Senior Project Manager
ABOUT TROUT UNLIMITED
Trout Unlimited takes care of the rivers and clean water that trout, salmon and communities around the country depend on. We are a nationwide network of advocates, outdoor enthusiasts, volunteers, anglers and staff dedicated to protecting places where trout and salmon thrive and recovering rivers and fisheries that need help. We want to make sure healthy rivers and fisheries are available for all people to use and enjoy.
Trout Unlimited has 300,000 members and supporters supported by a respected staff of organizers, lawyers, policy experts, and scientists, who work out of more than 20 offices across the country. The California program has 35 staff located in Emeryville, Ft. Bragg, Truckee, and home offices around the state. Every year our team manages dozens of river flow and habitat restoration projects, with focal areas on the North Coast, Sacramento Valley, and the Sierras, and we advocate for strong conservation policies by the state and federal government.
POSITION SUMMARY
TU’s Inland Trout Program works to restore native and wild inland trout populations and their associated Sierra Nevada headwater habitat, primarily located on public land. We have approximately 20 active watershed restoration projects under way, at all stages of development, and anticipate a minimum of 10 years more work given the level of need. Our program takes projects through the full life cycle from identification, prioritization and stakeholder engagement, to design, permitting, funding, implementation, monitoring, and adaptive management. We work inclusively with public, private and tribal partners, and deploy a range of science-based restoration techniques, often that the landscape-level. Our projects seek to reverse over a century of degradation to critically important Sierra Nevada habitats. Project types include but are not limited to process and formed-based stream and meadow restoration, aquatic organism passage replacement, sediment reduction via roads maintenance/decommissioning, forest health and post-fire remediation.
Trout Unlimited is hiring a self-motivated and highly capable person to work as a senior project manager in our California Inland Trout Program. The person will identify, plan, and implement opportunities for wild and native trout habitat restoration and connectivity projects across the Sierra Nevada, with a focus on the central and northern Sierra. They will work closely with our California Inland Trout Program Director, science team and other field staff on a wide variety of headwater stream, meadow and associated habitat restoration projects. The person will work closely with state and federal agency partners, agricultural community members, conservation community partners and TU’s grassroots chapters. The person will ideally be based near the TU Truckee Office and report to the California Inland Trout Program Director.
The primary function of the Program Manager will be to facilitate successful project implementation, including with respect to:
i. Raising program funding by developing grant applications and budgets for federal, state, foundation, private, and corporate sources; and overseeing the expenditure of grant funds.
ii. Procuring contractors and services and overseeing contract deliverables and budgets.
iii. Managing staff and contractors.
iv. Developing and facilitating inclusive stakeholder processes and working with Native American tribes and bands.
v. Facilitating successful permit applications and NEPA approval processes.
vi. Integrating science into project prioritization and effectiveness evaluation, especially through effective monitoring.
vii. Overseeing project implementation.
The position requires excellent attention to detail and organizational skills; the ability to develop trust-based relationships with a wide range of people; and the judgement to anticipate and ward off problems. The ideal candidate is a person who loves the Sierra Nevada and is excited by the opportunity to contribute to its resilience by attending to the multitude of steps required for successful habitat restoration. The person will be based within a two-hour driving distance to Truckee and position reports to the California Inland Trout Program Director.