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Salary+/-$53,000 annual salary DOE

Summary of Position

McKenzie River Trust (MRT) seeks an interdisciplinary, skilled, dynamic individual to join our team as a Watershed Restoration Specialist. This position will work collaboratively with current staff, private landowners, public land managers, Tribes, agencies, and other nonprofit partners. Primary duties include project management, design, community engagement, and fundraising to support projects that restore ecological processes and function within the McKenzie River Sub-basin. The position will focus on wildfire recovery efforts on private lands and non-federal public lands impacted by the Holiday Farm Fire. The position will work directly with a collaborative team organized through the Pure Waters Partners (PWP), www.purewaterpartners.org and will be supervised by the Director of Conservation with support from partners at the McKenzie Watershed Council, Upper Willamette Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD) and Eugene Water & Electric Board (EWEB)—all core partners in the Pure Water Partners. Secondary responsibilities will be to support stewardship of McKenzie River Trust owned and leased properties throughout the upriver corridor and caretaking MRT’s upriver office location near Finn Rock.