Role of the Regional Forest Health Program Manager
The Regional Forest Health Program Manager’s work will increase forest health and wildfire resilience by supporting the development of programming led by the Collaborative and the development and implementation of individual projects, increasing collaboration across jurisdictions and facilitating organizational capacity building. The Program Manager will achieve this by overseeing a State Coastal Conservancy grant to implement the North Coast Wildfire Resilience Planning and Implementation Grant Program; supporting program and project development within individual RCDs and joint programing among the North Coast RCD Collaborative; serving as a liaison between the Collaborative, tribes, and other regional partners and agencies; and supporting project planning and implementation and organizational capacity building among tribes and other regional partners and agencies.
Relation to HCRCD Staff and Others
The Regional Forest Health Program Manager position will be based out of HCRCD, supporting the Collaborative. The Program Manager should expect to work closely with all RCDs to develop plans, goals and objectives and to track progress. The Program Manager will also work with other partners in the region such as local, state, and federal agency representatives; federally recognized and non-federally recognized California Native American tribes; agricultural groups; landowners; Fire Safe Councils; environmental groups; non-governmental organizations; and other stakeholders.
About the North Coast Wildfire Resilience Planning and Implementation Grant Program
The State Coastal Conservancy awarded HCRCD, on behalf of the Collaborative, a 5-year, $6 million grant to fund the North Coast Wildfire Resilience Planning and Implementation Grant Program. This Program will provide grants to public entities, tribes, and nonprofit organizations for planning, community outreach, environmental review, permitting, and implementation of projects that will increase wildfire resilience through improved management of natural lands and open space, increased collaboration among land managers, and capacity building. The projects undertaken as part of this program will occur in coastal-draining watersheds in the North Coast Resource Conservation District Collaborative region in the following present-day counties: Del Norte, Humboldt, Lake, Marin, Mendocino, Napa, Siskiyou, Sonoma, and Trinity.