AmeriCorps CLEC - WSU - GPI Nutrition and Garden Education Instructor
Want to spend a year in the North Cascades? We have AmeriCorps Positions beginning in January 2025!
Serving with Washington State University and Glacier Peak Institute is a unique opportunity to work in outdoor education and recreation in a beautiful mountain community! Enveloped in the heart of the Cascade Mountains, Glacier Peak Institute (GPI) empowers youth, community, and ecosystems to prosper and cultivate a shared resilient future through action-based outdoor education. GPI provides STrEaMs based education to rural youth (Science, Technology, Engineering & Math experienced through recreation and art to gain skills) as well as having and operating a youth forestry crew.
AmeriCorps members should be passionate about empowering at-risk youth, and willing to serve both directly and behind the scenes. These positions are vital to our capacity as we are a very small non-profit serving in an under-resourced community. This service term is designed to provide valuable professional and personal experiences. Members may receive an educational stipend and GPI will assist in finding them local housing.
Member Duties: This AmeriCorps member will serve 40 hours per week from January 2025 through November 2025, coordinating with school staff and will build skills through volunteerism and work in the school kitchen, garden, and greenhouse. They will be responsible for maintaining current GPI programming at the school by developing, expanding capacity, coordinating with volunteers, partner organizations, and local tribes. They will execute culinary and gardening education programming for rural youth to create awareness of native plants and cultivate food independence. The youth will learn lifelong skills of confidence, teamwork, problem solving, creativity, and independence as they work outside of the classroom setting at the greenhouse and local farms. Connecting our youth back to the source of the food that they are cooking and consuming through educational opportunities gets them outdoors, excited about food, integrated with the local economy, and strengthens their bond with their community.
Program Benefits: Health Coverage, Stipend, Childcare assistance if eligible, Education award upon successful completion of service, Wilderness First Responder Training.
Terms: Permits attendance at school during off hours, Car recommended, Permits working at another job during off hours.
Service Areas: Environment.
Skills: Environment, Leadership, First Aid, Team Work, Youth Development, Teaching/Tutoring, Education, Conflict Resolution, Writing/Editing.
Applications: beginning in the Spring of 2024, applicants will apply through the AmeriCorps portal here:
Interviews: beginning in Spring of 2024 and ongoing until position is filled
Partners: Members become part of a team at Washington State University and Washington Campus Coalition’s Civic Leadership & Engagement Corps