Job Title: Conservation Program Associate

Company: Center for Plant Conservation

Location: 15600 San Pasqual Valley Rd., Escondido, CA. 92027

Summary: The Center for Plant Conservation seeks a full-time Conservation Program Associate to assist with CPC’s growing conservation programs including our online learning platforms, rare plant databases, and monthly newsletter. An ideal candidate would be well-rounded, have coursework in plant or ecological sciences, and be broadly interested in learning about both the communications and data management components of our work as a consortium of scientists.

The Center for Plant Conservation is a one-of-a-kind national plant conservation network of more than 60 botanical institutions working to save imperiled plants of the United States, its territories, and Canada. The CPC network maintains the CPC National Collection of Endangered Plants, a living conservation collection of over 2,000 imperiled plants. CPC partners collect and manage living seeds and plants, work with land managers to remove threats, and investigate the important aspects of rare plant biology pertinent to saving these species. At the CPC National Office, we expand the capacity for plant conservation by communicating the best and most up-to-date scientific practices to Save Plants, maintaining records of plants that have or need protection, and coordinating vital initiatives for securing plants in conservation collections. Working together, drawing from the collective expertise and experience of our scientists, the CPC network saves more plant species together than would ever be possible alone.

Position Type:

·      Full Time

·      Hourly

·      Partially remote: 2 days per week off site

Salary & Benefits:

·      $45,000-$47,000 per year

·      health, dental, vision, 403 B

Essential Job Functions

·      Support for the CPC Newsletter including the composition of short form newsletter articles and loading of visual media onto the WordPress website

·      Use R, Excel, and SQL to update and manage data assets associated with the CPC National Collection of Rare Plants and Databases for CPC’s Regional Seed Collections Initiatives

·      Create posts to promote CPC Programs on social media.

·      Manipulate data to create ad hoc reports as requested by CPC Stakeholders

·      Review seed collections invoices from CPC subcontractors to ensure collections data and content to meet grant requirements.

·      Upload and review video content to CPC Rare Plant Academy and CPC Applied Plant Conservation Online Course to fulfill grant deliverables.

·      Beta-test and trouble shoot webtools on Center for Plant Conservation website.

Educational Requirements:

·      Bachelor’s Degree in Biological Sciences or other with 400-level coursework in biology, ecology, or botany

Experience Desired:

·      Excellent written communication

·      Proficiency with WordPress or other web-based Content Management Systems

·      Familiarity posting to common Social Media Platforms (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram)

·      Experience manipulating datasets in Microsoft Excel or R

·      Ability to integrate data from multiple data sources into a data pipeline for analysis.

To apply, send letter of interest, one letter of reference, and a resume to Dr. Katherine Heineman (kheineman@saveplants.org). Applications will be accepted until May 27, 2022.

The Center for Plant Conservation is an equal opportunity employer committed to complying with all federal, state, and local laws providing equal employment opportunities, and all other employment laws and regulations.