Job Opportunity: Native Fish Society Seeks Southern Oregon Coordinator

Southern Oregon Coordinator

Location: Southern 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 October 10th.

Native Fish Society Seeks Southern Oregon Coordinator

The Native Fish Society is an Oregon-based nonprofit organization that exists to cultivate a groundswell of public support for reviving 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 Southern Oregon, we helped secure the North Umpqua as Oregon’s first river managed for all wild summer and winter steelhead – a historic achievement. 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 Southern Oregon Coordinator to grow and empower our volunteer River Stewards in Southern 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 southern Oregon region and will require frequent travel around the region and beyond.

The Southern 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.

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

Native Fish Society – Southern Oregon Coordinator

Key Responsibilities

• Recruit and maintain a diverse, comprehensive, and effective network of River Stewards across the southern Oregon region, with the Umpqua, Rogue Valley, Upper Klamath, and southern 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 southern 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.

• 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, a generous PTO policy, a monthly mobile phone stipend, mileage reimbursement for travel, and professional development opportunities.

Application Instructions

Application review will begin on October 10, 2024. The position is open until filled.

Please send application materials (resume, cover letter, and three references) to mark@nativefishsociety.org

Please include “S. Oregon Coordinator & Your Name” in the subject line