Associate Director, River Restoration

8 hours ago

🚗 Michigan – Remote

Although this job is listed in Michigan, this company may be open to hiring remote in other states.

💵 $73.2k - $89.4k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👔 Director

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American Rivers

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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.

51 - 200 employees

Founded 1973

🤝 Non-profit

📋 Description

• Lead American Rivers’ efforts to grow the practice of dam removal as a tool for river restoration. • Build successful aquatic connectivity programs and partnerships. • Develop and implement dam removal projects. • Support efforts to strengthen state and federal programs to advance aquatic connectivity across the Great Lakes Region. • Identify and develop dam removal projects and lead efforts to build regional capacity. • Manage grants and contracts, including selection and oversight of consultants, processing invoices, and tracking expenditures.

🎯 Requirements

• Five or more years of applicable professional experience in the conservation field, related to river restoration, aquatic connectivity, dam removal, fisheries habitat, geomorphology, hydrology and/or engineering. • Understanding of effective river restoration approaches, including demonstrated interest in advancing the practice of dam removal. • Prior experience in securing funding from government grants, foundations, and/or major donors to complete projects and sustain programs. • Demonstrated experience and strength in the following areas: project management, verbal and written communications, critical thinking, and the ability to work independently while managing multiple projects and priorities. • Excellent personal organization and time management skills. • Willingness and ability to travel as needed, sometimes overnight, is required.

🏖️ Benefits

• 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), and paid parental leave (six weeks w/ one year of service).