Position Summary:

The Fish Passage Outreach Coordinator conducts outreach to and coordinates site visits with landowners. Additionally, the coordinator works closely with the Habitat Project Manager to schedule and oversee the work of the Fish Passage Assessment Technicians. This position also maintains the SSS inventory dataset and partner coordination dataset and assists the Fish Passage Field Lead with fish passage field assessments as needed.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Conduct initial outreach to landowners through letter mailers, door-to-door visits, email, and by phone to determine their willingness to enable site access for fish passage assessments on their property.
• Maintain fish passage outreach materials for distribution to landowners during project outreach activities and at community events. 
• Under the direction of the Habitat Project Manager, represent SSS with landowners, partners, and volunteers on behalf of the Habitat Project Manager when they are unable to be meet. 
• Delegate day-to-day operations of the Fish Passage Technicians as directed by the Habitat Project Manager, such as assigning individual culverts for assessment, identifying relevant site features (e.g., parking, hazards), and reviewing site reports with technicians.
• Meet with the Fish Passage Field Lead and Habitat Project Manager weekly or as needed to discuss project scheduling and deliverable expectations for the Fish Passage Crew to ensure work completion is on schedule and within budget.
• Meet with the Habitat Project Coordinator regularly to discuss restoration crew scheduling.
• Assist the Habitat Project Manager with ensuring that landowners and partners are contacted within an adequate time frame, following the Landowner Agreements and contracts, before mobilizing the Fish Passage crew.
• Participate as needed in fish passage assessments in the field to standardize data collection procedures, including Level A and B data collection and habitat surveys.
• Maintain the Fish Passage Tulalip Inventory Map to reserve assessment sites within the designated project area and identify unmapped culverts using LiDAR imagery. 
• Maintain the internal SSS Fish Passage map and mobile data collection forms on Field Maps Designer. 
• Conduct QA/QC inspections of data collected on the SSS Fish Passage Tulalip Inventory Map forms to ensure consistency with WDFW and the Tulalip Tribes standards, and submit inspected data to Survey. 
• Analyze Level B data as needed using WDFW Fish Passage Level B Protocol: Qfp, StreamStats, and FishXing.
• Maintains data collection records necessary for Tulalip Tribes and WDFW.
• Help the Fish Passage Crew with timesheets, ensuring they know the correct billing codes before the Habitat Project Manager reviews and approves them before payroll.
• Follow SSS purchasing guidelines to obtain equipment and materials required to complete fish passage Work with crews to mobilize materials to worksites.
• Oversee the application of equipment, ensuring all laws and rules are followed by SSS staff and crews.
• Perform other related duties as assigned. 

Required Qualifications:

• A Bachelor’s degree in biological sciences, environmental sciences, natural resources, or a similar field. Alternatively, a Bachelor’s degree in communications or a related field paired with applicable natural resources experience will be accepted. Four years of relevant work experience may substitute for a Bachelor’s degree in the fields listed.
• At least 2 years of relevant working experience, including demonstrated landowner outreach experience.
• A valid driver’s license.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively both in verbal and written.
• Experience directing complex public outreach campaigns, including managing landowner databases, communicating with landowners, and creating and deploying outreach materials.
• Proficient with computers, including the use of Microsoft Office (Word/Excel), ESRI ArcGIS, and Google Workspace.
• Experience overseeing and providing leadership to field crews.
• Ability to effectively communicate with project partners and contractors.
• Knowledge of WDFW Fish Passage Inventory, Assessment, and Prioritization Manual (2019) protocols.
• Experience using field survey equipment such as ArcGIS Field Maps, laser survey equipment, digital cameras, GPS, clinometers, compasses, and stream morphology measuring tools.
• Experience conducting data collection and Level B data analysis techniques in barrier determination of human-made in-stream water features.
• Ability to interpret aerial imagery and topographic maps to identify relevant features, and to navigate using available resources and accurately measure features on maps.
• Skilled in safely operating hand and power tools such as hedge trimmers and hand Able to maintain/complete minor field repairs.
• Comfortable working around heavy equipment such as excavators and tractors.
• Ability to operate a four-wheel drive truck.

Physical Requirements: (The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job):

• Ability to work (usually sitting) for long periods of time in an office.
• Frequently required to work in or cross streams and rivers with calm to moderate currents and depths of up to several feet.
• Ability to perform physically demanding work, in the outdoors, at remote locations, on difficult terrain in all types of weather.
• Must be able to lift 40 lbs. into and out of trucks.
• Ability to walk up to 5-miles over steep or uneven terrain.