Position Opening: Working Lands Climate Corps Member
Posted: Tue, September 24, 2024
Cold Spring job
Phone Number: 8452653338
Email: cfattellone@glynwood.org
Glynwood’s Working Lands Climate Corp (WLCC) member will gain skills needed to contribute effectively to the climate crisis through hands-on experience and training at a nonprofit organization dedicated to equitable, sustainable, food system change, located in the Hudson Valley of New York. By actively participating in delivering a USDA-funded Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities project, the WLCC member will play a critical role in addressing challenges in the Hudson Valley agricultural community. The WLCC member will distribute farmer surveys, conduct data collection, manage data storage, and support outreach events for farmers. The WLCC member will be fully supported by Glynwood’s program director and the Climate-Smart project lead to provide the one-to-one administrative support for farmers required to make the project successful.
The WLCC member’s activities will include:
– Assisting in the explanation of the program’s multi-step application process to farmers
– Offering administrative and logistical support to farmers working with technical assistance and quantification
support providers
– Contributing to the development of case studies of climate-smart conservation practice implementation by project
farmers
– Collaborating with Cornell Cooperative Extension to coordinate and support the new Hudson Valley Climate Smart
Coalition
– Participating in community-based project assessment
For a full job description and how to apply, please visit our website at: https://www.glynwood.org/about/