Montana Water Director

Trout Unlimited’s field staff hold unique and diverse roles within the conservation community. The shortest description of the job is to “make things happen.” In that spirit, TU is hiring a self-motivated and highly capable person to advance water policy and TU’s streamflow restoration efforts in the headwaters of the Clark Fork River, Yellowstone, and Upper Missouri. The Instream Flow Project Manager prioritizes, plans, and implements flow enhancement projects and assist TU’s restoration project managers to improve fish passage, benefit streamflow, restore habitat, and improve water quality in watersheds heavily impacted by water and land use practices.
Competitive candidates for this position must demonstrate strong project management skills. The Instream Flow Project Manager will work closely with TU attorneys and restoration project managers, local watershed groups, and agricultural communities to seek opportunities to reconnect and restore instream flows on priority tributaries within public and private lands and coordinate with resource agency staff to navigate and improve water policy. Competitive candidates for this position must possess experience with water rights and water law, instream flow project development and implementation, water right administrative policy and processes, and a familiarity and willingness to work in tandem with experts in stream restoration and fish passage.