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World Relief
Program Manager, Wildfire Strategies
Resources Legacy Fund
full-time
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Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • California
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💰 $92,000 - $107,000 per year
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- RLF Wildfire program supports policy change and increased public funding for wildfire resilience across the Western U.S.
- Provide programmatic support across wildfire resilience initiatives including grantmaking, coalition-building, policy development, advocacy, and capacity-building
- Oversee and improve program management systems, budgets, tracking, and reporting
- Organize virtual meetings, annual in-person retreats, and larger convenings of grantees and collaborators
- Create dockets and materials for presentations (reports, maps, tables, graphs, database reports, and PowerPoint)
- Coordinate internal and external written program materials and support strategic planning
- Manage a portfolio of grants and contracts; refine grantmaking strategies and conduct due diligence
- Facilitate and coordinate the grant reporting process and synthesize grantee reports for funders
- Perform policy research and analysis, represent RLF at convenings, and perform other duties as assigned
Requirements
- Expertise (3+ years) in western wildfire resilience, conservation, climate change, or related fields
- Comfortable and eager to work within a complex policy, stakeholder, and political space
- Commitment and ability to quickly develop expertise on land management and community risk aspects of wildfire resilience
- Commitment to and interest in learning policy development, advocacy, and implementation skills; public policy and funding experience a plus
- Strong work ethic, good judgement, attention to detail, and a consistent commitment to thoroughness and quality
- Positive attitude and commitment to building a positive work environment
- Excellent interpersonal skills; able to represent and speak on behalf of RLF to policymakers, donors, grantees, and consultants
- Exceptional project management and organizational skills; ability to develop timelines and track milestones
- Creative and flexible self-starter who can anticipate and respond to rapidly changing priorities
- Ability to plan, coordinate, and facilitate meetings; experience planning and executing larger meetings (75+) a plus
- Experience with administering or managing grants or contracts a plus
- Aptitude for creating and implementing programmatic processes; approach work with process improvement and systems thinking
- Ability to identify solutions to complex problems and track programmatic progress and outcomes
- Demonstrated experience managing and organizing extensive documentation; outstanding editing and writing skills
- Occasional domestic travel across the Western U.S.
