Need Administrative Generalist
Worldwide Office, Arlington, VA: Chief Conservation Officer
The expanding office of the Chief Conservation Officer can use your help. We need a volunteer to assist with general administrative duties including filing, calendar management, travel arrangements, scanning, research, etc. If you are familiar with Administration Assistant functions, are good with detail and comfortable in a large office environment, please contact Jen Rich, volunteer coordinator, at 434-951-0572 or email jrich@tnc.org. We are looking for someone who can devote at least 10 hours a week with limited supervision. Please include a copy of your resume or letter showing your experience.
Volunteer Artists Needed
If you are interested in any of the artistic volunteer opportunities below please call or email Jen Rich, volunteer coordinator, at 434-951-0572 or jrich@tnc.org. Photos and diagrams are available to assist in your renditions. Completion date for most of the projects are flexible unless otherwise noted.
- Color drawings of pine-oak-heath woodland showing: before (dense understory and few pine-oak regeneration), during (with a prescribed fire), and after (pine-oak canopy with herbaceous understory with regeneration)
- Black and white line drawing (or charcoal) of signature sites on Warm Springs Mtn (Flag Rock, Trappers Lodge, Pinnacle Overlook, Bald Knob) for use on notecard series
- Watercolor paintings of significant species on Warm Springs Mtn (pink ladyslipper, eastern newt or wood frog, black bear, cerulean warbler) for notecard series
- Develop a conceptual model of the way climate change will affect the Virginia Coast Reserve for publication to a broad audience. Sample designs provided.
The Conservancy is celebrating its 50th anniversary in Virginia in 2010 and we may try to coordinate an exhibition of artwork showing Virginia's priority landscapes. This artwork would then travel to each of the 50th celebrations and be displayed, along with the descriptions of the site, artist and funding needs. A silent auction or similar could then be conducted. All of this would be publicized in newsletters and various media outlets throughout the state. This is still only an idea at this point, but if it's something you might be interested in supporting, please contact Jen Rich.
Administrative Help
Philanthropy Division: Ongoing Volunteer Opportunity
Worldwide Office, Arlington, VA
The Nature Conservancy’s Worldwide Office Philanthropy Division is looking for a volunteer to assist our staff with a variety of tasks. Key needs include database entry, bulk mailings, filing and file clean-up, drafting letters or proofreading of letters, and assisting with phone coverage .Duties assigned to the volunteer will change as divisional needs arise, so volunteers will need to be open to taking on new tasks and challenges. The Philanthropy volunteer will have the opportunity to work with staff throughout our division including our stewardship team, prospect development, fundraisers, the stock and estate programs, and the operations team. Interested volunteers should possess a high level of attention to detail, be comfortable learning new software programs, have experience with mail merges and creating labels in Microsoft Word, and have good writing/proofreading skills.
We are looking for a our volunteer to make a commitment of one year, due to the need to provide training on databases, software and phones. We are asking for a volunteer who can work a minimum of 10 hours a week, and we are prepared to work with a volunteer up to 25 hours a week. Hours can be flexible during times the office is open, M-F 9:00-5:00.
Volunteers will be asked to sign a simple confidentiality agreement due to the nature of some of the work of the division. If you are interested in learning more, please contact Amanda Young, Senior Philanthropy Office Manager, at 703-841-5994 or ayoung@tnc.org.
On-Call Administrative Help
Ongoing: Worldwide Office in Arlington, VA
The Nature Conservancy's Worldwide Office Legal Department keeps a list of "On-Call" office volunteers, people who'd like to help keep things organized and assist with individual projects for an active legal staff. You'd work with the Corporate Services Legal staff located in the Ballston area of Arlington, Virginia. The Corporate Services staff support a variety of functions including Marketing, Membership, Technology & Information Systems, Finance & Administration, HR, Conservation Science, Government Relations, and more. The Corporate Services staff is a seasoned and knowledgeable group of attorneys and paralegals.
The majority of work is clerical (filing, mailing, etc.), but you would also help with software tasks such as creating charts in MS Office applications, proofreading documents and intranet web pages, or tracking the use of pro bono counsel. The job is strictly voluntary and not intended to lead to employment. A volunteer's days and hours are flexible M-F 9:00-5:00.
Prior legal, office, and internet experience is useful. The Worldwide Office Legal Department is a casual professional environment, however, each volunteer must sign a simple Confidentiality Agreement because some of the department's work is private.
We'd like you to commit to one year of on-call volunteer assistance. For more information about this key volunteer role, please contact Jennifer Rich, volunteer coordinator, at 434-951-0572 or jrich@tnc.org.
Small Engine Maintenance and Repair
Periodically, Charlottesville Office Workshop
As spring rolls around, so does field season and the Conservancy’s equipment use ramps up. We are looking for a volunteer who can periodically come to our office workshop and help maintain and repair various two-stroke engines including chain saws and brush cutters. If you are skilled in this realm, know how to sharpen chain saws and don’t mind getting greasy please contact Jen Rich, volunteer coordinator, at jrich@tnc.org or 434-951-0572.
Scanning Whiz
Ongoing: Charlottesville Office
We’re going digital and need your help converting our files. To eliminate some of the paper in our land protection files we need a couple of dedicated volunteers to come into our Charlottesville office and scan documents. If you are familiar with office machines and are patient, meticulous and detail oriented please contact Jen Rich, volunteer coordinator at 434-951-0572 or jrich@tnc.org. We are looking for volunteers who can devote at least 5 hours a week for several weeks with limited supervision. Come in during our business hours, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m., and help make a difference by freeing up a lot of file space.
Recruiter: Ongoing
Volunteers for the Volunteer Visitation Committee Program
We are looking for 1-3 volunteers who are interested in helping recruit other volunteers for our Volunteer Visitation Committee Program at our Wildcat Mountain Preserve (Fauquier County), Falls Ridge Preserve (Montgomery County) and Voorhees Preserve (Westmoreland County). Volunteers would be helping to get the word out about these committees by targeting and contacting potential individual volunteers or groups such as service clubs or environmental, professional and youth organizations. By coordinating these search activities, our goal is to recruit 15 or more volunteers for each of the above listed preserve committees. The volunteer recruiter(s) will work closely with their supervisor, Jen Rich. If you are interested or want more information please contact Jen at 434-951-0572 or jrich@tnc.org.
Boundary Surveyor
We need to update and locate the boundary lines at several of our preserves in the Roanoke area. Using old surveys, volunteers will walk through the forest looking for survey markers/stakes, denoting locations with a GPS unit. If you have skills reading surveys, using GPS units and hiking in the woods (without getting lost). If interested, please contact Jen Rich, volunteer coordinator, at (434) 951-0572 or jrich@tnc.org. Positions are now available at: Falls Ridge Preserve, Bottom Creek Gorge Preserve, and Den Creek Preserve.
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.
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