Assistant Crew Leader Qualifications
Required Qualifications
· Previous leadership experience.
· Desire to work exclusively with recent era military veterans.
· Strong technical skills including trail maintenance, chainsaw operation and maintenance, crosscut use and maintenance, hand tool maintenance, fencing, ecological restoration, and backcountry work and travel.
· Flexibility, adaptability, and capacity to work in a fluid, changing work environment.
· Excellent communication and teaching/mentoring skills.
· Strong conflict resolution and team building skills.
· Proficient in computer programs and technology, especially email and Microsoft programs.
· Ability to perform administrative such as managing crew budget and documents.
· Strong time-management skills and ability to work both independently and in collaboration with a small group.
· Ability and willingness to work a flexible and varying schedule, including long term (2 weeks – multi-month) assignments away from the regional office.
· Valid driver’s license and an insurable driving record.
· Must be able to pass a criminal history background check.
Preferred Qualifications:
· Prior AmeriCorps service.
· Veteran status and/or previous work experience with veterans.
· Experience with backpacking, wilderness travel, LNT, camp management and outdoor leadership.
· Previous employment with a federal land management agency.
· Professional forestry or wildland fire experience.
· Professional technical certifications in chainsaw operation, 4x4/OHV, wildland firefighting.
· Relevant bachelor’s degree.
Physical Requirements:
To successfully perform essential functions the ACL is required to sit, stand, walk, speak, and hear. The ACL will be required to run, climb, hike, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl on a frequent basis. Will need to be able to carry heavy loads with backpack and to use hand tools in a variety of weather conditions.
Must be able to operate office equipment, telephone, computer, reach with hands and arms.
Must be able to drive a vehicle frequently/infrequently during work shift. Reasonable accommodations may be made for qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Expectations:
AZCC is an independent, non-residential program, so housing is not provided. The ACL must supply his/her own personal outdoor gear and equipment such as a tent, sleeping bag, sleeping pad, day pack, multi-day pack, work pants, 6-inch leather work boots, personal cook set, personal food etc. AZCC will provide the tools, protective gear, community food, and transportation to projects.
Participation and Expedition Behavior:
· Work effectively as a member of a team despite potentially stressful and difficult conditions. This may require problem solving on an interpersonal or group level as well as a willingness to accept differences.
· Willingness and ability to complete all aspects of the program including conservation projects, education, training, and national service. Members must commit to participating in all crew/team activities, including service days in local communities where applicable.
· Effectively communicate ideas and concerns as they arise directly to supervisors, colleagues, and organization staff.
· Have the cognitive ability to learn necessary skills and apply them to effectively carry out the service work requirements.
· Appropriately represent the Program and AmeriCorps to the public and project partners at all times.
· Contribute to a safe learning environment, no harassment of others for any reason.
Safety and Judgment:
· Effectively communicate danger to others in the form of either a warning of danger others may be encountering or a notification of personal distress, injury or need for assistance. You must be able to do so at a distance of up to 50 meters and in conditions with limited visibility or loud background noise such as darkness or high winds.
· Effectively perceive, understand, and follow direction by others so that you will be able to successfully execute appropriate and perhaps unfamiliar techniques to manage hazards. These directions may be given before the hazard is encountered or may need to be given during exposure to the hazard.
· Stay alert and focused for several hours at a time while traveling and working in varied weather conditions.
· Perceive and comprehend significant and apparent hazards, including those hazards previously identified by others.
· Respond appropriately to stress or crises.
· If taking prescription medications, participants must be able to maintain proper dosage by self-medicating without assistance from others.
Environmental Ethics:
· Learn and practice ‘Leave no Trace’ techniques.
· Learn and safely perform fundamental outdoor living/travel and work skills as appropriate to the project. Additionally, remain adequately hydrated, fed, and properly dressed so as to remain generally healthy and safe, avoiding environmental injuries.
· Live in a physically demanding, possibly remote environment for an uninterrupted period of up to several weeks. Conditions of this environment may vary significantly and may include severe and/or trying weather. The remoteness is such that it may require at a minimum one hour, but perhaps in excess of 12 hours, to reach the nearest advanced medical care.
· Outdoor Skills and Fitness (where appropriate).
Substance Free:
In accordance with a drug free workplace, alcohol and drugs are prohibited while participating in AmeriCorps and program activities and while on organization property.
Equal Employment Opportunity
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.
