Position Title: Crew Leader II: State Parks Crew

Conservation Legacy Program: CCNC

Site Location: Bahama, NC

Dates: 

Start Date: 05/26/2025 End Date: 07/30/2025

Wages: $925-1125/week, depending on prior experience and certifications.    

Purpose:

The mission of Conservation Corps North Carolina (CCNC) is to empower young adults through meaningful outdoor work that benefits North Carolina’s land and water and creates healthy communities. 

CCNC is a program of Conservation Legacy that partners with public land managers in North Carolina to engage motivated young adults (ages 18-30) to complete challenging and impactful conservation service projects throughout the region. 

Description of Duties:

The Crew Leader II position is an opportunity to make a difference in young peoples’ lives while completing conservation projects on public and private lands. Leaders will be mentors, educators, and facilitators for young adults, working to promote the health and resiliency of our land, air, and water. 

Standard schedule generally consists of 9 days on-hitch (out in the field as a crew unit) and 5 days off with some exceptions. Crew Leaders may also be required to come in for an additional day each hitch cycle to complete administrative duties and check-ins with program staff. On-hitch, crews camp together, prepare all meals together, and work together as a group to complete all projects and chores.   

The Crew Leader II position requires patience, a consistently positive mental attitude, mentorship, technical aptitude, focus on efficiency, and a high level of competence in the outdoors. It also involves an administration role, where weekly paperwork is due in a timely manner to supervisors. Finally, crew leaders must exhibit the ability to effectively work on diverse teams and those from a variety of populations and communities.  

Crews will be working with North Carolina State Parks performing a wide array of trails conservation projects including but not limited to; full trail construction, trail maintenance, dry stone masonry, rough carpentry including removal and installation of wood bridges and boardwalks, corridor clearing, and building a variety of drainage structures and steps on various trails. 

Responsibilities:   

Leadership & Mentorship  

Mentor assistant crew leader (or Crew Leader in Development Program CLDP): provide valuable feedback, give opportunities for growth, delegate responsibilities, and encourage technical and leadership skill development.  Implement skills training on worksite and facilitate intentional discussions via informal lessons to contribute to the crew’s personal growth and group dynamics.    Promote individual corps member development and a safe, healthy, cohesive, other-centered and team-oriented community.    Follow and enforce all policies, maintain professional boundaries, and appropriately represent the program. This includes creating a substance free work environment, refraining from the use of tobacco products, alcohol, and drugs while involved in the program.   

Project Management & Implementation   

Train, motivate and supervise a crew of young adults to efficiently complete tasks and objectives outlined in conservation projects, while working long hours and managing high quality of work and crew morale.   Think critically to resolve issues and problems, requesting assistance or help when needed.    Communicate & coordinate logistics with project partners, Assistant Crew Leader (or Crew Leader in Development), & staff   

Safety & Risk Management   

Monitor, manage, and promote the holistic health of the crew, including physical and emotional (intimidation free community environment) safety.     Exhibit strong situational awareness & promote a culture of safety.    Transport crew and equipment safely in organizational vans or large SUVs with trailers in accordance with CL Driver policy.   Manage and document incidents in the field and activate incident response system, if needed, per Conservation Legacy policy. 

Administration   

Thorough documentation of crew hours, accomplishments, disciplinary actions taken, and incident response according to Conservation Legacy policy and procedure     Manage food budget and credit card purchases.  Track and submit credit card receipts for all expenses every month. 

Camp Management 

Oversee, manage, and assign camp chores (or camp tasks).  Monitor and manage crew community needs in camp.  Instruct crew in how to create a safe, hygienic, and tidy camp environment while mitigating crew caused impacts to campsites, practicing minimum impact camping techniques.  Maintain all program policies and procedures in camp environment.  Leading a camping crew is an intensive commitment requiring a continuous physical presence. Leaders must remain physically present, and cognitively and emotionally available to support community and individual crew member needs. 

 

Qualifications:

Full commitment to the program and its mission.    Understanding of and experience with the mission and field management considerations of conservation corps and public land agencies.  Leadership, management, and supervisory experience with youth or young adults.    Must hold current advanced medical certification (for backcountry crews: 80 hours Wilderness First Responder with CPR/AED or higher; for front country crews: 24 hours Wilderness First Aid with CPR/AED or higher) or be willing to receive certification prior to start date.    Ability to effectively manage all aspects of crew life and production within a 40-50+-hour work week including managing projects, camping, and programmatic policies and integrity throughout.  Flexibility, adaptability, and capacity to work in a fluid, changing work environment.    Willingness to participate in community-building activities and solution-oriented problem solving with peer leaders.    Able to work long days in adverse conditions.    Must be able to speak, understand and write English.    High School diploma or GED certificate.    Must be over the age of 21 or have possessed a driver’s license for 3 or years more without any restrictions (to pass minimum insurability requirements for crew transport driving duties).    

Preferred Qualifications or a Strong Desire to Grow in the Following:   

Experience with experiential and/or environmental education.    Experience with backpacking, wilderness living and travel.    Facilitation and team-building experience with diverse groups of people.    Time-management skills and ability to work independently as well as with others.    Strong conflict resolution skills.    Technical trails, Crosscut or Chainsaw experience.    Sense of humor, spirit of adventure, and desire to make a positive difference and promote leadership in others.    Previous Trail Crew experience. 

 

Any questions can be addressed to:   

Miriam Zouhri, mzouhri@conservationlegacy.org 

Conservation Legacy is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. 

 

We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or reasonable accommodations due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please send a request to the hiring manager.