Natural Areas Planner

Location: Natural Resources Building – Olympia, WA
Work Hours and Partial Telework flexibility may be available and considered

Salary: $5,666.00 – $7,622.00 Monthly

Review of applications is ongoing. We reserve the right to make a hiring decision or close this recruitment at any time after 05/19/2026. It is in your best interest to submit materials as soon as possible.

Responsibilities:

• Coordination of multiple interdisciplinary, multi-location project teams to meet identified timelines 
• Researching, or directing research, into conservation land management law and practices 
• Assembling and summarizing or describing data, maps, laws and policies, and other written works for analysis by department staff and the public as part of the plan-writing process 
• Creating the work-group and community-based environments that lead to scientifically sound and socially supported conservation and recreation management plans. 
   

Required Qualifications: 

• A Bachelor’s degree in natural resources planning, natural resources management, restoration ecology, environmental sciences, biological sciences, or related field; OR an equivalent combination of education and/or experience.
• An additional 2 years of professionally related experience in natural resources planning, natural resources management, restoration ecology, environmental sciences, biological sciences, or a related field.

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience working collaboratively with ecologists or land managers, agency partners, public lands user groups, and the general public on natural resources or conservation issues.
• Experience working with natural resources-based land use, environmental policy, and recreation-use policy and practices, such as: NEPA, SEPA, NRCA, or NAP management plans, Natural Heritage plans, recreation plans, or landscape conservation plans.