<div dir="ltr"><div><h1 style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0pt 0px 8pt;padding:0px;outline:0px;line-height:1.2;color:rgb(36,41,54);max-width:100%"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;max-width:100%"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="" size="2">Scientist/Engineer or Senior Scientist/Engineer RL 2025-01</font></span></h1><ul><li><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,41,54);letter-spacing:0.2px;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;max-width:100%">Location: </span><a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/4911+Central+Ave,+Richmond,+California+94804" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0.2px;background-color:transparent;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:none;color:rgb(0,119,188);text-decoration-line:none;max-width:100%"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;max-width:100%;color:rgb(17,85,204);text-decoration-line:underline">Richmond, California</span></a></li><li><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,41,54);letter-spacing:0.2px">Program: Resilient Landscapes</span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,41,54);letter-spacing:0.2px">Type: Full-time</span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,41,54);letter-spacing:0.2px">Experience Level: Mid-level, Senior</span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,41,54);letter-spacing:0.2px">Position Type: Permanent</span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,41,54);letter-spacing:0.2px">Salary: $107,138-$144,921 See details below</span></li><li><b style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;letter-spacing:0.15pt;color:rgb(36,41,54)">Apply to: <a href="https://www.sfei.org/about/employment-opportunities">https://www.sfei.org/about/employment-opportunities</a></b></li></ul><h1 style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0pt 0px 8pt;padding:0px;outline:0px;line-height:1;color:rgb(36,41,54);max-width:100%"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;max-width:100%"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2" style="">Position Description</font></span></h1><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0pt 0px 10pt;padding:0px;outline:0px;color:rgb(36,41,54);line-height:20px;letter-spacing:0.2px;max-width:100%"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;max-width:100%">The San Francisco Estuary Institute (SFEI) is seeking a passionate and experienced mid-level to senior scientist or engineer to help shape the future of nature-based shoreline adaptation in San Francisco Bay. As a core member of SFEI’s Resilient Landscapes Program, you’ll join an accomplished team advancing science to adapt human communities, ecosystems, and infrastructure to the impacts of climate change. From producing influential tools like the </span><a href="https://www.sfei.org/sites/default/files/biblio_files/SFEI%20SF%20Bay%20Shoreline%20Adaptation%20Atlas%20April%202019_medres_0.pdf" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:none;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,119,188);text-decoration-line:none;max-width:100%"><em style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;max-width:100%"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;max-width:100%;color:rgb(17,85,204);text-decoration-line:underline">Adaptation Atlas</span></em></a><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;max-width:100%">, </span><a href="https://www.sfei.org/sites/default/files/biblio_files/Sediment%20for%20Survival%20042121%20med%20res.pdf" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:none;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,119,188);text-decoration-line:none;max-width:100%"><em style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;max-width:100%"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;max-width:100%;color:rgb(17,85,204);text-decoration-line:underline">Sediment for Survival</span></em></a><em style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;max-width:100%"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;max-width:100%">, </span></em><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;max-width:100%">and the</span><em style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;max-width:100%"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;max-width:100%"> </span></em><a href="https://www.sfei.org/sites/default/files/biblio/2025-04/Resilience%20Metrics%20Mapbook%20-%20Spreads.pdf" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:none;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,119,188);text-decoration-line:none;max-width:100%"><em style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;max-width:100%"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;max-width:100%;color:rgb(17,85,204);text-decoration-line:underline">Resilience Metrics Mapbook</span></em></a><em style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;max-width:100%"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;max-width:100%">, </span></em><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;max-width:100%">to advising on local shoreline adaptation projects, our work bridges science and action. We collaborate with local governments, community organizations, and agencies to co-create adaptation strategies that deliver ecological, social, and climate resilience. This is a rare opportunity to lead and grow innovative, high-impact projects at the forefront of climate adaptation.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0pt 0px 10pt;padding:0px;outline:0px;color:rgb(36,41,54);line-height:20px;letter-spacing:0.2px;max-width:100%"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;max-width:100%"><font face="arial, sans-serif">The successful candidate will support a range of projects within the Resilient Landscapes Program and will work both independently and collaboratively, with guidance from senior staff.</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0pt 0px 10pt 4.5pt;padding:0px;outline:0px;color:rgb(36,41,54);line-height:20px;letter-spacing:0.2px;max-width:100%"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;max-width:100%"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Primary position responsibilities will include:</b></font></span></p><ul><li><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,41,54);letter-spacing:0.2px">Providing technical assistance on shoreline adaptation projects, especially the design and implementation of nature-based solutions</span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,41,54);letter-spacing:0.2px">Undertaking research and developing scientific tools and resources to support restoration and adaptation efforts</span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,41,54);letter-spacing:0.2px">Leading projects, including team and budget management</span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,41,54);letter-spacing:0.2px">Leading fundraising efforts to support future work</span></li></ul><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;color:rgb(36,41,54);line-height:20px;letter-spacing:0.2px;max-width:100%"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;max-width:100%"><font face="arial, sans-serif">If you are excited about this role, but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this, or one of our other roles.</font></span></p><h1 style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0pt 0px 8pt;padding:0px;outline:0px;line-height:1;color:rgb(36,41,54);max-width:100%"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;max-width:100%"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2" style="">Qualifications</font></span></h1><ul><li><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,41,54);letter-spacing:0.2px">This position requires participating in site visits and community meetings at locations around the Bay Area (including occasional weekend and evening events)</span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,41,54);letter-spacing:0.2px">This position requires weekly in-person work at our Richmond, CA, office.</span></li></ul><h2 style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0pt 0px 8pt;padding:0px;outline:0px;line-height:1;color:rgb(36,41,54);max-width:100%"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;max-width:100%"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2" style="">Required Experience</font></span></h2><ul><li><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,41,54);letter-spacing:0.2px">Bachelor's degree + 11 years of experience in coastal/estuarine adaptation and restoration OR</span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,41,54);letter-spacing:0.2px">Master’s degree + 9 years of experience in coastal/estuarine adaptation and restoration OR</span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:0.2px">PhD + 2 years of experience in coastal/estuarine adaptation and restoration</span></li></ul><h2 style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0pt 0px 8pt;padding:0px;outline:0px;line-height:1;color:rgb(36,41,54);max-width:100%"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;max-width:100%"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2" style="">Required Skills</font></span></h2><ul><li><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,41,54);letter-spacing:0.2px">Familiarity with San Francisco Bay, its ecosystems, and physical dynamics</span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,41,54);letter-spacing:0.2px">Understanding of sea level rise and shoreline adaptation science</span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,41,54);letter-spacing:0.2px">Experience with estuarine shoreline and wetland restoration and/or adaptation project planning, design, and implementation</span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,41,54);letter-spacing:0.2px">Ability to evaluate site feasibility for nature-based solutions for shoreline adaptation</span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,41,54);letter-spacing:0.2px">Familiarity with design of living shorelines projects (nearshore reefs, eelgrass beds, coarse beaches, etc).</span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,41,54);letter-spacing:0.2px">Proven project leadership and management capabilities</span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,41,54);letter-spacing:0.2px">Creative thinking and scientific vision</span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,41,54);letter-spacing:0.2px">Demonstrated ability to secure funding</span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,41,54);letter-spacing:0.2px">Strong communication and facilitation skills, including presenting at meetings</span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,41,54);letter-spacing:0.2px">Collaborative and supportive work approach </span></li></ul><h2 style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0pt 0px 8pt;padding:0px;outline:0px;line-height:1;color:rgb(36,41,54);max-width:100%"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;max-width:100%"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2" style="">Preferred Skills</font></span></h2><ul><li><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,41,54);letter-spacing:0.2px">Coastal engineering background and skills</span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,41,54);letter-spacing:0.2px">Familiarity with permitting of restoration and adaptation projects</span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,41,54);letter-spacing:0.2px">Experience supervising and mentoring junior staff</span></li></ul><h1 style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:20pt 0px 6pt;padding:0px;outline:0px;line-height:1;color:rgb(36,41,54);max-width:100%"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;max-width:100%"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2" style=""><i style="">Salary & Benefits Highlights:</i></font></span></h1><ul><li><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,41,54);letter-spacing:0.2px">This will be an Environmental Scientist/Engineer or Senior Scientist</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,41,54);letter-spacing:0.2px;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;max-width:100%">/Engineer</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,41,54);letter-spacing:0.2px"> position within the Resilient Landscapes Program. The anticipated salary range for full-time employment is $107,138-$144,921 for this position. Salary ranges take into account many factors for making compensation decisions, including but not limited to experience, education, internal salary structure, and organizational needs. We expect to offer starting salaries at or near the lower end of the salary range.  </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,41,54);letter-spacing:0.2px;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;max-width:100%">Note that the salary range covers three levels in our job structure.  Candidates will be placed into one of the three levels, depending on experience.</span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,41,54);letter-spacing:0.2px">Matching contributions to retirement plan (immediate vesting) (403B)</span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,41,54);letter-spacing:0.2px">Medical Insurance: health, vision, dental with employer and employee contributions</span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,41,54);letter-spacing:0.2px">12 paid holidays</span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,41,54);letter-spacing:0.2px">Vacation days starting at 3 weeks accrual/year</span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,41,54);letter-spacing:0.2px">Hybrid workplace (remote work for this position is not available)</span></li></ul><h1 style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;outline:0px;line-height:1;color:rgb(36,41,54);max-width:100%"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;max-width:100%"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2" style="">About Resilient Landscapes</font></span></h1><p style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;outline:0px;color:rgb(36,41,54);line-height:20px;letter-spacing:0.2px;max-width:100%"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;max-width:100%"><font face="arial, sans-serif">SFEI’s Resilient Landscapes Program develops innovative ecosystem restoration and management strategies to re-establish and sustain essential ecosystem functions and services. These strategies are helping integrate natural and human infrastructure to create systems that are more adaptive to climate change and other stressors. We are an interdisciplinary program of 35 scientists (geomorphologists, hydrologists, ecologists), landscape architects, and GIS specialists – we work closely together and collaborate with staff in SFEI's other programs: Clean Water and Environmental Informatics.</font></span></p></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br></font><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(11,83,148)">Anna de Lopez</b><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(11,83,148)">, BA</span></font></div><div><span><font face="arial, sans-serif"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#444444">Administrative Services & Facilities Coordinator</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline">Operations  |  RMP</span><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68)">  |  CRAM</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://www.sfei.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(11,83,148);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline">San Francisco Estuary Institute</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline">510.746.7334 </span><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline">office</span><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68)">  | </span><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68)"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(68,68,68);vertical-align:baseline">415.608.4945 </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline">cell</span></p></font></span><span><div></div></span></div></div></div></div></div>

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<div><img src="https://www.sfei.org/sites/default/files/SFEI_logo_smaller%2520version_72ppi-01%5B1%5D.png"><br></div>How SFEI's Science <a href="https://www.sfei.org/sites/default/files/SFEIImpactReport.pdf" target="_blank">Made a Difference</a> This Year