Southwest Montana Community Conservation Specialist
The Southwest Montana Community Conservation Specialist is a core member of The Wilderness Society’s Greater Yellowstone-High Divide landscape team focused on landscape conservation in the Montana part of this landscape. Working under the Greater Yellowstone-High Divide Landscape Program Director, the Community Conservation Specialist will coordinate and manage TWS engagement in collaborative, community-based conservation efforts in Montana communities within the Greater Yellowstone-High Divide Landscape. This position plays a critical role in working with community partners within the GYE-HD landscape, including Indigenous communities, to develop and implement conservation solutions addressing the climate and biodiversity crises and ensuring everyone benefits equitably from nature.
The results of this work will include permanent conservation protections for public lands and a variety of other enduring co-created outcomes such as ecological restoration, sustainable economic and community development, enhanced recreation and public land access, increased participation in land management decisions by underserved communities, and other outcomes to be determined through engagement with community/landscape partners.
The Community Conservation Specialist will represent TWS within longstanding coalitions of community and conservation partners; build new strategic relationships with individuals and community organizations; help advance community-identified priorities; and coordinate with both internal TWS teams and external partners. The successful candidate will collaboratively develop and implement equitable landscape conservation strategies in the Montana Greater Yellowstone and High Divide landscape that improve the resilience of communities, lands, waters, and wildlife to climate change through the incorporation of science, Traditional Knowledge, and long-term community partnerships in place-based plans and work.
Additionally, this position plays an important role in supporting an inclusive organizational culture that is grounded in transparency, collaboration and trust and accountability to shared goals and outcomes. TWS has made diversity, equity, and inclusion strategic priorities for the organization and the Community Conservation Specialist will integrate these priorities throughout our work. Across our team, we aspire to be campaign-oriented, nimble, collaborative, innovative, transparent, and supportive of staff – our greatest asset.