Associate Director – California Central Valley River Restoration

🕒 Julho 28

🏄 California – Remoto

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $70.304 - $89.400 / ano

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American Rivers

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51 - 200 funcionários

Fundada em 1973

💼 Consultoria

🤝 Sem Fins Lucrativos

Consulting • Non-profit • Environmental

American Rivers é uma organização sem fins lucrativos dedicada à proteção e restauração de rios em todo os Estados Unidos. Eles se concentram em garantir água limpa, restaurar rios e proteger ecossistemas fluviais, com objetivos como a remoção de barragens prejudiciais e a promoção da resiliência climática em comunidades urbanas. A American Rivers visa proteger um milhão de milhas de rios de fluxo livre até 2030 e metade de todos os rios nos EUA até 2050, focando em áreas onde as pessoas vivem, trabalhando para garantir que os fundos federais sejam utilizados de maneira eficaz para melhorar a segurança, saúde e biodiversidade. Eles também se empenham em educar e mobilizar o público para se tornarem defensores da conservação dos rios.

Descrição

• Help American Rivers develop and implement projects to protect and restore critical rivers and floodplains in California; • Be part of the Central Valley Program team; • Manage on-the-ground restoration projects from conception to implementation—including securing funding; managing contracts; managing budgets and schedules for public and private grants; conducting community outreach, and coordinating with multiple agencies, partners, and consultants; • Support the general activities of the Central Valley Program while focusing project management efforts in Sacramento, Stockton, and Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta areas; • Work with the Central Valley Program team to develop and implement multi-benefit strategies for restoring floodplains at scale; • Manage funding, planning, and implementation of multi-benefit river restoration projects in California, including community outreach, partner engagement, environmental assessments, project design, monitoring, budgeting, contracting, permitting, invoice tracking, soliciting bids, and project construction oversight; • Manage and ensure compliance with grant agreements, contracts, and subcontracts, and develop and track contracts, scopes of work, deliverables, timelines, and reports; • Help develop solutions to technical, legal, and political challenges planning and implementing restoration projects; • Conduct community outreach to solicit feedback and engage diverse partners to plan and implement river restoration projects and programs; • Participate and represent American Rivers in regional collaborative efforts; • Identify sources and work with the Central Valley Program to develop fundraising proposals and grant applications for identified projects; • Draft comments and advocacy letters to shape river and water management projects, programs, and policies; • Represent American Rivers in public planning forums as appropriate.

🎯 Requisitos

• Experience in project management, including overseeing consultant teams; • Experience leading watershed management or river/creek restoration or similar projects and/or programs; • Demonstrated commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and environmental justice; • Demonstrated understanding of California water policy with a focus on flood management, hydrology/hydraulics, and/or river restoration preferred; • Excellent interpersonal skills, a good sense of humor, and an ability to work effectively with a diverse range of people; • Strong organizational skills and demonstrated experience meeting project deadlines; • Ability to manage budgets and project tasks in Excel spreadsheets; • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including public speaking and the ability to effectively communicate with partners and agency representatives; • Initiative, coupled with creative and strategic thinking; • Experience in community engagement, particularly with disadvantaged and underrepresented communities; • Willingness to travel as needed to Sacramento and/or other parts of the Central Valley and throughout California for project site visits, partner meetings, etc.; • Experience with fundraising and/or grant writing; • Appropriate combination of education and/or at least 5 years of relevant experience or graduate degree in a relevant field and/or at least 2 years of relevant experience; • Personal commitment to American Rivers’ mission.

🏖️ Benefícios

• Medical, dental, vision, long-term and short-term disability, and life insurance. • After one year of service, American Rivers begins contributing a 3% employer contribution. • Four weeks of paid leave, eleven paid holidays, three floating holidays, and sick leave. • Professional development opportunities. • Home office stipend. • Sabbatical leave (every seven years). • Paid parental leave (six weeks w/ one year of service).