Trout Unlimited

Director

• Set strategic direction and goals for conservation, within Oregon, which may include habitat restoration, advocacy, and volunteer engagement.
• Build and maintain a strong, integrated program team who will execute the strategies to achieve identified goals.
• Work directly with functional area staff (e.g., science, finance, human resources, communications, and development) assigned to Oregon, to provide functional leadership to set goals, establish workplans, provide performance feedback, and provide day-to-day direction on task prioritization and implementation.
• Develop and manage the program budgets.
• Collaborate with and support the Government Affairs program staff on the national policy agenda, including directing program staff to assist with strategy execution.
• Establish and maintain productive and strategic relationships with key decision makers and partners, such as key elected officials, policymakers, media and resource managers, property owners, and conservation and sportfishing organizations.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with TU’s members and grassroot leaders.
• Work collaboratively and coordinate with Volunteer Operations on issues and sharing of best practices.
• Work with Development and Marketing teams to meet development and marketing objectives.
• Ensure TU’s value proposition and conservation work is effectively communicated to target audiences, including funders and policymakers.

Project Manager

• Advance statewide efforts to protect clean water and create more resilient rivers and watersheds
• Support collaborative efforts to establish state-level protections for New Mexico’s streams and wetlands and contribute to national clean water programs and campaigns
• Engage in water management and planning efforts to advance concepts that benefit river ecosystems and coldwater fisheries
• Pursue statewide policy reforms and funding to facilitate instream transactions in priority waters and collaborate on federal legislation and policies
• Represent TU at public meetings and hearings and engage with Congressional offices where appropriate
• Identify opportunities for multi-benefit projects that improve irrigation infrastructure while benefitting species and ecosystems
• Identify and/or implement pilot projects to prove innovative concepts and demonstrate success
• Write grants and manage proposals, focusing on state and federal grant programs; manage grant agreements, project budgets, monitoring, and reporting
• Contract with consultants and contractors to design and construct water resource projects that incorporate ecological design principles
• Implement drought management strategies in key watersheds to address surface water availability and stream flows
• Work with landowners, acequias, and community ditches to improve agricultural operations while increasing streamflows through voluntary programs
• Identify steps for quantifying and improving flows in key trout streams, pursue water leases and other transactions to bolster refugia for trout and native species
• Raise funds as necessary to design and implement water conservation projects and engage with TU colleagues across western states to apply proven strategies
• Engage in storytelling to increase awareness of TU’s work and build a more equitable TU community
• Work from a home office based in northern New Mexico with travel expected throughout the region
• Non-supervisory position

Senior Manager – Water Policy and Project Management

ABOUT TROUT UNLIMITED Trout Unlimited is the nation’s leading conservation organization working to care for and recover rivers and streams and their trout and salmon populations. We bring people together across the country to be champions for their rivers and help make our water cleaner and our communities healthier. Trout Unlimited is a national organization with 300,000 members and supporters. Our grassroots volunteers are matched by a respected staff of project managers, organizers, lawyers, policy experts, and scientists. In California, TU has a full-time staff of over twenty working across the state in a highly collaborative environment, with a diversity of partners including landowners, tribes, state and federal resource management agencies, private and public funders, and other NGOs. POSITION SUMMARY The California Central Coast Steelhead Project is a unique opportunity for a conservation professional to develop and advance a robust portfolio of streamflow enhancement and habitat restoration projects spanning California’s Central Coast region to maintain and build upon TU’s Central Coast Program and Campaign to recover California South-Central Coast Threatened Steelhead populations. The California Central Coast Steelhead Project Manager is a mid-to-senior level, full-time position based in the Central Coast of California, that will primarily work with Trout Unlimited’s California Water Program, based in Berkeley, California. The Project Manager will have the lead responsibility for managing Central Coast restoration projects and will support key partnerships and conservation priorities that align with TU’s strategic framework. The California Central Coast Steelhead Project Manager will additionally work as a member of an interdisciplinary team to enhance streamflow conditions and protect and recover salmon and steelhead trout populations in California. The California Central Coast Steelhead Project Manager will be responsible for managing the implementation of a portfolio of current restoration projects, as well as helping add new projects to that portfolio. Projects will include coordination with landowners, acquisition of public funding, management of design, permitting and construction and post project monitoring of projects which help recover steelhead populations on the Central Coast. The size of these projects will vary widely, from individual residential water tank systems with a budget of less than $100,000, to bridge and diversion replacement projects with a budget of $3 million or more. The Project Manager will represent Trout Unlimited in various partnerships, technical advisory groups and coalitions. The position will be part of a growing and dynamic team of staff in California. This position will provide program support to the California Water and Habitat programs in Coastal San Mateo, Santa Cruz, Santa Clara, Monterey, San Benito and San Luis Obispo counties. The Project Manager will be required to travel frequently to project sites throughout the region.