Employment Opportunities

Join our District as a Program Technician! You will be based in the Virginia, Minnesota NRCS office. You will have flexible scheduling options and can work from home at times. You will be working with a team of SWCD and NRCS staff in a 4-county region and have plenty of opportunities to learn and grow. The job posting is available as a Word document or a PDF. Apply by 11:59 p.m. on May 25, 2026!

Volunteer Opportunities

Do you regularly spend time on a favorite lake or near a favorite stream? Then you may especially enjoy being a citizen lake or stream monitor. Please contact us at info@nslswcd.org, if you are interested in learning more! No one knows the water in their own backyard like the people who live there!

There are many opportunities to volunteer to the benefit of Soil & Water in our area through many different organizations! Some include:

• Rain/Snow/Hail Recording
• Adopt a River
• Aquatic Invasive Species Detector
• MN DNR Volunteer opportunities
• Enjoy Nature as a Master Naturalist
• Lake Ice Reporting
• Lake Level Minnesota
• Lake Monitoring
• Lake Monitoring – Advanced
• Lake Monitoring – BWCAW
• Minnesota Bee Atlas
• Monarch Larva Monitoring Project
• Spring Inventory
• Make Tree “Cookies” for the Classroom
• Stream Monitoring
• Zebra Mussel Monitoring Program