Weeds & Wine Intern

Employment Type: Internship
Employment Classification: Temporary/Contract (Independent Contractor)
Start Date: June 1, 2026, 3-month commitment (flexible start and end dates)
Apply by: April 15, 2025
Reports to: Beltline Arboretum Senior Manager
Salary: $2,100.00 Stipend (up to 16 hours per week)

Trees Atlanta is a nationally recognized non-profit community group committed to protecting and improving Atlanta’s urban forest through planting, conserving, and educating. Founded in 1985, Trees Atlanta works tirelessly to address Atlanta’s tree loss, protect its forests, and create new greenspace. Empowered by its wonderful community of volunteers, Trees Atlanta serves the metro Atlanta area, and has grown to become one of Atlanta’s most widely known and supported non-profit organizations.

The Atlanta Beltline is a sustainable redevelopment project that connects a network of public parks, multi-use trails, and light-rail transit along a main paved trail artery that reuses a historic 22-mile railroad corridor. The system circles downtown Atlanta and connects 45 neighborhoods directly to each other, which successfully incentivizes pedestrian movement over vehicular as Atlantans live, work, and play. With nearly 2 million trail users a year, the Atlanta Beltline Arboretum is an unprecedented opportunity to educate the public about ecological
restoration, utilizing native plants, and how urban ecology can reconnect fragmented communities. The Arboretum serves as a component of Atlanta’s urban forest, acts as an ecological corridor and learning landscape providing a place for education, community science and scientific research.

Job Description

Trees Atlanta is looking for a Weeds & Wine Intern to assist with the Beltline Arboretum 2026 Weeds & Wine program series providing weed / invasive control, and monitoring over 10 acres of native grasses and forbs along the Atlanta Beltline’s Eastside, Southeast, Southwest and Westside Trails, in the specific area of native grassland monitoring and maintenance in the following tasks:

• Planning and coordination of weed pull projects
• Weed and invasive plant assessment
• Supervision of volunteers during maintenance projects
• Communicating with potential partners for maintenance projects
• Taking photographs of events to promote and thank partners
• Other duties as assigned

The Trees Atlanta Weeds & Wine Intern position is an opportunity for students or recent college graduates to gain experience working with volunteers in an environmental non-profit organization on a major landscape/infrastructure project.

Requirements

• Preferred majors: ecology, horticulture, biology, botany, environmental science, or related fields
• Interest in working with volunteers
• Reliable transportation and the ability to transport tools to the work site
• Basic knowledge of local and invasive plants is helpful
• Have excellent interpersonal skills
• Be self-motivated and enthusiastic

Physical Requirements

• Ability to lift heavy items and work in all types of outdoor weather conditions, including heat, sun, rain, and pollen

This is a temporary position.

To Apply
Please submit an employment application at treesatlanta.org/careers. Applicants must upload a resume and respond to the questionnaire to complete and submit the application.