Jobs & RFPs

Jobs and Opportunities

Save the Sound would welcome you to our team!

Addresses and deadlines for each position or request for proposals are noted in the detailed descriptions. No phone calls, please.

If you are applying for more than one position, please submit individual cover letters and résumés for each position, and note in the cover letters all the positions you have applied for.

Save the Sound is an equal opportunity employer. We prohibit discrimination based on age, color, disability, marital or parental status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, or any other legally protected status in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. We encourage applications from demographics underrepresented in the environmental and nonprofit sectors.

Please note: Save the Sound requires all employees, as well as volunteers and interns working in the office or with the public, to be vaccinated against Covid for the protection of our team and the communities in which we work.

Meet our current team.

Elena Colon leads youth from the Mount Vernon Boys and Girls Club on a streamwalk in Oct 2020

Volunteering

We’re grateful for the hard work of volunteers who get trash off their favorite beaches, plant native species, document pollution in their neighborhoods, and push for stronger environmental protections!

To volunteer with Save the Sound, please fill out our registration form and we’ll reach out when there are opportunities near you.

If you’d like to make an impact from home, join our email action network and we’ll alert you when it’s time to reach out to your elected officials about important legislation.

Requests for Proposals

Request for Proposal (“RFP”): Protection and Restoration of Intertidal Marsh Habitat within the Ash Creek Estuary 

Supporting Documents:

RFQ/RFP for the Kinneytown Dam Removal Project: Engineering Design and Permitting

This RFQ/RFP has been cancelled in favor of a new RFQ/RFP that has been re-issued by NVCOG on July 25, 2024, at the following link: https://nvcogct.gov/for-vendors/.

Supporting Documents:

            Project Summary and Preliminary Sediment Assessment Report

                             Appendix 1: Kinneytown Project Conceptual Design Slides

                              Appendix 2: Transformational Habitat Zones

                              Appendix 3: Sediment Assessment Data


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Nov. 17 and Dec. 3
Dana Dam was removed in Fall 2023 to reconnect Norwalk River habitats. Come to the restoration site and learn about dam removal design, implementation, and ecosystem benefits.

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