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Position: Watershed Education Assistant
Position Summary:
The Watershed Education Assistant is responsible to assist BRWA staff with educational programs, specifically at the creek or river while conducting water quality monitoring or macroinvertibrate studies. The Watershed Education Assistant works with the Executive Director and BRWA Staff to identify and develop new outreach opportunities and improve and sustain BRWA’s existing educational programs to achieve organization’s mission and goals, as defined by the Board of Directors within the current Strategic Plan.
Position Type: Part time (0-10 hrs per/week)
Funding Type: Grant Funded
Salary: $12 per hour commensurate on qualifications and grant funding
Required Qualifications:
* Bachelor's Degree in Education, Natural Resources, Environmental Studies, or similar scientific or education field
* Pass a background check
Preferred Qualifications:
* Hold a valid Missouri or Kansas Teaching License
* Experience with environmental and/or educational non-profits
* K-12 Water Education Experience
Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled.
Please contact Lynn Youngblood at youngblood@brwa.net if you have any questions about the application process.
Position: Water Quality Educator
Teach Water Quality Monitoring:
- Assist BRWA staff in teaching water quality monitoring curriculum, specifically T.R.U.E. Blue (Teaching Rivers in an Urban Environment) in area schools.
- This curriculum includes in-class portions, and river-side instruction; all four lessons are taught by education assistants.
- Prepare all equipment and materials for instruction; including HACH Surface Water Quality Test Kits, chemical bags for each test team of students, gather supplies such as clipboards, charts, buckets, turbidity tubes, gloves, sterile pipettes, and fecal coliform slides, etc.
- Contact lead school teacher, as needed.
Water Quality Monitoring Data Coordination:
- Assist BRWA staff in maintaining and updating database for water quality monitoring data.
- Coordinate with T.R.U.E. Blue teachers and students on input of stream monitoring data into database.
- Maintain established protocol for reporting of stream monitoring data according to MO Stream Team program.
- Maintain stream monitoring data files.
Volunteer Recruitment and Coordination:
- Assist BRWA staff with volunteer recruitment for T.R.U.E. Blue Program.
- Schedule and organize volunteers for T.R.U.E. Blue river days.
- Attend T.R.U.E. Blue field trip days as lead teacher, act as volunteer coordinator and assist students and volunteers with stream monitoring activities.
- Send thank you’s to volunteers.
- Track volunteer participation and maintain database lists and contact information. Submit reports to Education Coordinator.
BRWA Program Assistance
- Assist with planning and implementation of KC Clean Streams event.
- Assist BRWA staff at water festivals and other events, as needed.
- Assist with other duties as requested.
Compensation Range
$18.00 - $25.00 per hour, dependent on funding. BRWA will endeavor to provide fair and equitable pay, based upon the position’s duties and responsibilities, upon the prospective applicant’s experience, and upon BRWA financial and grant requirements.
Reports to the Executive Director.
Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled.
Please contact Lynn Youngblood at youngblood@brwa.net if you have any questions about the application process.