Wildfire Education Program Manager

Overview: The Santa Barbara County Fire Safe Council (SBCFSC) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization with a mission to unify public and private organizations in Santa Barbara County to educate, motivate, and coordinate to minimize negative impacts associated with future wildfires. Members of the Board include current and past firefighting professionals, representatives of local government, and citizen representatives from various local communities. The Board holds monthly meetings with the goal to provide relevant information to local citizens and offer a platform for community members to become active participants in the solutions to the challenges fire poses to our wildland urban areas. The SBCFSC is funded through donations and grants, using these funds to increase wildfire preparedness through education, planning, and mitigation projects. Recent projects have included the Gaviota Coast Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP), Firewise USA® program coordination, Community Chipping, educational videos, and Wildfire Preparedness Expositions. Current staff include an Executive Director, Community Project Manager, Chipping & Grazing Project Manager, a Firewise Associate, and an Administrative Assistant/Communication Coordinator. Current Opening: SBCFSC seeks a qualified candidate who can lead a new $1.5 million Comprehensive Wildfire Education Program funded by a 5 year grant from CalFire. Current wildfire education focuses on targeting homeowners about home hardening and defensible space. However, the impacts of wildfires extend far beyond homeowners and structures. This grant seeks to expand wildfire education to a more diverse audience (kids K-12, working professionals in the landscaping, architect, and realtor fields, non-homeowners, disadvantaged communities, etc.) and expand the scope of material for wildfire mitigation, response, and recovery. The Program Manager will conduct an extensive review of pre-existing educational material, identify gaps and needs in the currently available material, and develop a plan for addressing gaps and needs in wildfire education material in years two-five. The Program Manager will also coordinate with local artists to create new interactive multimedia material, coordinate with curriculum developers to design various outreach materials and curriculums in both Spanish and English, establish a process and metrics for testing the curriculums to improve upon them in the future, develop new relationships with intended audience members, conduct outreach to schedule educational events, oversee associate educators who will assist with leading education events, and teach developed curriculums across the County. Lastly, the Program Manager will organize and teach at educational events to various audiences. In addition, the Program Manager will explore the feasibility to establish a certificate based multi-week class through a university/college to formally deliver and certify a standardized curriculum to laymen practitioners. Main goals of the grant include reproducible and bilingual curriculums and educational material made publicly available on the SBCFSC website and a certain number of educational events held each year. More info: To read the full job description visit https://sbfiresafecouncil.org/jobopenings/.