Co-Leader for the Community Coastal Experience

Description

Organization: Center for Alaskan Coastal Studies
Job Type: Full-Time, 7+ months
Location: Homer, Alaska
Salary: $21-$24/hour
The CCE Co-Leader will co-plan and facilitate a month-long traveling internship program for adults from southcentral Alaska called the Community Coastal Experience, which will take place in June and July 2025. During the Community Coastal Experience, the Co-Leader will connect the interns with projects and organizations that are uplifting collaborative science and restoration and weaving together environmental science and Alaska Native cultures of the region impacted by the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill in southcentral Alaska. The Co-Leader will facilitate activities with partner organizations on the topics of marine ecology, mariculture, environmental monitoring, archaeology, and cultural revitalization. They will help the interns to boost their field work skills, build networks with other communities and individuals, and become more familiar with local Indigenous cultures and coastal science. The Co-Leader will spend 4-5 weeks with the Community Coastal Experience traveling to 2-4 communities in southcentral Alaska, which may include Homer, Seldovia, Cordova, Kodiak and/or Seward, spending approximately 1-2 weeks in each location. During this experience, they will be living with and supporting up to 8 interns in day-to-day needs as well as the scheduled learning activities. Field sites feature rocky intertidal areas of outstanding diversity, coastal forests, salt and freshwater wetlands, and research vessels.
Learn more at:
https://akcoastalstudies.org/employment
Closing Date: Open until filled.
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