JOBS BOARD
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. Note that job descriptions may be formatted differently on our website for consistency. 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.”
FireUp has a Career Pathways Toolkit which offers an interactive way to explore careers in fire, forestry, and conservation
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The Washington Prescribed Fire Council (WPFC) brings together a broad and diverse network of partners working to advance the safe, effective, and expanded use of prescribed fire across Washington State. WPFC is seeking a Program Director.
This role supports Hillsborough County's Conservation and Environmental Lands Management Prescribed Fire Program by assisting in all wildland fire activities across properties acquired through ELAPP and other lands managed by HC-CELM. Working alongside the Prescribed Fire Crew Lead, this position provides direct leadership, supervision, and mentoring to the fire management crew with a primary focus on executing prescribed burns and fuel treatments.
As a Land Stewards Fire Crew Member, you will work as part of a team that is highly motivated to restore fire processes across Yurok ancestral lands and beyond. Crew members participate in the implementation of cultural burning aimed at achieving culturally appropriate land management objectives such as habitat restoration, enhancing biodiversity, reducing wildfire risk, restoring and maintaining ecological conditions and processes, and removing invasive and unwanted species. As a Land Stewards Fire Crew Member, you will work with CFMC partners and landowners to restore fire to the landscape. Crew members will participate in professional development courses and workshops, with occasional assignments outside the area to support growth as a student of fire.
This term position will include improving upon previous outreach efforts and establish a successful Prescribed Burn Association (PBA) in the Ridge and Valley region of Alabama and Georgia. Utilizing the PBA to conduct prescribed fires, hosting training and workshops, and working with partners to provide technical assistance will be key to seeing success in this region. Similarly, this position will assist Berry College students in fire training, prescribed fire and other land management applications
The Prescribed Fire and Stewardship Technician is a key position for the growth of The Nature Conservancy’s prescribed fire and land stewardship programs in Kentucky.
The Fire and Stewardship Crew Leader (FSCL) will work in a team environment and participate in prescribed fire operations which include ignition, control, post ignition operations, suppression, monitoring, and other tasks as assigned. The FSCL will participate and may lead teams of crew members in preparing fire lines, maintaining equipment, community health monitoring and other tasks. This FSCL will assist in and may guide a team conducting ecological stewardship practices such as woody encroachment reduction, invasive species control, and other preserve maintenance tasks.
As The Nature Conservancy’s Northwoods Prescribed Module Leader, you will oversee a module (two Module Members) focused on prescribed fire and related stewardship activities. You will work routinely in close coordination with local USFS partners while being supervised by the Assistant Fire Manager. You will participate in preparing fire lines, timber stand improvement felling, building and burning piles, maintaining equipment, implementing prescribed burns, post-burn monitoring, training delivery, and other tasks. You may perform other preserve management duties when conditions are not conducive to prescribed fire and are expected to travel out of state from time to time on prescribed fire details.
The Prescribed Fire Practitioner plays a key role in advancing the mission of a dynamic conservation organization that stewards over 5,000 acres of protected land and works closely with private landowners, government agencies, other organizations, and the community to bring “good fire” to the landscape. Working as part of the collaborative and highly motivated Fire Forward program, this work is performed in service of ecological health and community safety and is rooted in healing our relationship with the land and each other.
The Fire Ecology Field Technicians performs a variety of routine tasks that assists the implementation of fire monitoring work plans within the Forest Program. The Technicians will work from the Flagstaff office and field sites throughout the Flagstaff area. This a short-term, temporary, non-exempt, position expected to be funded through December 2026 and could change based on business needs.
The Western Dry Forests Program is working to transform the pace, scale, and effectiveness of forest stewardship across the western United States. The program focuses on dry, frequent‑fire forest systems where proactive restoration, strong partnerships, and sustained investment can deliver meaningful ecological and community benefits.
Direct and oversee TERA’s education, training, and community engagement programs to build Tribal capacity for ecocultural stewardship.
Provide coordination and logistical support for TERA’s diverse set of education, outreach, and training programs.
Utah State University’s Quinney College of Agriculture & Natural Resources seeks an MS student and a PhD student to join our cohort of National Needs Fellows (NNF), in support of United Stated Department of Agriculture project funded to facilitate management of Forest Service, Region 4 Disaster Recovery.
The Postdoctoral Scholar will join a highly collaborative research team within the Center for Ecosystem Science and Society (ECOSS) at NAU and will work closely with Dr. Michelle Mack, Dr. Xanthe Walker, and Dr. Ted Schuur. The project integrates field-based measurements, soil biogeochemistry, radiocarbon dating, and quantitative modeling to estimate soil carbon turnover, fluxes, and long-term stability following wildfire and fuel treatments.
The Prescribed Fire Manager provides support to the Alabama/Mississippi/Louisiana BU for fire management activities related to prescribed fires, wildfires, fire training and fire qualifications (See TNC’s Fire Management Manual). With prescribed burn qualifications including National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG) Prescribed Fire Manager (RXMG) and Prescribed Fire Burn Boss Type 2 (RXB2), the position reviews and approves fire management plans, prescribed burn plans, and contractor qualifications.
The Land Conservation Steward performs and participates in preserve operations, maintenance and management on TNC’s preserves, located in Central Florida. The Land Conservation Steward is a staff member of the Stewardship and Field Programs Department (SAF) of The Nature Conservancy’s Florida Chapter (TNC).
Meewasin is seeking a Communications Coordinator for the Canadian Prairie Prescribed Fire Exchange.
Stephen F. Austin State University is seeking a Dean for the Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture.
The Ecological Restoration Institute, working in collaboration with the Rocky Mountain Research Station, seek a Postdoctoral Scholar to develop next-generation modeling tools that simulate a predefined range of silvicultural and fuels treatments and serve as the foundation for spatially explicit vegetation dynamics projections over 10–20 year planning horizons.
The Ecological Restoration Institute seeks a Postdoctoral Scholar to develop and analyze spatial datasets across diverse forest types in the interior western United States.
The Ecological Restoration Institute (ERI) at Northern Arizona University (NAU) seeks a Postdoctoral Scholar to examine emergent questions related to the human dimensions of forest restoration and wildfire management in the Southwest.
The Assistant Land and Environmental Programs Manager joins a team of intellectually curious, scientifically rigorous, hard-working, and interdisciplinary professionals who support the unique mission and vision of the Elling Eide Center.
The Land and Environmental Programs Manager joins a team of intellectually curious, scientifically rigorous, hard-working, and interdisciplinary professionals who support the unique mission and vision of the Elling Eide Center, located in Sarasota, Florida.
Position is a collaboration between the University of Idaho, the USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station, and National Forest System Region 5. It coordinates and leads the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT), which supports National Forest and incident command teams with pre-, active-, and post-fire monitoring on wildfires.
This project will seek to improve the understanding of the evolving nature of wildfire risk in Scotland. This topic will be studied in the particular context of understanding and improving wildfire resilience in natural capital sites (e.g. woodland creation, peatland restoration)
The Ecological Restoration Institute (ERI) Restoration Ecology & Forest Resilience Program Manager is a lead scientist that manages and coordinates delivery of ERI’s Restoration Ecology & Forest Resilience portfolio in support of ERI and SWERI goals. The position applies subject-matter expertise in frequent-fire forest restoration, forest and fire ecology, and wildfire risk reduction to advance proactive, landscape-scale restoration treatments, fuels management, and conservation in forests and woodland ecosystems of the Intermountain West.
The West Region Wildfire Council’s Finance Director is responsible for ensuring sound financial management as well as grant and agreement oversight for the organization. The position manages the administrative/ finance functions of the organization’s grants and financial agreements and oversees the organization’s day-to-day bookkeeping/finance needs.
Partnering with the Central Pine Barrens Joint Planning and Policy Commission and SUNY ESF, this internship offers 28-40 hours per week of hands-on experience in field ecology and data collection including fuel loading assessments, tree regeneration studies, and air quality monitoring with focus on CO2 and PM2.5.
