Join our team and help protect Los Padres National Forest and other public lands throughout our region! ForestWatch is one of the premier land, river, and wildlife conservation organizations working across California’s central coast.
Open Positions
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Director of Development
ForestWatch is seeking a Director of Development to drive our comprehensive fundraising strategy and build deep partnerships with our donors who share our conservation vision.
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Land Stewardship Manager
The Land Stewardship Manager oversees our 157-acre nature preserve in the San Emigdio Mountains. The role also entails planning and executing an exciting lineup of habitat restoration projects on public lands throughout the region.
Guidelines
Click on the links above for full job descriptions and application instructions. We are leanly staffed. Please do not call if you have not been contacted after submitting an application. We look forward to exploring how we might be a good fit!
ForestWatch welcomes diversity and is committed to creating an inclusive and equitable work environment for all employees that encourages and celebrates differences. ForestWatch’s staff and Board strive to incorporate inclusive practices in the performance of all duties and responsibilities, on a consistent and ongoing basis, and continually work to increase awareness and sensitivity to the needs and concerns of individuals from diverse cultures, backgrounds, and orientations.
Our Internship Program
The goal of our Internship Program is to provide the next generation of environmental advocates with the training and tools to protect public lands, clean air and water, wildlife, and natural resources. Our interns gain valuable experience with research, advocacy, fieldwork, and environmental law and policy while obtaining first-hand knowledge of working with a small but effective nonprofit organization. Since our internship program began in 2006, we have been fortunate to work with more than 75 undergraduate, graduate, and law students from the following institutions:
- Antioch University Santa Barbara
- Brandeis University
- California State University, Channel Islands (CSUCI)
- California State University, Northridge (CSUN)
- Cal Lutheran University
- Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
- Cuesta College
- Lewis & Clark Law School and Earthrise Law Center
- The Ohio State University – Moritz College of Law
- Oxnard College
- Pepperdine University School of Law
- Santa Barbara City College
- Santa Barbara College of Law
- Stanford Environmental Law Clinic
- The Thacher School
- UCLA School of Law
- UCSB’s Bren School of Environmental Science & Management
- University of California, Irvine (UCI) Environmental Law Clinic
- University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
- University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)
- University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC)
- University of Montana
- University of Oregon School of Law
- University of Washington School of Law
- Westmont College
Header photo by Bill Bouton.
