Snohomish CD Forest Resource Planner Position

Forest Resource Planner delivers natural resource planning services to landowners throughout Snohomish County and Camano Island, working alongside the Forestry Department Manager. This role provides forestry and agroforestry technical assistance, planning, and implementation support to landowners, partners, and other community members. This role requires a self-driven individual who can manage multiple projects at once while strengthening partnerships internally and externally. This position is part of the Habitat, Floodplains, and Forests Division, and is a highly collaborative role with project managers, planners, educators and outreach staff, working to protect and restore the natural resources that sustain our communities.

Essential Tasks
These are illustrations of the various types of work performed. The omission of specific duties does not exclude them if the work is similar, related, or a logical assignment to the position.

• Provide technical assistance to forest landowners. Activities include conducting site visits, diagnosing and providing assessments of resource conditions, identifying management priorities, preparing project area maps, and developing practice-related prescriptions.
• Prepare forest stewardship plans for Non
  - Industrial Private Forest (NIPF) landowners. Activities include conducting forest natural resource inventories, evaluating compiled data, and assembling and presenting data. Forest stewardship plans prepared meet the requirements set forth by Washington State Integrated Forest Management Plan Guidelines & Template, NRCS CAP
  106, NRCS National Forestry Manual Part 536 Subpart
  
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• Provide wildfire risk reduction technical assistance, including conducting home risk assessments and creating defensible space around homes. This may involve providing technical direction to a crew in brush management and operating a wood chipper to reduce fuels.
• Support landowners with preparing and submitting cost-share applications and implementing funded practices. Activities include preparing forest health management cost-share applications and Job Sheets associated with local, state and federal programs; supporting landowners with obtaining contractor estimates and permits; and providing ongoing technical assistance during and after the contract award process as needed.
• Support landowners with accessing and enrolling in Open Space Taxation programs such as the Designated Forest Land Program and locally administered “current use” programs such as the Public Benefit Rating System programs of Island County.
• Lead the implementation of forestry and agroforestry practices on forest lands and farms within Snohomish County and Camano Island. Implementation may include the development of planting and thinning plans, developing landowner agreements, completing cultural resource consultation processes, procuring plants and project materials, and providing technical direction and participating in the work of labor crews (including volunteer or intern crews and professional field crews) to support on-site logistics of plant deliveries, planting days, planting maintenance or site preparation, and thinning projects.
• Manage grants, including developing project plans, directing project teams, tracking budgets and deliverables, coordinating with funders and partners, procuring labor and materials, overseeing contractors and cost-share implementation, and managing vegetation maintenance and monitoring activities.
• Assist SCD programs in securing funding, including project development, grant writing, and landowner outreach.
• Support the Habitat, Floodplains, and Forests Division with regular project monitoring of SCD habitat restoration,…