Job Location : all cities,IL, USA
At TPL, we believe access to the outdoors is a fundamental human need and essential to our health and well-being.
We're committed to creating more places that bring us outside—parks, trails, playgrounds, and public lands—and making them available and welcoming to everyone, everywhere, regardless of ZIP code.
TPL creates parks and protects land in communities that are urban, rural, and everything in between. We understand that parks and open spaces are critical tools communities can use to advance key priorities including public health, community cohesion, economic development and climate resiliency. These spaces serve as a powerful medium for preserving and amplifying community culture. TPL partners with local leaders to tell these stories through our programs focused on Community Strategies, Black History and Culture, and Tribal and Indigenous Lands.
TPL seeks a Senior Project Manager to re-establish our land protection program throughout Illinois and in the region. TPL has decades of land protection experience, and a team of Project Managers who lead impact across the country. We have a history of meaningful land protection in Illinois, but our local team has most recently focused on park and trail development in Chicago. We look to expand the local team, bringing in new expertise, as we advance our next phase of growth.
You share our belief that access to the outdoors, in both rural and urban areas of our country, is a fundamental human need–not a luxury. When you hear about the outdoor equity gap, you want to roll up your sleeves and fix it. Like us, you're convinced that creating access to the outdoors improves health, supports climate resilience, and fosters community connection. You believe communities are a critical piece of the puzzle when determining how public land should be used.
Position Summary:The Senior Project Manager will work in close collaboration with the Illinois-based team to create a strategy for land protection that aligns with TPL's national mission and local priorities. This position will also collaborate with experienced land protection colleagues working across the country, and with planners, attorneys, staff experienced with public grant solicitations and management, and finance managers. TPL does not own and maintain land in perpetuity, and instead collaborates with local, state, federal, and nonprofit organizations to accept and steward the assets we protect.
The successful candidate will have experience using a broad spectrum of nonprofit land acquisition techniques and sound business practices that produce tangible results. This person will be equally comfortable in conversation with landowners, community stakeholders, public and elected officials, lawyers, and others involved in complex land negotiations. While part of a dynamic and supportive team both locally and nationally, the Senior Project Manager must be a self-starter who can work independently.
Essential FunctionsTrust for Public Land is a hybrid work environment, and this role will ideally be located near a Trust for Public Land office. As a full-time employee, you will be eligible for the Trust for Public Land's comprehensive benefits program which includes medical, dental, and vision insurance, vacation and sick pay plus holidays, a year end office closure, and a 403(b)-retirement plan, currently with up to a 7% company match. We offer competitive salaries commensurate with experience; the anticipated hiring range for this position is $95,000- $115,000.
Trust for Public Land's active goal is to be an inclusive and equitable place to work and build community. As the organization actively works to eliminate racial and other disparities it welcomes candidates with diverse backgrounds and/or multicultural skillsets. We are open to the possibility that a great candidate for this job may not precisely meet all the above criteria; if you believe you are the right person for this job and can persuasively make that case, we encourage you to apply.
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