Communications Individual Placement – Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge

Job title:

Communications Individual Placement – Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge

Company

Conservation Legacy

Job description

Title: Communications Individual Placemen – USFWS Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge-

Stipend:

$600.00/week living stipend equal to $1,200.00 (before taxes) paid on a bi-weekly basis.

Number of Positions: 1

Term: 19-week service term; February 26, 2024- June 28, 2024

Reports to: Public Affairs Lead

Location: 32 Refuge Headquarters, Indiahoma, OK 73552

Status: Full Time, 675-hour AmeriCorps Service Term.

Benefits: Housing Provided on site, Health Benefit Eligible, AmeriCorps Education Award $2,626.27 after successful completion of term.

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.

USFWS Wildlife Refuge System Mission:

The mission of the National Wildlife Refuge System is to administer a national network of lands and waters for the conservation, management and, where appropriate, restoration of the fish, wildlife and plant resources and their habitats within the United States for the benefit of present and future generations of Americans.

Individual Placement (IP) Overview:

The US Fish and Wildlife Service’s is seeking an Individual Placement (IP) to work out of the Wichita Mountains NWR office located in Indiahoma,OK in support of the Headquarters Native American Program (HQ NAP). Work with focus on enhancing internal and external communications and storytelling related to the Service’s co-stewardship work across the nation.

The Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge hosted a Summit in 2023 to better collaborate with surrounding tribal nations, the USFWS staff and Tribal Leadership shares ideas, and identified opportunities for collaboration. The outcome of this summit multiple partners stated a shared need to coordinate education efforts between the refuge and Tribes to include environmental education opportunities for tribal youth and development of programs to provide public education and interpretation of tribally significant sites.

The primary role of this intern would be to conduct outreach to tribal partners and help build a comprehensive education and outreach plan to meet this need.

Essential functions and responsibilities:

The Communications Individual Placement will work to complete tasks and projects outlined below. * Create a comprehensive education and outreach plan.

• Conduct outreach with tribal partners.
• Conduct in-reach with USFWS staff
• Identify opportunities for collaboration.
• Facilitate Tribal Environmental Education Programming

• Assist USFWS staff with upcoming WOTEC event.
• Assist USFWS staff with upcoming environmental education programing for visiting Native American Youth Groups.
• Incorporate Indigenous Knowledge into environmental education programming for the public where appropriate.
• Develop strategies to incorporate Tribal Languages into communication materials.

• identify existing signs where there is interest from local Tribal nations in incorporating Indigenous Languages.
• Review website/brochures/printed materials and develop recommendations for incorporation of Indigenous Languages
• Review refuge maps to determine where notation of culturally significant locations would be appropriate.
• Trainings that you will provide to prepare the intern for position:

Radical Collaboration Training, Fundamentals of Interpretation, Defensive Driving, Applicable Safety Training * Potential environmental/human risk involved with these work plan activities:

Risks associated with driving on and off refuge, specific task-related risks are handled on a case-by-case basis with established Job Hazard Analysis

General Qualifications:

• Ability to interpret professional and scientific reports/documents, write and understand agency plans and reports based upon agency requirements, and ability to write and understand scientific reports and documents are preferred but not required.

• The successful applicant must be reliable, punctual, and self-motivated and able to work independently, with limited supervision after initial training and assignment of tasks.

• The applicant must be able to lift and/or move up to 50 pounds occasionally, up to 30 pounds frequently, and/or up to 10 pounds constantly. The applicant must be able to maneuver and operate in a mixture of office work and fieldwork. This includes frequently traversing uneven terrain and the ability to walk, balance, stoop, kneel, bend, reach, push, pull, and/or grasp in variable weather conditions and situations that may require a moderate amount of physical exertion.

• Applicant must have a visual acuity and valid license to operate motor vehicles and to determine the accuracy, neatness, and thoroughness of work assigned. Applicant must be able to receive detailed information through written and/or oral communication and convey important spoken and/or written instructions accurately and effectively.

Required Skills

General Qualifications:

• Ability to interpret professional and scientific reports/documents, write and understand agency plans and reports based upon agency requirements, and ability to write and understand scientific reports and documents are preferred but not required.

• The successful applicant must be reliable, punctual, and self-motivated and able to work independently, with limited supervision after initial training and assignment of tasks.

• The applicant must be able to lift and/or move up to 30 pounds occasionally, up to 10 pounds frequently, and/or up to 5 pounds constantly. The applicant must be able to maneuver and operate in a mixture of office work.

• Applicant must have a visual acuity and valid license to operate motor vehicles and to determine the accuracy, neatness, and thoroughness of work assigned.

• Applicant must be able to receive detailed information through written and/or oral communication and convey important spoken and/or written instructions accurately and effectively.

Required Experience

Some educational or practical background in public education, public speaking, interpretation, stakeholder outreach and collaboration, understanding of intricacies of Indigenous communities and sovereign tribes, ecology. Applicants will be considered if they are currently pursuing a degree or possess a combination of work (lived experience) and education) in related subject-matter.

Preferred Qualifications:

Excellent writing skills, interpersonal skills, ability to use design software such as the Adobe suite (InDesign, Photoshop, Premier Pro, Illustrator, etc), Microsoft office suite.

Requirements:

• High School Diploma
• 21 years of age or older
• Valid driver’s license
• S. Citizenship or Permanent Resident Card, INS form I-551
• A passport indicating that the INS has been approved it as temporary evidence of lawful admission for permanent residence A departure record (INS 194) indication that the INS has approved it as temporary evidence of lawful admission for permanent residence.

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.

To apply, please submit an updated resume and letter of interest along with your online application.

If you have any questions, please reach out to Ancestral Lands Individual Placements Program Coordinator, Shonto Greyeyes at

General Qualifications:

• Ability to interpret professional and scientific reports/documents, write and understand agency plans and reports based upon agency requirements, and ability to write and understand scientific reports and documents are preferred but not required.

• The successful applicant must be reliable, punctual, and self-motivated and able to work independently, with limited supervision after initial training and assignment of tasks.

• The applicant must be able to lift and/or move up to 30 pounds occasionally, up to 10 pounds frequently, and/or up to 5 pounds constantly. The applicant must be able to maneuver and operate in a mixture of office work.

• Applicant must have a visual acuity and valid license to operate motor vehicles and to determine the accuracy, neatness, and thoroughness of work assigned.

• Applicant must be able to receive detailed information through written and/or oral communication and convey important spoken and/or written instructions accurately and effectively.

Some educational or practical background in public education, public speaking, interpretation, stakeholder outreach and collaboration, understanding of intricacies of Indigenous communities and sovereign tribes, ecology. Applicants will be considered if they are currently pursuing a degree or possess a combination of work (lived experience) and education) in related subject-matter.

Preferred Qualifications:

Excellent writing skills, interpersonal skills, ability to use design software such as the Adobe suite (InDesign, Photoshop, Premier Pro, Illustrator, etc), Microsoft office suite.

Requirements:

• High School Diploma
• 21 years of age or older
• Valid driver’s license
• S. Citizenship or Permanent Resident Card, INS form I-551
• A passport indicating that the INS has been approved it as temporary evidence of lawful admission for permanent residence A departure record (INS 194) indication that the INS has approved it as temporary evidence of lawful admission for permanent residence.

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.

To apply, please submit an updated resume and letter of interest along with your online application.

If you have any questions, please reach out to Ancestral Lands Individual Placements Program Coordinator, Shonto Greyeyes at

Expected salary

$600 per week

Location

Indiahoma, OK

Job date

Sun, 03 Dec 2023 23:46:52 GMT

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