The Senior Environmental Employment (SEE) Program provides opportunities for workers at least 55 years old to assist the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on various federal, state, and local environmental projects, including pollution prevention, abatement, and control. SEE enrollees perform a wide range of assignments, such as performing water supply inventories, writing and editing EPA environmental education and outreach publications, and conducting school asbestos surveys. The program is authorized by the Environmental Programs Assistance Act of 1984 (P.L. 98-313).

The Center for Workforce Inclusion administers its SEE Program as one of five national nonprofit organizations that were selected by the EPA based on those nonprofits’ experience administering the Senior Community Service Employment Program. Through Cooperative Agreements, EPA awards funds for the Center to recruit, screen, place, and pay SEE enrollees. After qualified applicants are selected through a cooperative process, EPA staff oversees the work of SEE enrollees while the Center provides payroll, time record maintenance, record keeping, and administrative support.

Participants must be at least 55 years old and legally eligible to work in the United States. SEE enrollees are not employees of EPA but receive wages and benefits including paid federal holidays, health insurance, and vacation and sick leave. Enrollees may work part or full time.

By law, SEE enrollees cannot displace or reduce the non-overtime hours, wages, or employment benefits of other employees of the environmental agency concerned; perform work of concerned environmental agency employees who are in a layoff status from the same or a substantially equivalent job or function; or affect existing contracts for services.

Follow the link to browse a list of current openings and apply to vacant positions in our EPA-SEE Program.

SEE Program General Information

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The Center handbook for SEE enrollees and monitors describes the policies, procedures, benefits, and restrictions affecting enrollee participation in the SEE Program.

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The Center for Workforce Inclusion, Inc. Senior Environment Employment Program (SEE) Title IX Policy Statement

The Center for Workforce Inclusion, Inc. (CWI) SEE adheres to all federal, state, and local civil rights laws prohibiting discrimination in employment and education. CWI SEE does not discriminate in its employment practices, or in its educational programs or activities on the basis of sex, sexual stereotype, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, and parenting status and forbids retaliation against anyone for engaging in protected activity.

CWI SEE strives to maintain a safe environment free from violence, exploitation, intimidation, and discrimination. Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (“Title IX”) prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in any education programs or activities that receive federal funding, which includes locations, events, or circumstances over which CWI SEE has substantial control. Title IX applies to sexual harassment (including sexual assault) that prevents SEE Enrollees from participating fully and equitably in education opportunities. CWI SEE is committed to upholding the principles of Title IX by responding promptly and thoroughly to all complaints/reports of sex discrimination, harassment, or violence.

Sexual harassment can be committed by both men and women, and can involve people of the same sex, opposite sex, or non-binary persons. It can occur between strangers or between those who know each other well, including people involved in an intimate or sexual relationship. Additionally, sexual harassment can occur over the internet or in other cyber-based environments. This Policy prohibits such behavior in the context of the SEE regardless of the means by which such behavior occurs.

This policy extends to all SEE Enrollees, and all applicants for admission and/or selection to the SEE program, and to participants in all programs and activities supported by CWI SEE.

As a recipient of federal financial assistance for education activities, CWI SEE is required by Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 to ensure that all of its education programs and activities do not discriminate on the basis of sex/gender. Sex includes sex, sex stereotypes, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation and pregnancy or parenting status.

CWI SEE also prohibits retaliation against any person opposing discrimination or participating in any investigation or complaint process internal or external to the CWI SEE involving discrimination. Sexual harassment, sexual assault, dating and domestic violence, and stalking are forms of sex discrimination, which are prohibited under Title IX and by the CWI SEE.

Sexual harassment of SEE Enrollees, or applicants, in any form will not be tolerated. Sexual harassment includes, but is not limited to unwelcome sexual flirtations, propositions, verbal abuse of a sexual nature, requests for sexual activities, unwanted touching of an individual, graphic verbal commentaries about an individual’s body, sexually degrading words, a display in the workplace of sexually suggestive objects or
pictures, sexually explicit or offensive jokes, or physical assault. No CWI employee, EPA employee or SEE Enrollee shall threaten or insinuate, explicitly or implicitly, that another employee or Enrollee’s refusal to submit to sexual advances will adversely affect that person’s employment and/or enrollment in the SEE Program, performance evaluation, wages, assigned duties, shifts or any other condition of employment and/or program enrollment. No CWI employee or EPA employee shall promise, imply or grant any preferential treatment in connection with an Enrollee engaging in sexual conduct.

Any CWI employee, EPA employee or SEE Enrollee who acts to deny, deprive, or limit the educational, employment, social access opportunities and/or benefits of any other CWI employee, EPA employee or SEE Enrollee on the basis of sex is in violation of this Policy and Procedure on Sexual Discrimination and Misconduct.

Any SEE Enrollee may report sex discrimination or sex harassment (whether or not the person reporting is the person alleged to have experienced the conduct), in person, by mail, by telephone, or by email, using the contact information listed below for the Title IX Coordinator.

Questions regarding Title IX, and/or concerns about noncompliance, should be directed to the Title IX Coordinator. To view a complete copy of the Title IX Policy click here.

Margaret Daniels
Chief Human Resources Officer/Title IX Coordinator
8403 Colesville Road, Suite 200
Silver Spring, MD 20910-6391
mdaniels@workforceinclusion.org
301-578-8836

This policy is applicable to enrollees, job seekers and employees of CWI.
Margaret Daniels, CHRO, serves as the Title IX Coordinator for all applicable parties.