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Current Employment Opportunities
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Title: Lucy Waletzky Environmental Stewardship Fellowship
Agency: Natural Heritage Trust
Agency Assignment: NYS Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation (OPRHP)
Compensation: $60,000 plus benefits package
Work Schedule: Full-time, 37.5 hours per week, Monday - Friday, two year term
Application Deadline: Friday, November 14, 2025Summary of Duties:
The Lucy Waletzky Environmental Stewardship Fellowship is a two-year fellowship focused on innovative stewardship approaches utilizing the most up to date science and modern conservation practices in order to proactively position the NYS Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation as a conservation leader.
The work of the Fellowship will primarily be centered on policies, programs, and/or projects that are achievable, relevant, science-based and innovative and allow the NYS Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation to advance priority focus areas including climate resiliency, biodiversity conservation, and landscape scale habitat connectivity. This Fellowship seeks to bring fresh perspectives in the agency and advance larger stewardship goals.
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Title: Restoration Project Manager
Agency: Natural Heritage Trust
Agency Assignment: NYS Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation (OPRHP)
Compensation: $60,000 plus benefits package
Work Schedule: Full-time, 37.5 hours per week, Monday - Friday, three year position (with possible extension)
Application Deadline: Monday, November 17, 2025Summary of Duties:
The Restoration Project Manager is a full-time position with the primary duty of assisting New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation (OPRHP) with the management of a major Hudson River restoration project at Schodack Island State Park and advancing other, related Hudson River restoration projects currently in their planning stages. Additionally, this position will also be responsible for applying Ecosystem-based Management (EBM) principles to advise and/or implement various habitat conservation projects in State Parks throughout the Hudson Valley, with a special focus on stream, river and shoreline conservation projects. This position will work under the Assistant Manager of OPRHP’s Hudson Valley Stewardship District in collaboration with the Assistant Division Director for Stewardship and regularly coordinate with engineers and landscape architects in OPRHP’s Capital Unit. In addition, this position will require extensive communication and coordination with other State Park staff, consultants, contractors, permitting agencies and partners. This position will require travel, mostly day trips, but some overnights to visit other parks and for meetings are possible.
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It is the policy of the State of New York to provide for and promote equal opportunity employment, compensation, and other terms and conditions of employment without unlawful discrimination on the basis of age, race, color, religion, disability, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, veteran or military service, member status, marital status, domestic violence victim status, genetic predisposition or carrier status, arrest and/or criminal conviction record, or any other category protected by law, unless based upon a bona fide occupational qualification or other exception. The NHT is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Women, minorities, persons with disabilities and veterans are encouraged to apply.