Volunteer Positions Available:

All volunteer positions are full until April 1, 2006.

If you are planning to volunteer, please apply early.

Sorry no paid volunteer positions are available.

NOTE: VIERS is a no smoking facility and no pets are allowed.

VIERS Volunteer Support Staff

Stay for two weeks, a month, or a couple of months! We can work around your schedule.

The Virgin Islands Environmental Resource Station (VIERS) offers opportunities for individuals to provide volunteer unpaid services throughout the year.

Throughout the entire year, volunteers help VIERS staff with cleaning, weeding, painting and other general activities associated with improving the facility.

From January through August, VIERS hosts school groups and others as overnight guests and assistance is often needed with housekeeping [such as cleaning cabins, showers and restrooms as well as laundry], kitchen help [such as meal presentation and cleaning the dining hall and kitchen], store/office [such as stocking inventory] as well as helping with improvement projects [such as light carpentry projects]. Extra Volunteers are needed to help with groups in January and March.

From May through August, VIERS concentrates on providing direct environmental education to Virgin Island and Caribbean students and assistance is often needed in presenting guided hikes, lectures, slide/video presentations, island tours, swimming lessons, lifeguarding, etc. Extra volunteers are need from July 6 to August 3 to help with our summer youth camps.

From September through December, VIERS has an occasional group visit and will require guest services, but caretaking, weeding and facility improvements are the primary activities in the fall.

Volunteers are assigned duties throughout the day. Improvement projects are usually scheduled from 8 a.m. to noon on days when groups are not visiting VIERS.

Caution: Some activities will make you sweat,

some activities will get you dirty,

and volunteers are often assigned to clean toilets on daily basis!