Environmental Summer Crew Leader 2013
Mahwah Environmental Volunteers Organization, Inc. (MEVO) —
Mahwah, NJ
CALLING ALL ENVIRONMENTAL LEADERS!
The Mahwah Environmental Volunteers Organization, Inc. (MEVO) is recruiting for its 2013 Summer Crew Season. We are looking for people who are passionate, friendly, and independent-thinkers that want to volunteer throughout local communities to change the suburbs to be ecological and sustainable. MEVOs Summer Crew is a group of passionate college and high school interns that volunteer throughout the summer carrying out a huge array of environmental sustainability projects from trash clean-ups and hiking trail building to distributing recycling bins and building organic farms. Any good crew NEEDS a GREAT CREW LEADER. We are looking for an individual who wants to lead a crew of 5 - 15 college and high school students in hands on physical volunteer work and administrative not-for-profit management. This person should consider themselves passionate, friendly, and an independent thinker. They should be comfortable making serious decisions, teaching and having patience with different types of people, and showing confidence even in the direst of situations. This person should have experience in at least one of these areas: leadership, not-for-profit volunteer work, environmental work, teaching, or community organizing. In this internship you will spend half of your day outdoors with your crew building hiking trails, maintaining organic farms, distributing recycling bins to local communities, and meeting with community members to engage more local residents in environmental sustainability and building solutions to local and global environmental problems. The second half of your day you will bring your crew back to our office and spend time developing and researching new environmental sustainability projects, outreaching to local community groups, and getting hands on experience managing a not-for-profit organization from social media and website development to recruiting partners and grant applications. You will be working directly with other long-term MEVO staff and the Executive Director to plan the summer and develop your steps on carrying out the program. It is a hands-on learning experience that provides you the support of an environmental not-for-profit organization but also allows you the freedom to create, develop, and implement environmental solutions on a local level. Our crew NEEDS a LEADER and we hope that leader is you.