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Manager Strategic Initiatives & Projects
Job Location:
Job Location:
Boston, MA - USA
Yearly Salary:
$ 72301 - 85000
Yearly Salary:
Posted:
15 July 2026 (30+ days ago)
Posted:
Application Deadline:
12 October 2026
Application Deadline:
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Vacancies:
Job Summary
Who We Are:
Trust for Public Land (TPL) is the leader of a movement to connect everyone in America to the outdoors. A national nonprofit TPL partners with communities to create high-quality parks and protect public landsespecially in communities that need them mostto improve public health create social cohesion strengthen historic and cultural connection to place and increase climate resilience. Since 1972 TPL has protected more than 4 million acres of public land created more than 5500 parks trails schoolyards and iconic outdoor places generated over $112 billion in public funding for parks and public lands and connected nearly 10 million people to the outdoors. To learn more visit .
Trust for Public Lands Center for Community Impact advances the organizations national leadership in creating equitable healthy resilient and connected communities through parks public lands trails and Community Schoolyards. The Center brings together strategy research technical assistance policy and field-based learning to help communities address barriers to outdoors access quality funding stewardship and long-term systems change. The Center works across teams and geographies to develop evidence-based tools support local implementation translate learning into scalable models and advance policies and practices that expand access to the outdoors for all.
Position Summary:
Trust for Public Land is seeking a full-time Strategic Initiatives Manager. This role will support TPL work to advance systems-level change with communities across the country as well as playing an essential role in advancing thought leadership and resources for priorities topics such as those at the intersection of parks housing land use and community development. This is a highly collaborative role that works across TPL teams and with external partners helping translate ideas into actionable strategies that expand equitable access to parks and public space. The position contribute to high-impact work across these primary areas:
Essential Functions:
Advancing Community Development Focused Insights & Knowledge Products
Project Development Scoping & Delivery
Strategic Initiatives Learning & Operational Support
Other duties as assigned
Qualifications:
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 full-time 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 $72301 to $85000 per year.
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.
Trust for Public Land (TPL) is the leader of a movement to connect everyone in America to the outdoors. A national nonprofit TPL partners with communities to create high-quality parks and protect public landsespecially in communities that need them mostto improve public health create social cohesion strengthen historic and cultural connection to place and increase climate resilience. Since 1972 TPL has protected more than 4 million acres of public land created more than 5500 parks trails schoolyards and iconic outdoor places generated over $112 billion in public funding for parks and public lands and connected nearly 10 million people to the outdoors. To learn more visit .
Trust for Public Lands Center for Community Impact advances the organizations national leadership in creating equitable healthy resilient and connected communities through parks public lands trails and Community Schoolyards. The Center brings together strategy research technical assistance policy and field-based learning to help communities address barriers to outdoors access quality funding stewardship and long-term systems change. The Center works across teams and geographies to develop evidence-based tools support local implementation translate learning into scalable models and advance policies and practices that expand access to the outdoors for all.
Position Summary:
Trust for Public Land is seeking a full-time Strategic Initiatives Manager. This role will support TPL work to advance systems-level change with communities across the country as well as playing an essential role in advancing thought leadership and resources for priorities topics such as those at the intersection of parks housing land use and community development. This is a highly collaborative role that works across TPL teams and with external partners helping translate ideas into actionable strategies that expand equitable access to parks and public space. The position contribute to high-impact work across these primary areas:
- Advancing research and thought leadership on priority themes
- Supporting business development and project delivery including scoping and coordinating work across teams
- Contributing to major strategic initiatives that advance TPLs national impact
Essential Functions:
Advancing Community Development Focused Insights & Knowledge Products
- Serve as a key point of contact and support for research analysis and knowledge development on priority topics including the intersection of parks public housing community development land use and equitable park access.
- Working in coordination with relevant Lab Hub and program staff conduct landscape scans case studies policy scans interviews and other analysis to inform TPLs strategies tools and external thought leadership.
- Translate research and insights into accessible products for internal and external audiences including briefs presentations memos frameworks guidance documents case studies and technical assistance resources.
- Support internal and external co-creation of findings by helping synthesize input from community partners public agencies housing authorities field teams and other collaborators.
- Contribute to the development of practical tools recommendations and guidance that help communities and partners advance equitable access to high-quality parks and public spaces.
Project Development Scoping & Delivery
- Manage the development and/or implementation of projects and initiatives including work related to parks housing climate health and funding and other emerging strategic opportunities.
- Draft and coordinate concept memos proposals project briefs workplans scopes of work timelines deliverables budgets and related materials.
- Coordinate across internal teams (including research GIS advisory services field teams policy communications) to clarify roles align inputs and support integrated project delivery.
- Support engagement and coordination with external collaborators including public agencies housing authorities community organizations funders consultants and other partners.
- Track project progress across multiple workstreams monitor timelines and deliverables organize project materials and help ensure follow-through on next steps decisions and partner commitments.
Strategic Initiatives Learning & Operational Support
- Support the AVP and Strategic Impact Team in advancing cross-initiative and enterprise-wide priorities connected to TPLs Center for Community Impact.
- Provide coordination and operational support for strategic initiatives convenings pilots partnerships and cross-cutting efforts that test refine and scale promising approaches across teams and geographies.
- Support portfolio-level work tracking and reporting.
- Assist with preparing meeting materials tracking priorities and follow-up items supporting internal communications maintaining shared planning tools and advancing special projects that connect strategy learning and implementation.
Other duties as assigned
Qualifications:
- Bachelors degree preferred; graduate-level training in urban planning public policy environmental studies or a related field strongly preferred
- 35 years of relevant experience (e.g. planning policy research)
- Demonstrated interest in parks public space housing land use or community development
- Strong analytical and research skills with the ability to synthesize complex information into clear insights
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Experience managing or coordinating projects across teams is a plus
- Familiarity with GIS data analysis or policy research tools is helpful but not required
- Ability to work both independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced mission-driven environment
- Strong commitment to TPLs shared values (Belonging Creativity Collaboration Impact and Hope) to effectively work across the organization.
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 full-time 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 $72301 to $85000 per year.
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.
Required Experience:
Manager
About Company
TPL creates parks and protects public land so that everyone will have access to the benefits and joys of the outdoors.
