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Employer: The Forest Stewards Guild
Location: within easy driving distance of Hallowell, Maine or Asheville, North Carolina. Other locations may be considered.
Application deadline: May 30, 2003
Full position description and application instructions
Summary:
Want to help the Guild lead our work in eastern forests, in partnership with the existing Guild staff in Maine, North Carolina, and Deputy Director Amanda Mahaffey? The Eastern Program Development Director will lead program development in areas that meet ecological forestry needs in the region, including woodland owner outreach, forest climate adaptation, ecosystem resiliency, and fire science in management. The Director will also be responsible for growing the Guild’s Northeast and Southeast programs through strategic planning and fundraising. This Director position is an excellent opportunity to work with an awesome team and practice and promote forest stewardship.
Duties:
- Lead the Guild’s Northeast and Southeast teams in collaborative projects that advance the Guild’s mission of ecological forestry.
- Perform program administration, grant writing, and reporting to a variety of funders, including government grants and private foundations.
- Track program budgets, match, metrics, and deliverables, and be the go-to for external communications.
- Supervise staff, including supporting workplan and professional development.
- And more...
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| Job Category | Forest Stewards Guild |
Employer: New England Forestry Foundation
Location: Most of these positions have flexible locations, with some time at Prouty Woods headquarters in Littleton, Massachusetts.
Application deadline: Most of these positions have no specific application deadline and are open until filled.
Full position descriptions and application instructions
Summary:
NEFF is seeking to fill the following positions to expand our core team with a group of passionate, high-level and visionary forest and climate professionals. Position descriptions and application information are available on NEFF’s Careers page for all positions noted below.
- Exemplary Forestry Center – CSC Program Forester
- Exemplary Forestry Center – CSC Climate-Smart Wood Sourcing Specialist
- Outreach Manager for Climate-Smart Forestry
- Woodlands Partnership Coordinator
Employer: North Woods Stewardship Center
Location: Island Pond, Vermont
Application deadline: Varies by position. Many still accepting applications as of May 4, 2023.
Full position descriptions and application instructions
Summary:
The NorthWoods Stewardship Center is hiring multiple full-time seasonal positions for 2023! Come work with a great community of staff, based out of our East Charleston, Vermont campus. Many of the folks who come work for us seasonally end up returning for multiple years in various capacities or take their practical on-the-ground experience to move on to with other environmental organizations or agencies - that's why we are here! Bring your passion and get ready to learn and get dirty!
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| Job Category | seasonal |
Employer: New Jersey Audubon
Location: Port Murray, New Jersey
Application deadline: This position will remain open until filled (still posted as of May 4, 2023)
Full position description and application instructions
Summary:
The Stewardship Project Coordinator (Forests) will work collaboratively with New Jersey Audubon staff and partners to lead a team in implementing conservation initiatives for both public and private landowners in New Jersey. The position’s primary responsibilities will seek to achieve the goals set by the organization’s Conservation Priorities, with a focus on Forests, Farms and Watersheds.
Duties and responsibilities:
Coordinate and implement project plans, assist the Project Director in securing funding for habitat restoration projects, and serves as New Jersey Audubon’s northern forestry coordinator. Other responsibilities include landowner outreach, project communications, maintaining partner, funder, donor, and stakeholder relationships, and assisting with on-the-ground habitat restoration activities.
Employer: New Jersey Audubon
Location: Port Murray, New Jersey
Application deadline: This position will remain open until filled (still posted as of May 4, 2023)
Full position description and application instructions
Summary:
The Stewardship Project Coordinator (Agriculture & Wetlands) will work collaboratively with New Jersey Audubon staff and partners to lead a team in implementing conservation initiatives for both public and private landowners in New Jersey. The position’s primary responsibilities will seek to achieve the goals set by the organization’s Conservation Priorities, with a focus on Forests, Farms and Watersheds.
Duties and responsibilities:
Coordinate and implement project plans, assist the Project Director in securing funding for habitat restoration projects, and serve as New Jersey Audubon’s northern agricultural and wetlands restoration coordinator. Other responsibilities include landowner outreach, project communications, maintaining partner, funder, donor and stakeholder relationships, and assisting with on-the-ground habitat restoration activities.
Employer: Department of Geology & Geography, Eberly College of Arts and Sciences
Location: Hamden, CT
Application deadline: Open until filled (still posted as of March 1, 2023)
Full position description and application instructions
Summary:
The Department of Geology and Geography in the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences is seeking applications for a Postdoctoral Research Associate to support the following project: Application of Prescribed Fire to Control Southern Pine Beetle, Callery Pear, Spotted Lantern Fly. The researcher will work with researchers of West Virginia University, US Forest Service, and USDA APHIS to investigate how prescribed fire may be useful as a component of integrated pest management for reducing invasive forest pest insects.
This project involves a mix of field and laboratory experiments to explore mechanistic and empirical relationships between fire behavior processes and fire effects as they relate to invasive species egg mass mortality from prescribed fire or its effects. Spotted lanternfly and spongy moth have been selected as two test species for this project. Data collection and field experiments for this work will be conducted in the New Jersey Pinelands while laboratory work will be conducted at the US Forest Service quarantine laboratory in Ansonia, CT. The incumbent will be stationed at the laboratory in Hamden, CT and for day-to-day activities will be supervised by project co-PI Dr. Melody Keena.
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| Job Category | PostDoc |
California, Intermountain West, Lake States, Northeast, Pacific Northwest, Southeast, Southwest
Posted 1 year ago
Employer: Student Conservation Association
Locations vary
Application deadlines and appointment dates vary...start dates throughout 2023
Full list of positions, descriptions, and application instructions
One example:
Resource Management Intern from September - December 2023
Intern will work in the Resource Management Division of the park on a variety of projects: Historic Earthwork Monitoring and Preservation (30%); Trail monitoring and maintenance (20%); Manage invasive exotic vegetation (30%); Animal monitoring (15%); and GIS/GPS work (5%).
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| Job Category | Internship, Fellowship or Assistantship |
Employer: Suffolk County Water Authority
Location: Westhampton Beach, NY
Application deadline: none listed (still posted as of May 4, 2023)
Full position description and application instructions
Summary:
Perform key roles in managing the comprehensive prescribed fire program operated by the Central Pine Barrens Joint Planning and Policy Commission for the Central Pine Barrens region.
Responsibilities include:
- leading the development and implementation of all aspects of the prescribed fire management program
- the supervision and training of prescribed fire crews
- conducting fuels, smoke and wildland fire management/mitigation
- assisting with public education and outreach and the preparation of prescribed and wildland fire management plans for ecological and fuel management in collaboration with other agencies and stakeholders.
- preparing prescribed and wildland fire management plans for ecological and fuel management in collaboration with other agencies and stakeholders.