Field Crewmember

Earth Corps (EC) is a Seattle-based nonprofit organization that believes all people and nature can thrive together. Our aim is to create a global community of environmental leaders through local, hands-on service to the land and community. Putting our mission into action looks like an intensive year-long training program that unites young adults (ages 18-26ish) from across the United States and around the world to learn skills in leadership, environmental restoration, and culturally resonant community building.

Earth Corps is committed to work that closes persistent and pervasive gaps, expands access and opportunity and promotes values of fairness in outcomes, belonging and respect. We prioritize fair access to environmental benefits, community-centered environmental practices, and balancing environmental outcomes across under-included communities. Each year, we strive to build a cohort program reflective of many different perspectives and experiences. Through this lens, Earth Corps builds a network of leaders who have the skills to build a bright future, while restoring vital lands and waters and connecting people to nature.

This work is ongoing, and the organization is committed to being transparent with program participants about our work, as well as including their input to drive the direction of the organization towards a healthy, welcoming, and sustainable community for us all.

The Earth Corps program is an opportunity to gain hands-on experience in environmental restoration. Crew Members will serve on crews of 5-7 members led by an Earth Corps crew leader. Crew members will make a difference on the land through on-the-ground restoration projects throughout Western Washington. Ecological restoration is one tool to care for our land and address our shifting weather patterns and long-term ecological shifts.

Crews at Earth Corps have an opportunity to directly improve the resiliency of our land by restoring habitat, improving water and air quality, reducing erosion, sequestering carbon and engaging the broader community to become stewards of our shared resource.

In addition to impactful service, corps members will grow professionally and personally through training, engaging with environmental agencies, collaborating with staff, providing feedback, and practicing structured reflection. Corps members learn valuable team building skills as they work on bridging a wide range of lived experiences and backgrounds, their cross-cultural communication skills, conflict resolution management, and value-driven leadership capacity.

This position is managed by the Earth Corps Operations Manager and supervised by Earth Corps Project Managers. It is offered through Ameri Corps and all applicants must meet the requirements to become an Ameri Corps member and abide by Ameri Corps policies.

Field Service (80% of program)

Crews complete restoration projects in partnership with various land management agencies, throughout the Puget Sound region (in urban, suburban, and rural settings). Crews are introduced to a broad range of project sites, different techniques and approaches to ecological restoration. This broad exposure will provide participants with skills to implement best management practices in restoration, an appreciation of the challenges of restoration and an understanding of the field of environmental restoration work.

To better understand the types of projects crews work on please review some project overviews: linked here .

Project Implementation:
Crew Members are responsible for the efficiency of accomplishing projects and the quality of the final product under supervision from project staff. All corps Members and staff are responsible for the safety of themselves, their fellow workers, and members of the public who may be involved with projects.

What type of service will Crew Members perform?

Field Service Projects (and estimates of their typical percentage of the program):

• Vegetation control (manual, mechanical, chemical) 45%
• Stewardship/Site maintenance 20%
• Trail construction/maintenance 20%

Potential for Overnight Camping trips. Camping trips give corps members a chance to learn and practice camping skills and deepen team development. In 2026 most organized camping trips were done in a front country (non-wilderness) setting, but each program year brings potential for backcountry wilderness trips as well. Typical duration of these trips is 3-4 nights,…