[Hiring] Senior Consultant @Verdantas

Role Description

Verdantas seeks a part-time Senior Consultant to advise on river and floodplain restoration strategy and support the growth of our river restoration, floodplain management, watershed restoration, and nature-based solutions practice.

This role will provide strategic guidance to internal leadership, support business development and client engagement, help identify and pursue emerging restoration opportunities, and serve as a trusted advisor to clients and project teams on complex restoration initiatives.

What You’ll Do:

• Business Development and Market Strategy
  • Advise Verdantas leadership on strategic growth opportunities within river restoration, floodplain restoration, watershed management, resilience, and nature-based solutions markets.
  • Identify emerging funding programs, restoration initiatives, and priority investment opportunities.
  • Support client-development activities and relationship management with public agencies, utilities, foundations, NGOs, and conservation organizations.
  • Assist with strategic pursuits, proposal development, partner identification, and pursuit positioning.
  • Facilitate connections between Verdantas and key restoration stakeholders and funding partners.
• Client Advisory Services
  • Serve as a senior strategic advisor to clients pursuing watershed, river, floodplain, and habitat restoration initiatives.
  • Provide guidance on restoration program development, implementation strategies, and long-term investment planning.
  • Advise clients on restoration priorities, performance measures, program evaluation, and watershed-scale outcomes.
  • Participate in executive-level meetings, workshops, planning sessions, and stakeholder discussions.
• Stakeholder Engagement and Partnership Development
  • Support collaboration among agencies, NGOs, watershed organizations, foundations, community groups, and resource managers.
  • Help build coalitions and partnerships necessary to advance restoration initiatives.
  • Facilitate strategic discussions, planning workshops, and stakeholder engagement processes.
  • Provide insight into national trends and best practices in restoration and conservation.
• Technical and Strategic Leadership
  • Provide independent technical review and strategic guidance for restoration planning, design, and implementation efforts.
  • Advise project teams on restoration frameworks, monitoring approaches, and programmatic strategies.
  • Contribute to thought leadership initiatives, technical publications, presentations, and training programs.
  • Mentor staff and support the development of restoration practitioners across the organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in geology, earth sciences, ecology, hydrology, engineering, natural resources, or a related field (Advanced degree preferred).
• 20+ years of experience in river restoration, floodplain restoration, watershed management, conservation planning, or related fields.
• Demonstrated experience working with public agencies, conservation organizations, utilities, foundations, and consulting firms.
• Strong understanding of restoration funding mechanisms, policy frameworks, and implementation programs.
• Experience leading collaborative, multi-stakeholder initiatives.
• Recognized industry leader with a reputation for strategic thinking, facilitation, and partnership development.
• Exceptional communication, relationship-building, and mentoring skills.

Salary Range

$235/hr

Benefits

• Flexible Work Environment
• 401(k) with Company Match

Company Description

Verdantas strives to develop new ways to increase diversity awareness within our organization. We recruit and reward our employees based on capability and performance — regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, lifestyle, age, educational background, national origin, religion, or physical ability. For us, it is imperative to build balanced teams from all walks of life and we believe that a diverse workforce is a stronger workforce.

Verdantas is an EOE race/color/religion/sex/sexual orientation/gender identity/national origin/disability/vet.