Community Outreach & Environmental Educational Specialist

Community Outreach & Environmental Educational Specialist 3

Sagebrush Steppe Conservation Nursery Manager

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$4,563.00

$6,136.00

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06/30/2027

This is a full-time, overtime eligible, project position remote from the Olympia campus of The Evergreen State College and within the Washington State Department of Corrections in Walla Walla. This position is funded through June 30, 2027 by Washington Shrub steppe Restoration and Resiliency Initiative and a Federal BIL/BAR legislation managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife service anticipated to continue through September 2030.

This position manages program implementation, education, training, and production for Sustainability in Prisons Project's (SPP) Sagebrush Conservation Nursery at Washington State Department of Corrections (WA DOC) Washington State Penitentiary (WSP), Walla Walla, Washington. The incumbent develops curricula, protocols, procedures, and outreach materials to train and inform corrections staff, incarcerated students/workers, and education partners. The position directs and oversees all conservation nursery production at WSP, including record keeping, horticultural health, seed harvesting, cleaning and temporary storage, least toxic and approved methods of insect and disease management, seed and plant deliveries, and reports to project partners at Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

The position has a high degree of independence managing SPP/WSP-WA DOC cooperation. The incumbent works with a team of WA DOC Corrections Specialists in the Sustainable Practices Lab at WSP to recruit, hire, and supervise incarcerated individuals. This requires considerable experience in maintaining a safe and secure working environment for all participants to ensure educational, vocational, and program goals are achieved.

Additionally, the position searches for and develops relationships with community and agency partners to develop new collaborations and contracts. Duties include negotiating contracts, setting program outcomes, and opening new nursery/seed farm sites in Eastern Washington prisons. Education and outreach will expand to multiple prison sites in Washington to include Coyote Ridge Corrections Center in Connell and Airway Heights Corrections Center in Airway Heights.

This position reports to the Community Outreach & Environmental Education Specialist 4 (working title: Sustainability in Prisons Project Conservation Nursery Manager) and is the primary contact responsible for communication with WA DOC staff and leadership to ensure effective, inclusive, and accessible science and sustainability education, healthy work environment, and operation of the Sagebrush Conservation Nursery. The position directly develops and presents the educational curricula for the Sagebrush-Steppe Conservation Nursery to twenty-plus incarcerated individuals per year.

The position may directly supervise part-time student staff, non-permanent staff, and/or volunteers for specific projects. The position makes and responds to inquiries from state, federal, and nonprofit organizations and develops relationships to cultivate new partners in Sagebrush-Steppe conservation. This will include expanding nursery and seed farm sites to additional WA DOC facilities. The position presents program capacities, capabilities, and objectives to new partners and designs production budgets, staffing, and plans for new WA DOC facilities.

As part of the SPP team, this position cultivates collaborations with diverse program partners to advance SPP's mission to bring science and nature into prisons and works with an engaged community of incarcerated people, scientists, researchers, technicians, corrections professionals, faculty, staff, and students to provide impactful education and training and resolve complex program management issues. This work…