Heart of the Rockies is hiring!
- Trevor Irish
- Jun 9
- 2 min read
Our partner organization, Heart of the Rockies, is hiring a "Keep It Connected Coordinator."
From the job description:
This position is essential for the near-term growth and long-term sustainability of the Heart of the Rockies Initiative’s flagship program: Keep It Connected. This new position significantly increases the capacity of Keep It Connected, ensuring the team is able to meet our ambitious goals and scale the program over the coming years. Keep It Connected is a novel, direct, tangible way to increase the pace of private land conservation and ensure wildlife can move effectively across the landscape by showcasing the region’s most important private lands for wildlife connectivity that are ready to conserve.
Our portfolio of active projects helps private foundations and philanthropists easily identify the most critical, ready to protect, private lands that fit their values and mission. This assistance allows our land trust members to respond to the growing landowner demand to retain agricultural, wildlife, and open space values.
Primary responsibilities of this position include: manage a portfolio of land trust projects seeking capital funding; develop, maintain, and enhance relationships with land trust project staffers; provide accountability for time-sensitive tasks assigned to team members, ensuring they stay current with their communication with land trust partners; work closely with team members to support the Heart of the Rockies Foundation Board by assembling board packets and taking notes at board meetings; manage grant agreements and grant reports; maintain the Keep it Connected website; and maintain an active Salesforce database of projects and metrics.
Other responsibilities include: work with the Land Trust Alliance, state associations, and other partners to develop and implement training and workshop opportunities for land trust partners; travel to meet with land trust members to deliver capacity building; attend various land trust convenings; work with the Keep It Connected program lead to develop project maps; support implementation and expansion of funding strategies and partnerships (e.g., migratory birds, grasslands, and Indigenous partnerships); and develop better tools and educational resources for land trusts to access, understand, and work with data.
How to Apply The requirements listed in our job descriptions are guidelines, not hard and fast rules, and if you have 75% of the qualifications listed we encourage you to apply.
To apply, submit one PDF of your cover letter and resume via email to amy@heart-of-rockies.org, with the subject line “Keep It Connected Coordinator Application.” Please use the following naming format for your file: LastnameFirstname_KCApplication
Applications will be accepted through July 2, 2025, or until the position is filled.
We will begin scheduling interviews with top applicants in July, with a goal start date of August 2025.
If you have a disability and require accommodation or assistance with our application process, please tell us how we can help by emailing us at amy@heart-of-rockies.org.
Finalists’ references will be checked. Heart of the Rockies Initiative believes conservation works best when it reflects the full breadth of human experience.
Our team is committed to creating a welcoming, respectful environment where people from all backgrounds can contribute, grow, and thrive. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and make decisions about hiring, training, and advancement based on individual strengths and potential.
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