Southwest Forestry and Fuels Coordinator

The Forest Stewards Guild is seeking a Forestry and Fuels Coordinator to support forest contractors and implement forest resilience projects on private and federal lands. The successful candidate will use their experience in project coordination, science communication, and ecological forestry to work with Guild staff, partners, and landowners to evaluate project needs, implement resilient forestry projects, conduct educational outreach, and facilitate contractor trainings.

Requirements

• Certificate or degree in forestry, ecology, natural resource management, or other applicable field, or three years equivalent experience of professional work mapping and marking timber or fuels units for treatment
• Forestry and fuels knowledge and related field experience
• Experience using Geographic Information Systems and field-based applications such as Avenza or Survey123
• Project coordination experience working with multiple contracts and deliverables at one time.
• Experience with disseminating scientific and complex project information to the public

Benefits

• Paid and sick leave accrued hourly from the first day of employment
• 12 paid holidays per year
• Employer-sponsored comprehensive health and dental care coverage paid at 80%, 40% for spouse, partner, and dependents of regular, full-time employees on Guild health insurance plan
• Short and long-term disability policies, accidental death/dismemberment, life insurance, and family leave are paid by the Guild
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• 403(b) retirement plan with a 5% employer match