Stewardship Field Assistant

What We Can Achieve Together:

Come explore the great state of Maine with us as we work from Downeast to the St. John (Wolastoq) River, from the pine barrens to the great heaths, on properties great and small and with several conservation partners. We work in innovative ways with state-of-the-art tools in a collaborative fashion with many partners—and we welcome your ideas for how we can do what we do better.

Based in Brunswick, ME, the two Stewardship Field Assistants may work together to accomplish field tasks and will often work independently. Monitoring both preserves and conservation easements to understand change and enforce restrictions is a primary function.

The Field Assistant may contribute to monitoring and management efforts such as Ecological Reserve monitoring, invasive species management, and special projects such as contributing to restoration projects on TNC lands. The Field assistant may participate in the maintenance of human use infrastructure, including foot trails, kiosks and way finding signage, boundary marking, and will at times interact with the public to furnish information or coordinate with partners.

This is a full-time, 26-week, temporary position that begins on June 15 and ends on December 11, 2026. The Assistant may work in variable weather conditions, at remote locations, on difficult and hazardous terrain, and under physically demanding circumstances. This position requires physical exertion and/or muscular strain, long hours in isolated settings, frequent long and overnight travel, and presents frequent possibility of injury.

Housing is available for $500/month a 30-minute walk from the Brunswick office. TNC vehicles are provided for getting out into the field.

• Conduct legal compliance monitoring and drafts compliance reports; enters monitoring data; works with Land Managers to notify parties in the event of issues.
• Works independently and/or with stewardship staff and volunteers to perform preserve maintenance tasks (maintaining signs, maintaining trails, and parking lots, marking boundaries, controlling invasive species).
• Interacts with preserve visitors by providing information about the preserves, promoting the work of the Conservancy, answering questions, and educating around preserve policies.
• Researches and acquires ecological and legal information and field collects natural resource information pertinent to the management of preserves and conservation easements and assists with updating preserve management plans.
• Deals or up channels problems as they arise on preserves (may include timber and other forms of trespass, unauthorized vehicular use, illegal camping).
• May assists stewardship staff with ecological monitoring.
• May work in variable weather conditions, at remote locations, on difficult and hazardous terrain, and under physically demanding circumstances. Requires considerable physical exertion and/or muscular strain.
• Will include lengthy and overnight travel, which may include camping in remote locations.
• Assists with special projects as needed.

Are you looking for a career to help people and nature? Guided by science, TNC creates innovative, on-the-ground solutions to our world’s toughest challenges so that people and nature can thrive together. We need your curiosity, ecological expertise, and passion for land management to join our land stewardship team as we care for special lands across the state and work to protect biodiversity, manage for climate resilience, and maintain human access infrastructure.

Come join TNC and apply today!

• High school diploma or GED and 1 year’s training in a science-related field or related experience in land management.
• Knowledge of, and demonstrated experience with, a GPS unit- to find and mark field locations, have experience navigating roads in remote locations. Able to read and interpret road and topographic maps, aerial photos, and other sources of mapped information.
• Experience working in a team environment.
• Experience performing physical work.
• Valid driver’s license.

• Multi-lingual skills and multi-cultural or cross-cultural experience.
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