Construction Crew Leader - Home Repair - 2025-26

Construction Crew Leader - Home Repair

For one year, you can get paid to build sustainable solutions in a community, gain valuable hands-on experience and prepare for your future. This full-time AmeriCorps service position offers a great opportunity to make a real impact in the lives of others while building your own knowledge and skillset.

AmeriCorps National members serve the community in direct service and capacity building activities.

What will you do?

The Home Repair Construction Crew Leader plays an integral part in building and repairing homes. Lead groups of skilled and unskilled volunteers and homeowner families in construction activities while maintaining a safe, efficient work environment, thus, developing and enhancing your volunteer management and construction skills.

This position will focus on the construction work involved with the home repair program of Habitat for Humanity of Orange County operations. The home repair program is designed to help preserve affordable homeownership and help local homeowners keep their homes healthy, safe and accessible.

• Typically serve Tuesday - Saturday on the build site.
• Types of repairs include critical repairs (e.g. roof, HVAC, and plumbing), accessibility modifications (e.g. wheelchair ramps, grab bars, and handrails), and other general repairs (e.g. porch or deck replacement, painting, and patching).
• Lead small groups of volunteers and facilitate safe and positive experiences for everyone working on site.
• Maintain site safety by adhering to Habitat construction safety policies, modeling best practices and guidelines, volunteer education and site monitoring.

This position will focus on home repair aspects of Habitat affiliate operations.

Where will you serve?

• Organization name: Habitat for Humanity of Orange County
• Nearest metropolitan area: Raleigh-Durham, NC
• Full-time staff: 33
• Expected number of AmeriCorps members: 6
• Number of homes to be built: 20
• Activities and attractions: Beaches and the Atlantic coast are 2.5 hours to the east, and the Blue Ridge mountains are 3 hours to the west! Chapel Hill is a thriving college town with a plethora of amenities. In addition, Raleigh and Durham, NC are within a 20-30 minute drive from our office. Both areas offer an even wider variety of amenities and attractions including and extensive collection of historic sites, museums and parks. There is always something to do in the area!
• Unique projects: We are working on building a Home Preservation program that looks beyond simple reactive repairs. Instead, we want our program to take a more holistic and proactive approach that will truly preserve the long-term viability of a home. We've discovered that more and more Orange County residents, especially seniors who are aging-in-place, are finding themselves in situations where outwardly simple repairs are just a small symptom of a much larger problem. Instead of just fixing the most pressing issue, we are working to do total home repairs that will help make sure that families are not getting displaced within our service area.

When will you serve?

Start dates are flexible and based on this location's availability. Talk to the hiring manager for this position about start dates during your interview process. The start date will be 4-6 weeks from receiving an offer and no earlier than August 2025.

Benefits of AmeriCorps service

• Living allowance of $20,400 for approximately 10 months of service.
• Segal Education Award of $7,395, upon successful completion of service (lifetime maximum of two full education awards).
• Forbearance for most federally-guaranteed student loans.
• Health care benefits and enrollment in Employee Assistance Plan.
• Personal and medical leave - approximately 10 days total.
• Personal and professional development opportunities.
• Child care benefits, if you qualify.
• Worker's compensation insurance.

Supplemental Benefits

• Housing stipend paid directly to your landlord ($800 per month)

Minimum Requirements

Applicants must be a U.S. citizen, national or lawful permanent resident at least 18 or older and have a high school diploma or GED.

What are we looking for?

Our ideal candidates:

• Are passionate about serving the community through direct service.
• Demonstrate respect for diversity of opinion, experience, and background.
• Desire to gain hands-on experience in the affordable housing and nonprofit sector.
• Have experience working on a team.
• Possess stellar interpersonal communication skills.
• Are motivated and committed to serve full time and in person.