Florida’s Coral Reef Resilience Program (FCRRP) is a statewide, highly collaborative public-private partnership to facilitate the recovery of Florida's Coral Reef into a resilient and self-sustaining ecosystem. FCRRP was created through the merger of Florida’s Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease Response and the Florida Reef Resilience Program, drawing on the short-term, action-oriented nature of the former to complement the long-term, resilience-based focus of the latter. FCRRP has four thematic areas: disturbance response, ecosystem restoration, water quality, and climate adaptation. FCRRP is collaboratively led by four government agencies: Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and National Park Service (NPS); FCRRP is coordinated by Florida Sea Grant.

The FCRRP Coordinator is responsible for ensuring that all constituent elements of the program are operational and progressing towards agreed-upon goals. This includes adapting to emerging threats and disturbances while maintaining progress on longer-term initiatives. The role requires strong facilitation and communication skills, a high level of organization and attention to detail, and an understanding of the coral reef conservation landscape in Florida. The position must be comfortable leading high-level, programmatic planning efforts and engaging with specific, technical matters related to coral conservation and restoration. The FCRRP Coordinator must be a strong communicator and adept at information-sharing to a variety of audiences.

FCRRP Leadership: Organizing and facilitating meetings of two FCRRP Leadership Bodies, comprised of members from the lead agencies (DEP, FWC, NOAA, and NPS) and, as appropriate, other key partners. It is the responsibility of the Coordinator to bring relevant topics to these group and to facilitate decision-making on FCRRP directions and activities. The Coordinator will lead or facilitate follow-up to FCRRP Leadership decisions. (25%)

• FCRRP Planning: Maintaining and adapting the structure and processes of the FCRRP to address the highest priority conservation needs. This includes helping to set programmatic goals, facilitating processes and projects to achieve such goals, and evaluating progress. As noted, this includes balancing the needs of emerging threats and disturbances with longer-term conservation efforts – for example, facilitating response to an invasive species while maintaining progress on water quality improvement planning. (20%)

• FCRRP Network Coordination: Engaging with topic-specific coordinators, including the Florida Propagation Coordinator and National Coral Disease Coordinator, to ensure an alignment of efforts.  Assisting FCRRP Team Leads in the running of their Teams. This will involve staying appraised of Team activities and engaging directly with Team Leads to determine key needs. At present, there are ten FCRRP Teams with different levels of complexity and activity: Research, Surveillance, Intervention, Rescue & Propagation, Restoration, Data Management, Communications, Regulatory, Water Quality, and Caribbean Cooperation. In some cases, the Coordinator will be responsible for reorganizing or reorienting a Team. (15%)

• Technical Workshops: Leading the planning, execution, and follow up to an annual Technical Workshop that brings together partners from across FCRRP to discuss key matters and collaboratively identify new directions. The Coordinator also leads or supports the planning, execution, and follow-up to topic-specific or thematic technical workshops, as needed. (20%)

• Information Management & Sharing: Facilitating the exchange of information across FCRRP and between FCRRP and related coral conservation initiatives. This may include packaging and disseminating information, opening and maintaining lines of communication, and developing new processes for information sharing. Representing FCRRP publicly, including through presentations to different technical and lay audiences and engagement with other initiatives (e.g., working groups of the US Coral Reef Task Force). (15%)

Partner Support: Other duties, as necessary and possible, in support of FCRRP Lead Agencies. (5%)

The Coordinator will have both a State supervisor from DEP (for day-to-day management of the position and responsibilities including proposed leave, travel and trainings) and a Florida Sea Grant supervisor (for formal documentation of deliverables, official leave requests, etc.)

$56,000

Bachelor's degree in an appropriate area and two years of relevant experience; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Master's degree in an appropriate area of specialization; knowledge of and direct experience with the conservation of coral reef ecosystems; demonstrated ability to initiate and complete projects with minimal supervision; work effectively and communicate with diverse audiences, and interpret technical information and relate it in nontechnical language to local community concerns.
• A high level of analytical, organizational and planning skills; ability to work independently and as a part of a team; effective oral and written communication skills; ability to interact objectively and effectively with diverse audiences; fluency in computer and communications technology; demonstrated experience coordinating marine resource management and disturbance response initiatives; knowledge of coral reef disturbances, intervention methodologies and response approaches; experience in public outreach/extension and facilitation is highly desirable.

In order to be considered, you must include the following:

• Cover letter
• Resume
• Names, emails, telephone numbers of three professional references
• A writing sample - something that the applicant has written in the past for a general scientific audience (e.g., an unpublished white paper, a published perspective paper, an opinion piece on a relevant issue)

Application must be submitted by 11:55 p.m. (ET) of the posting end date.