We’re committed to making a positive impact in our communities and providing a dynamic, rewarding work environment. As a growing organization with a dedicated team of experts, we value collaboration, expertise, and a healthy work-life balance.
Current Openings
Environmental Planner / Senior Environmental Planner
This position will support projects focused on wildfire resilience, ecosystem restoration, and climate adaptation. The role involves coordinating project planning, partner engagement, and GIS-based analysis, as well as preparing CEQA/NEPA environmental compliance documents and managing project scope, timelines, and budgets. The position also supports grant tracking, reporting, and collaboration with partners and subcontractors. Reporting to the Environmental Planning Program Director, this role contributes to impactful projects that strengthen community and ecosystem resilience, with potential for a senior-level position based on experience.
Communications Manager
This position will lead Whitebark’s communications and storytelling efforts, ensuring messaging aligns with organizational priorities, partner commitments, and community needs. This full-time, year-round role will develop and execute a strategic communications plan. Responsibilities include translating complex topics such as forest health, wildfire, community preparedness, and regional resilience into clear, engaging content for diverse audiences, managing digital and social media platforms, creating newsletters and outreach materials, coordinating partner communications, supporting public events, and assisting with donor and funder communications.
Forest Health Operations Manager
This position will lead the planning, coordination, and implementation of large-scale forest health and wildfire resilience projects across the Eastern Sierra, including mechanized and hand-thinning operations. Responsibilities include overseeing multidisciplinary teams and partners to deliver ecological forest restoration and fuels reduction treatments, managing project timelines and operational logistics, ensuring compliance with environmental regulations and project objectives, and serving as a key liaison with federal, state, local, Tribal, and nonprofit partners. This position plays a critical role in advancing strategic forest health initiatives, supporting staff development, fostering collaborative relationships, and driving the successful execution of landscape-scale restoration efforts that enhance ecosystem resilience and community wildfire preparedness. This is a full-time, year-round position that is primarily office-based, with regular fieldwork required throughout the year depending on project needs and seasonal activities.
Forest Health Seasonal Forestry Technician
This position will support Whitebark’s Forest Health program by assisting with field and office work related to forestry and fuels reduction projects during the 2026 season. Responsibilities include forest health monitoring, data collection, contract inspections, unit layout, timber designation, and coordination with partners such as the Inyo National Forest and the Town of Mammoth Lakes. Technicians will use forestry tools and GIS-based data collection software (e.g., ArcGIS Online, Survey123, GPS, tablets) while working both independently and as part of a collaborative team. This seasonal, field-based position is ideal for a motivated, organized individual with an interest in forestry and natural resource management, with an anticipated season of 5–7 months depending on conditions.