Join Our Team! Now accepting applications for our 2025-2026 AmeriCorps service year!
Conservation Nebraska is now accepting applications for our 2025-2026 AmeriCorps service year.
The term of service will begin September 2025 and go through August 31st, 2026.
This position can be used to satisfy an internship requirement.
Interested parties should complete the form below or send questions to Conservation Nebraska's Program Manager, Rebecca Chandler, at rchandler@neconserve.org.
Position Details:
Purpose: If you care deeply about our state and ensuring that Nebraska has a bright future, this opportunity is for you. In this position, you will be an AmeriCorps member serving to improve environmental stewardship in Nebraska.
You will play an integral role in building a statewide infrastructure of Nebraskans who care deeply about the environment.
What is AmeriCorps: AmeriCorps is the federal agency for national service and volunteerism. AmeriCorps provides opportunities for Americans of all backgrounds to serve their country, address the nation’s most pressing challenges, and improve lives and communities. For more information, visit americorps.gov.
Position Description:
As an AmeriCorps member with Conservation Nebraska, you will build local capacity to manage Nebraska's natural resources by increasing knowledge of and concern for the most important issues facing out state. You will recruit, coach, and support local community volunteers in implementing conservation projects, and build partnerships between conservation professionals, local and state government, and your fellow community members.
Your Responsibilities can Include:
- Planning and implementing educational events on conservation topics and issues facing our state
- Recruiting and managing community volunteers
- Helping community volunteers organize educational events and/or community discussions focused on conservation issues
- Helping community volunteers organize service-learning projects that benefit local partners
- Assisting in the development and implementation of conservation projects
- Door-to-door canvassing and/or phone banking
- Expanding and strengthening partnerships between Conservation Nebraska and local entities already working on conservation issues across the state
- 1700 hours for full-time members / 900 hours for half-time members / 450 hours for quarter-time members
Benefits of serving as an AmeriCorps member:
- Living stipend: $24,000 for full-time members / $11,000 for half-time members / $4,650 for quarter-time members
- Segal AmeriCorps Education Award: $7,395.00 for full-time members / $3,697.50 for half-time members / $1,956.35 for quarter-time members
- This position can be used to satisfy an internship requirement
- Professional and personal skill development
- Become part of a prestigious network of AmeriCorps members from across the country
Locations: Statewide, primary locations include: Lincoln, Omaha, Grand Island, Hastings, Kearney, Lexington, Scottsbluff, South Sioux City
Minimum Education Level: High school diploma or GED
Other requirements: Travel between various service locations, must have a car and valid driver's license or access to reliable transportation
Interseted in applying? Fill out the form below or reach out to our Program Manager, Rebecca, at rchandler@neconserve.org with any questions.
Project and AmeriCorps Service Year Focuses:
- Nitrate Awareness and Water Quality, focus on water quality issues facing Nebraska including nitrates, atrazine, lead, and PFAs
- Volunteerism, focus on volunteer events including community clean ups
- Energy, focus on energy sources and home efficiency (including conducting home energy audits)
- Project Energy Nebraska, focus on helping communities research and develop a greenhouse gas inventory and creating science-based targets to lowering emissions
- Community Gardens and Wildlife Management, focus on the continuation and expansion of Conservation Nebraska's community gardens and native plant/pollinator projects
- Waste Management, focus on working with communities on recycling efforts and supporting Project Schoolboard, which utilizes recycled plastic lumber to create various community byproducts such as benches, tables, and garden beds
