Position Title: Traditional Trades Advancement Program - Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial - AmeriCorps
Conservation Legacy Program: Stewards Individual Placements
Site Location: Lincoln City, IN 47552
Terms of Service:
- Start Date: 02/01/2026
- End Date: 07/30/2026
- AmeriCorps Slot Classification: 900 hours (26 weeks)
Purpose:
Stewards Individual Placements is an AmeriCorps affiliated program that provides individuals with service and career opportunities to strengthen communities and protect our natural resources. Participants work with federal agencies, tribal governments, and nonprofits, building institutional capacity, developing community relationships, and supporting the health of natural areas.
The Traditional Trades Advancement Program (TTAP) member assists National Park Service staff with the preservation, maintenance, and rehabilitation of historic structures and cultural landscapes. Member receives hands-on training in traditional trades, historic preservation methods, trail construction, carpentry, roofing, log building techniques, and cultural landscape stewardship while contributing to the preservation of nationally significant resources at Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial.
Description of Duties:
- Remove deteriorated trail tread surfaces and unstable underlying soil foundations
- Install geogrid reinforcement materials for long-term erosion control and trail stabilization
- Reconstruct and replace approximately 750 linear feet of historic cultural landscape trail with an average width of 8 feet
- Restore trail surfaces utilizing appropriate preservation and landscape management techniques
- Conduct erosion control measures and site stabilization activities
- Maintain compliance with National Park Service cultural landscape preservation standards
- Install replacement oak shake shingles using traditional methods and historic preservation standards
- Assist with documentation of preservation treatments
- Select, prepare, and process logs for historic preservation projects
- Utilize traditional hand tools including broad axes, adzes, drawknives, and hewing tools
- Cut and hand-hew two single-piece log gutters approximately 25 feet in length for a historic living-history cabin
Qualifications:
- United States citizen, United States national, or a lawful permanent resident
- At least 18 years of age, Veterans up to 35 years of age
- Has received a high school diploma or equivalency certificate; or has not dropped out of elementary or secondary school to enroll as an AmeriCorps participant, and agrees to obtain a high school diploma or its equivalent prior to using the education award
- Agrees to provide information to establish eligibility and to complete a National Service Criminal History Check
- Interest in historic preservation, maintenance trades, or cultural landscape management
- Ability to perform strenuous outdoor labor in varying weather conditions
- Ability to safely use hand and power tools
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Ability to work outdoors for extended periods in varying weather conditions.
Our Commitment:
Conservation Legacy is committed to the full consideration of all qualified individuals and will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations to perform essential job functions. Physical requirements may include periodic overnight travel, non-traditional work hours, ability to move across varied terrain, use program-specific tools and a range of technology on an infrequent or frequent basis. Exerting up to 25 pounds of force occasionally to lift, carry, push, pull, or otherwise move objects. The ability to safely drive an organizational vehicle may also be required for some positions. If you need assistance and/or reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please send a request to Vanessa Morrison at vmorrison@conservationlegacy.org
Time Requirements:
- Typically, this position is expected to serve Monday - Friday, but exact service schedules may vary. A half hour lunch break will not be counted towards AmeriCorps service
- Member may be required to participate in national, state, or local service projects or events as part of their service term
- Fully on-site
Orientation and Training:
- Member will receive an orientation that includes training on AmeriCorps prohibited and unallowable activities
- Gain practical skills in trail rehabilitation, erosion control, and cultural landscape stewardship
- Training in traditional roofing methodology utilizing historic oak shake material
- Gain proficient training in log hewing and historic woodworking techniques
- Build professional skills to apply to careering in historic preservation, facilities maintenance, and cultural resource management
Benefits:
- Segal AmeriCorps Education Award of $3,697.50 upon successful completion of term
- Living Allowance of $720 per week
- $1,000 professional development stipend
- PLC hiring authority
- Park Housing is AVAILABLE
Evaluation and Reporting:
As an AmeriCorps member, performance will be evaluated on whether the member has completed the required number of hours, the member has satisfactorily completed assignments, and if the member has met other performance criteria that were clearly communicated at the beginning of the term of service.
Reporting requirements include, but are not limited to, bi-weekly timesheets and accomplishment tracking.
Supervisor Name and Contact Information:
Ariana Nye
Stewards Individual Placements
anye@conservationlegacy.org
Service Site Contact information:
Nick Frey
nicholas_frey@nps.gov
Maintenance Manager
Conservation Legacy is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or reasonable accommodations due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please send a request to the hiring manager.
