The Senior Environmental Scientist (Specialist) independently performs complex scientific, environmental planning, fire-management, project-development, and natural resource management assignments associated with wildfire-risk reduction and ecological resilience.
Finance Controller
Deputy Director
Tenure Track Faculty - Environmental Planning and Policy
Cal Poly Humboldt and the Department of Environmental Science and Management invites applicants for a full-time, academic year, tenure-track faculty position with an emphasis in Environmental Planning and Policy with expertise that will complement and expand the department’s existing strengths through interdisciplinary research and teaching.
Community and Stewardship Project Coordinator
Open Space Technician
If you enjoy working hard in a beautiful outdoor environment with a group of like-minded people, we invite you to apply for the position of Open Space Technician at Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District (Midpen). Enjoy the outdoors while building and maintaining trails, working on construction projects, and assisting with resource management projects. Open Space Technicians also have frequent contact with the public and provide visitor information as necessary.
Fire and Landscape Ecologist
The California Coastal Commission is seeking an experienced Environmental Scientist or Senior Environmental Scientist (Specialist) to join its Ecology Team (Technical Services Unit) at its Headquarters Office in downtown San Francisco. This position will primarily focus on the relationship between wildfire and coastal ecology as relates to vegetation management for fuel reduction, ecological restoration, and resilience work across a range of ecosystems, including forests, shrublands, grasslands and wetlands throughout the coastal zone, which extends inland from the shoreline at variable distances up to more than five miles in some areas.
Fuels Program Manager
The Fuels Program Manager, in collaboration with District staff and local land management partners, will help develop, promote, and implement fuels reduction and forest health projects. The position will be involved in all aspects of resource conservation projects from concept to completion, including initiating contact with cooperators, identifying needs, grant writing, environmental compliance, budgeting, implementation, monitoring, and detailed reporting.
Land Stewards Fire Crew Member
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.
Fire and Fuels Mentor
Western Klamath Restoration Partnership Coordinator
The Western Klamath Restoration Partnership Coordinator supports collaborative wildfire resilience, forestry, and community engagement efforts within the Western Klamath Restoration Partnership (WKRP) and Mid Klamath Watershed Council (MKWC). This position coordinates partner communications, meetings, grant management, outreach activities, and planning efforts that support landscape-scale fire resilience and community preparedness initiatives.
State Coordinator, California Wildfire and Forest Resilience Task Force
The Wildfire and Forest Resilience Task Force is hiring a State Coordinator to manage and facilitate the work of a broad range of agencies and work groups involved in the Task Force, and to oversee implementation of the Wildfire and Forest Resilience Action Plan. The State Coordinator will also oversee the day-to-day activities of the Task Force, including the activities of more than a dozen work groups and related committees, four regional forums, the interagency Planning and Integration Team, and the Science Advisory Panel. The State Coordinator will lead these efforts in coordination with federal, state, local, tribal, and private interests and regional partnerships throughout the state.
Conservation & Fire Coordinator
The Conservation & Fire Coordinator works in support of the Climate Program’s Forest Strategy and the Land Program’s Stewardship Strategy across the state of California. They provide administrative, research, project management and other general assistance to staff working toward increasing beneficial fire and reducing wildfire risk and impacts to conserved lands in California.
Lead Open Space Technician
The Lead Open Space Technician position is an excellent career opportunity for a skilled and motivated individual who enjoys working outdoors while building and maintaining trails, working on open space construction projects, and providing technical and functional supervision to assigned staff on open space preserves.
2026 Wildland Fire Academy - Backfill Crew Member
Land Stewards Fire Crew Member
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.
Prescribed Fire Practitioner (2 openings)
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.
