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Stewards VISTA: NM Forest & Watershed Restoration Y2
 
 
 
The VISTA Collaboration Specialist position is based at the New Mexico Forest & Watershed Restoration Institute (FWRI) in Las Vegas, NM. The FWRI’s mission is to promote adaptive management practices and to reduce the risk of high-intensity, catastrophic wildfires and other disturbances in New Mexico’s forests. Developing partnerships among stakeholders is an important part of this mission. In forested areas in New Mexico, community-based collaborative conservation (CBCC) organizations coordinate forest management across large landscapes, aimed at building ecological resiliency to reduce the risk of forest disturbances. The FWRI Collaboration Program has an ongoing project to organize CBCC organizations into regional networks and link these networks statewide, with the goal of facilitating greater collaborative knowledge and capacity. Capacity building focuses on developing financial resources, increasing local knowledge about effective collaborative techniques, and training local residents in collaborative skills, including facilitation and mediation, conflict resolution, problem solving, leadership, active listening, and effective communication. All of this contributes to the creation of local restoration-based economic development, offering new opportunities to residents in the forestry sector and reducing poverty in rural New Mexico towns and villages. VISTA Collaboration Specialist will take a lead role in organizing regional networks of CBCC groups to build collaborative capacity and promote adaptive management practices. The Collaboration Specialist will also develop financial and informational resources for CBCC organizations and assist in training programs on collaboration skills. The job requires some travel to CBCC meetings and training sessions, or work through videoconferencing software. The VISTA Collaboration Specialist will also promote a restorative economy locally and statewide, engaging in hands-on economic development in rural communities.
 
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Member Duties : Working with the FWRI’s staff, the VISTA volunteer will organize networks of community-based collaborative conservation organizations to build collaborative capacity and promote adaptive management practices that enhance ecological resiliency. The VISTA will plug into statewide and multi-state efforts to develop financial and informational resources for CBCC organizations, and to assist in training programs on collaborative knowledge and skills. The job requires some travel to meetings of CBCC organizations and to training sessions and coordination workshops. There are opportunities for creative network development and collaborative work with a wide range of CBCC organizations, and hands-on economic development work in rural communities. The VISTA Collaboration Specialist should have general computer skills with some website creation skills. GIS skills are a plus, though not required. Familiarity with the Spanish language is helpful but not required.
 
Program Benefits : Relocation Allowance ,  Choice of Education Award or End of Service Stipend ,  Living Allowance ,  Health Coverage* ,  Training ,  Childcare assistance if eligible . 
 
 
*For details about AmeriCorps VISTA healthcare benefits, please visit https://americorps.gov/members-volunteers/vista/benefits.
 
Terms :
Car recommended ,  Permits attendance at school during off hours . 
 
Service Areas :
Community and Economic Development ,  Children/Youth ,  Education ,  Environment . 
 
Skills :
Teaching/Tutoring ,  Community Organization ,  Leadership ,  Communications ,  Education ,  Fund raising/Grant Writing ,  Environment ,  Conflict Resolution ,  Recruitment . 
 
 
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SUMMARY
Program Type:
AmeriCorps VISTA
Program
Stewards VISTA: NM Forest & Watershed Restoration Y2
Program Start/End Date
07/17/2023  -   07/15/2024
Work Schedule Full Time
Education level
College graduate
Age Requirement
Minimum:  18    Maximum:  None
Program Locations NEW MEXICO  
Languages
Spanish conversational a plus
Accepting Applications
From  04/17/2023  To  07/01/2023 
Contact Jack McCann
330 Harper Park Dr
Beckley   WV   25801
3048600371
jmccann@conservationlegacy.org
stewardslegacy.org
Listing ID 103355

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