The Coastal Project Manager identifies, designs, plans, manages, and implements coastal restoration and adaptation projects that advance the strategies of The Nature Conservancy’s Connecticut Chapter to restore ecological health, enhance community resilience to climate change, and prioritize equity and justice in Connecticut’s coastal ecosystems and communities. They cultivate strong, collaborative relationships with federal, state, and local government, non-profit, and community partners to identify and develop projects that advance coastal ecosystem conservation and community resilience, with a strong emphasis on integrating TNC’s values of equity and justice into the Chapter’s conservation portfolio.
Duties include securing funding, writing grant applications, and managing budgets, requests for proposals, contracts, and grants to support project implementation. Project types include but are not limited to coastal and nearshore habitat restoration, marsh advancement, nature-based stormwater solutions, and other ecological resilience measures. The Coastal Project Manager identifies and promotes project needs to partners and funding agencies and works closely with Chapter conservation and external affairs staff to demonstrate effective restoration strategies and methods, and to facilitate and promote local planning, policy, and financing frameworks that advance equitable, nature-based solutions. They may work in variable weather conditions, at remote locations, on difficult and hazardous terrain, and under physically demanding circumstances. This is a four-year term position with the possibility to extend contingent on performance and available funding. This position in based out of the New Haven, CT office with a hybrid schedule.

Want to help save the planet? Guided by science, TNC in Connecticut creates innovative, on-the-ground solutions to our world’s toughest challenges so that people and nature can thrive together.  We work with communities and stakeholders to mitigate the impacts of climate change, increase the resilience of natural infrastructure, sustain biodiversity, and more equitably address disproportionate environmental impacts in underserved communities. From the Quiet Corner to Long Island Sound, the Connecticut Chapter is dedicated to conserving the natural resources that make Connecticut unique. This is an exceptional career opportunity for a highly motivated, capable individual interested in joining the world’s leading conservation organization!

• BA/BS degree and 5 years’ experience in natural resource management or related field or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Experience in designing, managing, and implementing coastal restoration projects, and independently completing tasks in adherence to project timelines
• Experience building and maintaining collaborative partnerships
• Experience using applications such as Microsoft Word, Excel, and Web Browsers
• Valid driver’s license