Description
Do you want to springboard your career in beautiful and exciting Portland, Maine? The Greater Portland Council of Governments (GPCOG) Resilience Corps Fellowship is a unique opportunity to launch your career in climate, sustainability, environmental and community resilience, environmental justice, and coastal resilience planning. Fellows gain high-level ‘on the job’ experience, build their personal and professional networks, and receive training, mentorship, and professional development in their desired field of future work.
In the Resilience Corps, you will develop invaluable professional skills and personal vision while advancing regional resilience and climate action for local government offices, regional planning organizations, and non-profit agencies. Projects are varied, complex, interesting, and deeply important to the state of Maine. We are recruiting Fellows for our 2024 Service Term – beginning on January 10, 2024!
Resilience Corps Fellows provide support for GPCOG, municipalities, and non-profits by enhancing capacity for initiatives that build greater climate resilience in the region via:
- Data collection, analysis, and visualization
- Mapping and storyboarding data
- Research, report writing
- Outreach, material creation, and equitable public engagement
- Communication, blogging, social media, and educational support
- Volunteer recruitment and coordination
- Project management and implementation of climate and environmental resilience initiatives
While placed in varying roles internally at GPCOG or with external partners, the Resilience Corps Fellows together form a cohort that learns from and with each other – participating in professional development and community service days together, weekly cohort meetings, and are encouraged to share resources, collaborate, and support one another.
Do you want to springboard your career in beautiful and exciting Portland, Maine? The Greater Portland Council of Governments (GPCOG) Resilience Corps Fellowship is a unique opportunity to launch your career in climate, sustainability, environmental and community resilience, environmental justice, and coastal resilience planning. Fellows gain high-level ‘on the job’ experience, build their personal and professional networks, and receive training, mentorship, and professional development in their desired field of future work.
In the Resilience Corps, you will develop invaluable professional skills and personal vision while advancing regional resilience and climate action for local government offices, regional planning organizations, and non-profit agencies. Projects are varied, complex, interesting, and deeply important to the state of Maine. We are recruiting Fellows for our 2024 Service Term – beginning on January 10, 2024!
Resilience Corps Fellows provide support for GPCOG, municipalities, and non-profits by enhancing capacity for initiatives that build greater climate resilience in the region via:
- Data collection, analysis, and visualization
- Mapping and storyboarding data
- Research, report writing
- Outreach, material creation, and equitable public engagement
- Communication, blogging, social media, and educational support
- Volunteer recruitment and coordination
- Project management and implementation of climate and environmental resilience initiatives
While placed in varying roles internally at GPCOG or with external partners, the Resilience Corps Fellows together form a cohort that learns from and with each other – participating in professional development and community service days together, weekly cohort meetings, and are encouraged to share resources, collaborate, and support one another.
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Living Allowance
$2100
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$2100 monthly
Benefits
Childcare assistance if eligible, Education award upon successful completion of service, Health coverage, Stipend, Student loan forbearance, Training
Additional Benefits
Additional benefits include:
- Dedicated and intentional professional and career development, custom trainings and mentorship, and networking opportunities. Training opportunities include (but are not limited to) project management, networking, data analysis and visualization, planning, racial equity and antiracism.
- GPCOG provides all Resilience Corps Members with an unlimited Dirigo TouchPass - the transportation pass for the Greater Portland Metro, City of South Portland Bus Service, and Biddeford, Saco, and Old Orchard Beach Transit.
The Resilience Corps is a comprehensive professional development program, training, and networking opportunity in addition to a volunteer service program, that can be used as a springboard into your future career. Corps Members will gain new skills in: public speaking, volunteer coordination, project management, event planning, effective cross-sector and intercultural communication, equitable public outreach, directed research, project implementation, storytelling, professionalism, problem-solving, teamwork, decision-making processes, facilitation, note taking, work planning, and time management.
Corps Members will participate in a one-week training and orientation at the start of their service term. Throughout the service term, the Corps Members will meet 1-2 times per week to connect, share with one another, and depending on the week, engage in on-going training sessions on various topics. Together, the cohort will participate in various hands-on volunteer days to further engage with and learn from community organizations. There will also be opportunities to connect and learn with members of other AmeriCorps programs in Maine in small learning sessions and the AmeriCorps Member Conference.
Education Requirements
Some College
Desired Languages
English
Other Conditions
Car recommended
Permits attendance at school during off hours
Subject to criminal background check