Charlottesville area

Volunteer Preserve Visitation Committee Members
We need your eyes and ears!  With many preserves to manage around the Commonwealth, it’s not always possible to monitor them as often as we’d like.  Our goal is to form self-sustaining volunteer visitation committees at our public access preserves to conduct routine surveys of the preserve and note visitor activities.  Committee members will also help to remove debris, fallen branches or overgrown vegetation from trails as needed. We are looking for long-term committed people; it is also desirable they live relatively close to the preserve.

Positions are now available at:

• Fortune’s Cove Preserve (Nelson County)
• Alexander Berger Preserve (Spotsylvania County)
• Fraser Preserve (Fairfax County) 

To learn more about the Volunteer Visitation position, please download our flyer (pdf, 2MB).  Or contact Jennifer Rich, Volunteer Coordinator, at (434) 951-0572 or jrich@tnc.org.
 

Volunteer Courthouse Researcher
One of the Conservancy’s goals with the Virginia volunteer program is to form volunteer visitation committees at our public access preserves, as posted above.  These volunteer visitation committees will play an important role in how our preserves are managed.  We would like to invite our neighbors to participate in this unique opportunity; however, we need help tracking down their contact information.  Therefore, we are currently looking for several individuals who are interested in researching current county tax records to identify property owners adjacent to our preserves. 

These "Volunteer Courthouse Researchers" will research county parcel data through online GIS databases or by visiting county courthouses and reviewing deed and parcel records.  The names and addresses of our neighbors will be reported to Jennifer Rich, volunteer coordinator.  We need records from our Berger Preserve (Spotsylvania and Caroline Counties), Fraser Preserve (Fairfax County) and Warm Springs Mountain Preserve (Bath County).  More details will be provided for those interested.  Contact Jennifer at 434-951-0572 or send an e-mail. 
 

On-Call Receptionists
The Nature Conservancy's Charlottesville office keeps a list of "On-Call" receptionist volunteers, those who are interested in being contacted occasionally whenever paid staff cannot work the front desk (i.e. when staff are sick, on vacation, attending staff meetings, etc).  We are looking for two more phone-savvy and frequently available people who would enjoy answering phones during normal business hours as well as helping with other miscellaneous front-desk tasks as needed.  Prior experience using a multi-line phone system is preferred, but not required.  You will be thoroughly trained.  The Charlottesville office contains 40 staff and is a casual professional environment. All staff members have their own direct phone numbers, but because the automated phone answering service offers callers the option to speak with an operator, a live receptionist must be present. Commitment: One year of friendly and informative phone answering and miscellaneous front desk task help.  For more information about this key volunteer task, please contact jrich@tnc.org.