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    Forest & Mitigation Program Manager, Coalitions and Collaboratives

    Remote/Timberline Fire Protection District Headquarters Salary: $30.00 - $35.00 per hour / 40 hours per week ($62,400 - $72,800 annual salary equivalent)

    This position will work with private landowners, local communities, fire protection districts, local governments, Colorado State Forest Service, US Forest Service, and others to identify strategic, shared priorities and plan on-the-ground wildfire mitigation and forest restoration projects within Gilpin County and Clear Creek County. The Clear Creek Partnership is an affiliate of Coalitions & Collaboratives, Inc. (COCO) and uses COCO as our fiscal agent. This position will be hired through COCO as they are the fiscal agent for the grant funding for this position.

    Primary Duties:

    • Facilitate conversations, meetings and site visits with landowners and partners within Gilpin County and Clear Creek County.

    • Develop communications and community outreach and engagement plans and increase awareness and understanding of wildfire risk and mitigation activities among wildland urban interface communities.

    • Promote and facilitate education and engagement with communities related to forest and watershed resilience.

    • Work with private landowners to plan and support parcel level wildfire risk assessments and mitigation. 2432 S Downing Street | Denver, Colorado | 80210 1

    • Plan forest health and fuels reduction projects and participate in Community Wildfire Protection Plan efforts.

    • Facilitate and develop scopes of work and project prescriptions for restoration and fuels reduction projects.

    • Assist with the design, contracting, permitting, and project management of mitigation projects.

    • Develop best practices and operating procedures for cross-jurisdictional treatment design and implementation.

    • Promote vegetation management, fuels reduction/mitigation projects in high-risk areas through cost-share programs and community chipping programs. Help develop local cost-share programs.

    • Participate in local and regional collaborations including the Northern Colorado Fireshed Collaborative

    • Support activities that reinforce existing collaborations and help build new partnerships.

    • Assist with organizational sustainability efforts, help develop report summaries, participate in presentations to partners and/or elected officials.