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Form of workTitle: USFWS New Mexico Ecological Services Field Office Individual Placement(s)
Stipend: $600.00/week living stipend and $235.00/week Housing Stipend equal to $835.00/week paid on a bi-weekly basis.
Number of Positions: 2
Term: 19-week service term; February 12, 2024- June 21, 2024
Reports to: NM Ecological Services Field office.
Location : 2105 Osuna NE Albuquerque, NM 87105
Status: Full Time, 675-hour AmeriCorps Service Term, Possibility to work modified work schedule to accommodate student schedule. Inquire with program staff.
Benefits: Health Benefit Eligible, AmeriCorps Education Award $2,474.27 after successful completion of term.
Ancestral Lands Conservation Corps’ Mission
Our vision is to lead our Nations back to ecological and cultural well-being by engaging underrepresented Indigenous youth and young adults in conservation service programs that reconnect participants to the land, their cultural heritage, and their traditions. We work to remove barriers to participation, education, and employment by partnering with local community organizations, agencies, and institutes of higher learning to create paid service and career training opportunities, personal and professional development, and pathways to postsecondary education and employment.
USFWSNew Mexico Fish and Wildlife Services Feld Office Mission:
We work with public and private partners to conserve and restore New Mexico's threatened and endangered species, migratory birds, wetlands, and other important fish and wildlife resources. To accomplish our mission, we implement the following priorities: Endangered Species, Environmental Contaminants, Conservation Project Planning and Partners for Fish and Wildlife. In addition, we are responsible for activities in New Mexico administering the Endangered Species Act. We do this by ensuring fish and wildlife and their habitats are considered by federal agencies during project planning for projects such as construction of roads, bridges, dams and other infrastructure.
Individual Placement (IP) Overview:
The Ancestral Lands Conservation Corps and New Mexico Ecological Services Field Office (NMESFO) is seeking an Individual Placements (interns). The intern will work alongside Field Biologists and other NMESFO staff to learn about what the Ecological Services provided for New Mexico Habitat. This can involve meetings with agency partners, field visited, species surveys, and survey protocol trainings. The main project the intern will focus on is to educate local Albuquerque Public School, and Pueblo student groups to inform and improve stewardship of our river and protect threatened and endangered species. Individual Placement will help to develop and provide 100+ presentations to student groups from local schools on the Rio Grande, its ecosystem, and the Threatened & Endangered Species the live there. The intern will help to release Rio Grande Silvery Minnows back into the river with help from student groups. The interns will aid in the release of 2,000+ Rio Grande Silvery Minnows back into the Rio Grande.
Essential functions and responsibilities:
The NM Office of Ecological Services Education and Biological Individual Placement(s) will work to complete tasks and projects outlined below.
- Albuquerque Student Group educational sessions
- Present weekly field trips to Albuquerque 4th graders with the FWS RIO team and the Albuquerque Water Utility Authority
- Work on curriculum for field trips with support from the FWS RIO team
- Prepare equipment for weekly field trips.
- Trainings that you will provide to prepare the intern forth is activity: FWS RIO team will work with intern to create curriculum as well as present to students. FWS RIO team will work with intern to give presentations until they feel comfortable working alone, and with other interns.
Potential environmental/human risk involved with this workplan activity: un-even terrain walking out to site, slippery conditions along river, and lifting and carrying heavy objects such as: buckets of water and fish.
- Rio Grande Silvery Minnow Caretaker
- Monitor health of Rio Grande silvery Minnow hatchery fish for release to the wild
- Perform water tests to ensure water is healthy for fish.
- Clean fish tanks 2-3 times per week
- Trainings that you will provide to prepare the intern for this activity: FWS RIO team will train interns in RGSM care and will work alongside them for the first few weeks of fish care.
Potential environmental/human risk involved with this work plan activity: Exposure to 50 F water for up to 1 hour.
- Work Plan Activity pueblo Field Trips
- Reach out to Pueblos to determine interest in Rio Grande education and field trips.
- Schedule local Pueblo school group field trips
- Create curriculum for Pueblo field trips with support from FWS Rio team.
- Trainings that you will provide to prepare the intern for this activity.
- Shadow NMESFO Staff as a part of training and development of intern.
- Intern will shadow biologists with the NMESFO. After regular school session (year) has ended.
- Could involve site visits, fieldwork, species surveys, meetings with other agencies, assisting with survey protocol trainings and other daily responsibilities of working within the NMESFO.
- Biologists will be working with the intern training them and teaching them the entire time.
Required Skills
General Qualifications:
- Ability to interpret professional and scientific reports/documents, write and understand agency plans and reports based upon agency requirements, and ability to write and understand scientific reports and documents are preferred but not required.
- The successful applicant must be reliable, punctual, and self-motivated and able to work independently, with limited supervision after initial training and assignment of tasks.
- The applicant must be able to lift and/or move up to 50 pounds occasionally, up to 30 pounds frequently, and/or up to 10 pounds constantly. The applicant must be able to maneuver and operate in a mixture of office work and fieldwork. This includes frequently traversing uneven terrain and the ability to walk, balance, stoop, kneel, bend, reach, push, pull, and/or grasp in variable weather conditions and situations that may require a moderate amount of physical exertion.
- Applicant must have a visual acuity and valid license to operate motor vehicles and to determine the accuracy, neatness, and thoroughness of work assigned. Applicant must be able to receive detailed information through written and/or oral communication and convey important spoken and/or written instructions accurately and effectively.
Required Experience
Some educational or practical background in public education, public speaking, interpretation, biology, ecology. Applicants will be considered if they are currently pursuing a degree or possess a combination of work (lived experience) and education) in related subject-matter.
User of public lands including hiking, camping, hunting/fishing, or other recreation activity. This is an asset for field navigation, understanding of diverse terrain, weather, and other hazards encountered on public lands outdoors.
Requirements:
- High School Diploma
- 21 years of age or older
- S. Citizenship or Permanent Resident Card, INS form I-551
- A passport indicating that the INS has been approved it as temporary evidence of lawful admission for permanent residence A departure record (INS 194) indication that the INS has approved it as temporary evidence of lawful admission for permanent residence.
- Valid driver’s license
- Participate in occasional offsite in person/virtual meetings, trainings, and presentations.
Qualified applicants, PLC Eligibility must be 21- 30 years of age and/or a Veteran up to 35 years of age.
This program is available to all, without regard to race, color, national origin, gender, age, religion, sexual orientation, disability, gender identity or expression, political affiliation, marital or parental status, genetic information, and military service. Where a significant portion of the population eligible to be served needs services or information in a language other than English, the recipient shall take reasonable steps to provide written material of the type ordinarily available to the public in appropriate languages.
To apply, please submit an updated resume and letter of interest along with your online application.
If you have any questions, please reach out to Ancestral Lands Individual Placements Program Coordinator, Shonto Greyeyes at shonto@conservationlegacy.org
