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AFE is pleased to share announcements about job openings in fire ecology, fire management, and the environmental sector. If you would like to add a job posting to this page, please fill out this form. Email any questions to the following address: communications@fireecology.net.
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The National Interagency Fire Center has an excellent website to share career resources and specific information for federal agencies.
Careers in Fire and Fuels is a course at the University of Idaho that includes guest speakers from diverse wildland fire and fuels positions. You can watch the recorded presentations at anytime.
The Green Jobs Board is a great resource to search for jobs in the climate space.
FireUp is America's first careers platform exclusively dedicated to fire and forestry jobs, community, and well-being.
Fire Research and Management Exchange Systems (FRAMES) has a current announcements and jobs board.
Many fire jobs can be found on Indeed (e.g. keyword search “wildland fire”, “prescribed fire”, etc.), even for government agencies.
Wildland fire can also often be found on conservation-focused job boards such as Conservation Job Board and the Texas A&M Wildlife Job Board.
The Nature Conservancy (TNC) regularly hires wildland fire professionals at varying levels. Details on current postings can be found here (keyword search “fire”).
Internships, experiential learning opportunities, academic fellowships, and scholarships funded by the US government and private sector organizations and administered by Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) and the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) can be found on the Zintellect website. Search by keyword “fire.”
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The LEAF Lab at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas seeks an MS Research Assistant in Grassland Fire Behavior.
The Great Basin Institute, in cooperation with the USFS, is recruiting Forestry Technicians to perform timber sale-preparation, vegetation management and restoration projects in the Sierra Nevada region. These projects all serve the Basin & Range Forestry program’s greater mission of helping the USFS in their critical goal of improving forest resilience in the face of worsening climate conditions and increased wildfire threats.
Pheasants Forever is seeking a Prescribed Fire Specialist to help increase prescribed fire capacity throughout South Dakota. The specialist will work directly with agricultural producers to develop conservation plans to accelerate the implementation of conservation practices including and supporting prescribed fire through stewardship and management activities in South Dakota.
Pheasants Forever (PF) in North Dakota is seeking qualified candidates for a Prescribed Burn Specialist position to promote, coordinate, and support the safe and effective use of prescribed fire on private and public lands across North Dakota.
The Nature Conservancy seeks a Conservation Practitioner III, who performs and participates in preserve operations including the maintenance, management, development and coordination of conservation and land management programs, near Bristow, Oklahoma.
The Nature Conservancy seeks a Seasonal Land Conservation Steward to be based at Apalachicola Bluffs and Ravines Preserve in Bristol, Florida.
The Nature Conservancy seeks a Dugdown Conservation Manager to develop, manage, and advance strategies to protect, restore and maintain the mountain longleaf pine ecosystem and its associated habitat types within the Dugdown Corridor, which stretches from Paulding and Sheffield Wildlife Management Areas in northwest Georgia westward to the Talladega National Forest in northeast Alabama.
The Nature Conservancy seeks an Assistant Preserve Manager at the Ordway Prairie Preserve near Leola, South Dakota. The Assistant Preserve Manager plays a key role in implementing management on the Ordway Prairie Preserve by assisting with management of invasive plant species, grazing management, fire management, as well as research and monitoring projects.
The Nature Conservancy seeks a Preserve Manager at the Ordway Prairie Preserve near Leola, South Dakota. The Preserve Manager provides day-to-day project management, leadership, and implementation of conservation projects within and around the Leola Hills landscape.
The Nature Conservancy seeks trainees for the Stewardship and Wildland Fire Training Fellowship as part of the Southern Illinois Interagency Habitat and Fuels Crew for up to 2 years.
The Human Environment Systems group at Boise State University is offering a PhD Assistantship as part of an NSF-funded project about the social-ecological dynamics of wildland fire.
The North Florida Land Trust has 2 openings for Stewardship Interns, who will work closely with NFLT’s Stewardship department to accomplish resource management goals regarding exotic species removal, prescribed fire implementation, data collection, and more.
St. Johns River Water Management District in Mount Dora, Florida seeks a Land Management Specialist who will assist in the development, implementation, and management of SJRWMD's land management programs.
A fellowship opportunity in quantitative landscape ecology and smoke emissions is available with the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service (FS) within the Pacific Northwest Research Station (PNWRS) located in Wenatchee, Washington.
A fellowship opportunity in quantitative landscape ecology is available with the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service (FS) within the Pacific Northwest Research Station (PNWRS) located in Wenatchee, Washington.
The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CALFIRE) seeks a Landscape Ecologist to perform work related to understanding and reporting on current environmental trends and management concerns for California’s forests and rangelands .
The Watershed Research and Training Center is seeking a Forestry and Fuels Program Assistant Director to play “a key leadership role in the Forestry and Fuels Program, supporting strategic oversight, operational effectiveness, and programmatic impact across the program and four divisions. This role is responsible for ensuring operational excellence, staff support, and successful project implementation across the program.”
The Watershed Research and Training Center is seeking a Senior Forester to “provide broad support to various projects within the scope of the Watershed Center’s Forestry and Fuels Program with a focus on planning and administering complex forestry and hazardous fuels reduction projects on public and private lands including prioritization, unit delineation, environmental compliance (NEPA, CEQA, CA Forest Practice Act), layout and implementation support.”
Lomakatsi Restoration Project, a non-profit organization based in Ashland, Oregon, seeks a qualified forestry professional with demonstrated experience in commercial timber harvest operations management.
This position will have the opportunity to work across the diverse ecosystems of Oregon and Northern California, in partnership with Tribes, federal, state and municipal agencies, and other nongovernmental organizations to design and implement forest restoration projects as part of large-scale stewardship initiatives.
The Lead Ecological Forester (LEF) will develop, engage and work with partners to help lead restoration forestry stewardship initiatives and manage collaborative agreements and contracts with federal and state agencies, Native American Tribes, nongovernment organizations and industry partners.
The North Carolina Army National Guard is seeking a Forestry and Fire Specialist to “serve as the organizational expert regarding forestry and fire management for a statewide Environmental Program (and) perform professional, multidisciplinary work in forestry, prescribed fire, and wildland fire management.”
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is seeking a Habitat Enhancement Technician to “provide technical and labor support in developing and implementing wildlife habitat enhancement and restoration activities on public lands open to public hunting primarily with the Northwestern portion of Minnesota and occasionally statewide.”
“The Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management at the University of California, Berkeley, seeks applications for an Assistant/Associate Specialist in the Shive Lab, in the area of fuels and fire ecology.”
Santa Barbara County Fire Safe Council “seeks well-rounded candidates with in-depth experience in applied landscape ecology, research, community outreach, relationship cultivation, and volunteer coordination.”
“A fellowship opportunity is available with the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service (FS) within the Pacific Southwest Research Station (PSWRS). This project is based at three long-term ecohydrological research sites (Soaproot, Newt Creek, and Providence), which are managed by the PSWRS of the USDA FS in the Sierra Nevada.”
The Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources seeks an Assistant Forester in Accomack County with a working knowledge of the practice of prescribed fire.
The Nature Conservancy seeks an Osage Plains Fire and Stewardship Coordinator to be based in Missouri and “provide technical leadership and support to Missouri and plan and direct preserve management programs and stewardship.”
The Nature Conservancy seeks a North Carolina Fire Program Manager to “support and guide NC Business Unit (NCBU) for fire management activities related to prescribed fires, wildfires, fire training and fire qualifications.”
The Natural Resources Management and Environmental Sciences Department at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo is seeking an Assistant/Associate Professor of Wildland Urban Interface Fire Science whose “interests address the range of economic, climatic, social, and conservation challenges facing WUI systems in the western US and Southern California in particular.”
