Habitat Project Manager

The California Deer Association is seeking a Habitat Project Manager in Redding, CA. This full-time role involves overseeing habitat restoration projects to enhance deer and wildlife populations. Responsibilities include managing restoration treatments, collaborating with landowners, and addressing ecological objectives such as ecosystem restoration and wildfire mitigation. The position offers a salary range of $65K–80K per year.
The California Deer Association (CDA) is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that works to enhance native deer and other wildlife populations across the state of California through habitat restoration projects. Land-use practices, climate change, and fire suppression over the last century have resulted in substantial degradation of critical forest and wetland habitats. CDA partners with private, local, state, and federal landowners to improve and restore conditions across several habitat types. Our restoration treatments address a variety of objectives, including restoring ecosystem structure and function, reducing hazardous fuel loads, removing encroaching conifer and invasive species, and mitigating post-wildfire impacts. Projects generally entail either hand or mechanized treatment, including but not limited to canopy thinning, understory thinning, mastication, and prescribed burning. Description: The Project Manager(s) will report to the Program Manager and will be responsible for w...