Class 8 -Teaching Non Credit -New Jersey Climate Change Corps (2024-2025)

Recruitment/Posting Title Class 8 -Teaching Non Credit -New Jersey Climate Change Corps (2024-2025)

Department SEBS-Family&CommunityHealthSci

Salary Annual Salary

Posting Summary 

Rutgers’ New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station Cooperative Extension Department of Family and Community Health Sciences is currently looking to hire AmeriCorps Members to serve in schools full-time to implement climate change education and programming for the 2024-2025 school year.

Activities performed by the AmeriCorps members will include:

• Teaching lessons on climate change and food waste to fifth grade classes
• Training school food service personnel in strategies to reduce food waste in cafeterias
• Conducting food waste assessments in school cafeterias to measure how much food is wasted

Applicants need not have a background in any specific topic area. They need only be passionate about youth, food security, and/or climate change education, be reliable and responsible, and have reliable transportation to get to the schools where they will be teaching. They will be trained to implement all required activities, including teaching lessons, performing food waste audits, and training staff by the faculty and staff overseeing this program.

10 available positions.

This is an evergreen posting to expire 3/1/2025

Position Status Full Time

Posting Number 24FA0172

Posting Open Date 03/18/2024

Posting Close Date 03/01/2025

Minimum Education and Experience 

• Be at least 18 years of age
• No criminal history
• Have completed at least 60 college credits
• US citizen or legal permanent resident

Certifications/LicensesNA

Required Knowledge, Skills, and AbilitiesPresentations Skills

General Computer Skills

Microsoft Office Suite

Equipment UtilizedComputers

Food Scales

Physical Demands and Work Environment 

Will be working in schools and with food waste.

Need reliable transportation

Overview 

Background on NJ Climate Change Corps

The Rutgers Food Waste Team has been successfully partnering with schools since 2018 to implement strategies in schools that reduce the amount of food waste generated by cafeterias. The team has also piloted curricula in schools across New Jersey

New Jersey became the first state in the nation to mandate climate change education for K-12 public schools and will implement that mandate this year. In response, Rutgers Food Waste Team has developed curricula for fifth grades students that address food waste and its effects on climate change. Food waste reduction practices are framed as a solution to climate change in the unit.

The goals of Climate Change Corps will be to improve school administrations’ and fifth grade students’ knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors, toward adapting food waste reduction practices, and, ultimately, to reduce the amount of food waste produced by the schools in which they work.

Benefits for AmeriCorps Members:

• Living allowance
• Education Award upon successful completion of the program (can be used to pay tuition or student loans)
• Ability to put student loans into forbearance while serving with AmeriCorps (with no interest accrual)
• Professional, networking, and leadership development opportunities
• Experience teaching in public schools

The position is expected to run from September 15, 2024 through June 30, 2025

Statement 

Refer to our website for more information: https://sites.rutgers.edu/food-waste/americorps/

This is a grant-funded position, employment in this position is contingent upon the availability of funds. This position will expire once the grant has ended. 

Special Instructions to Applicants 

AmeriCorps Position: September 15, 2024 – June 30, 2025.

10 Positions

Quick Link to Posting https://jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/221628

Campus Rutgers University-New Brunswick

Home Location Campus Off Campus

City New Brunswick

State NJ

Location Details 

AmeriCorps members will be assigned to various participating schools throughout New Jersey.

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