Job Type: Hybrid, full-time
Location: The Ember Alliance - Fort Collins, CO
Salary: $74,000/year
Application Due Date: September 29, 2025
Description:
As the NCFC Coordinator, you’ll play a pivotal role in facilitating partnerships, guiding strategic planning for wildfire mitigation, supporting fundraising efforts, and helping shape the future of fire-adapted landscapes in Northern Colorado. You can envision this position like an executive director of a nonprofit, with the Steering Committee being the equivalent to a board of directors, and the other committees (Community Engagement and Outreach, Strategic Planning and Operations, and Investment), as the programs of work that a nonprofit might have. The Coordinator will ensure the below items are executed, either as a delegated task, or as their own work, depending on the item.
Responsibilities:
Coordinate, direct and report on the work of the Northern Colorado Fireshed Collaborative and its committees:
Create agendas, facilitate meetings and occasional field trips, with NCFC committees and partners.
Track and update work plans for each committee, periodically share progress with the NCFC, and facilitate communication and coordination across committees.
Provide administrative support and fiscal management of the NCFC towards the development of long-term, sustainable funding sources. Lead development and maintenance of fiscal policies and budgets:
Lead or support fundraising efforts, including fundraising and grant writing with the Investment Committee and NCFC fiscal sponsor, the National Forest Foundation
Lead the visioning, co-development, sharing, and maintenance of strategic organizational documents.
Build trust and shared motivation among NCFC partners:
Maintain engagement with participants and other sub-landscape collaboratives, recruit and onboard new partners as capacity needs or opportunities arise.
Obtain commitments around shared goals from participants and hold partners accountable to their commitments.
Build widespread interest and support for the NCFC externally:
Coordinate accomplishments tracking across committees, assemble information into reports or dashboards, and communicate accomplishments to external audiences, including decision-makers and potential funders
Lead government relations, in regard to the collaborative as a whole, and engage with elected officials to increase visibility and represent the interests of the NCFC. Each partner within the collaborative will additionally follow their own policies and procedures.
Provide support for planning and facilitation for U.S. Forest Service and other partners to achieve NCFC outcomes.
Supervise NCFC Communications Manager.
Minimum Qualifications:
A passion for the missions of the NCFC and TEA.
Exceptional ability to build and maintain relationships with a wide range of stakeholders.
Proven experience in program management, including planning, execution, and reporting.
Demonstrated ability to work independently and collaboratively across diverse teams.
Strong facilitation skills and comfort leading meetings, workshops, and field visits.
High attention to detail and organizational skills, especially under tight deadlines.
Familiarity with collaborative decision-making, conflict resolution, and adaptive management.
Proficiency with digital tools for communication, file sharing, and project tracking.
Valid driver’s license or reliable access to transportation by start date.
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience working with fire-adapted landscapes, wildfire mitigation, or ecological restoration.
Familiarity with federal land management agencies (e.g., U.S. Forest Service) and their planning processes.
Background in programmatic financial management, including budgeting, grant writing, and fundraising.
Knowledge of Colorado’s wildfire and prescribed fire policy landscape and regional fire ecology.
Fire experience – prescribed fire implementation, wildfire suppression, or as a cultural fire practitioner.
Experience with GIS tools, data dashboards, or collaborative knowledge platforms.
Prior work in coalition-building, community engagement, or government relations.
