Crew Leader Position Description:
Responsibilities:
Leadership & Mentorship
· Manage, supervise, and lead the day-to-day details of project work.
· Implement skills training on worksite and facilitate intentional discussions via informal lessons to contribute to the crew’s personal growth and group dynamics.
· Promote individual corps member development and a healthy community.
· Mentor and delegate project responsibilities, crew life, and member development to ACL.
· Must be willing to follow and enforce all AZCC policies, maintain professional boundaries, and appropriately represent Arizona Conservation Corps. This includes creating a substance free work environment and refraining from alcohol and drugs while on hitch.
Project Management, Safety & Implementation
· Train and motivate a crew of four to six veterans to efficiently complete conservation projects on public lands.
· Manage the on-the-ground quality and quantity of project work.
· Think critically to resolve issues and solve problems.
· Communicate effectively & coordinate logistics with project partners, co-leader, & AZCC staff.
· Monitor, manage, and promote the crew’s physical and emotional safety on and off the work site.
· Exhibit strong situational awareness & promote a culture of safety.
Administration
· Complete professional documentation of time sheets, daily and weekly reports, corps member and peer evaluations, disciplinary action forms, incident reports, etc. in a timely manner.
· Responsible for all project related outcomes and deliverables
· Manage food budget and credit card for purchases.
Essential Functions:
· Frequently required to walk, hike, sit and talk or listen.
· Required to use hands to operate objects, tools, or controls, and to reach with hands and arms.
· Regularly lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
· Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision and the ability to focus.
· Required to drive an AZCC vehicle - and therefore have a very clean driving record.
· Must be able to speak, understand, read, and write English.
· Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Required Qualifications:
· Previous leadership experience
· Strong time-management skills and ability to work independently as well as with others.
· Ability to manage all aspects of crew life and production effectively and efficiently within the work week.
· Flexibility, adaptability, and capacity to work in a fluid, changing work environment.
· Willingness to learn and be a part of a dynamic community of peer leaders.
· Desire to learn from and work with recent era military veterans.
· Willingness to commit fully to the program and its mission.
· Significant chainsaw operations and maintenance experience.
· Physically fit and able to work long days in adverse conditions.
· Experience with backpacking, wilderness living and travel, LNT principles.
· High School diploma or GED certificate.
· Minimum of Wilderness First Aid and CPR/AED current.
· Must be 21 or older, have a clean driving record (insurable by AZCC) and a current driver’s license.
Preferred Qualifications:
· Veteran status and/or previous work experience with veterans.
· Experience with AZCC or other conservation corps or youth corps, leading Veterans
· Teaching, facilitation, and team-building experience with diverse groups of people
· Faller B Chainsaw certification (Or ready to evaluate as one)
· Wildland Fire experience (Hot shot, hand crew, engine crew, etc.)
· Current 80 hour + medical certification (WFR, WEMT, or OEC) with CPR/AED
· Familiarity with basic conservation skills (hand tool use and maintenance, etc.)
· Strong conflict resolution skills
· Sense of humor, spirit of adventure, and desire to make a positive difference and promote leadership in others
Expectations:
AZCC is an independent, non-residential program, so housing is not provided. The CL 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, 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.
