GIS & Wildfire Resilience Intern

GIS & Wildfire Resilience Intern Host Department: Larimer County Office of Emergency Management (OEM) Internship Focus: GIS, wildfire mitigation and resilience, project documentation, and public communication. Timeline: Anticipated start December/January; ends by or before May 31, 2027. Pay rate: $25/hour. Part-time: about 20 hours per week or less, flexible. Work location: hybrid, combining in-person work at the Larimer Regional Emergency Operations Center, optional remote work, and occasional travel to partner locations and project sites throughout Larimer County. Overview: The intern will support documentation and visualization of two wildfire mitigation and forest resilience projects funded through the Colorado Strategic Wildfire Action Program Landscape Resilience Investment (COSWAP LRI) program: Pole Hill / Waltonia (complete) and North Cherokee Park / Cedar Park (in progress). Responsibilities include reviewing grant applications, scopes, progress reports, maps and treatment records; interviewing staff and partners; compiling, cleaning and organizing GIS data; developing project boundaries and treatment polygons with attributes; building a maintainable GIS data structure; creating professional maps and a progress-tracking methodology; and developing ArcGIS Online web maps and an ArcGIS StoryMap. A great opportunity for a student, recent grad, or early career professional. How to apply: send your resume and an example work product demonstrating your mapping or geospatial experience to Josh Roberts at [email protected]. Application deadline: 5 PM on Tuesday, October 27, 2026. Full details: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jvHRtb1sko9bxRMFSsq1J1tBSCI-6mM1/view