Director, River Restoration

🔥 15 hours ago

🔔 Pennsylvania – Remote

🔔 Pennsylvania – 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

• Lead and manage a portfolio of complex conservation and restoration projects across the Mid-Atlantic Region • Move projects from concept through feasibility, design, permitting, construction, closeout, monitoring, and long-term stewardship • Develop project scopes, schedules, budgets, deliverables, and implementation plans • Manage contracts and procurement, including scopes of work, RFPs, consultant and contractor selection, invoice review, deliverable tracking, and closeout documentation • Coordinate and oversee engineers, design consultants, construction contractors, environmental consultants, surveyors, vendors, agency reviewers, and technical partners • Manage project budgets, financial tracking, cash flow, matching funds, grant budgets, expenditures, invoices, budget adjustments, and financial reporting • Provide construction-phase project management, including pre-construction planning, contractor mobilization, site meetings, change orders, safety and access considerations, documentation, and issue resolution • Identify restoration and conservation opportunities, assess feasibility and strategic fit, build landowner and community relationships, and advance projects into the regional queue • Participate in fundraising through project narratives, budgets, timelines, donor and foundation materials, grant applications, public funding proposals, and funder reports • Ensure projects deliver measurable benefits for river health, aquatic habitat, public safety, floodplain function, water quality, climate resilience, recreation, and community priorities • Represent American Rivers in technical meetings, partner discussions, public forums, site visits, funder conversations, agency consultations, press events, and conferences • Support Floodplain, Clean Water, and Restoration priorities and the broader strategic plan • Strengthen regional project management systems for intake, prioritization, tracking, risk assessment, coordination, quality control, documentation, and reporting • Provide technical assistance, mentoring, and project management guidance to colleagues, partners, and communities • Participate in internal Communities of Practice related to dam removal and floodplain restoration • Drive regularly within the Mid-Atlantic Region for site visits, meetings, and construction oversight, including occasional overnight travel

🎯 Requirements

• Seven or more years of progressively responsible on-the-ground project management experience related to river restoration, dam removal, floodplain restoration, watershed restoration, engineering, construction, environmental consulting, natural resource management, or a closely related field • Demonstrated experience independently managing complex projects with multiple partners, consultants, contractors, funders, regulatory agencies, and landowners • Strong experience with project budgets, schedules, contracts, scopes of work, consultant and contractor oversight, invoice review, grant compliance, and project reporting • Experience coordinating or overseeing design, permitting, and construction phases of restoration, infrastructure, engineering, or environmental projects • Understanding of river restoration approaches, including dam removal, floodplain restoration, stream restoration, aquatic connectivity, water quality improvement, and/or related conservation practices • Ability to anticipate project risks, solve problems, make sound decisions with incomplete information, and keep complex work moving under changing conditions • Experience supporting or leading fundraising for projects, including government grants, foundation proposals, major donor materials, project budgets, and funder reports • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including translating technical information for landowners, funders, partners, agencies, and community audiences • Strong interpersonal skills and ability to build trust with diverse partners • High level of organization, attention to detail, initiative, professional discretion, independent judgment, and ability to manage multiple projects and priorities simultaneously • Demonstrated commitment to working with people from different backgrounds and perspectives and advancing equitable conservation outcomes • Willingness and ability to travel regularly within the Mid-Atlantic Region, including occasional overnight travel and field/site visits • Applicants must be legally allowed to work as an employee in the United States • Driving is a core duty; ability to drive regularly within the Mid-Atlantic Region is required • Preferred: experience managing dam removal, floodplain restoration, stream restoration, wetland restoration, transportation/natural infrastructure, or comparable construction projects from design through implementation • Preferred: experience with state and federal permitting processes, public funding programs, procurement requirements, or construction documentation • Preferred: familiarity with Mid-Atlantic river systems, agencies, conservation partners, watershed organizations, and restoration funding programs in Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, or the District of Columbia

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance • Long-term and short-term disability insurance • Life insurance • 3% employer contribution after one year of service, with 100% vesting upon participation • Four weeks of paid leave • Eleven paid holidays • Three floating holidays • Sick leave • Focus Fridays with no internal meetings • Professional development opportunities • Home office stipend • Sabbatical leave every seven years • Paid parental leave of six weeks after one year of service

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