Water Resources Program Manager

Annual Compensation Range: $90,750 to $110,281

• Salary commensurate with experience.
• Must work from MCRCD’s Ukiah office.
• 4 weeks paid time off per year to start.
• 3% Employer match to retirement fund.
• Generous health benefit package.

Mendocino County Resource Conservation District (MCRCD) is an independent Special District of the State of California, governed by Division 9 of the Public Resources Code and led by an Executive Director and a 5-member Board of Directors. MCRCD’s mission is to conserve, protect, and restore wild and working landscapes to enhance the health of the water, soil, and forests in Mendocino County.

MCRCD’s Water Resources Program is one of four programs s program is responsible for work to promote healthy streams, water quality and quantity, and fisheries restoration through a variety of grant‑funded programs. Projects include stream bank stabilization, off‑stream storage, and storm‑proofing rural roads to minimize sediment. We work in partnerships with landowners, property managers, schools, non‑profits, road associations, Tribes, government agencies, and the public to enhance, protect, and restore water resources in Mendocino County.

Team members engage in infrastructure project management, public works contract management, outreach, education, technical assistance, biological and water quality monitoring, and implementation of cost‑share and grant opportunities to:

• Demonstrate water conservation best management practices,
• Promote and implement water quality improvement projects,
• Support stormwater pollution prevention strategies,
• Support sustainable groundwater efforts and strategies,
• Restore fisheries habitat and riparian connectivity on a landscape level, and
• Enhance stream flows and engage in climate beneficial practices.

The Water Resources Program Manager is responsible for leading the Water Resources Team in its day‑to‑day operations, managing staff, and working on the executive management team. The Program Manager is a working manager, with responsibility both for their own projects and for helping staff with their projects. Staff work includes field work as well as procurement, contracting, and managing public works‑type infrastructure projects.

This position requires continual interface with public and agency partners. The Water Resources Project Manager is expected to develop and maintain good working relationships with diverse community stakeholders, organizations, and resource agencies, and to represent the district at public events, meetings, and functions. The Program Manager must be a proven leader and a team player, with the ability to communicate effectively and professionally, representing the MCRCD as needed.

• Development of projects for watershed restoration, water conservation, monitoring and other related projects and draft grant applications and funding proposals, in collaboration with MCRCD staff, landowners, and partners.

• Understand, secure, and adhere to regulatory permitting requirements.
• Develop and maintain relationships with partners to achieve project objectives, and attend and conduct meetings.
• Manage grant‑funded projects that protect water quality, promote water conservation, and enhance/conserve aquatic habitat.
• Provide supervision for monitoring of physical and biological attributes associated with MCRCD’s projects such as:

• stream and aquatic habitat inventories and other monitoring to describe site characteristics and to identify natural resource concerns related to watershed health.
• groundwater elevation monitoring and groundwater quality testing.
• invasive aquatic species monitoring.

• Organizational Management
• Represent MCRCD to build partnerships with landowners, Indigenous Tribes, and regional, state and federal agencies such as Russian River Confluence, Great Redwood Trail, and North Coast Resource Partnership.
• Assist in the development of educational and outreach materials for the MCRCD website, social media, and other venues.

• Bachelor…