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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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The Reforestation Project Archive Intern will play an important role in organizing our reforestation project records. Tasks will include gathering important details from electronic and paper files. This information will be used for communication materials and maps showcasing American Forests’ work over the last 30 years from American ReLeaf, Global ReLeaf, Reforest America, and other iterations of our national and international tree planting programs since 1990.
Learn MoreSenior Director, Reforestation Partnerships and Innovation
Reporting to the Chief Program Officer for Resilient Forests, the Senior Director, Reforestation Partnerships and Innovation will primarily focus on advancing American Forests work to make resilient reforestation more accessible to Tribal Nations, Native Hawaiian organization, underserved landowners, and non-federal public lands via our Reforest America Carbon Program and other forms of corporate partnership focused on tree planting and natural regeneration of forests. In doing so, the Senior Director will work with a dynamic and growing team of forestry, reforestation, and carbon experts under the direction of the Chief Program Officer for Resilient Forests, to lead the Resilient Forests program’s donor-based reforestation program (Reforest America grants) and the Reforest America Carbon Program.
Learn MoreSenior Manager, Program Operations and Administration
The Senior Manager for Program Operations and Administration will promote efficiencies in ways of working across various information technology systems core to the operations of American Forests and help ensure that the program team has the support needed to effectively manage a portfolio of high-profile projects and partnerships of increasing complexity and impact.
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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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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.
Learn MoreSenior Manager, Forest Climate Adaptation
The Senior Manager of Forest Climate Adaptation two primary focuses of this role are to (1) support the development of reforestation needs and opportunity mapping, and (2) support the adoption of climate change adaptation approaches and strategies into American Forests’ reforestation carbon and biodiversity focused projects. The Sr. Manager will support the Resilient Forest’s team climate adaptation work including reforestation opportunity, needs and eligibility mapping, and assisting with the origination, development, and implementation of carbon financed reforestation/afforestation projects that include traditional and new approaches.
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