Freshwater Program Manager
The Nature Conservancy
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Cottonwood Falls • Kansas • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $75,000 - $90,000 per year
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Lead efforts to protect and restore key waterways and wetlands in Kansas
- Advance regenerative agricultural practices
- Work with diverse stakeholders including land owners and policy makers
- Drive resources to the freshwater program by identifying funding opportunities
- Oversee program budget and grant management
Requirements
- BA/BS degree
- 5 years of experience in conservation practice or equivalent combination of education and experience
- Experience with water-related conservation challenges and opportunities
- Experience managing complex or multiple projects
- Supervisory experience
- Experience in partnership development with non-profit partners, community groups and/or government agencies
- Ability to build relationships and maintain trust with stakeholders and communities
- Demonstrated experience influencing, developing and implementing conservation policy and plans
- Experience negotiating
- Communicating clearly via written, spoken, and graphical means in English and other relevant languages.
Benefits
- Health care benefits
- Flexible spending accounts
- 401(k) plan with an 8% employer match
- Parental leave
- Accrued paid time off
- Life insurance
- Disability coverage
- Employee assistance program
- Other life and work well-being benefits
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
conservation practicegrant managementbudget managementproject managementregenerative agricultural practiceswater-related conservationpolicy developmentnegotiation
Soft skills
relationship buildingtrust maintenancecommunicationinfluencingstakeholder engagementsupervisory skills
Certifications
BA/BS degree