Resilience Corps Fellow opportunity

The Greater Portland Council of Governments (GPCOG) AmeriCorps Resilience Corps program is recruiting Fellows for the 2021-2022 Service Term – beginning on November 1st!

The Resilience Corps program is a unique opportunity to develop professional skills and personal vision while advancing regional resilience, supporting pandemic recovery, accelerating civic innovation, climate action, digital equity, and accessible transportation and housing via local government and non-profit agencies. The Resilience Corps adds new capacity to adapt and proactively respond to both short-term and long-term challenges to economic, social, and environmental systems throughout the region.

Resilience Corps Members provide support for host municipalities and non-profits by enhancing capacity for initiatives that build greater regional resilience via:

Data collection, analysis, and visualization

Mapping and storyboarding data

Assisting in research, outreach, and equitable public engagement

Communication, blogging, social media, and educational support

Strategic planning, implementation, and project execution

While placed in varying roles internally at GPCOG or with external partners, the Resilience Corps members together form a cohort that learns from and with each other – participating in professional development and community service days together, weekly cohort meetings, and are encouraged to share resources, collaborate, and support one another.

Topic areas of Resilience Corps Fellowships include:

– Broadband expansion and equity

– Climate action planning

– Coastal resilience

– Sustainability

– Transportation and transit access and planning

– Affordable housing access and planning

– Land use planning

– Cultural and civic inclusion

– Economic Development

– Digital accessibility and communications

What You’ll Take Away

The Resilience Corps program is a professional development, training, and networking opportunity in addition to a volunteer service program. Corps Members will gain skills in: public speaking, project management, event planning, effective cross-sector and intercultural communication, equitable public outreach, directed research, project implementation, storytelling, professionalism, problem-solving, teamwork, decision-making processes, facilitation, note taking, work planning, and time management.

To Apply

To apply, and for more information, please visit the position list on Service Year: https://serviceyear.org/gpcog/resilience-corps-member/bWm77Z/

Email Julia Breul at jbreul@gpcog.org with any questions. You can learn more about the program and current Corps Members at https://www.maineresiliency.org/