The CCE Co-Leader will co-plan and facilitate a month-long traveling internship program for adults from southcentral Alaska called the Community Coastal Experience (CCE), which will take place in June and July 2025.

During the Community Coastal Experience, the Co-Leader will connect the interns with projects and organizations that are working to forward collaborative science and restoration and weave together environmental science and Alaska Native cultures of the region impacted by the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill in southcentral Alaska. The Co-Leader will facilitate activities with partner organizations on the topics of marine ecology, mariculture, environmental monitoring, archaeology, and cultural revitalization. They will help the interns to boost their field work skills, build networks with other communities and individuals, and become more familiar with local Indigenous cultures and coastal science.

The Co-Leader will spend 4-5 weeks with the Community Coastal Experience traveling to 2-4 communities in southcentral Alaska, which may include Homer, Seldovia, Cordova, Kodiak and/or Seward, spending approximately 1-2 weeks in each location. During this experience, they will be living with and supporting up to 8 interns in day-to-day needs as well as the scheduled learning activities. Field sites feature rocky intertidal areas of outstanding diversity, coastal forests, salt and freshwater wetlands, and research vessels.

Program planning will take place from February through May as a collaboration between the two CCE co-leads, the CCE Coordinator, and program partners. Program wrap-up will take place from mid-July through the end of August.

Qualified applicants are energetic and flexible, possess curiosity and enthusiasm about the natural world and human communities, have experience in place-based environmental education or facilitating field work with teens or adults, and demonstrate the maturity needed to live in group situations. 

This position is part of the Community Organized Restoration and Learning (CORaL) Network, funded by the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council.