Beaver Restoration Project Manager or Senior Project Manager

Beaver Restoration Project Manager or Senior Project Manager

Trout Unlimited (TU) brings together diverse interests to care for and recover the rivers and streams on which we all depend. It is a national organization with 300,000 members and supporters organized into over 400 chapters and councils nationwide. Our dedicated grassroots volunteers are matched by a respected staff of organizers, lawyers, policy experts, and scientists who work out of more than 25 offices across the country.

The Wenatchee‑Entiat Beaver Project was established in 2018 to provide technical assistance, education, and support to the communities of Washington’s Chelan and Douglas counties to help resolve human‑beaver conflicts through coexistence and relocation. In addition to partnering with numerous federal, state, local, NGO, and private groups, we partner with beavers to harness their restorative potential by relocating them to vital streams so that they can enhance the aquatic zone and adjacent floodplain while providing habitat for fish, wildlife, and plant species, including threatened and endangered salmonids.

Learning from beavers, the project applies beaver‑mimicking restoration to degraded streams through low‑tech process‑based restoration (LTP ) by installing structures such as beaver dam analogs and post‑assisted log structures to kick‑start natural processes and allow streams to heal themselves. We have become a leader in installing low‑tech process‑based restoration projects throughout these same geographies.

In addition to the Beaver Project’s stream restoration and beaver relocation/coexistence efforts, we provide outreach, education, and volunteer opportunities for the local community, research opportunities for graduate students, and engage with LTP  practitioners and the Washington Beaver Working Group statewide coalition. The beaver/dam analog habitat coordinator joins a team of 17 TU staffers in Washington state.

Trout Unlimited seeks to hire a self‑motivated and highly capable person to implement restoration projects to benefit aquatic resources and native wild fish populations in Upper Columbia Basin watersheds in Washington State. Depending on experience, the position may be titled Project Manager or Senior Project Manager. The Beaver Restoration Project Manager will work closely with the Beaver Coexistence and Relocation Specialist and the Restoration Program Director to implement TU’s beaver‑based restoration program in the Upper Columbia watershed.

A successful candidate will be self‑motivated, well organized, and capable of completing assigned duties safely and efficiently, conducting work professionally as a public representative of TU, and working well with a team having diverse backgrounds and personalities. The primary duty stations will be the Leavenworth National Fish Hatchery in Leavenworth, WA and the TU office in Wenatchee, WA.

• Effectively lead Wenatchee‑Entiat Beaver Project’s low‑tech process‑based stream restoration and beaver coexistence, trapping, and relocation projects in North Central Washington.
• Work with the Restoration Program Director and BCR specialist to identify new projects and funding sources, apply for funding, and secure authorization from landowners and managers.
• Work with the BCR Specialist to create and maintain annual and weekly field schedules.
• Foster and maintain positive relationships with landowners, tribes, state and federal agencies and other partners with varying political and social backgrounds.
• Attend, participate, and represent TU in meetings with project partners including community members and state, federal, and local agencies and organizations.
• Monitor project effectiveness and evaluate project site selection by collecting and analyzing pre‑and post‑restoration data.
• Participate in public education, interpretation, and outreach opportunities.
• This is a non‑supervisory position although the selected candidate will manage day‑to‑day activities of seasonal staff, make field decisions, and be the primary reporting contact for the Restoration Program Director.
• Develop, design, permit, coordinate, and implement…