JOB OPPORTUNITY: Northern Oregon Coordinator

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Northern Oregon Coordinator

Location: Northern Oregon  

Compensation: salary range of $50,000 - $58,000 + benefits including medical insurance, Simple IRA retirement account with employer match, generous PTO policy, monthly mobile phone stipend, mileage reimbursement for travel, and professional development opportunities.

Application Deadline: Open until position filled. Application review beginning February 10, 2025.

 

Native Fish Society seeks Northern Oregon Coordinator

The Native Fish Society is an Oregon-based nonprofit organization that exists to cultivate a groundswell of public support for reviving revive abundant wild fish, free-flowing rivers, and thriving local communities across the Pacific Northwest.

We activate place-based volunteers through our signature River Steward Program, skills-based volunteers through our Native Fish Fellowship Program, and increase our circle of women advocating for wild fish through our Women for Wild Fish Initiative. Through recent grassroots efforts in Northern Oregon, we led the largest habitat restoration in the history of the Molalla River. In our nearly 30-year history, the Native Fish Society has never been more impactful on the issues defining the future of wild, native fish. Our community is passionate, persistent, and focused on long-term relationships and solutions.

We seek a full-time Northern Oregon Coordinator to grow and empower our volunteer River Stewards in Northern Oregon and coordinate conservation initiatives in the region. This role is best filled by a person who is infectiously upbeat, highly organized, and energized by meeting new people. This is a great opportunity for someone who wants to grow as a leader and make a big, positive impact on the rivers and streams that sustain our Pacific Northwest communities and cultures. Homebase for this position is out of your home office anywhere in the Northern Oregon region and will require frequent travel around the area and beyond.

The Northern Oregon Coordinator will play an important role in implementing our organizational strategies, including our work to cultivate a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive community for wild fish. Native Fish Society is an equal opportunity employer and encourages women, people of color, people with disabilities, and LGBTQ candidates to apply.

Native Fish Society – Northern Oregon Coordinator

Key Responsibilities

  • Recruit and maintain a diverse, comprehensive, and effective network of River Stewards across the northern Oregon region, with the Deschutes, Clackamas, Molalla, and Northern Oregon coastal rivers as focus areas.

  • Provide support to River Stewards to ensure that conservation challenges and opportunities are identified, prioritized, and resolved using the best-available science, the support of grassroots activism, and the resources of our Fellowship Program volunteers.

  • Management of high-priority conservation campaigns, restoration projects, and coalition efforts.

  • Seek positive partnering relationships with public and private groups, local community members, tribal nations and indigenous communities, state and federal agencies, and landowners.

  • Collaborate with the Executive Director and program staff to implement new tools and practices for our volunteer network.

  • Share Native Fish Society’s mission, vision, programs, strategies, and campaigns clearly and compellingly, verbally and in writing with our community, partners, and natural resource decision-makers.

Qualifications

  • Passion for northern Oregon’s rivers and native fish

  • Ability to connect with people from a wide range of backgrounds

  • Volunteer service mentality

  • Superb written, verbal, and interpersonal skills

  • Savvy with basic technology like Microsoft Office suite & Google app suite

  • Creative, adaptive, and self-starter attitude

  • Time management, multi-tasking, and flexibility with job duties

  • Organized and inspiring team member

Ideal candidate

  • Experience in non-profit grassroots organizing, leading grassroots advocacy initiatives, and coalition building.

  • Familiarity with state and federal policy processes, environmental laws and regulations, and project management.

  • Knowledge of scientific literature identifying the greatest threats to wild, native fish health and abundance. 

  • Experience working with federal and state agencies, nonprofit partners, and tribal nations.

  • Demonstrated commitment to cultural competency and experience working with and building lasting relationships with communities of color and marginalized communities.

Compensation & Benefits

  • Starting salary commensurate with related work experience and qualifications. First-year budgeted salary range of $50,000-$58,000.

  • We offer a comprehensive benefits package including benefits including medical insurance, Simple IRA retirement account with employer match, generous PTO policy, monthly mobile phone stipend, mileage reimbursement for travel, and professional development opportunities.

Application Instructions

Application review will begin on February 10, 2025. The position is open until filled.

Please send application materials (resume, cover letter, and three references) to mark@nativefishsociety.org. Please include “N. Oregon Coordinator & Your Name” in the subject line.

 To learn more about Native Fish Society check out www.nativefishsociety.org


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More about Native Fish Society:

Mission: Guided by the best available science, Native Fish Society advocates for the protection and recovery of wild, native fish and promotes the stewardship of the habitats that sustain us all.

Vision: We envision a future with abundant wild fish, free-flowing rivers, and thriving local communities.

What is a Wild, Native Fish? And why are they important?

A wild, native fish completes its entire lifecycle naturally, without human intervention and is a fish species that occurred naturally within a lake, stream, or river historically—not placed there by humans.

Many wild, native fish are keystone species—meaning their presence holds together our ecosystems. The well-being and success of wild, native fish affects us all.

Today, the majority of the Pacific Northwest’s iconic native fish hover at just 1-10% of their historic abundance. The fate of native fish will be decided within our lifetimes. The revival of native fish is more than an environmental movement, it’s about preserving our shared cultures.

Conservation Programs:

River Steward Program: 52 place-based volunteer River Stewards are empowered as local leaders enacting change in their homewaters.

Native Fish Fellowship Program: 14 skills-based volunteers leverage their skills and talents to accelerate the revival of wild, native fish.

Women for Wild Fish Initiative: Connect and promote 2,000 women in 2025 as leaders in science-based education and the conservation of wild, native fish and their homewaters.

Why Native Fish Society values the integration of diversity, equity, and inclusion principles in our work. 

It takes dedicated people, with a deep connection to place, to steward Oregon’s native fish and homewaters. Coalitions of people united across differences make the most powerful coalitions by demonstrating the unifying value of wild fish and our homewaters. By fostering a more equitable, diverse, and inclusive organization we hope to become more effective, innovative, and creative as we engage in the collective work of reviving the keystone native fish species of our state.

Notable N. Oregon accomplishments include:

  • Secured landmark protections for salmon habitat in the 500,000-acre Tillamook and Clatsop state forests, including a nearly 5x increase in streamside riparian buffers. These protections will increase streamflow, reduce stream temperatures, and provide critical habitat for Chinook and coho salmon, steelhead, cutthroat trout, and Pacific Lamprey.

  • Led the largest habitat restoration project in the history of the Molalla River to safeguard critical off channel rearing areas, create deep holding pools, and recruit spawning gravels needed to revive threatened spring Chinook salmon and winter steelhead.

  • Significantly altered the operation of 8 federal dams on Willamette tributaries to provide fish passage and improved water quality needed to revive threatened spring Chinook salmon.

  • Removed a major migratory barrier in the Siletz watershed to reconnect salmon, steelhead, trout, and Pacific Lamprey with 16 miles of high-quality habitat. 

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