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Senior Manager – Water Policy and Project Management
Trout Unlimited
full-time
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Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $65,000 - $85,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- 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
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in relevant field preferred, master’s degree a plus
- At least three years’ experience in water and natural resource management (manager-level)
- At least seven years’ experience for the senior manager role
- Willingness and ability to master complex water policy topics, including state water law and management frameworks
- Experience with projects focused on improving irrigation systems for water conservation, fish habitat and passage improvement, and stream restoration preferred
- Familiarity with fisheries management and integrating principles of water law, hydrology, water quality, and fish habitat restoration
- Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work with diverse partners in a highly collaborative and inclusive manner
- Experience with grant writing and reporting, and excellent written and oral communication skills
- Self-motivated and able to manage multiple projects while prioritizing workload
- Strong organizational skills with exceptional attention to detail
- Knowledge of northern New Mexico’s communities, cultures, and watersheds
- Passion for conserving wild and native trout and the waters where they are found
- Ability to solve problems and think creatively to achieve a conservation outcome
- Ability and willingness to travel; valid driver’s license and vehicle required
