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Begin Your Environmental Career as an AmeriCorps NJ Watershed Ambassador

The New Jersey Watershed Ambassadors Program is an environmental stewardship-oriented AmeriCorps program designed to raise awareness about water concerns. The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection has hosted the program since 2000.

Twenty (20) Watershed Ambassadors serve from partner host agency locations, with one located in each of New Jersey’s Watershed Management Areas (WMAs). WMA's extend from Sussex to Cape May counties! Ambassadors serve with all sectors of society to improve the quality of New Jersey’s waterways by:

• Educating the public on watershed science
• Implementing community green infrastructure
• Encouraging local stewardship
• Organizing partnership projects
• Performing habitat and biological assessments following DEP monitoring protocols to monitor the health of their WMA’s streams

How to Apply:

Application for the Full-Time Watershed Ambassador Position: https://bit.ly/3NL9kHm

All interested applicants should create an account on the “My AmeriCorps” website before they will be able to apply. Since this is an AmeriCorps Program, applicants apply through the AmeriCorps Portal: https://my.americorps.gov/mp/recruit/registration.do

Once you have created an application, you will be able to use that application to apply to the AmeriCorps NJ Watershed Ambassador program specifically. Interested applicants can reach out to Michelle Hatfield (michelle.hatfield@dep.nj.gov) and Amanda Baksa (amanda.baksa@dep.nj.gov) with any questions or concerns.