As a part of the team, you will advance ecological restoration of South Texas’ thornforest ecosystem through skilled management of reforestation sites, identification and reporting of conservation-based restoration outcomes and cross-organizational collaborations. Major responsibilities include: Ecological Restoration: Site Management and Outreach (40%) In coordination with American Forests’ Texas-based staff and federal agency partners, lead efforts to manage restored thornforest sites during the post-plant timeline through execution and oversight of recurrent field-based monitoring, routine maintenance activities, augmentation seeding, treatment interventions and cooperator outreach to control invasive plant and wildlife populations Ensure performance of all management tasks in accordance with safety policies (federal, state and organizational), including those designated through field-based SOPs for the use of facilities and equipment safely and respectfully Manage strong relations with leaseholders, cooperators and other designated operators on public lands, conservation easements and private lands, including but not limited to representatives of the law enforcement, energy, livestock, farming, outdoorsman and utilities management sectors Contracting: develop and execute coordinated efforts in project scoping, bid solicitations, service agreements, quality assurance and invoice payments for supply purchases, post-plant maintenance activities (i.e., mowing, herbicide application, grazing exclusion, etc.) and other functions as required for multiple restoration sites In conjunction with state and federal agencies, develop and deliver technical guidance and site management recommendations to private landowners, municipalities and other end-users of thornforest restoration in the Rio Grande Valley Restoration Outcomes: Ecological Impact Monitoring (30%) In coordination with federal agency partners and the Resilient Forests Science Team, develop metrics and monitoring designs to evaluate the ecological impact of thornforest restoration activities in the Rio Grande Valley Implement monitoring of restored forest and in-situ wildlife populations, including field sampling (i.e., observer-based and passive methods), data collection and data management Implement standardized survivorship monitoring of restoration seedlings at regular intervals Generate summary statistics and geospatial analyses using collected data points as needed Reporting: provide progress reporting on restoration outcomes at regular intervals for both internal and external queries Texas Programs: Geospatial Database Management (15%) In coordination with AF’s GIS/Data Science branch and agency partners, create and periodically update detailed ArcGIS shapefiles to reflect site boundaries, maintenance/intervention histories and conservation outcomes for multiple thornforest restoration sites throughout the Rio Grande Valley Assist Texas Restoration and Community Resilience Teams with translation and procurement of site boundary data, maps and corresponding outcomes as related to restoration projects being conducted at both landscape and local scales Restoration Science (15%) Alongside American Forests’ staff and partners, co-develop planning for geospatial interfaces, research-based analyses and other decision-support tools necessary to advance the restoration of landscape connectivity and related goals within fragmented forest and woodland ecosystems in Texas In coordination with the Resilient Forests’ Science Team, develop analyses and draft narrative for inclusion within peer-reviewed journal articles, presentations and other venues for advancing forest restoration science