Senior Manager, Watersheds Partnerships

Senior Manager, Watersheds Partnerships About BEF

Bonneville Environmental Foundation (BEF) is an entrepreneurial nonprofit working on environmental solutions at the intersection of renewable energy and freshwater. Partnerships are key to our success. We build long‑term relationships with our education, corporate, utility and philanthropic partners by first understanding their goals and needs and providing solutions that achieve those goals while achieving real, measurable environmental benefits.

We are actively seeking a passionate, collaborative team member leader to join our integrated floodplain and watershed management programs. The successful candidate will join the BEF Watersheds team, building relationships and working with communities that are leading and supporting ambitious floodplain and watershed resilience initiatives. This role involves coordinating high‑visibility partner and legislative engagements, site visits, and outreach events; expansion of networks to strategic new allies;

facilitating learning and information sharing events; creating and contributing to technical materials; and tracking and managing grant reporting and budgets.

BEF's Watersheds Program champions an integrated, community‑based, whole watershed approach to overcoming barriers to restoring freshwater ecosystems. BEF is a trusted partner to a wide range of foundations, watershed organizations, community groups, government agencies, tribal nations, and water stewardship nonprofits. Our partners count on us to bring adaptive approaches, expertise, and a deep understanding of how to leverage resources and relationships to build much‑needed capacity to restore watersheds.

Partnership:
We believe we can accomplish more by working together.

Adaptability:
We evolve, adapt, and apply what we learn to improve our approaches and outcomes.

Knowledge:
We seek out and value diverse perspectives, embrace new ideas, and advance new approaches.

Innovation:
We recognize that the scope and pace of the change we need demands innovation, drawing on knowledge from the past and new information and tools.

Integrity:
We are honest with our employees, customers, and our partners. We seek to deliver outcomes that benefit the environment and people we serve.

• Build understanding and momentum for integrated floodplain management across Washington State by cultivating relationships, facilitating information exchange, and stewarding collaborative processes among diverse partners
• Amplify partner successes and surface shared needs through coordinated virtual and in‑person learning opportunities including site tours, workshops, and cross‑sector convenings that bring the work to life for new audiences
• Design and facilitate compelling network learning opportunities, field visits, peer exchanges, and practitioner forums that deepen shared knowledge and strengthen collective capacity
• Partner with BEF Watersheds' Communications Coordinator to craft audience‑specific messaging, talking points, and compelling examples that translate complex priorities into clear calls to action for legislators, funders, and community partners

• Collaborate across BEF's Watersheds team to identify, evaluate, and advance funding and capacity‑building opportunities that accelerate integrated floodplain management and hazard mitigation, including supporting the Washington State Floodplains by Design initiative. The majority of work will focus on Washington State, but there are opportunities to support emerging partnerships such as watersheds‑utility collaboration in Colorado River watersheds and corporate partnership opportunities in the Western US.
• Demonstrates an advanced understanding of the job and is viewed as a subject matter expert. Effectively applies knowledge and leverages resources to deliver high quality products/service.
• Cultivate and sustain strategic relationships with Washington State legislators, agency leaders, Tribal governments, and subject‑matter experts, while…