stay affordable.

Key Responsibilities

• Research and contact farmers, rural landowners, estate holders, and land-rich families who may consider donating acreage, a conservation-minded parcel, or a life-estate gift for a nonprofit community cemetery.
• Use approved talking points only. Explain the public benefit: a $100 membership community cemetery if land can be secured in that area. Do not negotiate legal terms, appraise land, or promise tax outcomes.
• Keep a shared land-lead log: owner or farm name, county, contact, date, interest level, and next step. Hand warm leads to the supervisor the same week.
• Where appropriate, ask county Farm Service Agency offices, farm bureaus, extension offices, and rural churches for public contact lists or bulletin-board permission.
• Attend the weekly virtual check-in and turn in hours plus a short activity note.
• Other community-service tasks consistent with land-for-cemetery outreach, as assigned.

Qualifications & Skills

• Required:
  • Current Post University student with a Federal Work-Study award.
  • Reliable internet and email.
  • Clear written and spoken English.
  • Comfortable introducing a mission by email or phone
  • Respectful
  • patient manner with older landowners and farm families
  • able to keep a simple lead log
  • Attend the weekly virtual check-in
• Preferred:
  • Interest in rural life, conservation, nonprofit work, human services, or communications;
  • prior volunteer or customer-service experience
  • Google Workspace

How the Job Benefits You as a Student:

• Students will gain valuable experience related to their program of study.