Landowner Stewardship Coordinator

Job Description

Job DescriptionDescription:

Job Title: Landowner Stewardship Coordinator

Location: Remote

Terms: Full Time

Reports to: Senior Manager, Landowner Stewardship

Posting End Date: February 10, 2026

About Us:

The American Forest Foundation (AFF) unlocks the power of family forests as a climate solution while helping thousands of landowners care for their land and improve forest health. Through its Family Forest Carbon Program, AFF expands access to the voluntary carbon market for family forest owners from all walks of life while producing high quality forest carbon credits to help companies reach their net zero goals. The organization’s strategic direction seeks to enable family forests to capture and store one billion tonnes of carbon by 2050.

We do not do this alone. AFF works across a broad coalition of conservation partners, corporations, and policymakers to equip family forest owners with financial and technical support to implement sustainable forest management practices on their lands and activate their forests as a critical tool in the fight against climate change.

AFF is in a mode of complex problem solving and rapid iteration. All teams at AFF are working to discover solutions to the planet’s most pressing climate issues through developing and iterating viable and scalable models for impact. AFF is driven by values of our shared purpose, measurable and verifiable results, and learning for continuous improvement to tackle big conservation challenges.

About the Role:

In this role, you will assist in the implementation of delivering direct support to landowners enrolled in American Forest Foundation programs. This role will be the first line of support landowners experience after contract signing and will assist in gathering the necessary materials to help landowners meet requirements for payments. This includes collecting documentation, communicating with landowners, updating internal systems, and ensuring compliance with all requirements for the relevant funding sources (such as the Climate Smart Commodities grant, among others). Additionally, the Landowner Stewardship Coordinator will be responsible for maintaining regular rituals for communication such as newsletters, welcome packets, webinars, and more. This will also include communicating with landowners about contract requirements, such as forest management plans and site monitoring. The ideal candidate will have excellent communication (oral and written) skills, with the ability to clearly document and communicate compliance activities.

Requirements:

Responsibilities:

• Support the Community and Sustained Engagement (CSE) team by executing administrative tasks and special projects that promote operational excellence and advance conservation outcomes.
• Provide excellent communication and support to enrolled landowners via multichannel communications (email, phone, text), which includes monitoring of general information inbox and responding or delegating to team members as necessary.
• Support the creation and distribution of regular communications via established channels (newsletters, welcome materials, surveys, etc).
• Support the planning and coordination of virtual and in-person events, including scheduling, logistics, and communication.
• Coordinate contract compliance by tracking deadlines, monitoring required submissions, and ensuring that landowner documentation and program obligations are met in a timely and accurate manner.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of tracking systems and help to maintain the accuracy and consistency of related processes.

Candidate Requirements:

• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
• Desire for problem solving, collaboration, and flexibility
• Time management skills, with the ability to prioritize, coordinate, and manage multiple priorities
• Process-oriented with a strong attention to detail.
• Ability to track tasks through to closure, ensuring follow-up and accountability.
• Excellent communication (oral and written) skills, with the ability to clearly document and communicate compliance activities.

Core Competencies:

• Agility – Thriving in volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous environments by anticipating and responding to changes with swift, focused and flexible actions.
• Collaborating with Others – Working together with others in a cooperative and supportive manner to achieve shared goals.
• Ensuring Accountability – Holding yourself and others to high standards of accountability, creating an infrastructure and transparent organization culture that supports and measures personal and organizational responsibility and accountability.
• Problem Solving – Identifying problems and the solutions to them. Your contributions and leadership will be appreciated. Our staff is passionate, dedicated and good at what they do, and will be deeply grateful for your efforts to create and preserve an environment that is both fun and fair.

Job Function Competencies:

• Attention to Detail - Working in a conscientious, consistent, and thorough manner.
• Professionalism - Treating others with honesty, respect, and consideration; performing work in a reliable and conscientious manner.
• Client Focus - Providing service excellence to internal or external clients.
• Digital Literacy - Engaging with digital technologies to accomplish goals and solve challenges in the workplace.

What's attractive to the candidate?:

• You have the unique and exciting opportunity to work with amazing colleagues, partners and landowners to help connect forest landowners with technical and financial assistance to better steward their land and achieve vital landscape-scale conservation impacts.
• Your contributions and leadership will be appreciated. Our staff is passionate, dedicated and good at what they do, and will be deeply grateful for your efforts to create and preserve an environment that is both fun and fair.
• We offer a flexible work environment that respects your life outside of work.
• Salary is commensurate with experience.
• AFF offers a comprehensive and competitive benefits package.

Contact us to apply We know there are great candidates who may not check all these boxes, and we also know you might bring important skills that we haven’t considered. If that applies to you, don’t hesitate to apply and tell us about yourself.

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We are committed to creating a diverse work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status or any other basis protected by law.