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Any questions can be addressed to SAWS Field Crew Coordinator, Blake Garrison, at blakegarrison@wildernessstewards.org

Crew Leaders lead an Assistant Field Crew Leader and five Crew Members on remote, trailwork projects.

Assistant Field Crew Leaders work under supervision of the Field Crew Leader to lead five crew members on remote, trailwork projects.

The Crew Leader, with help from the Assistant Crew Leader, will lead five Crew Members while camping and working on remote projects with limited to no cell service. Crews are expected to backpack and live in physically demanding, remote environments for at least 8 (and sometimes 10) days at a time. Conditions of this environment may vary significantly including freezing temperatures, high humidity, persistent rain, and high elevation. The remote nature of our work may mean delayed access to medical care. Leadership of the crew will require excellent communication skills and judgment, maturity, ability to train in the field, professionalism, initiative, emotional maturity and resilience, resourcefulness, patience, ability to delegate tasks, technical trailwork skills, and comfort in the outdoors with minimal contact with others while on hitch. Crew leaders are expected to make decisions in the field to keep their crew safe and provide a high quantity and quality of work for our partners. The Crew Leader is ultimately responsible for successes and shortcomings of the crew. The Assistant Crew Leader is expected to work under the leadership of the Crew Leader and help make decisions in the field to keep their crew safe and provide a high quantity and quality of work for our partners. If a Crew Leader must leave the field or cannot head into the field, the Assistant Crew Leader is expected to fulfill the Crew Leader responsibilities.

A typical work hitch includes meeting at the SAWS office, driving a SAWS vehicle several hours to a trailhead, backpacking into the project site, staying in the field for up to ten days at a time, hiking out, traveling back to the office, cleaning gear, tools, vehicles, completing reporting requirements, and preparing and prepping your crew for the next work hitch.