The Chesapeake Bay Trust (the Trust), a non-profit grantmaking organization, seeks a Restoration Program Officer for our Annapolis, MD, location to play a key role in the Restoration team’s award programs. This position performs a wide variety of tasks both strategic and tactical. This role reports to the Vice President of Programs for Restoration. This is a hybrid position with an anticipated one to two days per week in the office, and the others may be remote.
This person will be a key member of a high-energy, collaborative team of 40+ professionals who work diligently to advance the Trust’s mission and daily consider the Trust’s core values of learning, science and innovation, grantee focus, diversity and inclusion, fiscal responsibility, and transparency accountability. This is a full-time, salaried position (40 hours per week), recently established to support the organization’s growth.
The Restoration team manages several award programs and partnerships that support stormwater best management practice planning, design, and implementation as well as research and small, scale rebate programs. The Restoration Program Officer will support the Pooled Monitoring Initiative’s Restoration Research Award Program (https://cbtrust.org/grants/restoration-research/) and several other programs focused on restoration throughout the Chesapeake Bay watershed. This will include supporting applicants as they develop project proposals, overseeing proposals reviews, compiling grant award agreements, managing awards and helping awardees throughout their projects (including performing site visits for restoration projects), and using the Trust’s online award-making system. This is an opportunity to support restoration aspects of the Trust’s award program portfolio that focuses on stormwater retrofits, climate resiliency, native plants and habitat enhancement, research, and supporting clean water goals for communities.
Established in 1985, the Chesapeake Bay Trust uses award making as a method to promote community-based participation in the restoration and protection of the natural resources of Maryland and the Chesapeake Bay region. In the past fifteen years, the Trust has doubled its grant-making five times through new revenue from a wide range of partners, with current annual grant-making of approximately $25 million. The Trust currently allocates these award funds through 350 to 400 awards per year to entities who apply through open, competitive calls for proposals as well as programs such as the Chesapeake Conservation and Climate Corps and Maryland Climate Corps.
