The Maine Chapter of The Nature Conservancy seeks a knowledgeable, energetic Forest Stewardship Manager to manage the Wolastoq - St. John River Forest. The Forest Stewardship Manager will help lead the next chapter of TNC Maine’s work at the WSJRF and contribute to a broader Maine forest stewardship strategy.
This position will manage and advance ecological monitoring, forest stewardship, and partnership projects that integrate ecological, financial, cultural, carbon, and climate considerations into forest management decisions. The position will support TNC’s credibility and trusted conservation voice in northern Maine forest management by ensuring that TNC’s own lands are managed responsibly, transparently, and in alignment with organizational goals, while also maintaining relationships and learning networks with forestry, conservation, Indigenous, academic, agency, and landowner partners. Communicating and sharing forest management and conservation outcomes and lessons learned with Conservancy staff, partners, contractors, and external audiences are important parts of the work.
Responsibilities include oversight of forest management planning and implementation, ecological reserve inventory and monitoring, roads and infrastructure, commercial sugaring lease, public access, carbon offset project obligations, FSC certification compliance, relationship management and other legal and stewardship commitments.
This is a hands-on, field-oriented position with substantial time expected in the woods and regular overnight travel to remote areas of northern Maine. The Forest Stewardship Manager works under minimal and distant supervision and is expected to make independent decisions based on analysis, experience, and judgment. The position is embedded with a diverse statewide Land Management team and contributes to the oversight of 2-3 other properties in western Maine as well as policy discussions on land stewardship across the state. The position also requires the ability to gain cooperation from outside parties to accomplish program goals and to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical audiences.
https://careers.tnc.org/us/en/job/JR104249/Forest-Stewardship-Manager
