Senior Land Stewardship Technician

Primary Responsibilities

• Steward land - 60%
• Participate in cross-functional, comprehensive strategic planning
• Assess land stewardship needs and opportunities
• Collaboratively develop near- and long-term stewardship goals
• Create tactical prescriptions for landholdings
• Perform land management tasks
• Maintain accurate records of stewardship decisions, management actions, equipment use, maintenance needs, and project outcomes
• Contribute to place-based community learning - 20%
• Plan and direct land stewardship work & learn groups
• Facilitate local and regional engagement activities
• Communicate about land stewardship work and impacts
• Participate in growing a strategic, inclusive learning culture - 20%
• Provide input on organizational and lab strategy
• Engage in individual and group reflection and evaluation
• Participate in staff and lab meetings

Qualifications

• Hold a bachelor’s degree with 2-4 years of work experience in land stewardship, natural resource management, biology, environmental science, or a similar field
• Enthusiastic about hopeful approaches to landscape-scale, system-wide change through perennialization and diversification
• Motivated by a strong land ethic and commitment to the land community in this place and region
• Highly collaborative and cooperative
• Excellent at time management and prioritization
• Experience working with natural systems, recognizing plant and animal species, and applying scientific knowledge
• Successfully created and enacted land stewardship plans
• Developed and implemented projects that involve multiple disciplines or communities
• Skilled at land management, including performing physical work
• Experience operating, maintaining, and safely transporting land management equipment
• Valid driver’s license and ability to obtain additional certifications as needed
• Working knowledge of relevant digital software
• Excited about community engagement and communicating about land stewardship
• Interest or experience with place-based efforts to advance food justice, land justice, and climate justice