CAREERS

Thunder Valley CDC is always looking for creative, energetic and entrepreneurial people to join our team! We are constantly growing and looking to build out our team to meet the demands of our continued growth. If you are interested in applying to Thunder Valley CDC, send a completed application and resume to jobs@thundervalley.org. Include the position title in the subject line.

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Open Positions

  • Lakota Language Learner and Montessori Provider

    The Lakota Language Learner and Montessori Provider will spend their day supervising classroom activities with the children, ensuring that all communication is in the Lakota language. Their responsibilities will include reading to the children, facilitating activities, engaging in games, overseeing recess and mealtimes, and helping children settle down for naps. These duties will be collaboratively managed by all providers. Furthermore, the providers will contribute to maintaining the cleanliness, organization, and tidiness of the learning and play areas, as well as assisting with daily operational tasks as required. In addition, the Lakota Language Learner employee will focus on enhancing language fluency through a personalized individual learning plan as well as participating in any available language classes.

  • Workforce Development Director

    The Workforce Development Director will oversee the holistic workforce development initiative which targets young adults aged 18-26, providing both classroom-based and onsite training such as in bison ranching and regenerative farming practices, traditional ecological knowledge, and land stewardship, as well as a curriculum centered around mental health and Lakota lifeways topics, including the significance of buffalo and their role in Tribal holistic economy. The Workforce Development Director will oversee the skill and capacity development of program participants. Program participants will also receive support in refining their educational plan and developing their soft skills. Workforce Development Director will create a complete cohort schedule that maximizes participant learning to include professional soft skills development, tailored individual and group counseling, interpersonal and emotional development, and other training as needed to meet program objectives and ensure participants meet goals outlined in their personal success plans, individual education plans, and healing plans.

Nondiscrimination Statement:

In accordance with Federal civil rights law and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) civil rights regulations and policies, the USDA, its Agencies, offices, and employees, and institutions participating in or administering USDA programs are prohibited from discriminating based on race, color, national origin, religion, sex, gender ident ty (including gender expression), sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, family/parental status, income derived from a public assistance program, political beliefs, or reprisal or retaliation for prior civil rights activity, in any program or activity conducted or funded by USDA (not all bases apply to all programs). Remedies and complaint filing deadlines vary by program or incident.

Persons with disabilities who require alternative means of communication for program information (e.g., Braille, large print, audiotape, American Sign Language, etc.) should contact the responsible Agency or USDA's TARGET Center at (202) 720-2600 (voice and TTY) or contact USDA through the Federal Relay Service at (800) 877-8339. Additionally, program information may be made available in languages other than English.

To file a program discrimination complaint, complete the USDA Program Discrimination Complaint Form, AD-3027, found online at http://www.ascr.usda.gov/complaint filing cust.html and at any USDA office or write a letter addressed to USDA and provide in the letter all of the information requested in the form. To request a copy of the complaint form, call (866) 632-9992. Submit your completed

form or letter to USDA by:

(1) mail:

U.S. Department of Agriculture

Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights

1400 Independence Avenue, SW

Washington, D.C. 20250-9410;

(2) fax: (202) 690-7442; or

(3) email: program.intake@usda.gov.

This institution is an equal opportunity provider.