Southwest Forestry and Fuels Coordinator

Company Description

The Forest Stewards Guild, a national organization of foresters and allied natural resource professionals, is dedicated to practicing and promoting responsible forestry as a means of sustaining the integrity of forest ecosystems and the people dependent upon them. We use innovative, science‑based solutions to meet the challenges of forest conservation and management. The Guild has over 700 members, over half of whom are professionals who manage over 42 million acres of forestland in the United States and Canada.

The Guild maintains regional offices in New Mexico, Maine, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oregon, Colorado, Washington, and Wisconsin. The Southwest office has a history of working alongside place‑based communities and Tribes for 30 years, including some longstanding programs related to youth education and workforce development, fire‑adapted communities, and collaborative forestry.

The Forest Stewards Guild is hiring a full‑time Forestry and Fuels Coordinator to support forest contractors and implement forest resilience projects on private and federal lands. This role builds upon the 2‑3‑2 Cohesive Strategy Partnership and the Rio Chama Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program (CFLRP) to promote forestry projects for small acreage and underserved landowners and build local contractor capacity.

We seek a dynamic and collaborative leader who is outgoing, personable, and skilled at connecting with individuals and groups. This role requires excellent listening skills and the ability to foster relationships with diverse partners and the public. The successful candidate will demonstrate a proactive approach and a genuine enthusiasm for working collaboratively to achieve shared goals.

The successful candidate will use their experience in project coordination, science communication, and ecological forestry to work with Guild staff, partners, and landowners to evaluate project needs, implement resilient forestry projects, conduct educational outreach, and facilitate contractor trainings, among other activities as project needs are identified. The Forestry and Fuels Coordinator will help fulfill the Guild’s mission of ecological forestry in the Southwest United States through landowner outreach, field surveys and project design, forest prescription and plan writing, and implementation oversight.

Candidates should have strong project coordination skills, communication abilities, budget tracking experience, knowledge of dry fire‑adapted forests, forestry training, and strategic thinking capabilities.

Interested applicants should review the full position description and email a one‑page cover letter, resume, one‑page writing sample, three professional references, and earliest available start date to jmarshall at forest guild dot org by 5PM on March 13th, 2026
. Incomplete applications will not be considered.

• Certificate or degree in forestry, ecology, natural resource management, or other applicable field, or three years equivalent experience of professional work mapping and marking timber or fuels units for treatment
• Forestry and fuels knowledge and related field experience
• Experience using Geographic Information Systems and field‑based applications such as Avenza or Survey
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• Project coordination experience working with multiple contracts and deliverables at one time
• Experience with disseminating scientific and complex project information to the public
• Proficiency in tracking deliverables and report writing
• Clear verbal and written communication skills, with an emphasis on concise, technical writing
• Ability to work both independently and with a team
• Leadership skills and self‑direction
• Strong interpersonal and organizational skills
• Effective knowledge of common software applications
• Valid driver’s license

• Bachelor’s degree in forestry, land or natural resource management, ecology, or other applicable field, or five years of relevant work experience
• FFT2 Fire qualification, Basic Faller (FAL3) chainsaw certification
• Experience using partnerships to leverage resources and funding to accomplish cross‑boundary…