Job opportunities:
Clean Streams Coordinator – Part Time
Application Deadline: March 19, 2025
Salary: $25,000-$28,000/year for 15-25 hours per week- DOE.
Benefits: Travel/mileage; paid time off; federal holidays; personal and professional development; other fringe benefits to be negotiated.
Location: Fairfax County (Hybrid)
Application Deadline: March 19, 2025
Job Description:
The Clean Streams Coordinator will monitor specific stream locations across Fairfax County, and help create and present programs to inform Fairfax County residents and businesses about litter and plastic pollution in our ecosystem and its cost and impacts on our streams, wild places, oceans and personal health.
This is currently a PART TIME POSITION that has the possibility of becoming full time. While the hours are flexible, there may be a few times per quarter when evening and weekend hours will be required.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Work with Fairfax County staff to set monitoring, clean up, and education goals based on the County’s annual MS4 permit.
- Conduct quarterly field-based data collection at each monitored location. Enter data into databases, create basic maps, and perform preliminary analysis.
- Serve as a subject-matter expert on litter and other environmental and sustainability topics, representing the organization at meetings and presentations as needed.
- Contribute to annual reporting and grant proposals as needed.
- Perform primary and secondary research to gather information and draw conclusions about litter, plastic, and other environmental and sustainability issues in Fairfax County.
- Collaborate to develop effective outreach and education communications to a variety of audiences.
- Attend relevant meetings as directed by supervisor.
Click here to download the full job description (.pdf).
To Apply: Please send a brief but thoughtful cover letter outlining your interest, and a resume to: cfc@cleanfairfax.org with the subject line: Clean Streams Position
Ongoing internship opportunities:
If no specific internships are listed but you have an idea for a possible internship, you may reach us at cfc@cleanfairfax.org. Use the subject line “Internship“. Include your resume and a short but thoughtful cover letter outlining your skills, interest(s), availability, and anything else you want us to know!
About Us:
The mission of Clean Fairfax is to encourage environmental stewardship and urban sustainability in Fairfax County, Virginia through education, programming, and community involvement. Clean Fairfax seeks to reduce littering and to encourage recycling, reusing, and reducing consumption, promote community action by supporting clean-ups and adopt-a-spots and serve as a clearing house for environmental information in Fairfax County, Virginia. Clean Fairfax is a 501 (c)3 non-profit entity.
