Resilience Corps - Military Veterans

Do you want to springboard your career in beautiful and exciting Portland, Maine? In the Resilience Corps, you will develop invaluable professional skills and personal vision while advancing regional resilience and climate action for local government offices, regional planning organizations, and non-profit agencies. Projects are varied, complex, interesting, and deeply important to the state of Maine. We are recruiting Fellows for our 2025 Service Term – beginning on January 13th, 2025! Resilience Corps Fellows enhance capacity for initiatives that build greater climate resilience in the region via: Data collection, analysis, and visualization; Mapping and storyboarding data; Research, report writing; Outreach, material creation, and equitable public engagement; Communication, blogging, social media, and educational support; Volunteer recruitment and coordination; Project management and implementation of climate and environmental resilience initiatives. Resilience Corps Fellows together form a cohort that learns from and with each other – participating in professional development and community service days together, weekly cohort meetings, and are encouraged to share resources, collaborate, and support one another. Activities for Corps Members may include some but not all of the following: Coordinating community volunteers and driving community progress through volunteer engagement and retention. Conducting research on best practices, available data, and new systems. Collecting data, helping organize and analyze information, and where relevant producing storyboards, maps, and data visualizations that communicate complex information in a digestible way. Conducting targeted public outreach and equitable public engagement to form climate action plans, municipal comprehensive plans, and coastal resilience projects. Creating digital, and physical outreach materials