Recovery Youth Conservation Corps: An experience of a lifetime...

The Hawaii Recovery Youth Conservation Corps is currently accepting applications for positions with several agencies and organizations involved in conservation. (The deadline for this program has passed. Stay tuned for more job and internship opportunities!)

Here are just some of the opportunities that participants could experience:

Learn GIS data collection and archiving techniques...

Assist a Rare Plant Horticulturalist in propagating, outplanting and monitoring native plants, including rare, threatened or endangered species...

Educate visitors at Oahu's beautiful and scenic Kaena Point...

Help protect the best of what’s left of Hawaii’s unique biology, geology and cultural sites in Maui Nui...

Go on 4-day camp trips to the summits of the Ko'olau Mountains for surveys, outplanting, weed removal, fence construction, and monitoring...

 

Work with students, teachers, families, and community groups to help increase awareness of our native species and the threats they face...

Monitor Hawksbill turtles on the Big Island of Hawai'i...

...and get paid to do it!

 For more information about the programs that will be hosting AmeriCorps Members and the job duties, see the RYCC website.

It's definitely an experience you'll remember for a lifetime!

45 positions are available in the conservation field and must be filled by September 23rd. Want to Apply? Please submit your typed, completed application to acprograms@hawaiiycc.com by August 31st. The program is 42 weeks long. (The deadline for this opportunity has passed.)

Applicants must be over 18 years of age, and be a U.S. Citizen with a high school diploma or equivalent. No previous experience is necessary.

Click here to download the Recovery YCC application

Benefits include: a living stipend, health care, loan forbearance, and a child care stipend. An Education Award of $4,750 for current or future school loans is awarded upon successful completion of service.

For more info about the Recovery YCC benefits and living stipend, click here.

*The application deadline for the 2009-2010 RYCC program has passed.* Stay tuned for more internship and volunteer opportunities!

Honu photo: National Park Service

All other photos: DOFAW