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 🔗Historic Trades AmeriCorps Team Member

  • Full Time
  • Elkins, WV
  • $22,000.00 USD / Year
  • Applications have closed
  • Job Summary: Serve with the AmeriCorps Historic Trades Team and gain new hands-on historic trades skills while preserving unique cultural resources in the Monongahela National Forest - a 10-county region in West Virginia.
  • Job Qualifications:

    In order to qualify as an AmeriCorps member, candidates must

    – Be a US citizen, US national, or lawful permanent resident alien.
    – Be at least 18 years old at the start of service.
    – Have had some college education or significant life experience.
    – Have not previously served more than 3 AmeriCorps State and National terms.

    You must also agree to Criminal Background Check Requirements. Accepted members must consent to and undergo fingerprint-based FBI, state of service, and state of residence criminal background checks, as well as a national sex offender registry check. AmeriCorps does not allow anyone to serve who has a murder or sexual assault conviction or who is registered on a sex offender registry.

    Other Suggested Skills include:

    – Demonstrable historical research abilities
    – Good written and verbal communication skills, including public speaking
    – Good organizational skills, required to work on multiple tasks for event coordination and volunteer management purposes
    – Comfortable working with different types of people
    – Responsible and able to be self-directed and take the initiative
    – Experience with historical resources, public history, or historic preservation (or ability to prove you can learn)
    – Some leadership experience
    – Computer experience: online research, email, Microsoft Office (including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint), Google Drive, and social media
    – Must be willing and able to travel statewide for various trainings and for service at some sites

  • How to Apply:

    1.) Send a written cover letter and your resume with contact information for two professional references to AmeriCorps program director at info@pawv.org.
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    The cover letter should directly reference the description of the position the applicant is applying to and speak to how the applicant’s interests, experience, and career goals are a good match for that particular service opportunity.

    2.) Submit an AmeriCorps application under the “Preserve WV AmeriCorps” listing at the website – https://my.americorps.gov/mp/listing/viewListing.do?fromSearch=true&id=120351. You will need to create an account to submit this application. For problems creating and submitting an application, contact the National Service hotline at 1-800-942-2677.

  • Job benefits: Health insurance, childcare subsidy, $7395 Segal American Education Award, 2 tuition waivers to a WV-based college or university undergrad/grad program
  • Physical Demands / Work Environment: Work environment will be primarily outdoors doing physical labor. During the winter season, members will serve at the Mon Forest headquarters. Should be able to lift at least 35 pounds.
  • Contact Name: Danielle Parker
  • Application Email: dlapresta@pawv.org
  • Application URL: https://my.americorps.gov/mp/listing/viewListing.do?fromSearch=true&id=120351
  • Application Phone #: 304-345-6005
  • Application Fax #: N/A
  • Application Address: 421 Davis Ave, Elkins, WV 26241

Website Preservation Alliance of West Virginia

The Preservation Alliance of West Virginia is the statewide nonprofit organization dedicated to historic preservation. Created in 2013, Preserve WV AmeriCorps is the statewide national service initiative where AmeriCorps members help main streets thrive, cultivate cultural heritage tourism, and preserve beloved West Virginia history. Preserve WV AmeriCorps members serve directly with rural grassroots organizations and public agencies charged with preserving West Virginia history. Members’ service is site-dependent but generally involves historic preservation, communications, educational outreach, and volunteer management. The primary goal of this program is to build efficient, effective, and sustainable organizations working to improve economic, social, and cultural opportunities in West Virginia.

The Monongahela National Forest is a unit of the USDA Forest Service and includes approximately 920,000 acres throughout the Allegheny Highlands region of West Virginia – an area world renowned for its rugged landscape and spectacular views, rivers, blueberry thickets, highland bogs, and open areas with exposed rocks. The Heritage Program is tasked with the management of a wealth of above-ground cultural resources throughout the forest including transportation resources, homesites, recreation resources from the mid-century and CCC-era, and more.

The AmeriCorps Historic Trades Team Member will serve approximately 35-40 hours per week. The three-person team will primarily serve as a unit conducting hands-on historic preservation repairs and maintenance on cultural resources and will be based at the Forest Service headquarters in Elkins. Regional travel will be required to complete projects. The Forest Service may provide transportation for team activities requiring regional travel. Team activities will primarily focus on three programmatic areas with the goal of enhancing the stewardship and use of cultural resources, including:

(1) Hands-on Historic Trades to Address Deferred Maintenance Window restoration

– Vegetation and biological growth removal
– Cemetery cleaning and maintenance
– Minor log and wood treatments
– Repainting

(2) Identification & Documentation

– Photograph historic resources
– Write physical descriptions of properties with measurements and site drawings
– Evaluation for eligibility for listing on National Register of Historic Places
– Nominations of historic properties for listing on National Register of Historic Places

(3) Educational & Interpretation

– Research and develop digital and physical content for the public