Job Opportunity for ENST Graduates

CITY OF BOWIE Sustainability Planner Planning and Sustainability Department

This position is responsible for performing general outreach and marketing work related to the City’s Green Bowie Environmental Program and sustainability initiatives. Creates, edits, and updates the City’s Green Bowie Webpages and the Green Bowie e-newsletter, advertising the City’s green programs and projects, writing publications and miscellaneous environmental communications materials. Works with all forms of media, including government access cable television and social media to promote the Green Bowie environmental message. Serves as staff liaison to Bowie Green Team Executive Committee, managing a variety of green programs including tree rebate, compost bin, Weed Warrior and residential energy audit initiatives. Assists with outreach needs identified by the Bowie Green Team and collaborating with the Watershed Manager in community outreach activities, including presentations to community groups and schools. Implements specific public outreach activities, promoting greenhouse gas reduction efforts, promoting the City’s climate action plan. Assists with grant related outreach activities and actions relating to the University of Maryland’s “Sustainable Maryland Certified” programs and interacting daily with the general public including residents, businesspersons, and elected and appointed officials at many levels of government.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: Bachelor’s Degree with major course work in sustainability, green building, energy efficiency, regulatory compliance, environmental science, environmental studies, environmental engineering or natural resource management.

Minimum of one to three years of professional, relevant work experience in the sustainability field.

SALARY: $65,319 ANNUALLY

Employee Benefits Full Time: Excellent medical, dental, vision, life and long-term care insurance; 401(k) with employer match; 457 savings plan. The position allows some ability to telework after 6 months probation.

HOW TO APPLY: PLEASE VISIT THE CITY’S WEBSITE AT: WWW.CITYOFBOWIE.ORG AND CLICK ON THE EMPLOYMENT LINK.

APPLICATION DEADLINE: FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 2024 All applicants MUST submit a completed City of Bowie employment application in order to be considered for this opportunity. COVID-19 vaccination requirement is strongly preferred.

Maryland Department of Natural Resources internship

The Maryland Department of Natural Resources is seeking a Land and Water Conservation Fund Intern more information here

Wild Spirit Wolf Sanctuary Internship

A former student has reached out to spread some news Wild Spirit Wolf Sanctuary in New Mexico currently have two open intern positions that can be started as soon as possible and two more that will be available in the fall. It is a great place to learn more about canids as we allow interns to be hands-on with our rescues and do labs on topics such as phenotyping and chemical immobilization.

Apply Here !

Scientist I Ecology/Regulatory

RES is the nation’s largest and most experienced provider of ecological restoration and water resource solutions. To date, we have restored over 180 stream miles and 40,400 wetland acres and conserved and preserved 6,100 acres of endangered species habitats. RES operations include planting over 11,000,000 restorative trees and reducing over 240 tons of polluting nutrients. RES navigates and streamlines the environmental permitting process with solutions that balance economic development and ecological sustainability.

And today they are looking for a new candidate for their Scientist I Ecology/Regulatory role find out more here

National Aquarium Internship Position

The National Aquarium recently posted internship positions for the Fall https://umd.joinhandshake.com/jobs/9088293/share_preview

Full details are in the link above, but here are the basics:

Job title

What Lives in the Harbor Interns

Employer

National Aquarium

Position type

Internship

Job description

What Lives in the Harbor (WLITH) , an environmental literacy program for Baltimore City 6th grade students, is looking for Fall semester interns with availability between September 30th - November 6th. Interns must be available at least once a week, Monday-Friday, from 9:30AM-2:00PM for at least 3 weeks.

WLITH teaches students how abiotic factors influence biotic factors in water. Interns will help the students test water quality in the Inner Harbor, tell how humans affect water quality and ways students can improve it, form a hypothesis about which animals could survive within the tested water quality range, and sort through habitat cages to look for those animals. This experience is one part of a Meaningful Watershed Educational Experience that fulfills the environmental literacy requirement for students in middle school.

Interns in this program will be leading water quality testing stations and will be responsible for:

• Familiarity with the educational content and instructing students on that content
• Content includes knowledge of the watershed; knowledge of water quality parameters tested: turbidity, pH, dissolved oxygen, temperature, and salinity; knowledge of human impact on water quality and what can be done to improve water quality; identification of animals found in the habitat cages
• Familiarity with the testing equipment and instructing students on proper use of lab equipment such as a Secchi disk, dissolved oxygen and salinity probes, LabQuest Readers, litmus paper, and thermometers or temperature probes
• Recording student data on iPads
• Set up, break down, and cleaning of station supplies
• Monitoring stations and supplies when students are not present
• Escorting students to their station upon arrival to the Aquarium
• Assisting with monitoring student behavior and safety

Interns will learn and practice all these responsibilities at mandatory trainings on September 14th and September 21st.

The deadline for interns to apply will be Friday, September 6th. For more questions please email learn@aqua.org

AGNR Financial Aid - Apply Now to the Catherine M. Brinkley Loan

Dear Students, 

We are still accepting applications for the Catherine M. Brinkley Fund which provides interest-free loans to students who are legal residents of Maryland pursuing majors in the College of Agriculture & Natural Resources. Students may download the application. The Office of Financial Aid determines eligibility and award distribution and you must have submitted the FAFSA.

To be eligible, students must: 

• Be a resident of the state of Maryland (as classified by UMD)
• Be enrolled in a major in the College of AGNR
• Have submitted a FAFSA to the University

Loan terms are:

• Amount is not to exceed the limit on financial need determined by your FAFSA application.
• Repayment begins 9 months after ceasing to be at least a half-time student at the University of Maryland and ending 10 years later.
• Monthly payments for the first two years of repayment will be $25.
• The remaining payments will be fully amortized over the final eight years.
• If the loan is not paid in full by 10 years, a 5% annual finance charge will be assessed on the unpaid balance.
• Revenue from loan repayments will be returned to this fund to assist other students in achieving their academic goals.

Completed applications can be scanned and emailed to April Brohawn at agnscholarships@umd.edu. Applications will then be forwarded to the Office of Student Financial Aid for review. Decisions will be made by OSFA and you will be notified later this summer. For best consideration, applications should be submitted by July 31, 2024. 

If you already submitted an application for AY 2024-25, please disregard this email. Decisions will be released for all applicants in early August. 

Questions? Please visit the website at https://agnr.umd.edu/undergraduate/fund-your-education/ or contact me at this email address: abrohawn@umd.edu 

Student Tour Guide jobs - paid

UMD Admissions - Student Tour Guide Positions Now Posted!

On behalf of the Office of Undergraduate Admissions, we are thrilled to announce the opening of student tour guide positions starting this fall! Previously, our student tour guides were part of a student organization known as the IMAGERs, which has been active on campus since 1984 and recently celebrated its 40th anniversary.

In collaboration with the IMAGERs, we have decided to transition to a fully paid model for our tour guides. This change will enable us to work more closely with our guides on strategic goals for campus tours and ensure the team represents the diversity and entirety of our university.

EVS is looking to hire approximately 50 guides and four coordinators. The coordinator roles come with additional responsibilities, detailed in the job descriptions. Students can apply for both the campus tour guide and campus tour guide coordinator positions through e-jobs. The best consideration deadline for applications is July 26th, and we look forward to interviewing a diverse pool of candidates.