Sales & Account Management Trainer
The Cigna Group
Director of Partnerships and Project Expansion
Blue Forest
full-time
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Location: California • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $130,000 - $155,000 per year
Job Level
Lead
Tech Stack
SQL
About the role
- Location: Remote, Western US preferred
- Reports to: Managing Director of Project Development
- Salary: $130k to $155k depending on experience
- Travel: 25-30%
- Preferred Start Date: December 1st, 2025
- Employment Status: Full-time, non-exempt
- Oversee portfolio of launched Forest Resilience Bonds (FRBs) and other ecosystem restoration conservation finance projects where active restoration is ongoing and finance is being deployed
- Provide technical assistance and engagement with local partners, implementation partners, land managers, Tribes, beneficiary payors, and community leaders
- Drive strategic initiatives and innovation to improve the impact of conservation finance based on learnings from launched projects
- Internal portfolio management and strategy development and deployment for launched projects including data management, impact management, communication, and coordination with the finance team
- Help launched projects succeed during implementation phase and scale up in size
- Identify lessons learned and strategic questions across portfolio and partner with other Directors to develop strategies and innovations to scale FRBs
- Lead strategy and oversight of launched projects; long-term partnership development; serve as project advisor across multiple (3-4) implementation/scaling projects
- Support implementation partners and project teams to problem-solve implementation challenges (e.g., biomass and wood products, equipment finance)
- Manage portfolio of FRB projects in implementation and scaling phase; coordinate Blue Forest staff involvement
- Enhance and maintain internal and external tools to support implementation partners and the Blue Forest team
- Lead internal and cross-department communication around the portfolio of projects
- Partner with communications team for project communications and storytelling; support annual impact report and quality control on impact metric data collection
- Represent Blue Forest at conferences and panels
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in forest health, implementation of conservation projects, project management, and developing systems
- On-the-ground experience with implementing forest health or other land management activities
- Strong background in project management and organizational leadership
- Experience working with Tribal nations/Indigenous communities
- Experience and ability to design new systems and processes that scale from individual project management to a portfolio approach
- Experience with GIS platforms or structured databases (e.g., ArcGIS, QGIS, SQL)
- Experience and desire to manage people/teams and strategically develop, support, and retain talent (will supervise 2-3 team members)
- Detail-oriented and collaborative
- Strategic thinking with a results-driven mindset and a passion for climate resilience and sustainability
