The Stewardship Manager is responsible for ensuring excellence in stewardship for a portfolio of lands that Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy (SAHC) has protected with conservation easements or through acquisition as nature preserve in perpetuity.  To date, the Stewardship Program is responsible for stewarding 192 conservation easements on +/-45,000 acres and 127 tracts of SAHC-owned land on +/-20,000 acres of working farms and forests. 

Qualifications required to excel in this position can come from professional and lived experiences. Below we describe what we believe to be important qualifications for a candidate while remaining open to diverse backgrounds that can lead to these skill sets. Position descriptions are often presented in a way that leaves qualified candidates, particularly women, people of working-class backgrounds, people of color, and LGBTQIA applicants, feeling unwelcome, intimidated, uncomfortable, and/or unqualified to apply. Recognizing that, we strongly encourage anyone who feels passionate about this work and believes they have what it takes to thrive in this role to apply.

Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy (SAHC) is a 50 year-old land accredited trust serving a 10-county region in the mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee. Since 1974, we have conserved more than 90,000 acres of the region’s most important lands, including places that offer opportunities to all people to enjoy outdoor recreation, protect scenic beauty, protect rivers and streams that serve the region’s water needs, connect places for wildlife and plants to ensure resilient landscapes in the mountains, and preserve working farmland that supply local foods.