Restoration Coordinator – Jordan River

  • Full Time
  • Salt Lake County, UT
  • $24.00 - $38.07 an hour USD / Year
  • Salary: $24.00 - $38.07 an hour

State of Utah

Job Title: Restoration Coordinator – Jordan River

Job Description:
Are you interested in guiding regional vegetation and habitat restoration and conservation initiatives around Utah’s Jordan River? Are you a self-starter who can take initiative and independently lead projects from start to finish? Do you have experience with land management and restoration? Are you looking for a diverse and challenging job involving fieldwork, partner coordination, curating best practices, and managing projects? Then you could be the Restoration Coordinator we are looking for. The Division of Forestry, Fire and State Lands is hiring a joint position in partnership with the Jordan River Commission, to develop, coordinate, and implement Jordan River weed management and vegetation and habitat restoration efforts.

Principal Duties:
Enhance existing relationships through collaboration using all available mediums to manage and mitigate invasive species.
Apply advanced and/or specialized knowledge of agency, interagency, and industry business practices to implement and guide vegetation and habitat restoration projects on public lands Identify needs and prioritize cooperative efforts.
Make recommendations for the prioritization of funds, implement budgets, and track allocations and expenditures for an annual budget for vegetation control and restoration.
Collaborate with researchers to establish and promote best management practices
Coordinate with partners and stakeholders to leverage funding and efforts.
Plan and manage vegetation treatments Monitor, track, and report project and program successes.
Assist with or develop grant proposals, comprehensive reports, drafting leases, agreements, and contracts as specified by agency protocol for vegetation control and restoration.
Administer grant fund program and receive grant funding for project work.

Ideal Candidate:
Experience with land management and project coordination across multiple jurisdictional boundaries.
Experience with creating budgets and managing funding.
Experience facilitating stakeholder engagement and/or public meetings.
Experience managing contracts and intergovernmental agreements.
Experience managing and maintaining vehicles and equipment including small engines, tractors, trailers, and other off road vehicles.
Experience with mechanical and chemical weed treatments.
Experience coordinating and managing support staff and volunteers.
Experience obtaining permits and coordinating regulatory requirements.
Experience as a self-starter with the ability to plan, develop and implement complex projects independently from start to finish with minimal supervision.

Why You Should Join Our Team:
professional and dedicated co-workers. In this joint position, you will get the benefit of working with the Jordan River Commission (an interlocal cooperative agency) and the Utah Division of Forestry, Fire, and State Lands (Utah’s sovereign public lands management agency). There is a tremendous opportunity to build partnerships across the Jordan River and surrounding public and private lands and work with a variety of stakeholders and professionals. The State offers a generous benefits package.

The Agency:
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Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications:
Technical writing skills (at least 1 year, more is better) The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem.
The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.
Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
Managing one’s own time and the time of others.
Preferred Qualifications:
Riparian specific vegetation restoration knowledge and experience.
Bachelors degree, or preferably Masters degree, in a vegetation, natural resource management, conservation or other related field 5 years experience in vegetation and/or habitat restoration project management.
Driving and navigating a vehicle with a trailer, including backing skills Light equipment maintenance experience.
Experience collecting field data and designing field experiments.
Riparian zone habitats knowledge.
1 or more years using Geographical Information Systems software use and data entry (GIS) in a professional setting.
Specific knowledge of invasive Phragmites management including post control re-vegetation strategies.
5 years experience with facilitating stakeholder and public meetings.
Supplemental Information
Field activities may be performed requiring the employee to work outdoors, navigate uneven terrain and operate a variety of small tools/machines and work around mechanized equipment which require the use of special safety precautions.
If the position supports wildland fire in any capacity as a collateral duty, the incumbent must satisfy agency and NWCG standards for certification and acknowledge the risks associated with fire support.
Risks found in potentially dangerous or unusual environmental stress situations, e.g. working in extreme outdoor weather conditions, working in remote wilderness areas and/or boating/OHV areas, transportation over waterways and driving an automobile or 4×4 vehicle, etc.
The work requires considerable and strenuous physical exertion such as frequent climbing of tall ladders, lifting heavy objects over 50 pounds, crouching or crawling in restricted areas.
Extensive outdoor fieldwork in varying weather.
Work in and around standing and moving water.
Operating light and heavy equipment Work in personal watercraft such as canoes or kayaks.
The work requires considerable and strenuous physical exertion such as frequent climbing of tall ladders, lifting heavy objects over 50 pounds, crouching or crawling in restricted areas.
Field activities may be performed requiring the employee to work outdoors, navigate uneven terrain and operate a variety of small tools/machines and work around mechanized equipment which require the use of special safety precautions.
Some travel opportunities may be available.
Occasional requirements to work evenings and weekends.