Restoration Program Manager

The Chesapeake Bay Trust (the Trust), a non-profit grantmaking organization, seeks a Program Manager on the Restoration Team for our Annapolis, MD, location. The person in this position will lead a team of three to five staff that implement grant programs supporting stormwater retrofits, climate resiliency, native plants and habitat enhancement, research, and clean water goals for communities in the Chesapeake Bay, Coastal Bays, and Youghiogheny watersheds. The person in this role reports to the Vice President of Programs for Restoration and will work closely with the other Program Manager(s) on the Restoration Team.

The person in this role must be both a “doer” and a “thinker” and perform a wide variety of tasks both strategic and tactical. This is a hybrid position with an anticipated minimum of 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).

The full Restoration team manages award programs and partnerships that fund stormwater best management practice (BMP) planning, design, and implementation; research on certain BMPs where there are gaps in knowledge; and small-scale individual landowner rebate programs. This Program Manager position will support his/her/their sub-department as they manage funding from ~20 sources to make new awards to community-based grantees, local governments, and contractors; manage existing awards; and report to partners. The Program Manager will take a lead on developing new partnerships and managing existing partnerships. The position will require site visits a few times a month to proposed and completed project sites.

Established in 1985, the Chesapeake Bay Trust uses grant-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 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.

The position will remain open until filled, but for best consideration apply by September 15, 2025.  Full position and link to apply: https://cbaytrust.bamboohr.com/careers/68?source=aWQ9Mjg%3D