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Quivira Coalition’s New Agrarian Program offers 8-month immersive apprenticeships in regenerative agriculture in partnership with mentor ranchers and farmers throughout the West. The program seeks to provide the next generation of producers with hands-on mentoring from dedicated land stewards who practice regenerative methods of food production, provide excellent animal care, and are skilled and dedicated teachers.

The NAP Northern Plains manager will work closely with the NAP Northern Plains coordinator and the rest of the NAP team to support mentor ranches and apprentices in Montana, the broader Northern Great Plains region, and beyond. The NAP manager is a people-oriented facilitator who has worked with ranchers and farmers and/or in experiential education. An ideal candidate enjoys working with seasoned ranchers and farmers, mentoring young professionals in agriculture, and is passionate about solving current food production and ranching/farming challenges. This person ideally is based in Montana within close proximity to current NAP mentor sites; has the flexibility to travel to ranches and farms, and the capacity to engage with the Quivira team remotely; and is computer literate. The position also requires travel to conferences, presentations, and other work events (25-35 percent of work time is out of office).

The NAP Northern Plains manager will be tasked with helping to provide support to NAP program mentors and apprentices in Montana and Wyoming. They will also work closely with mentor operations to help guide them through the apprentice application and hiring processes, partner with the NAP team to deliver mentor training, assist with apprentice orientation, conduct site visits to mentor ranches, complete monthly check-ins with mentor ranchers and apprentices, provide support on supplemental education webinars and assist in planning land health and livestock workshops. The NAP Northern Plains manager will also facilitate and provide guidance for both apprentices and mentors throughout their year together.

The NAP Northern Plains manager is responsible, in partnership with the NAP team, for recruitment, implementation, and partial fundraising for Quivira’s apprenticeship program.

The Program Coordinator-Individual Placement Programs (PC) position is responsible for supporting and strengthening the overall programming of the Montana Conservation Corps’ (MCC) Individual Placement Programs (IP). The PC works under the direct supervision of the Program Manager of Individual Placement Programs to ensure successful implementation of IP programming. The PC must establish and maintain a good working relationship with IP members, Host Site staff, community members, volunteers, MCC staff and additional IP partners.

Classification: Regular, Full-time, non-exempt
Wage: $20 per hour, health/dental insurance, 401K after one year, mileage/food reimbursement for travel, professional development opportunities
Location: Bozeman, MT

The GIS Analyst is a full-time, highly technical, professional-level position working in the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes’ (CSKT) Natural Resources Department in the Division of Engineering and Water Management Program. The incumbent will serve as the primary geospatial analyst and GIS resource for the Division, and will work within the Information Technology Services and Support Group under the direct supervision of the Division Manager.

Support position requiring certain specialized skills and knowledge to assist the Tribal Attorneys and technical positions in the Department of Engineering and Water Resources’ (DEWR). Incumbent is responsible for maintaining and monitoring of web-based and content management resources to ensure proper functionality of the DEWR official website and internal database systems. The position is under the direct supervision of the DEWR Manager and receives general guidance regarding database and website decisions, recommendations and initiation of action, as well as evaluating prudency in relation to website and database design. The Specialist requires the ability to perform or assist with any web or databased operations as required to maintain Department workflow and to meet schedules. The Specialist must possess specialized training, experience, skills and knowledge to administer and maintain the DEWR website and databases. Errors in work may result in increased program costs, loss or reduction of services, delays and inconvenience to employees, and negative public image and relations for the Department and CS&KT as a whole.

Greater Yellowstone Coalition (GYC) seeks a Wind River Conservation Organizer to play a key role in major campaigns to protect the lands, waters, and wildlife of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE). The GYE is a remarkable natural landscape: home to a complete array of native wildlife, the headwaters of the west, an important place in the history of conservation, and of deep importance to Native Americans who have made this place home since time immemorial.

The Wind River Conservation Organizer will work to build local capacity and to conserve the lands, waters, and wildlife on and around the Wind River Indian Reservation (WRIR) within the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.

Position open until filled with application review starting October 3rd.

The Great Basin Institute (GBI) partners with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) throughout the western United States to implement vegetation monitoring programs such as the BLM’s Assessment, Inventory, and Monitoring (AIM) program. The AIM program is a BLM initiative to collect field data on rangeland indicators characterizing soil, vegetation, and hydrologic resources with an overarching goal to inform land management decisions and conservation actions.

The BLM manages approximately 8.3 million surface acres of land within the states of Montana, North Dakota, and South Dakota. The BLM is mandated to conduct land health monitoring to document effectiveness of the decisions established in its Resource Management Plans, to determine treatment effectiveness, to evaluate habitat conditions, and for other related land management purposes.  GBI seeks to fill a qualified data specialist to work at a BLM office within Montana to assist BLM staff with review and completion of Quality Assurance (QA) / Quality Control (QC) procedures for AIM datasets, provide technical support and training to field staff in the use of ArcGIS Collector and Survey123, work with BLM staff on data management and storage issues for AIM and related datasets, and complete basic analysis and reporting using AIM data as needed for completion of BLM business. All processes shall occur in accordance with the most recent versions of information posted on the BLM website (https://www.blm.gov/aim). The data specialist will work with the BLM Montana State Office Monitoring Coordinator for identification and completion of day-to-day tasks, as well as daily work directly with BLM staff and periodically participate in data analysis meetings led by Headquarters and/or the National Operations Center AIM team to share ideas and for additional support.

This position offers fulltime in-person work at one of the BLM State or Field Offices or a combination of in-person and remote work with at least one day at a BLM office in Montana once every 1-2 weeks. Additional travel will be required for training, to support field crews, and for workshops on incorporating AIM data into BLM decision making processes.

Contract Timeline: one year, 12 month term. The ideal start date is November 14, 2022 but flexible.

The City of Missoula is looking for an entry-level Environmental Technician to serve as a program assistant within the Stormwater Division of Public Works & Mobility. This role will work as a collaborative team member in the office and the field to help programs through various data entry, administrative, and technical duties.

The Environmental Specialist will input data into our existing structure, edit data and maintain accuracy, and interact with City employees and public members as needed to support the mission of Stormwater Utility.

16 positions (GS 3-5)

This position involves collecting vegetation data to determine condition of riparian areas. You will learn a variety of sampling techniques and how to identify many riparian plant species including: sedges, grasses, forbs, willows, and other woody plants.

Successful applicants will have the following:

• At least one plant taxonomy course
• Experience identifying plants using dichotomous keys (such as the Flora of the Pacific Northwest, by Hitchcock and Cronquist)
• Field experience/coursework collecting vegetation data and/or identifying grasses, sedges, woody plants, rangeland plants, etc. Outdoor/field experience (job requires camping for extended periods of time)
• An excellent attitude and a willingness to learn

Positions will begin mid-May and extend through at least early September, with a high probability of extending longer. Over the past several years work has been extended into the middle of October. The duration of the field season will depend on workload, available personnel, fire season, etc. We will accommodate students who need to start school in August. However, all students will be expected to work through early-August. Work is divided into 14-day pay periods; all technicians work 8 consecutive ten-hour days with the following 6 days off.

32 positions (GS 3-5)
This position does intensive reach scale stream surveys. Using one of the most rigorously tested sampling protocols available, technicians collect information on a variety of stream attributes including pools, channel geometry, substrate, streambank characteristics, gradient, water chemistry, large woody debris, and macro-invertebrates. Technicians will become familiar with a variety of sampling procedures and will apply them to a wide range of stream systems.

Successful applicants will have the following:

• Coursework in natural resources, especially fisheries and water resources
• Field experience collecting fisheries or stream habitat data
• Outdoor/field experience (job requires camping for extended periods of time)
• An excellent attitude and a willingness to learn

Positions will begin mid-May and extend through at least early September, with a high probability of extending longer. Over the past several years work has been extended into the middle of October. The duration of the field season will depend on workload, available personnel, fire season, etc. We will accommodate students who need to start school in August. However, all students will be expected to work through early-August. Work is divided into 14-day pay periods; all technicians work 8 consecutive ten-hour days with the following 6 days off.

• Develops, assembles, evaluates, adapts, and presents in tabular or graphic form, technical data in the fields of water data collection, stage data, stream discharge, rainfall, and wind gaging that includes special flow computations.
• Develops, assembles, evaluates, adapts, and presents in tabular or graphic form, technical data in the fields of current velocity analyses, flow and discharge estimations, and special data collection and study programs.
• Prepares criteria for use in calibrating stream flow in open and controlled channels.
• Makes detailed analyses for use by hydrologists and engineers in considering possibility of applying engineering theories to the rise and fall of water, water slopes, natural and artificial controls, and etcetera.
• Collects data from field recording instruments and makes on-site measurements of study area conditions. Assists on field survey crews in the collection of resource data.
• Prepares a variety of charts, graphs, and figures for data analysis and publication. Prepares correspondence, in draft form, relating to all phases of the work, and initiates directives for securing data needed.
• Maintains liaison with other elements of the Forest and Ranger District, with Forest Service personnel at higher echelons, with other Federal, state, and local agencies.
• Maintains liaison with other elements of the Forest and Ranger District with public and private interests having a common interest in the collection and dissemination of the hydrological data.
• Services, repairs, and installs a variety of hydrologic instruments.