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Primary Duties:

• Work with the LMVJV Coordinator, WGCPO Partnership Coordinator and Science Coordinator to integrate science-based conservation recommendations into management guidelines and tools for CDN & LIT partners designed for on-the ground practitioners and transfer of this information to managers and other practitioners through education and outreach (e.g., workshops, presentations, etc.).
• Works with LMVJV staff and partners to implement the JV’s conservation goals for priority birds within the WGCPO Bird Conservation Region (BCR). This includes working in partnership with federal, state, and private organizations to provide conservation delivery across a range of ownerships, both private and public, via restoration and enhancement of forest, woodland and grassland habitats that support regionally, nationally, and internationally important bird species. Coordinates delivery efforts across partnerships, CDNs and LITs, within the WGCPO and at times the entire JV and assist partners with setting objectives, implementing strategies, and assessing the effectiveness of management actions.
• Supports LMVJV priority bird science efforts through connection to habitat delivery. This may include assisting in surveys, designing protocols, informing research needs, and collaborating among partners. This includes LMVJV science staff, conservation delivery partners, and researchers to further improve collaboration, thereby increasing the effectiveness of priority bird science efforts that result in implications on the ground.
• Completes in conjunction with partners, including NRCS staff, conservation plans and maps, contracts, applications and other required documentation on Farm Bill conservation programs (i.e. EQIP, ACEP-ALE, CRP) requiring biological, forestry, and grazing science expertise in cooperation with the partners, both traditional wildlife organizations and non-traditional partners through new innovations.
• Coordinates the on-site review, certification, and payments made to farmers, ranchers, and forest managers for habitat work implemented through conservation programs for the purpose of improving priority bird habitat.
• Participates in meetings, conferences, and committee assignments with CDNs, LITs and various agencies and partners to promote LMVJV bird conservation goals. This may include local, state, and national partners such as LMVJV partner organizations and national partnerships (e.g. National Bobwhite and Grasslands Initiative, Southeastern Grasslands Institute, Partners in Flight, Shortleaf Pine Initiative, etc.)
• In collaboration with partners, identify opportunities and/or utilize national and regional programs (e.g. USDA RCPP, NFWF, etc.) to fund LMVJV conservation efforts.
• Develop and foster relationships with partners across the WGCPO and communicate with them regularly on objectives, projects, and progress.

Coordinated Delivery Duties:

Working with CDNs, LITs, local partners and with NRCS field staff, closely develop working relations with forestry and wildlife professionals, NGOs, agencies and others to “promote open forest management for private landowners”; organize and conduct training workshops with other partner resource managers to include expanding the understanding and use of prescribed fire both as an essential practice for land-managers as well as an ecological process, and complete conservation plans and maps, contracts, applications and other required documentation for Farm Bill conservation programs (i.e. RCPP, EQIP, ACEP-ALE, CRP) requiring biological and forestry expertise. Delivery Duties Include:

• Identify and directly contact private landowners with forest stewardship opportunities.
• Coordinate and facilitate property field visits by recognized professional foresters and wildlife biologists and other professionals to provide technical assistance and advance management plan development.
• Facilitate private landowner enrollment in NRCS programs and NRCS contracting.
• Maintain individual project and overall grant accomplishment records for accounting and reimbursement purposes, as well as projects of all landowners involved in the program and manages data to track each project and all projects to assure contacts are made, landowners are connected to appropriate resources / contractors, and management activities are implemented and completed.
• Work with professional resource managers to assist with contracting, preparing, and overseeing the implementation of forest stewardship plans on private lands (commercial or non-commercial) using established open forest management guidelines, to include a working knowledge and experience with RX Fire and/or wildfire, as pertains to Southern US, with experience through taking part in RX Burns.