[Hiring] Climate and Soil Health Program Manager @AMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST

Role Description

Reporting to the National Climate and Soil Health Deputy Director and Scientist, the Climate and Soil Health Program Manager supports AFT’s Climate and Soil Health Program by providing operational leadership for key priorities, managing outreach, communications, and stakeholder engagement, coordinating cross-functional implementation activities, and ensuring and contributing to delivery of funded project outcomes.

The position supports AFT’s efforts to catalyze a new conventional agriculture: empowering farmers and ranchers across the nation’s diverse systems to achieve on-farm and societal benefits from systems that are soil health promoting, biodiverse, climate-neutral or better, resilient, equitable, and environmentally, economically, and socially sustainable.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated success coordinating complex projects or workstreams involving multiple stakeholders, deadlines, and communications streams.
• Experience in successful planning, coordinating, and execution of outreach, communications, educational programming, producer engagement, or similar implementation-focused activities.
• Some familiarity with budget management, state and federal grant management processes, contracting procedures and compliance.
• Timely, effective and responsive verbal and written interpersonal communication.
• Ability to effectively listen, respond and motivate internal/external team members.
• Self-driven, organized, systematic problem-solver with strong ability to manage competing priorities.
• Proven ability to learn and adapt quickly in a rapidly changing environment.
• Proficient in using Microsoft applications and experience managing virtual communities and project management tools.
• Experience and/or basic familiarity with agriculture, grazing, soil health, regenerative practices, climate resilience, and renewable energy.
• Dedicated to practicing, learning, and advancing efforts to expand access to resources among small and limited resource farmers.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Agriculture, Natural Resources, Environmental Policy, or Conservation field required.
• 5+ years of experience working in interdisciplinary programming, with 3+ years in program or project management, particularly in soil health and/or agricultural fields.
• Additional non-profit work experience or professional accomplishments may substitute for any of the above requirements.

Benefits

• Insurance coverage begins the 1st of the month following the date of hire.
• Medical & Prescription Coverage
• Dental Coverage
• Vision Coverage
• Company Paid Life Insurance & Long-Term Disability (LTD)
• Voluntary Life Insurance
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA) – Healthcare & Dependent Care
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• 401k Plan
• Sick Leave: Regular full-time employees accrue 13 “sick days” per year.
• Vacation Leave: Accrue 15 days during the first year increasing by one day per year to 20 days per year maximum.
• Holidays: AFT observes twelve fixed holidays and a week between Christmas and New Years off during the year.
• Up to three floating holidays depending on hiring month.