Careers at American Forests
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The movement to create healthy forests is growing daily as more people recognize the role of trees in slowing climate change and advancing social equity. Be a part of it. We embrace all perspectives, focus on the most pressing issues of the day and do our best to empower others.

After submitting your application package, American Forests will contact you if we determine there is a match with the organization's needs and your skill set and experience. If you are unable to to submit your application package, please contact American Forests at jobs@americanforests.org to request an accommodation or an alternative application process.

American Forests is proud to be a diverse, equitable, inclusive and accessible (DEIA) workplace. These are our shared values. We welcome individuals who bring a variety of backgrounds and experiences to be a part of our team to help make a difference individually and collectively as we work toward achieving our mission. We are committed to fostering an environment that is welcoming and respectful and provides opportunities for advancement and professional growth for every team member.

We hope you find your future with us.

Open Positions

Director, Restoration Finance Innovation

This position is focused on one of the most critical supply chain constraints, reforestation financing challenges. We are currently developing a unique portfolio of climate-adapted reforestation projects with public land management agencies, Tribal Nations, and underserved private landowners who do not have access to the necessary funding to reforest severely burned lands in the western United States and other lands suitable for reforestation in other geographies throughout North America. American Forests is doing this through our traditional approach to philanthropy-backed reforestation but also through our newer initiatives like the Reforest America Carbon Program (RACP), which is designed to address the financing challenges associated with reforestation/afforestation and advance the highest quality climate-adapted projects, as well as by exploring innovative impact investment, debt financing, and blended financial approaches to the reforestation supply chains most pressing challenges.

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Director, Southeastern Forest Restoration

The Southeast Director will lead American Forests’ growing team in the Southeastern United States (roughly Virginia to east Texas) in creating resilient forest landscapes through collaborative restoration and resilience treatments. This includes both managing and leveraging a robust portfolio of restoration projects on public and private lands with public and private funds to accelerate the pace and scale of forest restoration across the Southeast. In addition to developing and directing a portfolio of restoration focused field-forestry projects and programmatic collaborations, the position will be responsible for building and maintaining a reputation as a thought leader for artificial and natural reforestation and restoration in the region by coordinating with agency, industry, and university researchers and managers to help solve complex forest management problems. The position directly reports to the Senior Director of Forest Restoration, but success in this position will require constant and two-way communication with all members of the Southeast and Forest Restoration program teams.

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Director, Southern Rockies Forest Restoration

The Director, Southern Rockies Forest Restoration will lead American Forests’ growing team in Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah in creating resilient forest landscapes through collaborative restoration and resilience treatments. This includes both managing and leveraging a robust portfolio of restoration projects on public and private lands with public and private funds to accelerate the pace and scale of collective forest restoration across the southwest. In addition to field restoration and collaboration projects, the position will be responsible for building and maintaining a reputation as a thought leader for reforestation in the region by coordinating with agency, industry, and university researchers and managers to help solve complex forest management problems. The position directly reports to the Senior Director of Forest Restoration, but success in this position will require constant and two-way communication with all members of the Southern Rockies and Forest Restoration Teams.

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