Title:BLM - Acoma Community Outreach and Environmental Education Individual Placement
Stipend: $500.00/week living stipend and $200.00/week housing stipend ($1,400.00 Biweekly before taxes)
Term: 6/24/2024 – 4/11/202542-week service term.
Reports to: BLM New Mexico Youth Lead
Location: Pueblo of Acoma, New Mexico
Status: Full Time, 1,200-hour AmeriCorps Service Term
Benefits: AmeriCorps Education Award of $4,826.50 after each successful completion of service term. Professional Development Funds and Public Land Corps Hiring Certificate. Professional Development budget.
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. *Ancestral Lands serves local tribal communities in the regions we operate. Native Americans are encouraged to apply. *
Bureau of Land Management Mission
BLM's mission is to sustain the health, diversity, and productivity of the public lands for the use and enjoyment of present and future generations. In the National Conservation Lands units of the BLM, conservation, interpretation and education are a top priority of the BLM. Working with youth, through service, interpretation and education, the BLM’s goal is to inspire environmental advocates and stewards to help protect America's Public Lands.
Program Overview:
BLM - Acoma Community Outreach and Environmental Education Individual Placement would be based in the Pueblo of Acoma. They will work alongside and shadow Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and partner agency’s like the National Park Service (NPS), to gain an understanding of surrounding public lands and local resources available to the public. Individual Placement will participate in National Association for Interpretive (NAI) –Certified Interpretive Guide training course. After initial training and shadowing period, the individual will perform outreach efforts with surrounding community and local schools to develop an outdoor education/interpretation project to inspire outdoor stewardship on a local level. An outcome of the overall experience of the Intern is to create an Outdoor Education Program- for outdoor for school children from the Pueblo of Acoma; based on community needs and wants. The intern will research programs that are already instituted in which they can expand or enrich existing programs (for example the Ancestral Lands Conservation Corps Hiking Club, and Acoma Farm Corps).
Essential functions and responsibilities:
The intern’s goals for their time will include:
1.Work alongside (shadow) Bureau of Land Management staff to learn about interpretation and National Park resources to better understand opportunities to collaborate on program development for the surrounding communities.
2.Attend National Association for Interpretation (NAI)- Interpretive Guide Course for Nationally recognized certification.
3.Develop ideas for an education and outreach program in environmental and heritage to deepen youth connection to place and public lands. Make contacts with community members and school staff to establish and enrich partnerships and discuss collaboratively- needs in community for place-based education.
4.Recommend the structure and shape that the project should be like over the next five years, including funding opportunities to pursue.
5.Work alongside existing programs in the Community of Acoma- Ancestral Lands Conservation Corps example: (hiking club, farm corps, and other initiatives) Support and provide capacity for program operations that relate to Outreach and Education.