Employment
Cascadia Wildlands is not currently hiring.
Internships
Cascadia Wildlands regularly works with outstanding students on a variety of intern projects. Our interns apply their classroom education to wildlands issues in our region. This opportunity provides an excellent introduction to nonprofit leadership, strategic thinking, wildlands advocacy, and more. It is an ideal opportunity to network within the environmental community, learn about local issues, and gain experience for future jobs or graduate school. Please note that we cannot provide monetary compensation to interns. However, interns often find their own grant or fellowship money to support their work with us.
We seek interns who are creative, motivated, professional, and flexible. Excellent written and verbal communications skills and ability to work independently are essential. Applicants should have a strong committment to protecting natural resources and biological diversity. Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis. Interns are selected on the basis of interests, experience, and ability.
Legal Internships
We use environmental litigation in federal courts to accomplish many of our campaign objectives. Student legal interns work with our Legal Director, Daniel Kruse on projects including legal research, claim testing and document drafting on topics that include public lands, and administrative law, clean water, endangered species and indigenous rights. Volunteer internships occur during the school year, and academic credit may be available depending on a student's interests, course load and faculty approval.
We are not currently seeking legal interns.
Development Internships
Development professionals are in high demand at environmental nonprofits across the country. Interns in this program gain hands-on development and administrative experience. Interns work directly with Kate Ritley, Executive Director, on projects such as grant writing, building membership, cultivating donors, coordinating fundraising events, facilitating online donations, developing earned income strategies, facilitating planned gifts, and much more.
This internship is available year-round, and requires a minimum commitment of five hours per week. Duration of internship may vary. Development positions are competitive and open only to graduate students and exceptional, experienced undergraduates. To apply, please send a cover letter, resume, and brief writing sample to: kritley(at)cascwild.org.
Grassroots Organizing Internships
Cascadia Wildlands is looking for a dedicated individual to assist in implementing our conservation campaigns, specifically our work to: 1) permanently protect remaining old-growth forests in the region, 2) safeguard threatened older forests above the Rogue River in southwest Oregon through Wilderness and Wild and Scenic Rivers Act designations, and 3) protect Devils Staircase in Wassen Creek as Wilderness.
We are looking for a motivated individual with a strong interest in protecting wild areas in Oregon and with a basic knowledge of implementing grassroots conservation campaigns (tabling, outreach, media, public hikes, advocacy, etc.). Intern position requires at least a five hour commitment each week for two months starting anytime. This is an unpaid position. To apply, please send a cover letter, resume and brief writing sample to Conservation Director, Josh Laughlin: jlaughlin(at)cascwild.org.
