Fort Monroe Chesapeake Gateways Ambassador

• Job Category Conservation , Ameri Corps
• Employee Type Ameri Corps
• Required Degree High school

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Location:

Based out o f Fort Monroe National Monument (Hampton, VA)

Dates of Service:
November 30th, 2026 – November 12th, 2027 (50-week term commitment)

Pay: $ 7 60 /week ($600/week stipend + $1 6 0/ additional benefit )

Status:
This is a full-time, temporary, Ameri Corps National Service position.

Our Individual Placement program works to connect young peopleto conservation service across Appalachia and neighboring communities in Virginia, West Virginia,Maryland, DC,Ohio, and Pennsylvania.

ACC is a program of Conservation Legacy, a nationwide network of conservation organizations.

When joining this Ameri Corps program, participants commit to a term of service at their placement site and in return gain hands‑on experience and a variety of benefits to help them succeed in achieving their career goals. ACC welcomes national applicants but also emphasizes the engagement of local individuals who represent the communities in which they serve.

National Park Service Chesapeake Gateways :

Chesapeake Bay Gateways is a congressionally authorized partnership park established in 1998 that connects more than 300 parks, refuges, museums, historic sites, trails, water‑access points, and communities across the Chesapeake Bay watershed. The National Park Service provides partners with expertise , funding, training, and technical assistance to strengthen visitor experiences and connect people with the Chesapeake’s natural resources, cultural heritage, recreational opportunities, and communities .

The Appalachian Conservation Corps and National Park Service are seeking three Chesapeake Gateways Ambassadors to serve at national parks within the watershed. Each Ambassador will work with an on‑site NPS supervisor as part of their host park’s interpretive and visitor‑services team while also participating in a regional cohort. Together, Ambassadors will share ideas, participate in training, learn from one another, and help strengthen connections among national parks, Network partners, gateway communities, and visitors.

Host Park and Local Placement

Fort Monroe National Monument (FOMR) is located in Hampton, Virginia, at Old Point Comfort, where the James River meets the Chesapeake Bay. Long before the construction of the present‑day Fort Monroe, this landscape and its surrounding waters were important to Indigenous peoples of the Chesapeake region. Its location at the entrance to the James River also made Point Comfort strategically significant to early English colonists, who established Fort Algernourne here in 1609 and later Fort George in the 18th century.

Fort Monroe, constructed beginning in 1819, continued the site’s centuries‑long role in the defense of the Chesapeake Bay and Hampton Roads.

Today, Fort Monroe preserves and interprets a nationally significant cultural landscape with stories spanning Indigenous history, early European colonization, the arrival of the first recorded Africans in English North America at Point Comfort in 1619, coastal defense and military history, slavery and freedom, the Civil War‑era “Contraband Decision” and its implications for emancipation, and the site’s continuing connections to the people, communities, and environment of the Chesapeake Bay.

The Ambassador will be integrated into Fort Monroe’s interpretation and visitor services program under the supervision o f the Interpretation, Education, and Visitor Services Program Manager. Working alongside NPS staff and partners, the Ambassador will provide visitor services, develop and deliver interpretive programming, and help connect Fort Monroe’s resources and stories to the broader Chesapeake Bay…