Conservation Project Manager
Conservation Project Manager
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Job Description
WRAs Conservation Strategies Team works with private landowners investors nonprofits and public entities to entitle mitigation projects implement restoration and land management and understand mitigation markets and drivers. We are seeking a seasoned project manager to help lead and develop the skills and capabilities of our Conservation Strategies team overseeing the entitlement of mitigation/conservation banks inlieu fee programs and turnkey mitigation projects.
This is a midsenior level interdisciplinary role requiring expertise in the following areas:
1 California ecology habitat restoration and land management
2 Mitigation and conservation banking
3 California regulatory environment
The majority of mitigation projects managed by the Conservation Strategies team are based in California and demand strong ecological and regulatory expertise specific to the states diverse landscapes. This role involves overseeing multiple interdisciplinary project teams and requires critical strategic thinking in areas such as mitigation bank entitlement restoration design market studies and financial analyses. It also calls for the ability to build and maintain positive relationships with clients agency representatives and teaming partners. The position reports directly to the Conservation Strategies Team Leader and may support projects outside the team as needed.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Managing multiple projects simultaneously with budgets ranging from $10000 $while providing excellent customer service and highquality work products
- Taking ultimate responsibility for project work products contracts budgets and timelines
- Managing and maintaining positive relationships with clients regulatory agencies teaming partners and other stakeholders
- Attending meetings with regulatory agencies clients and teaming partners
- Writing and reviewing technical documents such as mitigation bank prospectuses bank enabling instruments conservation easements endowment funding agreements development and longterm management plans memos and ad hoc deliverables tailored specifically to meet client needs.
- Supporting your team leader with staff development and team activities
Requirements for this role:
- A Bachelors degree in ecology biology environmental science or other related discipline; masters degree is a plus
- A minimum of 5 years of project management experience
- Strong working knowledge of ecology California ecosystems habitat restoration and California sensitive species
- Experience working with environmental markets mitigation banking inlieu fee programs permitteeresponsible mitigation voluntary conservation programs and/or regional habitat conservation plans/natural community conservation plans
- Understanding of California regulatory environment including Section 404 and 401 of the Clean Water Act Section 1602 of the California Fish and Game Code the PorterCologne Act Endangered Species Act California Endangered Species Act California Environmental Quality Act Section 2081 of the California Fish and Game Code and MagnusonStevenson Fisheries Act
The following skills and mindsets are also needed in order to succeed in this role:
- A growth mindset and strong desire to learn new things
- The ability to operate autonomously and to be a selfstarter while at other times be able to collaborate with a diverse group of stakeholders internally and externally.
- Be passionate about conservation and market based solutions to environmental challenges
- Be excited about working on large complex multidisciplinary projects
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills; were looking for someone who jumps in to hairy technical problems when necessary
- Entrepreneurial and a strong ownership mentality
- Experience in aquatic resources and endangered species permitting and mitigation in California mitigation bank entitlement implementation of conservation programs valuation of ecosystem services or project development for environmental markets
- Strong written and oral communication skills are essential to this position
- Strong writing document review and editing skills
- Competency in preparing or managing technical work products (e.g. wetland delineations ecosystem services valuations environmental market analyses rare plant surveys habitat assessments biological resources technical reports Excel and other database work GIS maps and analyses completed by others)
- Skilled and proactive in outreach with a desire to be a positive face of the company to a diverse group of stakeholders including clients regulatory agencies and potential teaming partners
The Conservation Strategies team at WRA is a tight knit collaborative team that values creative solutions individual initiative and interdisciplinary thinking. Our smaller size allows team members the flexibility to be involved in a variety of projects and to actively contribute to the development of the team. While individual expertise and interests are acknowledged and utilized all team members are expected to help when needed on an array of projects in a fastpaced environment.
This position can be remote within the state of California or based out of any of the following WRA offices: San Rafael Emeryville Petaluma or San Diego. Applicants who currently reside or are willing to relocate to the San Diego area will be prioritized. Periodic travel to field sites and for in person meetings will be required.
WRA has an established internal leveling system for our staff that maps to salary bands that have been informed by market data. Our leveling system is dependent on years of relevant industry experience education and the level of responsibility and autonomy at which youre expected to operate.
We have posted a salary range that corresponds to the appropriate level for this position. The salary range for this position is $11600 $132500. There will be opportunities to discuss this toward the end of the interview process; however if you wish to discuss this earlier in the interview process please do so with our recruiter.
Who are we
WRAs an employeeowned environmental consultancy. We are a tenacious team of planners engineers and scientists and we aim to leave the lands we love better than we found them.
Our clients and partners hire us because were skilled at navigating through challenging projects involving wildlands parks community spaces and infrastructure. We bring over four decades of expertise longstanding relationships and connections to our local communities to make sure that projects are pursued in responsible ways where both people and the environment thrive.
As an organization we believe that independence and interdependence are not mutually exclusive. We invest in systems processes and employee programs to support our staffs collective engagement and success. At the same time we encourage our employees to operate with an ownership mindset taking responsibility for outcomes and being true to our commitments.
WRAs company vision is cultivating a sustainable future where people and the environment thrive and that starts with our staff. We are committed to building a diverse equitable and inclusive work environment and we have developed flexible policies internal practices and are investing in programs that prioritize learning and sustainability. We aim to create conditions that allow employees to prioritize their families lead healthy and balanced lives and to bring their authentic selves to work every day. We believe that by creating an exceptional workplace our employees will be able to do their best work and be able to meaningfully contribute to the sustainability of the environment and the communities in which we live.
WRA is an equal opportunity employer and we are committed to creating a diverse environment. We recruit employ train compensate and promote regardless of race religion color national origin gender sexual orientation disability age veteran status and other protected status as required by applicable law.
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