Director, Floodplain Restoration

🕒 July 22

🌲 Oregon, Washington – Remote

🌲 Oregon – Remote ☕ Washington – Remote

💵 $77.1k - $86.8k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

👔 Director

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American Rivers

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 1973

💼 Consulting

🤝 Non-profit

Consulting • Non-profit • Environmental

American Rivers is a non-profit organization dedicated to the protection and restoration of rivers throughout the United States. They focus on ensuring clean water, restoring rivers, and protecting river ecosystems, with goals such as removing harmful dams and promoting climate resilience in urban communities. American Rivers aims to protect one million miles of free-flowing rivers by 2030 and half of all rivers in the U. S. by 2050, focusing on areas where people live, and they work to ensure federal funds are used effectively to improve safety, health, and biodiversity. They also aim to educate and mobilize the public to become advocates for river conservation.

📋 Description

• Provide high-level leadership for Integrated Flood Management (IFM) program and policy development across Washington and Oregon. • Serve as a strategic advisor to local communities, delivering expert guidance on flood resilience planning, navigating complex funding landscapes, and fostering cross-agency collaboration to improve governance efficiency. • Coordinate closely with the NW River Restoration Director, NW Regional Director, and National Director of Floodplain Restoration. • Serve on the National Floodplain Community of Practice to contribute to national efforts to achieve American Rivers’ North Star objectives. • Update and implement regional capacity-building plans for river restoration in the NW Region. • Advance floodplain restoration through outreach and multimedia communication. • Identify, pursue, and acquire public and private funding. • Represent American Rivers by attending relevant conferences and speaking at regional and national events. • Engage directly with local community leaders to document specific flood resilience needs. • Map local project needs to appropriate state and federal funding streams; assist in identifying and overcoming barriers to grant applications and administration. • Act as the primary liaison to align local resilience planning with broader state-level climate adaptation and emergency management strategies.

🎯 Requirements

• Advanced degree in environmental studies, biology, ecology, geology, hydrology, political science and five years of professional experience in policy advocacy, conservation, floodplain management, water resource management, or a related field; or at least seven years of relevant professional experience. • Demonstrated experience in coalition building and managing diverse interest groups (local government, state agencies, non-governmental organizations, Tribal entities). • Strong understanding of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) and Oregon’s regulatory environment related to land use, water quality, and/or flood risk management (e.g., Department of Environmental Quality, Department of State Lands, Department of Land Conservation and Development rules). • Working knowledge of federal environmental regulatory frameworks, permitting processes (e.g., National Environmental Policy Act, Clean Water Act Sections 401 and 404, Endangered Species Act, National Historic Preservation Act Section 106), and floodplain management ordinances. • Experience developing and delivering educational content to decision-makers (legislators, local officials, or utilities) to influence policy or secure project support. • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate complex technical concepts (e.g., flood resilience metrics, hydrologic data) for non-technical audiences, including public speaking and persuasive presentation development. • Demonstrated commitment to centering the needs and values of impacted, under-resourced communities and Tribal nations in policy and project decisions. • Experience fundraising and managing project and program budgets. • Team player and demonstrated ability to work effectively with colleagues to advance an organization’s broader goals. • Ability to work with a team via phone and video conference. • Ability to travel throughout Washington and Oregon. • High energy level, self-motivated.

🏖️ Benefits

• Health and Wellness: Medical, dental, vision, long-term and short-term disability, and life insurance. • Financial Security: After one year of service, American Rivers begins contributing a 3% employer contribution. There is no vesting schedule for employer contributions as employees are 100% vested upon participation. • Time Off: Four weeks of paid leave, eleven paid holidays, three floating holidays, and sick leave. • Focus Fridays (no internal meetings). • Professional development opportunities. • Home office stipend. • Sabbatical leave (every seven years). • Paid parental leave (six weeks w/ one year of service).