Private Forest Lands Director

Who We Are: 
The Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA) seeks to protect, preserve, and enhance Massachusetts’ environmental resources and create a clean energy future for all residents. Through the stewardship of open spaces, the protection of environmental resources, and the advancement of clean energy, EEA works tirelessly to make Massachusetts a wonderful place to live, work, and raise a family.   Our commitment to environmental justice ensures that every resident, regardless of background or location, can live in a safe, clean environment and shares equally in the benefits of the clean energy transition.

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At EEA, we create meaningful, inclusive opportunities that empower our employees to make a real difference in shaping the environmental future of Massachusetts. We foster a workplace culture where diversity is valued, innovation is encouraged, and collaboration thrives. Our employees play a vital role in advancing sustainability, environmental justice, and clean energy solutions, ensuring a positive and lasting impact on Massachusetts and its residents.

The Department of Conservation and Recreation’s mission is to protect, promote and enhance our commonwealth of natural, cultural and recreational resources for the wellbeing of all. The DCR is steward to one of the largest and most diverse state parks systems in the nation which includes more than 450,000 acres of parks, forests, water supply protection lands, beaches, lakes, ponds, playgrounds, swimming pools, skating rinks, trails, golf courses and parkways. DCR strives to be an exemplary leader in conservation and recreation. DCR’s staff is passionate, dedicated, and continuously employs best practices that are informed by expertise, and creates a sense of place through carrying out the mission.

In addition, DCR has conservation programs that enhance and protect natural resources throughout the Commonwealth. Private lands play a key role in sustaining clean water, protecting our soil, providing wildlife habitat and producing quality timber resources. The Service Forestry program helps protect the natural resources of the Commonwealth by providing technical expertise, services and programs and regulatory oversite to all the forest landowners (state, private, municipal) in the state.

The Department of Conservation and Recreation seeks applicants for the position of Private Forest Land Director, Regional Planner IV.  Work location - 40 Cold Storage Drive, Amherst, MA.

The Private Forest Lands Coordinator is responsible for the planning, implementation, and coordination of regulatory, educational publications and programs, and forest policy on the 2.4 million acres of private and municipal forest land in the Commonwealth and has the primary responsibility of program guidelines and implementation of the business and private landowner incentive portion of Forests as Climate Solutions Initiative which expands the breadth and scope of the former position. The purpose of this work is to provide technical assistance and outreach through direct contacts or publications to private landowners on sound forest management strategies and financial assistance opportunities.
This is accomplished in part through direct development of programs and policy, developing relationships with program constituents, overseeing policies and procedures, developing performance measures, gathering landowner data and metrics for outreach plans, providing fiscal oversight, managing multiple funding accounts, preparing reports to the Federal Government on program performance, collaborating with the Forest Bureau’s Planner on the five year review of the state’s Forest Action Plan, coordinating all grant making activities, conducting events and training programs, as well as presenting at lo