Internship - Selma/Montgomery National Historic Trail Intern

Internship Dates: April 24, 2025 - October 22, 2025=26wks

Location: Hayneville, AL

Internship Title: Selma To Montgomery National Historic Trail (Preselected Intern Kourtney Exford)

About us:

The Student Conservation Association (SCA) is the largest provider of hands-on environmental conservation programs for youth and adults. Program participants protect and restore national parks, national forests, wildlife refuges, marine sanctuaries, cultural landmarks, community green spaces, and much more across the country.

SCA's National Direct AmeriCorps program advances urban climate resilience by protecting, restoring and enhancing public lands and waters as well as natural, cultural, and historical resources across the United States. Service activities focus on projects identified as critical stewardship projects that improve and protect at-risk ecosystems and resources, especially in underserved urban communities.

Position Description

This project is to create internships for diverse, underserved, and underrepresented young individuals who will support interpretive programming at Tuskegee Institute (TUIN), Tuskegee Airmen (TUAI), and Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail (SEMO) to inform and educate all visitors who enter these park sites. Project work will include the offering of formal and informal programs such as guided activities, roving talks, Jr. Ranger Programs, and park orientations about the park's natural, cultural, and historic resources and will be conducted at the park, and off-site within the community.

Performance Goals – To educate park visitors and provide opportunities for young people to learn about the nation's resources by spending time working on projects in National Parks to motivate them to become involved in the natural, cultural and /or historical resource protection of their communities and beyond resulting in shared environmental stewardship.

Member Benefits:

$600 per week living allowance

No housing

NOT AMERICORPS ELIGIBLE

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT

This SCA Position is authorized under the Public Land Corps Authority. All participants must be between the ages of 16 and 30, inclusive, or veterans aged 35 or younger, at the start of the position. Participants must also be a citizen or national of the United States or lawful permanent resident alien of the United States. Hours served can be applied toward the Public Land Corps (PLC) hiring authority.