Playa Lakes Joint Venture (PLJV) is looking for an outgoing, team-oriented, self-motivated person who is enthusiastic about creating stories, messages, and marketing communications products that engage agricultural producers and rural communities to conserve and restore grasslands through brush removal, prescribed fire and other management practices. The primary role of the Grassland Conservation Marketing Manager is to develop marketing communications plans, content, and products that support the conservation priorities of the PLJV partnership. The Grassland Conservation Marketing Manager will work in close collaboration with the PLJV Marketing Communications Director, PLJV Social Science Specialist, and conservation delivery partners to create relevant, effective communications that drive conservation actions and to develop and implement trainings for conservation delivery staff on how to use those products to more effectively engage landowners in grassland conservation.

This is a remote position. The candidate will need to be located within the PLJV region, with easy access for traveling throughout western Kansas and western Oklahoma. Priority will be given to those candidates who are willing to live in western Kansas, western Oklahoma or the Denver metro area.

PLJV is a regional partnership of federal and state wildlife agencies, conservation groups and private industry dedicated to conserving bird habitat throughout portions of Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas. Our mission is to conserve the playas, prairies, and landscapes of the western Great Plains through partnerships for the benefit of birds, other wildlife, and people. The Joint Venture facilitates cooperation among a broad coalition of partners on the national, regional, state, and local levels to fund and implement habitat conservation. We provide regional planning, value­-added efficiency, and implementation approaches, while our partners provide financial, technical and local expertise to develop conservation projects. In addition, PLJV supports local conservation partnerships, state agencies, and other partners by developing various decision support tools, as well as providing education about how to use the tools to target and deliver the most effective habitat conservation. PLJV also works with a variety of partners to inform landowners about conservation programs and to target conservation efforts in areas that will provide the most benefit.