Thank you for considering employment with ECHO. Open positions are listed below.
An initiative of NWF, Early Childhood Health Outdoors (ECHO) envisions a world where every young child experiences nature daily. Launched in 2017, ECHO has been working with communities throughout the United States to transform children’s daily environments by enhancing opportunities to engage meaningfully in nature. By providing a combination of thoughtful landscape design and professional development opportunities for early childhood professionals, ECHO employs a health equity model that improves access to the benefits of nature for the children and caregivers who face the greatest barriers. In turn, naturalized play settings improve environmental health by helping to mitigate the impacts of extreme temperatures and air pollution on young children and their caregivers.
To meet our mission, we are seeking a Landscape Design Manager for ECHO to oversee the application of this model through the Grow Outdoors South Carolina initiative. A joint effort of the Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity Prevention at the SC Department of Public Health (DPH) and ABC Quality at the SC Department of Social Services (DSS), Grow Outdoors South Carolina (GO SC), aims to transform early childhood outdoor spaces into naturalized environments that spark play and learning. The Landscape Design Manager will provide leadership for the ECHO Grow Outdoors South Carolina multi-disciplinary education and design team to implement the program’s overarching initiatives.
For more information, please see the job description and application.
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