Director, Floodplain Restoration

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🌲 Oregon, Washington – Remote

🌲 Oregon – Remote ☕ Washington – Remote

💵 $77.1k - $86.8k / year

⏰ Full Time

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American Rivers

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 1973

🤝 Non-profit

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. • Coordinate closely with various directors and serve on the National Floodplain Community of Practice. • Develop broad financial support for IFM in Oregon through influencing state agency budgets and hosting visibility events. • Act as a primary liaison for aligning local resilience planning with state-level climate adaptation strategies. • Document and disseminate lessons learned from pilot projects to a national network.

🎯 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. • Working knowledge federal environmental regulatory frameworks, permitting processes, 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 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. • Ability to work with a team via phone and video conference. • Ability to travel throughout Washington and Oregon.

🏖️ 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. • Professional development opportunities • Home office stipend • Sabbatical leave (every seven years) • Paid parental leave (six weeks w/ one year of service)