Employer: Forest Stewards Guild

Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico. Other locations in northern NM and southern CO (i.e., Chama, Taos, Alamosa, Pagosa) will also be considered.

Application deadline: This position is open until filled. Applications will be considered on a rolling basis starting July 11th.

Full position description and application instructions

Summary:

We are seeking a dynamic and collaborative leader who is outgoing, personable, and skilled at connecting with individuals and groups. The successful candidate will use their experience in project management, partnership building, science communication, and ecological forestry to work with Guild staff, partners, and landowners to evaluate project needs, implement climate-smart forestry projects, conduct educational outreach, and facilitate collaborative participation, among other activities as project needs are identified.

The successful individual will:

• Work with a team to coordinate collaboration for the Rio Chama CFLRP and the 232 Cohesive Strategy Partnership,
• Implement climate-smart forestry by working with a team to develop strategy and build partnerships for climate mitigation and forest resilience that benefits underserved and small-acreage forest landowners,
• Support Forest Stewards Guild work by:
  • Maintaining and grow partnerships for Southwest programs,
  • As needed and desired, may support Guild prescribed fire operations,
  • Represent the Guild at professional conferences or events and perform public speaking, such as PowerPoint presentations or panel discussions to share on project deliverables or monitoring metrics,
  • and more.