Texas Regional Liaison
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Cary Institute of Ecosystem StudiesEcosystem Science
This position is remote and open to candidates living in Texas.Full-TimeMiddle
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Job Details
- Experience
- One year of experience in applied research or natural resource management and policy.
- Required Skills
- Stakeholder management
Requirements
- Master’s degree in natural sciences such as ecology, natural resource management, natural resource policy, or related field.
- One year of experience in applied research or natural resource management and policy.
- Experience with applied fire science or natural resource management.
- Excellent interpersonal skills to build and maintain relationships.
- Strong oral and written science communication skills for diverse audiences.
- Familiarity with fire management, fire regimes, and the ecology of Texas’s ecosystems.
- Demonstrated experience with science-management partnerships (preferred).
- Professional network of researchers or natural resource managers in Texas (preferred).
- Knowledge of land and resource management decision-making context in Texas (preferred).
- Experience with facilitation and stakeholder engagement (preferred).
Responsibilities
- Conduct on-the-ground engagement with private, state, federal, and non-governmental land management organizations in Texas.
- Represent WFFRC’s science agenda at regional meetings, workshops, and conferences.
- Build partnerships and maintain relationships with land managers.
- Connect the practical challenges facing land managers with WFFRC’s science program by identifying science needs.
- Work with WFFRC scientists to customize research products.
- Represent the science needs of managers in the development of place-based research, customized deliverables, and science synthesis.
- Collaborate with science–management boundary organizations to strengthen regional capacity for knowledge exchange.
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