Land Stewardship Education Coordinator

Overview

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Western Washington University, with over 15,000 students in seven colleges and the graduate school, is nationally recognized for its educational programs, students and faculty. The campus is located in Bellingham, Washington, a coastal community of 90,000 overlooking Bellingham Bay, the San Juan Islands and the North Cascades Mountain range. Western has additional sites in Anacortes, Bremerton, Everett, Port Angeles, and Poulsbo.

Western is recognized nationally for its successes, such as being named one of the top public master s-granting institutions in the Pacific Northwest for 25 years in a row by U.S. News & World Report.

Western Washington University is committed to achieving excellence through advancing inclusive success, increasing our Washington impact, and focusing on transformational education grounded in the liberal arts and sciences and based on innovative scholarship, research, and creative activity. Western s greatest strength is the outstanding students, faculty, staff, and alumni/ae who make up its community. Western supports an inclusive governance structure for all and provides a learning and working environment in which everyone can thrive.

In pursuit of this excellence, individual employees are expected to establish and maintain productive and effective inclusive working relationships amongst diverse populations including staff, faculty, administration, student, and external constituents. Further, individual employees are expected to have the ability to operationalize sustainability concepts (economic, societal, environmental) into all aspects of performing their job duties.

The Sustainability Pathways supports Western s mission, which states that together with our students, staff, and faculty, we are committed to making a positive impact in the state and the world with a shared focus on academic excellence and inclusive achievement. We encourage applications from women, people of color, people with disabilities, veterans, and other candidates from underrepresented backgrounds and with diverse experiences interested in this opportunity.

The College of the Environment addresses today s environmental issues and prepares tomorrow s interdisciplinary problem solvers. We accomplish this mission by integrating outstanding educational programs, faculty-student collaboration, applied research, and professional and community service.

Sustainability Pathways offers community-engaged educational programs to provide access to high impact learning in rural communities of North Central Washington. Aligned with WWU s strategic goals in supporting student success with state-wide impact, we are building inclusive access via multiple programs that also bring capacity to regional sustainability initiatives.

Throughout the Sustainability Pathways undergraduate fellowship program there is emphasis on peer-to-peer learning, project and community-based learning, and development of the cohort learning community. To support cohort growth, development, and engagement, this Coordinator position is being hired to support student and cohort health, program operations, enhance career preparedness, coordinate the high school Youth Corps in partnership with the Methow Valley School District, and advance land stewardship projects on properties acquired by Western in 2025.

This position will also contribute to an essential community engagement and communications role in sharing Sustainability Pathways stories with the public, program partners, and local youth by developing and providing program media that communicates the goals of the programs, identifies opportunities to participate, and gathers input on program development. It will also support coordination of weekly sustainability service field trips highlighting areas such as food systems and ecological restoration with…