Job description: Title: Native American Program (NAP) Assistant Individual Placement – 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: 26-week service term; February 26, 2024- August 23, 2024

Reports to: (NAP) Native American Program Regional office headquarters

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 a 6-month 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 primary role of the HQ NAP IP is to assist the national program with enhancing internal and external communications regarding co-stewardship work. Secondary duties will include coordinating communications with the Co-Stewardship Coordination Team, associated Implementation Work Plan, and other Service programs. This position will require strong writer/editor skills, the ability to coordinate among many separate but related efforts, and willingness to be creative and help the Service define how we weave this type of communication into the fabric of our everyday work. There will be opportunities to interact with refuge staff locally, and with Headquarters and Director’s Office staff on a wide variety of projects.

Essential functions and responsibilities:

The Native American Program Assistant Individual Placement- will work to complete tasks and projects outlined below. * Create a comprehensive education and outreach plan.

• Help to define communications needs of the NAP and the Service’s co-stewardship effort.
• Help to identify communications processes needed to support the NAP and the Service’s co-stewardship effort.
• Conduct outreach with tribal partners.
• Conduct in-reach with USFWS staff.
• Identify opportunities for collaboration.
• Assist in developing co-stewardship efforts with Tribal Environmental Education Programs

• Help to educate the Service and partners about on-going co-stewardship efforts through storytelling and other communications.
• Creating Wild Weekly content populate materials for other existing SUFWS platforms.
• 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

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 15 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 tribal nations. 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 15 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 tribal nations. 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 23:27:59 GMT

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