USFWS- Valle de Oro NWR- Biological Technician​/Visitor Services Individual Placement-AmeriCorps

• Location Conservation Legacy,Albuquerque, NM, 87105,United States
• Job Category Conservation , Ameri Corps
• Employee Type Ameri Corps

7851 2nd St SW, Albuquerque, NM 87105

• Start Date:
  
  11/02/2026
• End Date: 10/15/2027
• Ameri Corps Slot Classification: 1700-hour service term (50 weeks)

Our vision is to lead our Nations back to ecological and cultural well-being by engaging underrepresented Indigenous youth and young adults in conservation service programs that reconnect participants to the land, their cultural heritage, and their traditions. We work to remove barriers to participation, education, and employment by partnering with local community organizations, agencies, and institutes of higher learning to create paid service and career training opportunities, personal and professional development, and pathways to postsecondary education and employment.

* Ancestral Lands serves local tribal communities in the regions we operate. This program is available to all, without regard to race, color, national origin, gender, age, religion, sexual orientation, disability, gender identity or expression, political affiliation, marital or parental status, genetic information, and military service. Where a significant portion of the population eligible to be served needs services or information in a language other than English, the recipient shall take reasonable steps to provide written material of the type ordinarily available to the public in appropriate languages.

The mission of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is to work with others, to conserve, protect and enhance fish, wildlife, and plants and their habitats for the continuing benefit of the American people.

The vision of Valle de Oro National Wildlife Refuge (Refuge) is to use an innovative approach to connect people with wildlife and land by providing equitable ways to deepen personal relationships with nature. The Refuge balances healthy habitat management with opportunities for education, visitor engagement, youth employment, community involvement and stewardship.

Valle de Oro NWR's value statement is that staff, interns, and volunteers are committed to the following values as fundamental and foundational principles of the Refuge: intentional and adaptable; innovative and continually learning; respectful and kind; credible; accessible; and collaborative. These values guide how we work and interact with one another, our partners, and our greater community.

Valle de Oro NWR was established in 2012 and is in the South Valley, 7 miles south of downtown Albuquerque. Valle de Oro NWR is built from the grassroots community movements led by the passionate people of Mountain View and involving partners and members of the local community. The Refuge is a designated Urban NWR slated to be converted from a former dairy farm into natural, native habitats of the Middle Rio Grande Valley to be an oasis – a safe place – for both wildlife and people.

At this Refuge, a diverse group of staff, partners, and the community are collaboratively building a refuge from the ground up, keeping in mind wildlife, people, and more.

The Refuge is seeking a positive and adaptive individual to be a Biological Science Technician/Visitor Services IP to serve as support for the Refuge’s Biology and Visitor Services Programs. This individual will contribute to providing information, interpretation, outreach, planning, and on the ground observation and management of wildlife and habitat restoration, enhancement, and monitoring on/for the Refuge, environmental educational programming and more, especially as it continues to…