Crew Member (January-December)

Job Description

Job Description

Please note: A cover letter is required for this role. With as much detail as possible, please outline why you are a good fit for this role, what community means to you, and how it informs your work.  

2027 CREW MEMBER  

(January-December) 

ABOUT EARTHCORPS:  

EarthCorps (EC) is a Seattle-based nonprofit organization that believes all people and nature can thrive together. Our aim is to create a global community of environmental leaders through local, hands-on service to the land and community.  Putting our mission into action looks like an intensive year-long training program that unites young adults (ages 18-26ish) from across the United States and around the world to learn skills in leadership, environmental restoration, and culturally resonant community building.  

EarthCorps is committed to work that closes persistent and pervasive gaps, expands access and opportunity and promotes values of fairness in outcomes, belonging and respect. We prioritize fair access to environmental benefits, community-centered environmental practices, and balancing environmental outcomes across under-included communities. Each year, we strive to build a cohort program reflective of many different perspectives and experiences.  Through this lens, EarthCorps builds a network of leaders who have the skills to build a bright future, while restoring vital lands and waters and connecting people to nature. This work is ongoing, and the organization is committed to being transparent with program participants about our work, as well as including their input to drive the direction of the organization towards a healthy, welcoming, and sustainable community for us all.  

CREW MEMBER PROGRAM: 

The EarthCorps program is an opportunity to gain hands-on experience in environmental restoration. Crew Members will serve on crews of 5-7 members led by an EarthCorps crew leader. Crew members will make a difference on the land through on-the-ground restoration projects throughout Western Washington. Ecological restoration is one tool to care for our land and address our shifting weather patterns and long-term ecological shifts. Crews at EarthCorps have an opportunity to directly improve the resiliency of our land by restoring habitat, improving water and air quality, reducing erosion, sequestering carbon and engaging the broader community to become stewards of our shared resource.  

In addition to impactful service, corps members will grow professionally and personally through training, engaging with environmental agencies, collaborating with staff, providing feedback, and practicing structured reflection. Corps members learn valuable team building skills as they work on bridging a wide range of lived experiences and backgrounds, their cross-cultural communication skills, conflict resolution management, and value-driven leadership capacity. 

This position is managed by the EarthCorps Operations Manager and supervised by EarthCorps Project Managers.  It is offered through AmeriCorps and all applicants must meet the requirements to become an AmeriCorps member and abide by AmeriCorps policies.   

PROGRAM OPPORTUNITIES, RESPONSIBILITIES & INTENDED OUTCOMES: 

FIELD SERVICE (80% of program) 

Crews complete restoration projects in partnership with various land management agencies, throughout the Puget Sound region (in urban, suburban, and rural settings). Crews are introduced to a broad range of project sites, different techniques and approaches to ecological restoration. This broad exposure will provide participants with skills to implement best management practices in restoration, an appreciation of the challenges of restoration and an understanding of the field of environmental restoration work. To better understand the types of projects crews work on please review some project overviews: linked here.  

Project Implementation: Crew Members are responsible for the efficiency of accomplishing projects and the quality of the final product under supervision from project staff. All corps Members and staff are responsible for the safety of themselves, their fellow workers, and members of the public who may be involved with projects. 

What type of service will Crew Members perform?   

Field Service Projects (and estimates of their typical percentage of the program):  

• Vegetation control (manual,/ mechanical, chemical) 45%
• Indigenous Plant installation (planting)15%
• Stewardship/ Site maintenance20%