It’s time again to recruit for The Claire M. Hubbard Young Leaders in Conservation Fellowship Program. Please share this announcement with anyone you think might be interested.

The Hubbard Fellowship program is a one-year fellowship with The Nature Conservancy in Nebraska, designed for recent college graduates. Fellows spend a year as employees of The Nature Conservancy and gain experience with land stewardship, conservation planning, research and monitoring, outreach, marketing, fundraising, and all other aspects of working for a conservation organization.

We’ve designed this program as a way to bridge the gap between college and career – combining the experiences you’d get from several seasonal positions into one. You don’t need extensive experience to be qualified for the Fellowship. We’re looking for potential and enthusiasm. We’ll provide the training you need to be successful in the program.

Some Fellows come to the program after graduate school. Others use the Fellowship to help prepare them for an advanced degree or move into a career path that doesn’t require a graduate degree. We’ve had Fellows who have come in with strong interests in land stewardship, science, conservation policy, social science, communication, or other topics. Our job is to help bolster those interests and broaden the range of Fellows’ experiences and skills to make them more effective (and more employable) in whatever field they choose to pursue.

Applications are due October 9, 2023 and the Fellowship period runs from February 4, 2024 – January 31, 2025. Housing is provided at The Nature Conservancy’s Platte River Prairies and the position comes with an annual salary of $27,300 plus full benefits, including comprehensive medical insurance. Click here to see the job description and to apply. Read more about the Fellowship in this brochure.

In addition to a broad range of experiences as Conservancy employees, Hubbard Fellows each design and carry out their own independent project. That can be a research project, but could also be anything that provides the Fellow a chance to deepen their knowledge of a topic and provide a tangible benefit to The Nature Conservancy.

More than anything else, the Hubbard Fellowship is meant to support and facilitate the development of future conservation leaders. Conservation leadership can take many forms, and we don’t prioritize among those. Fellows come away with a solid base in land management and restoration and some go on to become professional land stewards. Others, however, have moved into a wide variety of conservation careers. We’ve even got two former fellows who are now fundraisers for non-profit organizations.

If you’re a recent college graduate looking for a career in conservation, I hope you’ll consider applying for the Hubbard Fellowship. It really is a terrific program and one I’m proud to supervise.