Southwest Project Coordinator

Job Description
The Forest Stewards Guild is hiring a full-time Project Coordinator to support the 2-3-2 Cohesive Strategy Partnership and the Rio Chama Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program (CFLRP). This role involves coordinating climate-smart forestry projects for small acreage and underserved landowners and building collaborative capacity in the landscape.
We are seeking a dynamic and collaborative leader who is outgoing, personable, and skilled at connecting with individuals and groups. This role requires excellent listening skills and the ability to foster relationships with diverse partners and the public. The successful candidate will demonstrate a proactive approach to building partnerships and a genuine enthusiasm for working collaboratively to achieve shared goals.
The successful candidate will use their experience in project management, partnership building, science communication, and ecological forestry to work with Guild staff, partners, and landowners to evaluate project needs, implement climate-smart forestry projects, conduct educational outreach, and facilitate collaborative participation, among other activities as project needs are identified. The Project Coordinator will collaboratively develop solutions to move project outcomes forward, with creative approaches such as quantitative storytelling, community art and writing projects, and field tours. The successful candidate will help fulfill the Guild’s mission of ecological forestry in the Southwest United States and advance existing projects. Candidates should have strong project management skills, communication abilities, budget tracking experience, knowledge of dry fire-adapted forests, and strategic thinking capabilities.
Position Description
The successful candidate will have a degree in forestry, ecology, natural resource management, science communication, environmental science, or related field with professional non-profit experience. This individual will have excellent organizational, communication, and written skills, the ability to work outdoors in remote locations, and a desire to support ecological forestry and forest dependent communities in the Southwest. The Guild has been expanding in the Southwest, and the ideal candidate will possess the desire and leadership skills to sustain and strengthen the Guild’s regional presence and impact. Previous experience in field forestry management and working collaboratively with diverse partners in the Southwest, coupled with project management experience, is highly desirable.The SW Project Coordinator will work closely with directors and staff based out of the Santa Fe, NM office.
The successful individual will:
Work with a team to coordinate collaboration for the Rio Chama CFLRP and the 232 Cohesive Strategy Partnership including,Convene and facilitate collaborative and community meetings.
Support collaboration and coordination of project stakeholders.
Coordinate the 2-3-2 Collaborative Partnership to execute collaborative project outcomes.
Maintain relationships with a diversity of project partners and funders across multiple states in the Southwestern United States, often in-person with some travel required.
Lead and facilitate education and outreach activities for private landowners and natural resource professionals.
Engage with small-acreage and underserved landowners to foster emerging markets.
Work with the Guild’s San Luis Valley Partnership Coordinator and other Guild project staff to strengthen community connections across the 2-3-2 Partnership.
Implement climate-smart forestry by working with a team to develop strategy and build partnerships for climate mitigation and forest resilience that benefits underserved and small-acreage forest landownersSupport the delivery of technical forest and fire management services with other Guild staff and/or contractors.
Seek opportunities to increase treatments on non-federal lands by identifying linkages between the federally funded CFLRP, federally managed lands, and non-federally managed lands.
Address challenges such as limited contractors, information access, and lack of partnerships that hinder climate-adaptive stewardship efforts
Build trust, improve forest health, and increase landowner participation in climate-smart forestry practices by training landowners, conducting forest treatments, and tracking impacts.
Support Forest Stewards Guild workMaintain and grow partnerships for Southwest programs.
As needed and desired, may support Guild prescribed fire operations.
Represent the Guild at professional conferences or events and perform public speaking, such as PowerPoint presentations or panel discussions to share on project deliverables or monitoring metrics.
Collaborate as a team using software such as Asana, Slack, and Microsoft Teams.
Track budgets, match, metrics, and deliverables for projects.
Perform grant writing, administration, and reporting to a variety of different funders, including private foundations and government grants.