Western Policy & Conservation Manager

As North America’s leading voice for our wild public lands, waters, and wildlife, we work every day to protect the places that feed our passion for hunting, fishing, and outdoor adventure.

We’re a tight-knit team of dedicated professionals — avid hunters, anglers, and public land users ourselves — who believe in the power of advocacy, education, and hands‑on stewardship to ensure these experiences endure for generations to come. Whether we’re testifying in the halls of Congress, rolling up our sleeves on a habitat project, or rallying grassroots voices in every corner of the continent, we take our mission seriously…and we have a lot of fun doing it.

If you’re ready to help protect access to the untamed spaces that offer challenge, solitude, and a connection to the human spirit, we’d love to hear from you.

Backcountry Hunters & Anglers (BHA) is a North American nonprofit organization with chapters throughout Canada and the United States. BHA seeks to ensure North America’s outdoor heritage of hunting and fishing in a natural setting through education and work on behalf of our wild public lands, waters, and wildlife.

BHA is a grassroots-driven organization that believes conservation happens on two fronts: by speaking up for public lands and waters and by showing up to care for them firsthand. Through policy advocacy, grassroots organizing, and boots‑on‑the‑ground habitat stewardship, BHA works to ensure healthy habitats and abundant fish and wildlife populations for generations to come.

Enhance BHA’s reputation as the leading sportsmen’s voice on public lands, waters and wildlife issues through grassroots engagement on federal, state and local policy issues by providing cohesive direction and robust support across BHA’s chapter network.

As a BHA Western Policy & Conservation Manager
, you are expected to be consistently executing in the following areas:

Support the evolution of BHA’s Regional Policy & Conservation priorities in response to organizational needs and the changing policy landscape.

Participate in strategic planning and development.

Ensure communication across BHA channels are accurate, timely, and non-partisan.

Develop long-term relationships and represent BHA at professional conferences, regional policy conferences, and events.

Provide organizational policy expertise, including the review and critique of proposed conservation policy positions, memoranda, and communication materials for BHA and its chapters to take effective positions on key conservation issues.

Provide direct support on policy matters in your region as a primary focus, while supporting stewardship projects that influence policy work or larger strategic objectives as a secondary focus.

Keep BHA CEO, directors, coordinators, and chapters informed about state policy issues that are related to our mission, including providing updates for HQ staff through weekly calls.

Continue building and refining the systems that support policy coordination, creating clearer processes for communication, issue tracking, prioritization and collaboration among policy staff, field staff and chapters.

Update and maintain legislative tracking reports using BHA native software platforms.

Maintain and facilitate consistent communication between Field Staff, Mar Comms and Policy Teams to help produce and leverage accurate, well-rounded content with depth and insight into the multiple layers of BHA’s work.

Help lead major state and federal policy…