Crew Leader Qualifications:

21+ with some leadership experience
Flexibility, adaptability,y and capacity to work in a changing work environment,t including willingness to work a varying schedule. This position could also be deployed for national disaster relief, outside the region, for multiple weeks.
Excellent communication, teaching/mentoring, and full conflict resolution and team-building skills.
Ability to perform administrative duties, such as managing crew budget and documents and utilizing Microsoft programs.
Strong time-management skills and ability to work independently and in collaboration with a small group.
Valid driver’s license and an insurable driving record.
Have US Citizenship or Legal Permanent Residency status.
Pass background checks: all offers of positions are conditional upon completion of an acceptable check of the National Sex Offender Public Registry and Federal criminal background check.
Crew Leader Preferred Qualifications:

Prior AmeriCorps Service
Experience with backpacking, wilderness travel, camp management,t, and outdoor leadership.
Professional technical certifications
Relevant Bachelor’s degree.
Participant Essential Eligibility Requirements: Essential eligibility requirements for the program must be written the same for all positions and, therefore, may not apply directly to your particular situation. Met. Suppose you are unable to meet specification requirements. In that case, candle to provide some accommodating exceptions that alters the program’s fundamental nature compromises the health and safety of participants or staff or places an undue financial or administrative burden on the organization.

Participation and Expedition Behavior:

Work effectively as a team member despite potentially stressful and challenging conditions. This may require problem-solving on an interpersonal or group level and a willingness to accept differences.
Contribute to a safe learning environment; no harassment of others for any reason.
Willingness and ability to complete all aspects of the program, including conservation projects, education, training, and National Service. Members must commit to participating in all crew/team activities, including service days in local communities where applicable.
Effectively communicate ideas and concerns as they arise directly to supervisors, colleagues,s and organization staff.
Have the cognitive ability to learn necessary skills and apply them to carry out the service work requirements effectively
Appropriately represent the Program and AmeriCorps to the public and project partners at all .times
Safety and Judgment:

Effectively communicate danger to others in the form of either a warning of danger others may be encountering or a notification of personal distress, injury, or need for assistance. You must be able to do so at a distance of up to 50 meters and in conditions with limited visibility or loud background noise,se such as darkness or high winds.
Effectively perceive, understand, and follow directions from others so that you can successfully execute appropriate and perhaps unfamiliar techniques to manage hazards. These directions may be given before the risk is encountered and must be granted during exposure to the risk.
Stay alert and focused for several hours while traveling and working in varied weather condi.tions
Perceive and comprehend significant and apparent hazards, including those previously identified by others.
Respond appropriately to stress or crises.
If taking prescription medications, participants must be able to maintain proper dosage by self-medicating without assistance from others.
Environmental Ethics:

Learn and practice ‘Leave no Trace’ techniques
Outdoor Skills and Fitness (where appropriate)
Learn and safely perform fundamental outdoor living/travel and work skills appropriate to the project. Additionally, remain adequately hydrated, fed, and appropriately dressed to stay generally healthy and safe, avoiding environmental injuries.
Live in a physically demanding, possibly remote environment for an uninterrupted period of up to several weeks. Conditions of this environment may vary significantly and include severe and trying weather. The remoteness is such that it may require a minimum of one hour, but perhaps over 12 hours, to reach the nearest advanced medical care.
Substance Free: Adherence to a drug-free workplace, alcohol and drugs are prohibited while participating in AmeriCorps and program activities and while on organization property.

This program is available to all, regardless of 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 is 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.