The California Program is designed to address the key challenges faced by our most critical rivers from their beginnings in the Sierra Nevada, as they flow through the Great Central Valley, and then out the Golden Gate to the Pacific Ocean. Our Headwaters Protection Program focuses on protecting water source areas, including restoring mountain meadows as natural reservoirs and biodiversity hot spots, and on reducing fire impacts through strategic ecological fuels management. Our team works in partnership with conservation groups, federal, state and private landowners and restoration practitioners to identify, prioritize and implement meadow restoration and watershed management projects that model the most effective approaches to protect and restore rivers and wetlands in the Sierras. Our Central Valley team works with conservation and community-based colleagues to reconnect rivers to their floodplains, producing a whole host of benefits – such as giving rivers room to spread out away from communities during flooding events, restoring habitat for native fish, wildlife and vegetation, ensuring that surface waters from restored areas percolate into key groundwater aquifers, and increasing public access to rivers for disadvantaged communities.

PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Identify and track grant opportunities at the state and federal level that are relevant to the California program.
• Coordinate and organize development and submittal of successful grant proposals.
• Support communications around California rivers to state and national audiences
  • Help our team tell inspiring stories and produce content that conveys our impact, via print and digital communications.
  • Develop compelling written and visual content to engage audiences via online, email, print materials, social media and earned media.
  • Assist in updating content on the American Rivers website.
• Schedule and organize team activities including logistics for staff meetings, retreats, and workshops.
• Manage California offices: coordinate office rental space, office supply procurement and delivery for two California offices.