SELT is excited to announce an exciting new position: the Coastal Watershed Land Conservation Manager. This unique opportunity will focus on advancing the work of Great Bay 2030 through partnerships and collaboration.
The Coastal Watershed Land Conservation Manager is a new, full-time position created to increase the rate of conservation within New Hampshire’s Coastal Watershed with a focus on strategic conservation of priority lands identified in the NH Coastal Watershed Conservation Plan (2021). As part of the broader Great Bay 2030 initiative, a multi-organizational effort to safeguard the water quality and ecology of the Great Bay estuary, the Manager supports the permanent protection of the Coastal Watershed’s high-value natural resources, including wildlife habitat, lands critical for ecological services, public drinking water resources and productive agricultural resources.
The Manager will work collaboratively with other nonprofit and agency members of the Great Bay Resource Protection Partnership (GBRPP) to develop effective working relationships and conservation projects with private landowners, partner organizations, and government agencies/towns. The Manager proactively contacts landowners within priority areas of the Coastal Conservation Plan and as identified as priorities by the GBRPP, builds and maintains relationships with community partners, responds to land protection inquiries, and prepares local, state and federal grants and foundation proposals.
The Manager negotiates land acquisition and conservation easement projects using a full range of conservation tools and coordinates the land acquisition process, grant administration, conservation easement drafting (as applicable), due diligence and closing of these projects, based on the needs and processes of the holder of the conservation interest. In addition to SELT, holders of the conservation interest that the Manager may manage projects on behalf of include, but is not limited to, the Society for the Protection of NH Forests, The Nature Conservancy, and the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department.