Purpose of Internship: The VISTA Collaboration Specialist position is based at the New Mexico Forest & Watershed Restoration Institute (NMFWRI) in Las Vegas, NM. The NMFWRI’s mission is to promote adaptive management practices and to reduce the risk of high-intensity, catastrophic wildfires and other disturbances in New Mexico’s forests. Developing partnerships among interest holders is an important part of this mission. In forested areas in New Mexico, community-based collaborative conservation (CBCC) organizations coordinate forest management across large landscapes, aimed at building ecological resiliency to reduce the risk of forest disturbances. The NMFWRI Collaboration Program has an ongoing project to organize CBCC organizations into regional networks and link these networks statewide, with the goal of facilitating greater collaborative knowledge and capacity.
JOB LOCATION: Las Vegas, New Mexico
COMPENSATION: Living allowance $62.69/day, disbursed every 2 weeks & Segal Education Award ($7395) OR Cash Stipend (~$1,800) upon successful completion of service
SEASONAL: July 15, 2024 - July 14, 2025 (365 days)
DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:
Service work is done in a hybrid work environment.
QUALIFICATIONS:
Applicants should submit a resume and a cover letter
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Purpose of Internship: The Organizing interns will report to Organizers in their region and will work with other staff on the organizing teams to support Food & Water Watch’s work. Primary responsibilities will be supporting local, state and national campaigns and helping to build the organization through recruitment events in the field, such as tabling, petitioning, flyering, phone banks, and other similar activities. Organizing interns will receive training and mentorship in organizing skills including recruitment, event planning, and campaign strategy.
JOB LOCATION: Remote/Albuquerque, NM
COMPENSATION: $16.00 Hourly, 29 hours/week for 9 weeks from June 3-August 2
DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
Applicants should submit a resume, a cover letter, and 2 organizing-related references
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For Best Consideration: 8/29/2023
Purpose of Internship: to assist the Transformation Network leadership team with social media and online communications, community & campus outreach initiatives. Transformation Network is an National Science Foundation funded Sustainable Regional Systems a partnership between eight Western U.S. universities with over 50 partner organizations representing Tribal partners, governmental and non-governmental organizations. Its goal is to build capacity for adaptations and guided transformations towards sustainable regional systems through innovative and equitable solutions.
JOB LOCATION: Albuquerque, New Mexico
COMPENSATION: $14.00 - $16.00 Hourly
DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
Applicants should submit a resume and a cover letter
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(Updated July 12, 2023)
APPLICATION DEADLINE: Open Until Filled - Priority Hire
The New Mexico Environmental Law Center (NMELC) is seeking to hire a part-time organizer to support client focused outreach and advocacy efforts in advancing environmental justice. This is a contract position starting July 2023 to November 2023. Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC), women and LGBTQ+ candidates are highly encouraged to apply.
JOB LOCATION: Albuquerque, New Mexico
COMPENSATION: This is a part-time contract position with an hourly pay of $20 to $22 depending on experience, up to 20 hours per week, July 2023 to November 2023.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
● Must embrace the New Mexico Environmental Law Center’s mission and be dedicated to working alongside clients on environmental justice issues
● Knowledge of and commitment to the importance and integration of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives and practices
● Knowledge of environmental justice and social justice issues
● Strong computer skills
● Knowledge on how to use social media platforms as outreach and public engagement tools
● Ability to communicate effectively with a diverse group of clients, community partners, and staff, as well as nonprofit, government, judicial, and business members
● Experience working in coalitions and community-based advocacy organizations
● Excellent listening skills and ability to facilitate consensus-based decisions
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
● Connection with the Mountain View Neighborhood and/or larger South Valley community
● Bilingual (English/Spanish)
● Experience working with diverse populations including LGBTQ+, frontline, colonias, rural, and Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) communities
● Strong interpersonal communication and public speaking skills
● Familiar with and committed to the Jemez Principles of Democratic Organizing and Environmental Justice Principles
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:
● Environmental justice/social justice education, background, and/or experience
● Community organizing background and/or experience
Applicants should submit a resume, cover letter, and three references electronically to Dr. Virginia Necochea, Executive Director at vnecochea@nmelc.org. All required documents must be submitted electronically. Interviews may be conducted via Zoom.
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(Updated May 11, 2023)
The Sustainability Studies Program in the Geography and Environmental Studies department is seeking qualified temporary part time faculty members to teach undergraduate and/or graduate level classes in various disciplines as specified in the description. Responsibilities will include meeting with the class during assigned times, delivering the course curriculum, developing and grading assignments, reporting grades, and assessing student learning outcomes as outlined by the Chair of the department or Director of the program. Find more information on our social media accounts @unmsust.
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(Updated May 11, 2023)
Anticipated start date: As soon as possible
Seasonal: Contract seasonal position (June - end of October)
Hours: 40+ hours per week
Compensation: $15.00/hour
The Agri-Cultura Cooperative Network (ACN) in partnership with La Cosecha Community Supported
Agriculture is hiring a Kitchen Crew Member. La Cosecha CSA is a food access project of the
Agri-Cultura Network, a food hub that aggregates produce year-round from approximately 50- small scale
farms located in the state of New Mexico. ACN and La Cosecha CSA operate out of the South Valley
Economic Development Center in an FDA certified commercial kitchen space. The produce is processed,
washed and packed for customers that range from restaurants, hospitals, senior centers, schools, grocery
stores, and Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) programs.
The kitchen crew members work closely with the Kitchen Manager and under the supervision of the
Produce Manager to fulfill weekly orders for our customers. It is a farm-to-market system and
distribution, the position involves processing, washing and packing produce based on orders, delivering
orders (if necessary), and cleaning and sanitizing the kitchen and walk-in each day.
The kitchen is a fast paced environment and crew members are responsible for washing and packing
hundreds of pounds of produce each week.
The ideal applicants will possess:
● A positive attitude.
● Valid drivers’ license (preferred, but not necessary).
● Experience working with produce at grocery stores or co-ops and familiarity with produce
washing and quality control (preferred, but not necessary).
● Dependability, responsibility, honesty, and integrity.
● Basic math skills.
● Ability to stand for the entirety of the work shift.
● Ability to lift up to 50 lbs.
● Knowledge of or interest in learning about local produce & food access.
● Ability to follow verbal and written instructions.
● Willingness to work as a team player.
● Good personal hygiene to comply with food safety standards.
To apply, please email latrell@agri-cultura.org with the following information:
● A letter of intent
● Current resume
● 1 reference: contact information (name, relationship to you, phone, email and the
business/organization they represent)
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(Updated May 11, 2023)
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(Updated May 11, 2023)
Title: Wilderness Ranger
Classification: Full-time (40 hours); Seasonal, May 15th to November 15th
Location: New Mexico’s National Forest Wilderness Areas
Job Summary
New Mexico Wild is seeking Wilderness Rangers to work on a 5-person field-based roving crew in the wilderness areas on all 5 National Forests in New Mexico, as well as 2 additional wilderness rangers to work in the Pecos Wilderness.
Primary duties will focus on planning and implementing volunteer stewardship projects, collecting Wilderness Character Monitoring (WCM) and other data in the field, trail clearing, campsite rehabilitation, public outreach and wilderness education. Monitoring data will be collected using the ArcGIS Collector application or other methods where appropriate. This job has a heavy emphasis on building capacity in Wilderness through meeting Volunteer match requirements.
Project timeframe for this position is anticipated to be May 15th through November 15th, 2023, but the season may be extended based on available funding and seasonal conditions such as snow, heat and fire. A shorter term of employment may be possible.
Compensation will be set at a competitive hourly rate of $20 per hour.
New Mexico Wild is an equal opportunity employer and actively works to ensure fair and equal treatment of its employees regardless of differences based on culture, socioeconomic status, race, marital or family situation, gender, age, ethnicity, religious beliefs, physical ability, or sexual orientation.
(Updated May 11, 2023)
Roadrunner® Food Bank, a Feeding America member, is the largest non-profit dedicated to solving hunger in New Mexico. The food bank serves as a distribution hub and provides food to hundreds of affiliated partners around the state including food pantries, soup kitchens, shelters, group homes and regional food banks. Roadrunner also distributes food through its own specialized programs helping children, families and seniors at schools, low-income seniors housing sites, senior centers and healthcare clinics. Last year, the food bank distributed more than 40 million pounds of food, helping tens of thousands of people experiencing hunger every week through a statewide hunger-relief network. For more information on solving hunger in New Mexico, visit www.rrfb.org, or follow us on social media: Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram.
They are hiring for the following positions:
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(Updated May 11, 2023)
Three Sisters Kitchen uses the power and love of local food to create economic opportunity, improve community health, and bring our diverse communities together around the table. Social enterprise programming makes up a core component of our non-profit organization, and supports our commitment to sourcing local ingredients, celebrating the bounty of New Mexico, providing good jobs, and generating revenue for Three Sisters Kitchen’s community programs.
Three Sisters Kitchen is currently seeking roles for the following jobs:
As an organization committed to high-roads business practices, the Three Sisters Kitchen centers equity, community care, and environmental sustainability at the core of our operations. We are looking for someone who shares these values, and is excited to support the Three Sisters Kitchen team in launching a successful local food and beverage operation!
To apply: Submit letter of interest, three professional references, and resume to tskhiring@gmail.com. Positions are open until filled.
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(Updated May 11, 2023)
Position Details:
$14/hr + benefits
Soilutions is hiring full-time compost yard workers to be part of our small but growing team that processes organic materials into healthy, regenerative compost. Soilutions is dedicated to growing Albuquerque’s green economy that helps our community thrive. Our team is dedicated to sustainable organics waste management, recycling, and building the best possible compost and soils in the high desert. Practical environmental sustainability is a rapidly growing field, now is the time to join a team paving the way for regenerative New Mexico!
As part of the Soilutions team you will work collaboratively with managers and other employees to build, turn, and manage high quality compost piles and soils, safely operate, and maintain equipment from small engines to front-end loaders. Other tasks may include but are not limited to bagging products and stacking pallets, customer service both in-person and over the phone, working with management to monitor quality and maintain high standards. No experience necessary, we are happy to train dedicated individuals.
Requirements
Ability to frequently lift 50 lbs.
Ability to work outdoors in all seasons and weather
Reliable Transportation
Clear communication
Follow safety protocols; identify and resolve safety concerns
Work independently and collaboratively
Benefits
Health & 401k after 90 days
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(Updated May 11, 2023)
Soilutions is hiring for interns to assist with marketing and events. Learn about compost, sustainability and growing a small business. Tasks include organizing deliveries and sales, developing onine store and national shipping, working events to promote Soilutions and more!
Soilutions is growing company, this position has exponential growth potential. This is an opportunity to develop along with a company ideally situated in the heart of the green economy.
Email dawn@soilutions.net
After over four years collecting residential food waste for composting, we’re making a huge expansion into commercial collection, and we need to add a team member to drive the big truck!
Little Green Bucket diverts food waste and other organic material from the local landfill, where it emits methane, and instead gives it a second chance as compost, providing invaluable nutrition to local soils. We proudly collect food waste from nearly 1000 families in the Albuquerque area, but the larger volumes processed by our commercial program will increase our positive environmental impact by at least 300% in the first year alone. Our service is filling a void recently created by the suspension of our partner’s similar service, and our initial clients will be a curated subset of their former customers, so we’ll be hitting the ground running.
Our team does not look like most waste management companies. We are currently 50% LGBTQ+ and 50% female or non-binary. We were born in 5 different decades and arrived at Little Green Buckett via wildly different career, educational and life paths. We believe that environmental sustainability is not sufficient to create a thriving future for humanity; there must be environmental justice, and for that there must also be social justice. We’re proud to practice inclusive hiring, to provide worker-friendly stable jobs paying a living wage, to maintain a safe and flexible work environment and culture, and to continuously improve our employment policies and practices. BIPOC, LGBTQ+, female,and non-binary candidates are enthusiastically encouraged to apply.
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(Updated May 11, 2023)
We’re hiring! We’re eager to hear from do-gooders interested in driving for our little local compost service. Applicants must have a clean driving record and current insurance. Job Description & Application Details. We now have two fleet vans, so we no longer require all applicants to have their own pickup truck, but a truck is still a plus.
After over four years collecting residential food waste for composting, we’re making a huge expansion into commercial collection, and we need to add a team member to drive the big truck!
Little Green Bucket diverts food waste and other organic material from the local landfill, where it emits methane, and instead gives it a second chance as compost, providing invaluable nutrition to local soils. We proudly collect food waste from nearly 1000 families in the Albuquerque area, but the larger volumes processed by our commercial program will increase our positive environmental impact by at least 300% in the first year alone. Our service is filling a void recently created by the suspension of our partner’s similar service, and our initial clients will be a curated subset of their former customers, so we’ll be hitting the ground running.
Our team does not look like most waste management companies. We are currently 50% LGBTQ+ and 50% female or non-binary. We were born in 5 different decades and arrived at Little Green Buckett via wildly different career, educational and life paths. We believe that environmental sustainability is not sufficient to create a thriving future for humanity; there must be environmental justice, and for that there must also be social justice. We’re proud to practice inclusive hiring, to provide worker-friendly stable jobs paying a living wage, to maintain a safe and flexible work environment and culture, and to continuously improve our employment policies and practices. BIPOC, LGBTQ+, female,and non-binary candidates are enthusiastically encouraged to apply.
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(Updated May 11, 2023)
About Quivira Coalition’s Carbon Ranch Initiative (CRI)
The Quivira Coalition is a Santa Fe-based nonprofit that builds resilience on arid working lands. We foster ecological, economic, and social health through education, innovation, and collaboration. The Quivira Coalition aims to shift current practices of agriculture and land stewardship to those that produce good food, support meaningful livelihoods in rural places, sustain biodiversity, and remedy the impacts of climate change. We do this work through agricultural apprenticeship, land and water restoration, and rancher- and farmer-led knowledge exchange. Knowing that it is critical to the success of our work, Quivira Coalition is committed to diversity and inclusion, and we aspire to build a diverse staff team and community, including groups that are traditionally under-represented among stewardship and agricultural support services.
Quivira Coalition’s Carbon Ranch Initiative (CRI) is dedicated to research, outreach and technical support that helps producers build soil carbon on working lands. We focus on engaging with land stewards around the Healthy Soil Principles, circular economies (making waste productive), and using monitoring and evaluation to inform planning as ways to both combat and built resilience to climate change.
The project manager is a technical position supported by grant funding and we seek someone who can commit to the entire 5 year project. The Carbon Ranch Initiative (CRI) Manager will work with the CRI team and partner organizations to
Additionally, the manager will support other CRI and Quivira projects such as ranch/farm planning, open source monitoring and evaluation, and Quivira’s ongoing work to become an antiracist organization.
The CRI Manager will bring professionalism and organization to working with diverse groups of people on their land, the other programs in the Quivira Coalition, and the partner organizations associated with the Carbon Ranch Initiative. The manager will be expected to: work with farmers, ranchers, and natural resource management professionals from diverse communities; manage land-based projects and data, write reports and educational materials that are useful for working ranchers, farmers, and technical service providers, as well as applications and reports to funding agencies to support ongoing work; navigate the challenges, opportunities, and social dynamics in agricultural and natural resource management and collaboration; communicate complex land management issues in clear, constructive, and non-polarizing ways; organize events and facilitate a community of practice around working lands collaboration. Ideally this person is located in New Mexico, but closely adjacent areas will also be considered. Some travel throughout the Southwest will be necessary.
This position is salaried and the pay scale is fixed between $47,227 – $63,895 per year in the first year. After 3 months, benefits include health care, dental, vision, simple IRA, paid-time-off, short and long term life insurance and disability policy. While we actively seek funding to support staff long term, we can not guarantee employment beyond the duration of the grant.
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(Updated May 11, 2023)
Daily roles and responsibilities:
Open and close gates; check parking and outlying areas to ensure safety for visitors, open and check restrooms - restock if necessary, general litter/trash clean-up and maintenance.
Open areas for reservations or events, empty or pick up litter/trash and check and clean restrooms and picnic areas, empty trash/litter into dumpsters.
Greet park visitors and collect fees, distribute maps, brochures, and park information about events and activities and open space in general; often the “face of “Open Space because of this interaction including the possibility of being first contact for emergency situations along trails and open space that they will be maintaining-example lost citizens, injuries, (calling 911, basic first aid)
Opening the parks - Put out pay envelopes, open register
At close of parks - clean reservation areas of litter/trash, empty trash into trash bins, check areas and making sure all visitors have returned to their vehicles and safely exit the park, lock restrooms and park gates; record number of visitors via electronic counter-enter data on record; Shut down register, count fees, complete report page, make cash drop.
Check trails for graffiti - if found scrub and remove, trim plants along trails and entry roads
Assist with special projects such as trail and annual clean up days. After being trained - may serve as lead for some of the projects working with volunteers and seasonal staff assisting in clean up;
Post signs at trail heads and entry booths
Daily interaction overview/review of duties/tasks by supervisor, mostly unsupervised while performing duties, limited supervision, self- motivation is desired
This is a field environmental position - the use of various hand and power tools, driving a vehicle, working in various and adverse weather conditions, may require working weekend and holidays, odd days off.
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(Updated May 11, 2023)
The City of Albuquerque manages the Rio Grande Valley State Park, 4,300 acres of protected Bosque land in the heart of the city. This major green belt provides vital community and ecosystem services. The City Open Space Division is hiring positions dedicated to maintaining the Bosque and interfacing with the public; supporting ongoing and new restoration projects to promote a healthy ecosystem; and increasing youth education, job training and monitoring programs.
Tasks
The Bosque Park Attendants are responsible for a variety of tasks in the Bosque, including the following:
Recreation
· Maintaining trails
· Maintaining recreation areas including trailheads and restrooms
· Inventorying and maintaining outdoor furnishings
· Report and maintain fences, gates and other access points
Restoration
· Managing invasive plants such as Siberian Elm, Russian Olive, Tamarisk, Ravenna Grass, Kochia, Tumbleweeds and Goathead
· Plant and maintain newly planted trees and shrubs when needed
· Manage areas of erosion
· Maintain swales and other past restoration efforts
· Clean up trash and remove unnatural debris from bosque
· Report issues and violations of ordinances
Public Outreach and Education
· Interface with the public on a regular basis to inform about rules and regulations, trail etiquette, boater safety, public events and education offerings, and respond to general questions and concerns
· Work alongside volunteers and partners on restoration projects
· Work alongside youth crews on restoration projects
· Work with students and partners on citizen science, monitoring and research projects
How to Apply Apply through Tryfacta: https://www.tryfacta.ai/ or email Raj- Operations Manager at raj@tryfacta.com for the following position:
General Service Worker I with the City’s Open Space Division. The position is a yearlong and pays $14.71 an hour for 40 hours a week with flexibility for part time schedule available. You will work alongside Open Space Division staff, partners and volunteers, as well as gain valuable hands-on skills that will support a career in conservation and natural resource management.
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(Updated May 11, 2023)
A proud partner with the US Forest Service (USFS), Environment for the Americas offers paid internships in stunning USFS locations across the country to qualified, diverse applicants with a passion for outdoor fieldwork, research, conservation, and recreation, as well as law enforcement, finance and budgets, and other fields.
Six-month to one-year positions connect qualified applicants with a passion for outdoor fieldwork, research, and conservation to careers in forest management, recreation, and more.
Qualification requirements:
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