Director of Partnerships and Project Expansion

Location: Remote, Western US preferred

Reports to: Managing Director of Project Development 

Salary: $130k to $155k depending on experience

Travel: 25-30%

Preferred Start Date: December 1st, 2025

Employment Status: Full-time, non-exempt

Priority Application Deadline: October 3rd, 2025

About Blue Forest

Blue Forest is a conservation finance non-profit founded in 2015 that is focused on advancing ecosystem restoration through scientific research, financial innovation, and collaborative partnerships. Since 2018, Blue Forest has managed investor capital through its flagship financial product, the Forest Resilience Bond (FRB), which deploys private capital to finance forest restoration projects to reduce the risk of catastrophic wildfires. More recently, Blue Forest has also established Blue Forest Asset Management (BFAM), an investment management platform connecting investors to compelling, mission-aligned opportunities in a broader set of asset classes beyond FRB projects, such as private equity and private credit investments.

Blue Forest is made up of an interdisciplinary team of scientists, engineers, foresters, finance, and communications professionals committed to the mission: “To accelerate ecological restoration through conservation finance, enabling climate resilience for ecosystems and communities.”

Employees at Blue Forest are:

• Committed to Continuous Learning

• Driven by Collaboration

• Thoughtful Innovators for Impact

• Grounded in Science

• Passionate about Restoring Earth’s Ecosystems

Position Summary

The Director of Partnerships and Project Expansion will oversee the portfolio of launched Forest Resilience Bonds (FRBs) and other ecosystem restoration conservation finance projects, where active restoration is ongoing and finance is being deployed to support the pace and scale of work. Examples of active restoration include ecological thinning, prescribed burning, and meadow restoration. This position requires on-the-ground experience implementing such activities and a deep understanding of what is required to get work done, such as permitting, prep and layout, and surveys, as well as follow-on activities such as monitoring and maintenance. Blue Forest does not do the on-the-ground implementation itself, but provides technical assistance to implementation partners and gathers data on project impacts as work happens.

Day-to-day responsibilities of this role include: (i) technical assistance and engagement with local partners, including implementation partners, land managers, Tribes, beneficiary payors, and community leaders, (ii) driving strategic initiatives and innovation to improve the impact of conservation finance based on learnings from a portfolio of launched projects, (iii) internal portfolio management and strategy development and deployment for launched projects including data management, impact management, communication, and coordination with the finance team. 

Blue Forest often deploys FRBs with a pilot-to-scale approach. A key responsibility of this position will be to help launched projects succeed during the implementation phase and then scale up in size to achieve even more meaningful impact.