The Conservation Lands Foundation is excited to announce the launch of our search for a California-based Senior Program Director, a key leadership role in a state with over 30 Friends Grassroots Network organizations. The Conservation Lands Foundation is seeking a Senior Program Director to serve as the strategic architect behind our land protection and constituency-building efforts in California . In this pivotal role, you will lead proactive campaigns to protect, restore, and expand the National Conservation Lands —38 million acres of premier public lands and waters managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). For the complete job description and more information, please review our Senior Program Director job description:
Some of my earliest and most formative memories are on public lands in New Mexico, where I grew up camping under impossibly starry skies, hiking rocky canyons, and exploring every sunbaked arroyo in Santa Fe for lizards and other small critters. Growing up in the Southwest made me deeply aware of both the beauty and the fragility of these landscapes. I saw how fire, drought, and mismanagement could threaten not only ecosystems, but the health and well-being of the communities who depend on them. Those experiences shaped me. They taught me that caring for wild landscapes isn’t passive, it’s a collective responsibility. That belief has guided my career and approach to leadership: philanthropy is fundamentally about stewardship, community, and creating the conditions for impact to scale. It’s also what drew me to the Conservation Lands Foundation. Its clarity of mission, its commitment to community-led conservation, and its track record of protecting and expanding the National Conservation Lands represent the future of protecting nature, one rooted in collaboration, shared power, and long-term investment.
