Pacific NW Habitat Restoration Specialist

Overview/ Job Responsibilities

Entarian is seeking a Pacific Northwest Habitat Restoration Specialist to provide technical, programmatic, data management, environmental compliance, outreach, and restoration planning support for the NOAA Office of Habitat Conservation, Restoration Center. This position will support habitat restoration projects and related NOAA programs and initiatives in the Pacific Northwest, with a near-term emphasis on the Community Based Restoration Program (CRP) and additional support to Damage Assessment, Remediation, and Restoration Program (DARRP) cases.

The position requires periodic on-site meetings in Portland, OR, and regional site visits and meetings with partners throughout Oregon, Washington, and Idaho, with regular off‑site work acceptable. The contractor may be required to travel for meetings, workshops, trainings, and conferences.

Duties include:

Support fishery habitat restoration planning and implementation, including the evaluation, identification, prioritization, design, implementation, and monitoring of restoration projects, with particular emphasis on salmon and steelhead habitat and other biological resources in the Pacific Northwest.

• Provide technical and programmatic support for CRP and DARRP restoration projects, including coordination with NOAA staff, local partners, state and federal trustees, responsible parties, technical professionals, and other stakeholders to support project development, implementation planning, monitoring, adaptive management, and reporting.
• Support project solicitation, review, and tracking activities, including distribution of requests for proposals, review and scoring of proposals, participation in technical review discussions, development of monitoring plans, participation in implementation planning, review of progress reports, and tracking of project accomplishments.
• Provide technical management and oversight of trustee or responsible-party restoration projects, including coordination of draft restoration plans, assessment reports, environmental compliance documents, monitoring and evaluation plans, permit requests, project budgets, adaptive management plans, and restoration scaling activities.
• Support Natural Resources Damage Assessment (NRDA) planning and stewardship activities, including gathering information from state and federal trustees, supporting case strategy and decisions through literature and expert-opinion research, preparing topic papers, supporting use of settlement funds, and applying an integrated watershed-based approach to restoration portfolios.
• Provide programmatic management support by coordinating and inspecting field activities and contract deliverables; supporting subcontractor oversight; identifying potential contract deviations; and providing technical input to the NOAA Project Lead and COR without exercising technical direction or final contract acceptance authority.
• Develop and support environmental compliance documentation and permitting, including NEPA documentation using established NOAA and CEQ methods and guidance;
  Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act; and documentation needed to support compliance with applicable federal, state, and local requirements, including the Endangered Species Act and Magnuson‑Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act.
• Develop outreach and communication products, including draft press releases, project fact sheets, briefing packets, maps, story maps, and other materials; and support public meetings, events, and other outreach activities as needed.
• Perform data management and reporting activities, including compiling and inputting project data into the Restoration and Conservation Database (RCDB), DARRTS, and other reporting databases;…