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Conservation Finance Associate Director - Florida
Trust for Public LandFlexible, Florida, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 15 Dec 2025
💰 $111,400/yr($103,000/yr – $111,400/yr)
About the role
Who We Are:
At TPL, we're a team of outdoor advocates who believe in connecting everyone to the outdoors. As an ethos, 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. We also understand that land has meaning; it tells the story of our history. That's why, through our Black History and Culture initiative, we're working to preserve sites that more fully represent the Black American experience; and we're an ally and partner to Tribal and Indigenous communities, working in partnership to reconnect them with their ancestral lands.
One hundred million people, including 28 million children, don't have nearby access to a park within ten minutes of their home. We're determined to change this outdoor equity gap–and as a result, nine million people and counting now have access because of our work. We have miles to go and a plan to get there. We're inclusive change-makers who believe in connecting everyone to the outdoors. We inspire by paving the way forward and strengthening our connection to nature. Join us!
Position Summary:
The Florida Conservation Finance Associate Director collaborates with national Conservation Finance staff, the national Conservation Finance Research team, and programmatic experts throughout the country to foster new sources of public funding for parks and land conservation at the state and local government level. The position is responsible for developing and undertaking community outreach and technical assistance to create new funding and renew existing local and state funding for parks, land conservation, and climate through ballot measures and legislative action. The position’s primary geographic focus will be Florida. The Florida Conservation Finance Associate Director markets Trust for Public Land’s Conservation Finance services, develops proposals for services, facilitates community engagement and outreach, works with public opinion researchers, negotiates contracts, makes presentations, and works with a team of internal and external experts in public finance research, public opinion surveys, ballot measure campaigns, and legislative advocacy. The job requires coordination with field staff based in many different offices and collaboration with legal, finance, philanthropy, and marketing staff.
This position utilizes skills in leadership, strategy, policy, politics, and coalition and program building towards our efforts to deliver Trust for Public Land’s mission. The successful candidate will build consensus and support across internal and external stakeholders and will seek to build awareness, credibility, and broad-based support for parks, land conservation, and climate and Trust for Public Land’s mission.
Essential Functions:
At TPL, we're a team of outdoor advocates who believe in connecting everyone to the outdoors. As an ethos, 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. We also understand that land has meaning; it tells the story of our history. That's why, through our Black History and Culture initiative, we're working to preserve sites that more fully represent the Black American experience; and we're an ally and partner to Tribal and Indigenous communities, working in partnership to reconnect them with their ancestral lands.
One hundred million people, including 28 million children, don't have nearby access to a park within ten minutes of their home. We're determined to change this outdoor equity gap–and as a result, nine million people and counting now have access because of our work. We have miles to go and a plan to get there. We're inclusive change-makers who believe in connecting everyone to the outdoors. We inspire by paving the way forward and strengthening our connection to nature. Join us!
Position Summary:
The Florida Conservation Finance Associate Director collaborates with national Conservation Finance staff, the national Conservation Finance Research team, and programmatic experts throughout the country to foster new sources of public funding for parks and land conservation at the state and local government level. The position is responsible for developing and undertaking community outreach and technical assistance to create new funding and renew existing local and state funding for parks, land conservation, and climate through ballot measures and legislative action. The position’s primary geographic focus will be Florida. The Florida Conservation Finance Associate Director markets Trust for Public Land’s Conservation Finance services, develops proposals for services, facilitates community engagement and outreach, works with public opinion researchers, negotiates contracts, makes presentations, and works with a team of internal and external experts in public finance research, public opinion surveys, ballot measure campaigns, and legislative advocacy. The job requires coordination with field staff based in many different offices and collaboration with legal, finance, philanthropy, and marketing staff.
This position utilizes skills in leadership, strategy, policy, politics, and coalition and program building towards our efforts to deliver Trust for Public Land’s mission. The successful candidate will build consensus and support across internal and external stakeholders and will seek to build awareness, credibility, and broad-based support for parks, land conservation, and climate and Trust for Public Land’s mission.
Essential Functions:
- Provide Conservation Finance services, including assisting local governments in evaluating the feasibility of ballot and legislative measures through research and analysis of voter demographics, election history, public opinion, legal constraints, internal capability, and likelihood of support from agencies, elected officials, and partner organizations. Support the development and implementation of specific measures, including:
- Coalition building and community outreach;
- Analysis of existing and proposed funding efforts;
- Evaluation of alternative legal and financing structures of measures;
- Polling and message development;
- Recommending measure timing and dollar amount;
- Developing ballot language;
- Campaign fundraising;
- Communicating with voters;
- Building campaign organizations;
- Coalition building and management.
- Manage research and survey projects from start to finish, including scoping project parameters, development of project scheduling, and facilitating regular communication with internal and external project partners.
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