Watersheds Senior Project Manager

Watersheds Senior Project Manager 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, philanthropic, Tribal, and conservation partners by first understanding their goals and needs and providing solutions that achieve those goals while achieving real, measurable environmental benefits.

We’re looking for a skilled and collaborative project manager who is passionate about riparian and watershed resilience. The right candidate will join our Watersheds team and work alongside communities in Washington and the Colorado Basin to cultivate partnerships, identify funding opportunities, and engage a diverse range of stakeholders. The right candidate will coordinate multi‑partner initiatives, supporting project strategy, managing resources and contractors, supporting convenings and peer‑learning programs, and implementing grant and funding decisions that advance watershed resilience at scale.

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.

• Coordinate and support utility partners work sessions, setting agendas, advancing decisions and driving project milestones. Co‑design and co‑develop the mentorship curriculum, recruiting subject matter experts and shaping content strategy across convenings.
• Develop a business case to demonstrate partnership opportunities and return on investment for watershed and wildfire resiliency projects.
• Oversee grant compliance, contracting and budget management in partnership with BEF’s Finance and Operations teams.

• Lead the design and implementation of peer‑learning, site visits and other opportunities that elevate riparian stewardship and conservation.
• Author technical briefs and synthesis products that inform program direction and partner decision‑making.
• Serve on grant review team and program work groups.
• Create communications materials that highlight partner achievements and surface lessons learned and innovations.
• Manage expert contractors.

• Identify and pursue corporate engagement and private sector investment opportunities that advance watershed resilience goals.
• Partner with BEF’s communications coordinator to develop compelling project narratives and outreach materials.
• Leverage and expand utility and business partnerships to broaden the reach and impact of watershed resilience work.

• Results Focused – Focuses on desired outcomes and how best to achieve them. Gets the job done. Sets high standards for performance of self and others; assuming responsibility and accountability for successfully completing assignments or tasks; can be counted on to deliver consistent and high‑quality results.
• Delivers Results – Can be counted on to exceed goals successfully; is constantly and consistently one of the top performers; very bottom‑line…