Project Manager- Colorado and Southwest Land Protection
$83,000–$95,000 year
HybridDenver, Colorado, United States
Job Summary
Oversee all aspects of multiple concurrent real estate transactions, including negotiating purchase agreements, reviewing appraisals, managing public review processes, and organizing grassroots political support to deliver measurable high-impact land acquisition projects. Develop and advance a project pipeline across Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico through engagement with landowners, Tribal Nations, and public agency officials while coordinating with philanthropy staff for fundraising and reporting. Prepare grant applications, project budgets, and report deliverables, serving as a regional liaison to highlight how conservation investments improve health, equity, and local economies. This role requires travel across Colorado and occasional evening or weekend work, with a salary range of $83,000-$95,000.
Required Qualifications
- Minimum of five years of land conservation real estate transaction experience
- Ability to travel across Colorado and, occasionally, neighboring states as assigned (up to 30%, including some evenings and weekends)
- Bachelor's degree desired but not required
Desired Qualifications
- Familiarity with the Colorado market, land transaction tools, and funding sources
- Familiarity with public funding sources for conservation and recreation and experience managing grant-funded projects
- Comfortable building relationships with partners, government agency staff, elected officials and individual donors to support TPL's work
- Strong skills in building partnerships and engaging the community. Experience working across multiple juridictions and diverse stakeholders
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
- Capability to build philanthropic relationships in collaboration with TPL philanthropy staff to support TPL's work with landowners, individuals, and institutional donors
- Excellent working knowledge of the processes for obtaining public and private funding for land acquisition and nonprofit budget management
- Sound understanding of real estate principles and economics
- Expert knowledge of the real estate due diligence process and government real property acquisition review process
- Familiarity with navigating government land acquisition policies, procedures, funding application processes, and the role of TPL policy staff at the state and federal levels
- Strong negotiator, able to build landowner and public partner trust/rapport to secure complicated real estate deals
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with senior program staff and manage multiple priorities simultaneously
- Proven ability to organize and manage multiple projects with diverse and numerous public and private partners and processes to develop programs and use resources of the organization to accomplish larger initiatives
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