The Strategic Conservation Projects Director is a senior-level, mission-driven, and highly motivated land protection staff member who plays a key role on the Lowcountry Land Trust Conservation Team. This person is instrumental in ensuring the Land Trust’s long-term success by focusing on catalyzing and leading large, complex, and/or highly strategic land protection projects across South Carolina’s coastal plain. Central to this effort is the building, nurturing, and maintenance of strong relationships with key stakeholders, including but not limited to landowners, nonprofit and government partners, and funders. This position regularly engages with a portfolio of owners of strategically important unprotected land; cultivates Lowcountry Land Trust’s use of new, untapped, and/or complex sources of land protection funding; leverages impact capital and conservation investor capital for land protection; develops innovative partnerships and methods for leveraging protection by other entities; provides guidance to other Lowcountry Land Trust project managers; and otherwise contributes to Lowcountry Land Trust’s collective conservation strategies.
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Application Instructions: To apply, please email a cover letter, resume, and three (3) references in one PDF addressed to Ellen Blake, Operations Director, to careers@lowcountrylandtrust.org by May 28, 2025.
