Associate Director – California Central Valley River Restoration

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🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $70.3k - $89.4k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👔 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

• 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.

🎯 Requirements

• 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.

🏖️ 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). • Paid parental leave (six weeks w/ one year of service).