Capacity Action Team National Capitol Region Facility Management and MAT Youth Program Assistant

                                                                                                                                                                                

 

Position Title: Capacity Action Team National Capitol Region Facility Management and Maintenance Action Team Youth Program Assistant

Conservation Legacy Program: Stewards Individual Placements

Site Location: Hybrid or full time in-person in Sharpsburg, MD or Washington DC.

Some position related travel required.

Terms of Service:


* Start Date: May 2026


* Duration: 50 Weeks


* Payrate: $25/hour, 40 hours per week

 

Purpose:

Stewards Individual Placements (STE) provides individuals with service and career opportunities to strengthen communities and preserve our natural resources.

Participants work with federal agencies, tribal governments, and nonprofits building institutional capacity, developing community relationships, and supporting ecosystem health.

 

The National Park Service (NPS) Maintenance Action Team (MAT) program was established in FY 2021 to address facility projects at small and medium-sized parks which had not yet benefitted from the Great American Outdoors Act (GAOA), Legacy Restoration Fund (LRF).

MATs are made up of skilled trades workers, interns and service corps members (via cooperative agreements), that temporarily bolster the workforce at parks that have important, and specialized, maintenance and repair needs.

The teams are regionally located near multiple national park units, allowing project-specific scalability, travel cost savings, workforce stability, and various project execution options.

 

Training and skills development has been a complimentary goal of the MAT program since the beginning.

Since FY 2023, between one-quarter to one-half of annual MAT funding has gone to projects with either youth corps or individual placements.

Significant efforts have been made by NPS and its partner organizations to assist parks with scoping and planning maintenance projects to be executed with youth and young adults.

 

This position will work directly with the National Capital MAT Program Regional Coordinator and focus on supporting program operational/administrative tasks related to America 250 projects and events, DC Safe and Beautiful projects and MAT project planning, executing, reporting and tracking with an emphasis on supporting parks and youth corps.

 

For more information on Maintenance Action Teams visit: go.nps.gov/mat 

 

 

Position Administrative Parameters:


* Schedule: Monday – Friday, 8 hours per day.

Core hours 10-4 Eastern.


* Site supervisor Check-In: weekly scheduled one-hour check-in meetings to update on projects, address issues, answer questions, task out


* Duty Station: hybrid or full time in-person schedule location Sharpsburg MD or Washington DC.


* Time Off: 80 hours paid, comp time...