Business for Water Stewardship Coordinator

Bonneville Environmental Foundation (BEF) is an entrepreneurial nonprofit working on environmental solutions at the intersection of renewable energy and freshwater. Partnerships are key to our success. We build long-term relationships with our education, corporate, utility and philanthropic partners by first understanding their goals and needs and providing solutions that achieve those goals while achieving real, measurable environmental benefits.

Who are we looking for?

BEF’s Business for Water Stewardship Team helps businesses work collaboratively with community and policy stakeholders to advance solutions that ensure people, economies, and ecosystems have enough clean water to flourish. We invite tribal nations, agriculture, food, beverage or technology companies, community organizations, environmental advocates, and policymakers to join us to transform how we collectively value, use, and manage water today.

This position supports the Business for Water Stewardship team by helping identify and fund high-impact water stewardship projects and managing the systems that track and communicate project progress. The role includes conducting watershed research, drafting project documents, supporting project scoping and reporting, and collaborating with staff and partners to advance program goals.

Why Join Us? Our Values Are: 

Partnership: We believe we can accomplish more by bringing people together. 

Adaptability: We evolve, adapt, and apply what we learn to constantly improve our results.

Knowledge: We seek out and value diverse perspectives, embrace new ideas, and pioneer new approaches

Innovation: We recognize the scope and pace of the change we need demands that we innovate. This need for innovation inspires and energizes us. 

Integrity: We are honest with our employees, customers, and our partners.  We promise to always deliver the best possible outcomes for the environment and people we serve.

Primary Duties:

Technical administrative support for project research, scoping, management and reporting

• Prepares documents supporting BWS program activities, including research findings, project descriptions, project solicitations (RFPs/RFIs), project descriptions, grant agreements and reports to partners.
• Supports BWS partners, clients and consultants by providing data, answering inquiries, coordinating document reviews, and tracking volumetric benefits.
• Supports agreement development and management of edits and negotiation prior to the final approval process.
• Supports annual project reporting solicitation, review and verification.
• Research watershed-scale water stewardship circumstances, needs, opportunities, policies, and relevant organizations (e.g., key water management entities, potential project implementers, etc.).
• Creates basic maps showing project locations.
• Conducts research on topics related corporate water stewardship as directed by the BWS team

System and process management

• Manages and refines systems for tracking projects, project leads for future considerations, project funding contributions, progress toward volumetric targets, and client project portfolios.
• Drafts and maintains internal templates, processes and procedures for data, research and project tracking and management.
• Supports and helps improve upon systems and processes for sharing project details and reporting with clients.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree from four-year college or university
• 3 to 5 years of related experience and/or training or equivalent combination of education and experience working in hydrology, aquatic ecology, water policy, water management, watershed science or related field.
• This position does not require any certificates, licenses, or registrations.

What’s in it for you: 

• Salary Range: $60,640-$67,359 per year DOE.
• 100% Employer paid Medical, Short Term and Long-Term Disability, Life insurance for employees; 75% subsidized for family/dependents.
• Retirement plan with 5% employer matching contribution.
• Generous PTO and Vacation Policy including alternative care and  self-care leave.
• Four Week paid sabbatical after first 6 years, then every 5 years thereafter
• Opportunity to grow through training and development including a generous paid professional development budget.
• Remote work schedule.

Location: Remote, 10% travel

Open until filled. BEF will review applications as they are received and will interview qualified candidates as they are identified. Our goal is to have this team member start work on March 16th,2026.

For consideration, apply on https://beforg.bamboohr.com/careers/49 or the company website at http://www.b-e-f.org/careers. 

Bonneville Environmental Foundation is an EEO employer.