• A healthy work/life balance by offering flexible and alternative work schedules.
• Active and engaging equity and inclusion programs, including an affinity group and an employee-led Accountability Buddy Program.
• Exclusive access to the Employee Assistance Program’s Work/Life web portal that provides additional benefits and resources to Partnership employees.
• An Infant at Work policy that is based on the long-term health values of infant-parent bonding and breastfeeding newborns. 
• An agency-paid ORCA card for public transit use in most parts of the Puget Sound region.
• A tax-free hiring incentive that includes a one-time $200 Amazon allowance for ordering at-home office equipment or preferred supplies to support the telework experience.  
• An annual professional development allowance for gaining skills that advance the employee’s career in their current field of work.

Some of what you will do includes:
 Topical Leadership:

• Lead key aspects of collaborative work for implementing the Action Agenda and the Puget Sound Salmon Recovery Plan. 
• Lead strategic thinking and conversations with agency, state, federal, tribal, and local partners to advance ecosystem recovery work in assigned restoration topics. 
• In collaboration with partners, develop recommendations and solutions for effective barrier removal for specific regional restoration topics and identify and address gaps to restoration efforts, or other ecosystem recovery initiatives. 

• Advise and support regional recovery colleagues in local engagement and partner collaboration for specific projects 

• Build pathways to plan and create policies that improve communications, joint efforts, and involvement across local partners, Partnership programs, and other state and federal agencies and actors in the ecosystem recovery community.
• Strengthen the local ecosystem recovery structures by broadening involvement and participation in other sectors, communities, and interests
• Assess, scope, and lead work that serves local partners in overcoming priority barriers to or addressing gaps in achieving ecosystem recovery.
• Integrate the needs identified by local partners into regional priorities and strategize how to meet them on a case-by-case basis and throughout the recovery system.
• Develop or recommend policies for local implementation of the Action Agenda for agency leadership review that guides contractor, individual, programmatic, agency, and inter-agency action in service to Puget Sound ecosystem recovery.

• Implement Environmental Justice initiatives in local engagement for ecosystem recovery.

Required Education, Experience, and Competencies:

• Master’s degree in natural resources management or related field; AND
• At least one (1) year of professional experience.

• Bachelor’s degree in natural resources management or related field; AND 
• At least three (3) years of professional experience. 

• Associate’s degree with a focus on natural resources management or related field; AND
• At least five (5) years of professional experience. 

• At least seven (7) years of professional experience in natural resources management or lived experience equivalent to competencies in natural science, natural resource planning-related field. (e.g. expertise developed from Tribal, Native, and Indigenous knowledge and practices, etc.)

• At least one year of experience leading or facilitating external working groups toward inclusive collaboration (may be counted within overall experience).
• Demonstrated ability to manage conflict successfully and equitably by considering multiple perspectives which may conflict with one’s own.
• Able to work cooperatively and build relationships with a diverse group of agencies, Tribal communities, governments and stakeholders, scientists, planners, local jurisdictions, practitioners, and policy makers.
• Commitment to justice, diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.
• Strategic thinker, with the ability to provide critical analysis of plans and processes and provide timely, well considered recommendations.
• Knowledge of ecosystem-based management.
• Knowledge of federal, state, and regional funding programs and annual/biennial funding cycles.
• Able to work effectively both independently and as part of a team.
• At least one year of experience working with local jurisdictions or tribes leading to general understanding of roles and the interrelationships between local, county, regional, tribal, state and federal entities.
• Experience with adaptive management and natural resource planning.
• Commitment to advancing equity and inclusion initiatives.

• Work indoors, at a desk/workstation the majority of a workday, in an open office environment with possible conversation and other noise distractions 
• Work in a tobacco-free, drug-free, and alcohol-free environment
• Work a 40-hour work week (A flexible work schedule may be considered upon request and supervisory approval, after an initial review period)
• Occasionally work in excess of 40 hours per week and/or to adjust normally scheduled hours, which may include evenings and weekends, to meet program needs and critical deadlines
• Occasionally travel throughout the state, which may include overnight stays, as required, while performing the duties of this position
• Work in a fast-paced environment with multiple priorities and competing deadlines
• Maintain confidentiality regarding information accessed or discussed while performing the duties of the position
• Interact and work with partners and staff in a positive, friendly, and supportive manner that meets the needs and standards of the office and the agency.
• Permanently reside in Washington state throughout employment and available to report in person at Puget Sound agency offices and meetings on a weekly basis. If the successful candidate is currently living outside of Washington, relocation must occur within 30 days of the appointment date. 

• Two years of experience working with local ecosystem recovery project sponsors, Local Integrating Organizations, or Lead Entities.
• Experience in natural resource monitoring.
• Familiarity with key areas of Puget Sound ecosystem recovery (ex. water pollution prevention, shellfish ecology, green infrastructure, nature-based solutions, and/or climate change science, market-based funding mechanisms, federal and state natural resource regulations).
• Knowledge of the Puget Sound Action Agenda and Implementation Strategies.
• Familiar with tribal treaties, federal and state policy and history of tribal relations, tribal government structures and natural resource issues as they relate to tribal rights.
• Familiarity with state legislative process.
• Experience in contract management.
• Familiarity with Washington salmon recovery and the Puget Sound Salmon Recovery Plan.

Intrigued?  We’d love to hear from you. If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every preferred qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles. If you have lived experience that is equivalent to the required experience and education mentioned above, please apply! Tell us about it in your cover letter and how that experience qualifies you for this work. Be sure to answer the supplemental questions with your lived experience in mind if you want this background to be considered as equivalent competencies and it will be explained in your cover letter.
 
Please attach the following documents in order to be considered; failure to do so may result in you not being considered for the position:

• A letter of interest that describes why you are a compelling candidate and how you meet the specific qualifications for this position. If you’d like lived experience to be considered in lieu of any education or professional experience, please include how that lived experience is equivalent to any of the educational or professional experience requirements. You are welcome to include the name and pronouns you would like to be referred to in your materials and we will honor this as you interact with our organization. 
• Current resume, detailing experience, education, and relevant skills or talents

• Do not include your salary history. Salary offers are based on the quality of your skill set and not whether you have the right salary history.
• Please remove any private or personal information such as your social security number, date of birth, marital status, family status, etc. 
• Do not attach documents that are password protected.