We’re Hiring: Restoration Coordinator

Job Title: Restoration Coordinator

Job Type: Full Time

Location: Utah County, UT

Salary: $24.60-$39.02 Hourly

Opening Date: 11/7/25

Closing Date: 11/30/25

Job Description:

Are you passionate about restoring and conserving Utah Lake’s vegetation and habitat? Do you thrive in a collaborative environment, leading projects from start to finish? With experience in land management and restoration, you’ll tackle diverse challenges, including fieldwork, partner coordination, and public engagement. The Division of Forestry, Fire, and State Lands and Utah Lake Authority are seeking a dedicated Restoration Coordinator to develop, coordinate, and implement these vital efforts.

This is a shared position between the Division of Forestry, Fire, and State Lands and the Utah Lake Authority. It will be based in the ULA offices in downtown Provo.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and implement programs and strategies to mitigate invasive vegetation.
• Build new collaborative relationships (and build upon existing ones) to achieve desired outcomes.
• Apply advanced and/or specialized knowledge of agency, interagency, and industry business practices to  implement and guide vegetation and habitat restoration projects. Identify needs and prioritize cooperative efforts for the restoration and conservation of public lands.
• Make recommendations for the prioritization of funds, implement budgets, track allocations, and expenditures for an annual budget for vegetation control and restoration. Collaborate with researchers to establish and promote best management practices.
• Coordinate with partners and stakeholders to leverage funding, expertise, and capacity.
• Plan and manage vegetation treatments.
• Collaborate with staff to integrate volunteers in management, conservation, and restoration efforts.
• Collaborate with staff to integrate education initiatives with management, conservation, and restoration  efforts.
• Monitor, track, and report project and program outcomes and performance.
• Assist with or develop grant proposals, reports, lease agreements, contracts, MOUs, and other documents as  needed to comply with agency protocol and advance desired outcomes. Administer and track grant funds and project work.

Qualifications:

Technical Skills:

• Experience identifying plants in a professional setting (at least 1 year, more is better)
• Technical writing skills (at least 1 year, more is better)

Communications & Interpersonal Skills:

• Effective written and oral communication skills
• Comfort in working and communicating with the public, stakeholders, educators, and other partners
• The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences

Problem Solving & Critical Thinking:

• Capacity for innovative problem-solving and general ingenuity
• The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.
• Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
• Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision making.
• Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.

Work Ethic & Self-Management:

• The ability to think and work independently to achieve identified outcomes.
• Managing one’s own time and the time of others effectively.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree, or ideally graduate degree, in vegetation, natural resource management, conservation or other related field.
• Lake-specific vegetation restoration knowledge and experience.
• 3 + years of experience in vegetation and/or habitat restoration project management and/or applied research.
• Driving and navigating a vehicle with a trailer, including backing skills. Light equipment maintenance experience.
• Experience collecting field data and designing field experiments.
• 1 or more years using Geographical Information Systems software use and data entry (GIS) in a professional  setting.
• Specific knowledge of invasive Phragmites management including post control re-vegetation strategies. 3+ years of experience with facilitating public education initiatives, stakeholder and public meetings, or public  communications.

Supplemental Information:

• Extensive outdoor fieldwork in varying weather.
• Work in and around standing and moving water.
• Operating light and heavy equipment.
• Work in personal watercraft such as canoes or kayaks.
• Risks found in potentially dangerous or unusual environmental stress situations, e.g. working in extreme outdoor  weather conditions, working in remote wilderness areas and/or boating/OHV areas, transportation over  waterways and driving an automobile or 4×4 vehicle, etc.
• The work requires considerable and strenuous physical exertion such as frequent climbing of tall ladders, lifting  heavy objects over 50 pounds, crouching or crawling in restricted areas.
• Field activities may be performed requiring the employee to work outdoors, navigate uneven terrain and operate  a variety of small tools/machines and work around mechanized equipment which require the use of special safety  precautions.
• Some travel opportunities may be available.
• Occasional requirements to work evenings and weekends.

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