Climate and Soil Health Program Manager

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🏛️ District of Columbia, Washington – Remote

🏛️ District of Columbia – Remote ☕ Washington – Remote

💵 $80k - $85k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

📋 Program Manager

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American Farmland Trust

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 1980

🍽️ Food & Beverage

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

Food & Beverage • Consulting • Logistics

American Farmland Trust is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to saving the land that sustains us by protecting farmland, promoting sustainable farming practices, and keeping farmers on the land. AFT operates programs like the Farmland Information Center, farmland protection grants, soil health initiatives, and the U. S. Farmed certification to support farmers, influence policy, provide technical assistance, and engage the public to ensure farming remains a viable way of life.

📋 Description

• Provide operational leadership for key Climate and Soil Health Program priorities • Manage outreach, communications, stakeholder engagement, and resource dissemination • Coordinate cross-functional implementation activities and funded project outcomes • Lead program outreach and metrics tracking • Manage rollout and maintenance of the virtual network platform and microsites • Manage communications, stakeholder engagement, and operational priorities across the portfolio • Coordinate educational resources, events, partner engagement, financial management, and funder and impact reporting • Manage partners, stakeholders, and AFT staff to achieve funded goals and deliverables • Lead assigned workstreams and project deliverables • Collect, organize, track, document, and report project outcomes, metrics, partner contributions, and deliverables • Coordinate on-farm demonstration trials, implementation activities, trainings, networks, and resource creation • Develop, review, publish, and disseminate science-based resources including website content, curricula, presentations, reports, white papers, and decision-support tools • Represent AFT at conferences, trainings, meetings, and cross-organizational events • Develop and manage an external advisory committee • Support external partnership development with agricultural and conservation professionals and funders • Identify barriers to program goals and develop collaborative solutions • Support workplans, budgets, timelines, invoicing, contracts, partner payments, and funder compliance • Support fundraising through partner engagement, proposal development, resource compilation, metrics, and success stories

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Agriculture, Natural Resources, Environmental Policy, or Conservation field required • 5+ years of experience working in interdisciplinary programming • 3+ years of experience in program or project management, particularly in soil health and/or agricultural fields • Demonstrated success coordinating complex projects or workstreams involving multiple stakeholders, deadlines, and communications streams • Experience planning, coordinating, and executing outreach, communications, educational programming, producer engagement, or similar implementation-focused activities • Familiarity with budget management, state and federal grant management processes, contracting procedures and compliance, and accountability systems • Timely, effective, and responsive verbal and written interpersonal communication • Ability to motivate internal/external team members in a highly matrixed and/or remote environment • Self-driven, organized, systematic problem-solver able to manage competing priorities • Proven ability to learn and adapt quickly • Proficiency with Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint • Experience with agriculture, grazing, soil health, regenerative practices, climate resilience, renewable energy, or carbon sequestration, or desire to learn • Experience managing outreach, communications, educational programming, producer engagement, stakeholder networks, or partner relationships • Commitment to expanding access to resources and support among underserved farming communities • Resume, completed screener questions, and cover letter required • Up to 10% travel; occasional evening or weekend work may be required

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical & Prescription Coverage • Dental Coverage • Vision Coverage • Company Paid Life Insurance & Long-Term Disability (LTD) • Voluntary Life Insurance • Flexible Spending Account (FSA) – Healthcare & Dependent Care • Health Savings Account (HSA) • 401k Plan • Sick leave: 13 days per year • Vacation leave: 15 days during the first year, increasing to 20 days per year maximum • Twelve fixed holidays • Week between Christmas and New Years off • Up to three floating holidays • Remote work opportunity • Diverse and inclusive work environment • Professional development through learning and adaptation opportunities