Princeton-Blairstown Center

The PBC Sustainability Intern will work as a member of the PBC Summer Staff with a focus on Sustainability projects and initiatives at the Blairstown campus.  The intern's primary responsibility will be maintaining a productive and aesthetically pleasing organic garden.  The intern will work in conjunction with the kitchen staff to make sure food produced from the garden is used in daily meals as well as making sure attention is given to those items at meal time when relevant.  The intern will also be responsible for updating sustainability and environmental education curriculum already in place or in the the process of being completed.  Additional opportunities will arise for creating new curriculum/initiatives for our participants that is based on the ideas and concepts that surround sustainability.  Lastly, the Intern will serve as a functioning member of our staff by taking part in meetings, appropriate trainings, restorations, and helping with other logistics when necessary.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Organic Garden:

• Working with the PBC kitchen to come up with ideas for food uses and to help ensure maximum use of the garden's production.
• Ensuring that participants are aware of when and how garden items are being used in daily meals.
• Weeding/ watering/ pruning/ planting/ mulching/ compost tea making and spraying/ harvesting.
• Developing documentation about best practices.
• Teaching and supervising participants in and about the garden.
   

SECONDARY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Program Development:

• Eco-Frisbee Golf: Review & Update the first nine holes,  Design and Develop a new set of nine Holes (the Back Nine) with increased physical requirements and an increased level of academic and learning difficulty.
• Ipod Tree Tour: find proper tree location along PBC Trails, Create informational fact sheets for video recording, Develop and implement video recording of fact sheets,  Edit video and sync to PBC Ipod's.
• New Initiatives:  Create an interactive activities/games/events/initiatives that will engage the urban youth who come to Blairstown which we can continue to use indefinitely around the concepts of sustainability.

• Community Support
• Pertinent Staff Trainings & Meetings
• Participation in Restorations
• Logistical projects: (will vary)

• Experience with Gardening
• Knowledge of Sustainability Concepts
• Work with youth (preferably urban youth)
• Sustainability and environmental education curriculum/activity/initiative development
• Belaying experience
• Ability to work long hours outside regardless of weather
• Comfortable being in the sun for long periods of time
• Able to bend and/or sit hunched over repeatedly for longer periods of time
• Be willing to work and live with clients and staff that are diverse in many different areas including personal background, age, sexual orientation, culture and ethnicity, learning styles and physical abilities.

PBC Smoking, Alcohol and Drug Policies

Smoking: Facilitators are not permitted to smoke at any time while on duty or while programs are in session. Smoking is never permitted in any of the Center’s buildings. During the summer smoking is never permitted anywhere on the Center’s property.  A warning will be given for the first infraction. Repeated infractions of this policy will result in disciplinary action up to and including termination.

Alcohol: Possession and/or use of alcoholic beverages while on duty in leadership or support capacity is prohibited. Staff members are expected to return to the Center after time off in a “ready to work” condition. “Ready to work” is defined as neither being under the influence of alcohol nor experiencing the effects of alcohol consumption. The Blairstown Site Co-Directors and/or their designee reserve the right to determine “ready to work” status. Facilitators who are not of legal drinking age will not be permitted to drink on Center property at any time. Regardless of age, during the summer, facilitators are not permitted to drink while on Center property, even during off time. Any infractions of this policy will result in disciplinary action up to and including termination. 

Drugs: The possession or use of any illegal drugs on Princeton-Blairstown Center will be grounds for immediate termination of employment. The possession or use of any illegal drugs anywhere, including outside Princeton-Blairstown Center will be grounds for immediate termination of employment. All staff shall return from time off in a “ready to work” condition. The Blairstown Site Co-Directors and/or their designee reserve the right to determine “ready to work” status.

Attached is a copy of other PBC Policies (.pdf)
 

Compensation

• Salary is $4,000 for the summer  - June 12 - September 2, 2012 
   
• Room & board included - While working certain types of summer programs, staff members will reside with participants living in groups, on site or in the back country, depending on the type of program. Living arrangements will be in single-gender tents and cabins.
  
  Summer Staff housing on PBC property is either a house with multiple shared bedrooms and shared kitchen/bathrooms, or a dormitory style cabin sharing a common kitchen/ bathroom. Other bathroom and shower facilities are also available in the washhouses. 
  
  Meals will be provided on all days when you are at PBC regardless of whether you are working or not.

To Apply
Fill out our online Application for Summer Staff Positions

References
An online reference form can be found here.
Call 908-362-6765  or e-mail pk@princeton.edu with questions.