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Job Description / Duties

Conservation Crew where middle schoolers to learn about, design, and implement a conservation project in their community. We provide a $3,000 annual stipend to staff that oversee the program, and an additional $500-1,000 for a project fund. It’s a flexible, service-learning style program where students take charge on community improvements, and we’re recruiting for the 2024-2025 school year..  

Some past projects include pollinator habitats, invasive species removal, improving their school’s recycling system, installing bike community bike repair stations and more. The possibilities are limitless! Conservation Minnesota provides schools with guidance, educational resources, and connections with experts in their subject matter.  

Qualifications / Required Skills

- Program is available middle school/junior high students (5th - 9th grade), but any teacher can lead a crew! There is a preference for science/environmental educators.

Additional Information

Conservation Crew is a youth-led extracurricular program that engages middle school students in learning and leadership and explores conservation opportunities in their community. Students meet bi-weekly to select, organize, and conduct a project and share their work with their school and surrounding communities. Each Crew is led by a teacher or staff person, made up of 5–-25 students, and supported by Conservation Minnesota. Teachers receive a $3000 stipend, and a $500-$1000 grant to fund the project.

Salary: $3000

Contact Information

crew@conservationminnesota.org

Employer Profile

Conservation Minnesota’s mission is protecting the Minnesota you love by solving our state’s most important conservation problems.

We are committed to protecting people and places from the adverse impacts of pollution and climate change while ensuring that everyone who calls Minnesota home has access to the Great Outdoors and opportunities to enjoy it. Our work is centered around bringing people together across regions, backgrounds, and beliefs to find real solutions. We start by listening and then turn our shared love of Minnesota into the laws that protect our communities and natural resources.

We believe in a future in which a person’s health is not negatively impacted by their zip code and in which people of every ability, ethnicity, gender, and geographic region have safe opportunities to explore the beauty and wonder of Minnesota’s Great Outdoors. We approach our work with a commitment to equity and a passion for using the tools of democracy to foster civic engagement and make lasting, systemic change to improve people’s lives for generations to come.