Positions Open!

 

Associate Director: Fuel our impact

The Role

The Associate Director is a pivotal leadership role charged with stewarding the organization’s growth through strategic fundraising and marketing. This position leads revenue generation, shapes the organization’s narrative and public presence, and builds the internal systems needed for long-term sustainability, ensuring all efforts remain aligned with mission and values.

As Associate Director you are the organization’s lead strategist and operator for philanthropy and communications. You will set direction with the ED, drive results, and ensure that impact, messaging, and fiscal viability are deeply aligned.

You will partner closely with the ED to support growth, visibility, and long-term financial health for Hearty Roots to show up in the world with clarity, heart, and credibility.

Core Responsibilities

Strategy & Leadership

  • Serve as a senior organizational leader, contributing to strategy, advancement, and public relations

  • Embed a relationship-based and inclusive culture of philanthropy: All donors are partners investing in a shared mission

  • Translate organizational vision into clear fundraising and marketing priorities that support long-term growth and impact

  • Build scalable systems for development and marketing (CRM, workflows, reporting)

Fundraising

  • Design and implement a comprehensive development strategy to build and cultivate a reliable base of individual donors and corporate sponsors

  • Manage the full grant life cycle, including prospecting, proposal development, and funder stewardship

  • Craft and implement major campaigns, appeals, and fundraising events

  • Establish performance metrics and accountability across all fundraising activities throughout the organization

Marketing & Communications 

  • Refresh Hearty Roots’ narrative and brand as a differentiated, trusted leader in youth mental health across all channels within Maine and eventually, regionally and nationally

  • Develop and ensure consistent, compelling storytelling that reflects mission, values, and impact

  • Expand and maintain digital fundraising systems, communications calendars, and core marketing assets for the current and planned geographic markets

Who You Are

You are a senior-level leader who is also a scrapper. You are both strategic and ready to roll up your sleeves. It excites you to think about hearing reflections from young people outdoors in ‘the field’ because you get to share the testament of the work. You appreciate mud season in all its glory. You think black flies are a state of mind. You can get down with all that comes with a lean, nimble, and responsive nonprofit that puts young people first. Your values-driven leadership will cohere with our unique staff team culture that radiates joy, authenticity, and grit.

  • Preferred 5+ years of senior-level experience in nonprofit development

  • Demonstrated success leading fundraising strategy and driving revenue growth

  • Experience overseeing organizational marketing and communications

  • Exceptional storytelling and communication skills

  • Experience scaling systems and teams in growing organizations

  • Comfort making decisions, setting priorities, and creating structure in a growing organization

Why Hearty Roots

  • Senior leadership impact: This is an opportunity to shape a rapidly evolving organization’s funding, voice, and future.

  • Real ownership: You take charge of fundraising and marketing—end to end.

  • Mission that matters: Your work directly supports youth mental health and access to healing experiences in nature.

  • Growth-oriented: This role is designed to expand in scope and influence as Hearty Roots grows.

Compensation & Benefits

  • Salary range: $70,000-$75,000, commensurate with experience

  • Hearty Roots has an ICHRA reimbursement model to support healthcare expenses. Please note that our goal is to offer a more comprehensive healthcare package in 2027.

Equal Opportunity Statement

Hearty Roots is an equal opportunity employer and encourages candidates of all backgrounds, identities, and lived experiences to apply. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace that reflects the communities we serve.

How to Apply

Interested candidates should please send a cover letter and resume to ED Haley Bezon: haley@heartyroots.org

AmeriCorps VISTA position: looking for a rock star!

If making a meaningful contribution to a youth development organization while spending much of your time in the woods and on the shores of Biscay Pond in midcoast Maine sounds like an amazing way to spend a year of service, you’re not wrong! Hearty Roots uses innovative, outdoor-based programs to help kids 5-17 years old find strategies that support their mental health during the ever present challenges of growing up. Our 115-acre campus of ancient hemlocks and lakeshore has trails, a pavilion and a few outhouses but it is ready for more! 

Working with our facilities manager, this position will offer days spent outside in Bremen, Maine, developing the campus infrastructure and supporting year-round youth programming that happens on the land weekly. We dream of an ADA trail for our neuro- and physically-divergent kids, tent platforms in remote parts of the forest, and a gear barn; this volunteer would participate in the planning and execution of our mindful campus evolution.

Opportunities for skill development will include timber framing, trail design, woodland management, and more. The staff at Hearty Roots are a fun, inclusive, compassionate and thoughtful group of humans who value being part of a supportive community.

Think you’re the one? Apply here! Want to know more about the VISTA program? Here you go!

 

Teen Vocational Apprenticeships

These Apprenticeship programs are designed to offer teens a paid opportunity to build work based skills and be a part of Hearty Roots team! We will offer monthly paid job training meetups in town at SKIDOMPHA or at the Hearty Roots land. Then Apprentices will transition into a work area of their choosing in the summer months. There will be an option to continue working with Hearty Roots during the school year over Holiday Breaks and weekends. 

Day Camp Adventure Mentor: 

Ideal for teens who enjoy:
Working with kids, outdoor education, crafting, games, leadership, social skills, and building community.


Core Responsibilities: 
Assist in running day camps. 

Support outdoor games, fire-building instruction, nature crafts, carving, survival skills.
Help with snack & gear management
Act as positive peer mentors for younger participants
Design one small youth-led activity/session per season


Skill Development
Child supervision & behavior management
Leadership & communication
Curriculum creation
Risk assessment & safety
Trauma-informed youth work basics
Time management & professionalism

Application Process : 

All Students must apply via our online application here:

Adventure Mentor Job Application

Trail Crew Apprenticeship: 

Ideal for teens who enjoy:
Physical work, tools, nature, conservation, ecology, and building things with their hands.


Core Responsibilities
Trail maintenance: clearing brush, repairing trails, building small structures,
Invasive species removal and habitat restoration
Basic carpentry for camp structures, signs, etc.
Seasonal projects: planting, pruning, mulching, litter clean-ups
Participation in one YAB-led stewardship project (ex: a new trail loop or pollinator garden)


Skill Development
Tool safety (saws, loppers, pick-mattocks, shovels)
Ecology & land health understanding
Teamwork & project planning
Physical conditioning & resilience
Outdoor risk management

Trail Crew Application Process : 

All Students must apply via our online application here:

Trail Crew Job Application

 

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