Thank you for considering employment with ECHO. Open positions are listed below.
An initiative of NWF, Early Childhood Health Outdoors (ECHO) envisions a world where every young child experiences nature daily. Launched in 2017, ECHO has been working with communities throughout the United States to transform children’s daily environments by enhancing opportunities to engage meaningfully in nature. By providing a combination of thoughtful landscape design and professional development opportunities for early childhood professionals, ECHO employs a health equity model that improves access to the benefits of nature for the children and caregivers who face the greatest barriers. In turn, naturalized play settings improve environmental health by helping to mitigate the impacts of extreme temperatures and air pollution on young children and their caregivers.
Grow Outdoors South Carolina, a collaborative effort of the Division of Early Care and Education at the SC Department of Social Services (DSS) and the Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity Prevention at the SC Department of Public Health (DPH), aims to transform early childhood outdoor spaces into diverse naturalized environments that spark play and learning. To meet our shared missions, we are seeking an Education and Engagement Specialist to contribute to the application of the ECHO model through Grow Outdoors South Carolina.
The primary roles of the Education and Engagement Specialist are to collaborate with and support the ECHO Grow Outdoors South Carolina multi-disciplinary design and engagement team, to foster greater engagement of children in outdoor learning through education, training, support, and communications. The Education and Engagement Specialist develops and implements training and professional development offerings, serves as the main point of contact for participating early childhood education centers, strengthens existing relationships and creates new partnerships, builds local and regional expertise and capacity, and provides general administrative support for events and programming.
For more information, please see the job description and application.
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