Senior Project Manager I - Illinois
Senior Project Manager I - Illinois
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Monthly Salary
$ 95000 - 115000
Vacancy
1 Vacancy
Posted on :
16-03-2025
Job Description
At TPL we believe access to the outdoors is a fundamental human need and essential to our health and wellbeing. Were committed to creating more places that bring us outsideparks trails playgrounds and public landsand making them available and welcoming to everyone everywhere regardless of ZIP code.
TPL creates parks and protects land in communities that are urban rural and everything in between. We understand that parks and open spaces are critical tools communities can use to advance key priorities including public health community cohesion economic development and climate resiliency. These spaces serve as a powerful medium for preserving and amplifying community culture. TPL partners with local leaders to tell these stories through our programs focused on Community Strategies Black History and Culture and Tribal and Indigenous Lands.
TPL seeks a Senior Project Manager to reestablish our land protection program throughout Illinois and in the region. TPL has decades of land protection experience and a team of Project Managers who lead impact across the country. We have a history of meaningful land protection in Illinois but our local team has most recently focused on park and trail development in Chicago. We look to expand the local team bringing in new expertise as we advance our next phase of growth.
You share our belief that access to the outdoors in both rural and urban areas of our country is a fundamental human neednot a luxury. When you hear about the outdoor equity gap you want to roll up your sleeves and fix it. Like us youre convinced that creating access to the outdoors improves health supports climate resilience and fosters community connection. You believe communities are a critical piece of the puzzle when determining how public land should be used.
Position Summary:
The Senior Project Manager will work in close collaboration with the Illinoisbased team to create a strategy for land protection that aligns with TPLs national mission and local priorities. This position will also collaborate with experienced land protection colleagues working across the country and with planners attorneys staff experienced with public grant solicitations and management and finance managers. TPL does not own and maintain land in perpetuity and instead collaborates with local state federal and nonprofit organizations to accept and steward the assets we protect.
The successful candidate will have experience using a broad spectrum of nonprofit land acquisition techniques and sound business practices that produce tangible results. This person will be equally comfortable in conversation with landowners community stakeholders public and elected officials lawyers and others involved in complex land negotiations. While part of a dynamic and supportive team both locally and nationally the Senior Project Manager must be a selfstarter who can work independently.
Essential Functions:
Other Responsibilities
Qualifications:
Special Knowledge & Skills:
Compensation:
Trust for Public Land is a hybrid work environment and this role will ideally be located near a Trust for Public Land office. As a fulltime employee you will be eligible for the Trust for Public Lands comprehensive benefits program which includes medical dental and vision insurance vacation and sick pay plus holidays a year end office closure and a 403(b)retirement plan currently with up to a 7 company match. We offer competitive salaries commensurate with experience; the anticipated hiring range for this position is $95000 $115000.
Trust for Public Lands active goal is to be an inclusive and equitable place to work and build community. As the organization actively works to eliminate racial and other disparities it welcomes candidates with diverse backgrounds and/or multicultural skillsets. We are open to the possibility that a great candidate for this job may not precisely meet all the above criteria; if you believe you are the right person for this job and can persuasively make that case we encourage you to apply.
TPL creates parks and protects land in communities that are urban rural and everything in between. We understand that parks and open spaces are critical tools communities can use to advance key priorities including public health community cohesion economic development and climate resiliency. These spaces serve as a powerful medium for preserving and amplifying community culture. TPL partners with local leaders to tell these stories through our programs focused on Community Strategies Black History and Culture and Tribal and Indigenous Lands.
TPL seeks a Senior Project Manager to reestablish our land protection program throughout Illinois and in the region. TPL has decades of land protection experience and a team of Project Managers who lead impact across the country. We have a history of meaningful land protection in Illinois but our local team has most recently focused on park and trail development in Chicago. We look to expand the local team bringing in new expertise as we advance our next phase of growth.
You share our belief that access to the outdoors in both rural and urban areas of our country is a fundamental human neednot a luxury. When you hear about the outdoor equity gap you want to roll up your sleeves and fix it. Like us youre convinced that creating access to the outdoors improves health supports climate resilience and fosters community connection. You believe communities are a critical piece of the puzzle when determining how public land should be used.
Position Summary:
The Senior Project Manager will work in close collaboration with the Illinoisbased team to create a strategy for land protection that aligns with TPLs national mission and local priorities. This position will also collaborate with experienced land protection colleagues working across the country and with planners attorneys staff experienced with public grant solicitations and management and finance managers. TPL does not own and maintain land in perpetuity and instead collaborates with local state federal and nonprofit organizations to accept and steward the assets we protect.
The successful candidate will have experience using a broad spectrum of nonprofit land acquisition techniques and sound business practices that produce tangible results. This person will be equally comfortable in conversation with landowners community stakeholders public and elected officials lawyers and others involved in complex land negotiations. While part of a dynamic and supportive team both locally and nationally the Senior Project Manager must be a selfstarter who can work independently.
Essential Functions:
- Assumes primary responsibility for prospecting identifying negotiating documenting financing closing and conveying real estate transactions with the assistance of Legal and Finance staff. This includes supervision of appraisers surveyors and other consultants and facilitation of the propertys conveyance to a public agency or nonprofit partner.
- Manages relationships with landowners nonprofit organizations local elected officials community leaders and municipal county and state and federal public agency staff.
- Identifies areas in which TPLs interim protection strategy is needed for the preservation of open space lands of critical local regional or national importance; develops and maintains portfolio of potential projects; responds to inquiries by individuals groups agencies etc.
- Generates revenues for TPL through transactions and/or fundraising in the private sector.
- Identifies and secures project funding from multiple sources. Good working knowledge of processes for obtaining public private foundation and corporate funding. Captures contacts for TPL database and maintains landowner relationships for fundraising purposes.
- Communicates with colleagues partners and community members to help them understand what is often a complicated opaque process.
- Builds public awareness and understanding of TPL through outreach events leading meetings public speaking engagements fundraising efforts and creating a public presence for TPL.
- Collaborates with nationallevel Federal Affairs and Conservation Finance teams and local staff and partners to advance policy funding and other legislative priorities.
Other Responsibilities
- May be involved in programmatic work such as the coordination of a land acquisition program covering multiparcel deals.
- Work under the direction of the Illinois State Director to broaden TPLs visibility in the market by projecting TPL as a vested conservation leader and subject matter expert on conservation real estate transactions.
- Work in partnership with Illinois Philanthropy staff to engage current and emerging donors to generate philanthropic support of TPLs transactions and broader conservation work and work with other TPL staff to support fundraising in the public and private sectors.
- Function as a frontfacing figure on TPLs DEI priorities by seeking land conservation projects that represent value impact opportunities to elevate TPLs national initiatives: Black History and Culture Initiative and Indigenous Communities.
- Other relevant duties as necessary.
Qualifications:
- Bachelors degree preferred.
- Minimum of 57 years land protection projectrelated or equivalent land trust or nonprofit experience. Experience with land acquisition projects preferred.
- This position requires moderate to heavy travel throughout Illinois and into the region. Occasional evening and weekend work should be expected.
Special Knowledge & Skills:
- Superior written and oral communication skills.
- Proficient in computer applications. MSOffice Basics Internet.
- Demonstrated understanding of real property and tax law land use planning techniques environmental assessments titles and government land acquisition policies/procedures. Politically astute and sensitive
- Demonstrated success managing key Illinois stakeholder relationships in conservation. Experience with National Park Service and Illinois Department of Natural Resources a plus.
- Active member in local and statewide professional conservation organizations (preferred).
- Strong entrepreneurial negotiator able to secure complicated real estate deals.
- Able to analyze and explain potential tax benefits and financial forecasting. Management of contracts.
- Able to work on complex projects with moderate level of supervision.
- Able to initiate and participate fundraising efforts.
Compensation:
Trust for Public Land is a hybrid work environment and this role will ideally be located near a Trust for Public Land office. As a fulltime employee you will be eligible for the Trust for Public Lands comprehensive benefits program which includes medical dental and vision insurance vacation and sick pay plus holidays a year end office closure and a 403(b)retirement plan currently with up to a 7 company match. We offer competitive salaries commensurate with experience; the anticipated hiring range for this position is $95000 $115000.
Trust for Public Lands active goal is to be an inclusive and equitable place to work and build community. As the organization actively works to eliminate racial and other disparities it welcomes candidates with diverse backgrounds and/or multicultural skillsets. We are open to the possibility that a great candidate for this job may not precisely meet all the above criteria; if you believe you are the right person for this job and can persuasively make that case we encourage you to apply.
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