Timber Fish and Wildlife Manager – Lummi Nation

Nwifc; Washington; On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional organization is seeking a Timber Fish and Wildlife Manager to provide administrative and technical support to the Natural Resources Department. This role includes program planning, grant administration, and coordinating reviews on projects that may impact treaty-reserved resources. The successful candidate will collaborate with various agencies and the Lummi Indian Business Council to ensure the protection of wildlife resources in Washington State.

Responsibilities

• Provides administrative and technical support to the Lummi Natural Resources Department.
• Conducts technical reviews and drafts comments on proposals impacting treaty-reserved resources.
• Coordinates with agencies for reviews and responses regarding wildlife resources.

Job description

Lummi Nation is hiring for the position of Timber Fish and Wildlife Manager

The Timber, Fish, and Wildlife (TFW) Manager provides administrative and technical support services to the Lummi Natural Resources Department (LNR) of the Lummi Indian Business Council. Administrative duties include program planning, funding via procurement of grants and contracts, budgeting, reporting, grant administration, and staff coordination and supervision. Other responsibilities include conducting and coordinating technical review and drafting comments on project or program proposals identified as having the potential to adversely impact treaty-reserved resources. Examples of proposals include: Forest Practice Applications, Hydraulic Project Applications, US Army Corps of Engineers permit notifications – especially those involving marine docks, piers, buoys, and related works in the Lummi Nation’s U & A, and NEPA and SEPA permit applications and notifications.
The TFW Manager coordinates with other LIBC staff when needed to screen permit application for potential impact to treaty-reserved resources within the Lummi Nation’s Traditional Territory. For off-reservation issues, the TFW Manager coordinates with other agencies and non-governmental entities in conducting reviews and responses when needed in a unified and timely manner. Additional coordination includes working with the other Point Elliott Treaty Tribes and the State of Washington’s Fish and Wildlife Department as the technical representative of the department for co- management of wildlife resources. The TFW Manager informs the LNR Director, and other policy staff as directed of identified issues of particular importance and further facilitates and assures that their responses are as timely as conditions permit.