Organization
St. Lawrence University
Job Posted
May 28, 2026
Job status
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Job Type
Job Duration
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Remote
No
Contact Name
Erika Barthelmess
Contact Email
barthelmess@stlawu.edu
Location
23 Romoda Drive
Canton, NY
United States
Canton, NY
United States
St. Lawrence University invites applications for the Nature Up North Project Manager position, who will support the Nature Up North Project and collaborate with the Center for the Environment. The Project Manager is responsible for a broad range of functions necessary to further the aims of Nature Up North (NUN), an education and outreach initiative that works with St. Lawrence students and faculty to further hands-on and online environmental education opportunities in the North Country region of New York State. Further, the Project Manager will assist in supervising undergraduate interns working for the St. Lawrence University Center for the Environment (CFE).
This is a full time, 40 hours/week position and includes health benefits. The Project Manager position is for a term of 12 months beginning on Monday, August 3, 2026, with the possibility of renewal pending funding availability.
This is a full time, 40 hours/week position and includes health benefits. The Project Manager position is for a term of 12 months beginning on Monday, August 3, 2026, with the possibility of renewal pending funding availability.
Summary
Essential duties/responsibilities:
- Provide administrative support to the Nature Up North Project Director.
- Supervise academic-year undergraduate student interns working for both NUN and the CFE in developing environmental education programs and online content for NUN as well as working on sustainability initiatives for the CFE.
- Supervise summer undergraduate naturalist interns in developing and delivering in person environmental education programs and in developing online content during the summer.
- Collaborate with Project Director and CFE Executive Director to help build synergies between NUN and CFE programs and initiatives.
- Assist Project Director and Computer Science faculty in overseeing development of computer science projects for undergraduate student interns and in supervision of computer science interns.
- Develop and lead environmental education programs for the public, including interpretive hikes, paddles, campfires, environmental stewardship activities, and other programs.
- Lead environmental education programming at several local K-12 schools and youth programs, and with Project Director, lead teacher professional development workshops and design place-based environmental education curricula for Northern New York K-12 schools.
- Design protocols, develop the online user interface, recruit participants, support field data collection, and analyze data for Nature Up North citizen science projects.
- Manage Nature Up North’s presence on social media platforms.
- Manage and moderate student and user-generated content on natureupnorth.org and social media platforms.
- Create digital content for Nature Up North including blogs and podcasts for the Nature Up North website, a monthly newsletter, and more as the need arises.
- Assist CFE executive director and CFE communication intern in creating content for CFE newsletter and website.
- Monitor the Nature Up North website for updates and work with the web team to implement changes and improve user experience and functionality.
- Support the effective marketing of NUN events through press releases and event calendars.
- Assist Project Director in grant writing for project development and write reports on project activities for granting agencies.
- Coordinate with project partners (e.g. community organizations, schools) to co-develop environmental education programs.
- Collaborate with St. Lawrence University faculty to support environmental components of their courses (e.g., lead a class of History students on a hike related to rivers).
- Collaborate with St. Lawrence University faculty to engage St. Lawrence University students in generating written, photo, audio, and video content for natureupnorth.org.
- Perform other tasks assigned by the Project Director.
Full information about the position including instructions on how to apply can be found at Nature Up North Project Manager
Compensation Information
$20 - $21 per hour. Health benefits included.