WRA’s an employee-owned environmental consultancy. We are a tenacious team of planners, engineers, and scientists, and we aim to leave the lands we love better than we found them.
Our clients and partners hire us because we’re skilled at navigating through challenging projects involving wildlands, parks, community spaces, and infrastructure. We bring over four decades of expertise, long-standing relationships, and connections to our local communities to make sure that projects are pursued in responsible ways where both people and the environment thrive.
As an organization, we believe that independence and interdependence are not mutually exclusive. We invest in systems, processes, and employee programs to support our staff’s collective engagement and success. At the same time, we encourage our employees to operate with an ownership mindset, taking responsibility for outcomes and being true to our commitments.
Position Overview
The Southern California Natural Resources Director is a principal-level role working in close partnership with the Mitigation Market Director and the Executive Committee. The primary responsibility of this role is to provide project delivery oversight for our Southern California projects. This entails working in close coordination with our Conservation Strategies team, allowing the Mitigation Market Director to focus on expanding our reach in the mitigation and conservation space. The Southern California Natural Resources Director is also expected to establish their own book of business in the Southern California region across restoration and permitting project types. This orientation to sales and marketing creates integrated cross-selling opportunities for our robust credit sales program.
This role is focused on three main areas of impact:
Principal oversight of project delivery (70%)
- Provide senior technical oversight on restoration, mitigation, and permitting projects.
- Work with the Conservation Strategies team and the broader WRA organization to ensure timely and quality delivery of complex, cross-functional projects.
- Conduct biological assessments and prepare technical biological reports.
- Develop innovative mitigation strategies utilizing technical and regulatory experience.
Expanding the Southern California Market (15%)
- Expand new and existing client relationships to grow our traditional consulting service offerings in a variety of markets.
- Create collaborative buy-sell opportunities for mitigation credit sales.
- Work with sales and marketing support functions to establish and execute new client relationship strategies.
Staff Management (15%)
- Manage a team of biologists within the Conservation Strategies team to provide mentoring and coaching to foster best practices and increase staff engagement within the team and with other teams.
- Address team issues proactively and support professional development.