Sentinel Landscapes Resilience Advisor

The Resilience Advisor role is a full-time, exempt position within the Sentinel Landscapes Division of LegacyWorks Group. This role is a remote role with regular travel (an average of 10 trips per year) and will report to the Sentinel Landscapes Support Director. 

Join Us

LegacyWorks Group (LWG) is a collective of changemakers facilitating ambitious collaborative initiatives to address today’s biggest challenges. Through community-driven, place-based initiatives and client-centered consulting programs, we advance projects and portfolios that deliver transformative impact results while building community resilience and the capacity to rise higher. Funders, impact investors, community based organizations, and government agencies engage us for strategy consulting and planning, collaborative facilitation, impact finance, data dashboarding, and initiative incubation and support. Together we build and strengthen networks, amplify and accelerate collaboration, and enable highly effective collective effort at the scale of landscapes, sectors and systems. 

About Sentinel Landscapes 

The Sentinel Landscapes Partnership is a coalition of federal agencies, state and local governments, tribal entities, and private organizations that work with landowners and land managers to advance sustainable land use practices around military installations and ranges. The partnership aligns the objectives of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Department of War, and Department of the Interior to strengthen military readiness, conserve natural resources, bolster agricultural and forestry economies, increase public access to outdoor recreation, and enhance landscape resilience. 

What You’ll Do 

The Resilience Advisor plays a dual role in advancing the Sentinel Landscapes Partnership (SLP) and supporting the USDA Natural Resources and jobshiringnearme.org Service (NRCS) mission to deliver conservation solutions that bolster agricultural productivity, strengthen natural resource management, and enhance community and military resilience. First, the Advisor manages and supports the cohort of Resilience Specialists (currently six, with additional positions anticipated) so as to cultivate and maintain a strong community of practice, fostering continuous learning, collaboration, and shared impact across landscapes. This includes ensuring that resilience strategies are grounded in NRCS conservation principles and contribute to productive working lands, sustainable agriculture, and resilient defense communities. Second, the Advisor provides direct resilience support to sentinel landscapes that do not yet have a dedicated Resilience Specialist by offering expertise, strategic guidance, and project development assistance for resilience efforts that align with partnership implementation plans and strengthen the sustainability of anchor military installations. Overall, the Resilience Advisor delivers essential capacity to the SLP, helping both new and established landscapes build strong foundations, apply effective resilience practices, and achieve meaningful, measurable outcomes that benefit working lands, natural resources, and military readiness.

The Resilience Advisor role is integral to:

• Fostering trust and connectedness across the Sentinel Landscapes Partnership by cultivating relationships with coordinators,  federal agencies, state and local partners, NGOs, military installations, and private landowners
• Building capacity and strengthening leadership development by mentoring coordinators and specialists, supporting resilience-focused partner working groups, and modeling practices that share power and expand opportunity
• Creating space for authentic engagement and peer learning by convening specialists, coordinators, and partners in ways that ensure belonging, access, and opportunity
• Catalyzing collective action and investment by guiding specialists and coordinators in developing funding strategies, advancing fundraising opportunities, and translating shared goals into measurable resilience outcomes at both the local landscape and national scale
• Supporting systems for storytelling and collaborative data sharing by equipping coordinators and specialists to capture impact, assess progress, and share stories that highlight diverse voices and strengthen decision making across the Sentinel Landscapes Partnership(or SLP)

Your Primary Responsibilities

• Mentorship & Community of Practice
  • Coach and mentor SL Resilience Specialists and Coordinators, building high level capacity and professional growth to enact resilience programs and practices via an array of USDA Natural Resources and jobshiringnearme.org Service (NRCS) programs in close coordination with other federal, state, and local partner programs and funding sources
  • Advise SL Resilience Specialists and Coordinators on individual work plans, budgets, funding strategies, implementation goals for resiliency, and other critical components to strengthen local partnership effectiveness
  • Provide expertise in identifying and collaborating on resilience challenges and solutions across regions and landscapes
  • Foster belonging, access, and opportunity by ensuring all staff and partners can fully participate, contribute, and lead
  • Drive continuous improvement by reflecting on successes, iterating approaches, and fostering curiosity and learning across the community
  • Steward the regular community of practice through monthly meetings, learning exchanges, and professional development opportunities, and develop tools and resources (handbooks, case studies, templates) to connect local outcomes to national goals
  • Ensure high-quality results by supporting partnerships to demonstrate measurable improvements in effectiveness, collaboration, and achievement of goals through mentorship and coaching
  • Coordinate with the Readiness and Environmental Protection Integration (REPI) Program support team, the jobshiringnearme.org Finance Network, and other outside service providers to develop learning opportunities and connection
  • Co-create a diverse funding model that supports the ongoing capacity needs of individual sentinel landscapes and adapt to emerging opportunities

• Team & Culture Cultivation
  • Directly supervise LWG-employed SL Resilience Specialists, including facilitation of monthly group meetings, regular check-ins, expense approvals, vacation and sick time management, and professional development
  • Participate in the hiring and onboarding of LWG-employed SL Resilience Specialists and, when needed, help manage performance improvement plans and staff dismissals
  • Model trust, active listening, and accountability within the Support Org team, fostering a culture where diverse voices contribute meaningfully
  • Build team capacity through knowledge sharing, co-created goals, and guidance that strengthens collective leadership
  • Embrace complexity and encourage reflection in team decision-making, supporting thoughtful problem-solving
  • Ensure belonging, access, and opportunity internally by creating an environment where team members feel valued, supported, and empowered to lead
• Storytelling & Reporting
  • Capture and communicate SL Resilience Specialists impact to the broader SLP network and funding partner agencies
  • Deliver high-quality reporting for internal and external audiences, including grant deliverables and progress updates
  • Oversee and manage Resilience Specialist annual budgets and overall program budget
  • Drive improvement in storytelling and reporting by iterating systems and structures based on feedback and emerging needs
  • Link local partnership outcomes to broader SLP objectives and national priorities (NRCS, USFS, UFWS, DOD, etc.)
  • Support SL Resilience Specialists and Coordinators in measuring and communicating impact, reinforcing transparency, learning, and evidence-based decision-making
  • Support annual REPI data submissions to the SLC and LWG monthly SLC reports
• Organizational Collaboration
  • Integrate and catalyze the intersections of the Sentinel Landscape Partnership and the Support Organization mission, NRCS goals and initiatives, and the REPI Program’s Innovation Landscapes mission
  • Contribute to the evolution of LWG’s collaborative impact model and support initiatives centered around belonging, access and opportunity
  • Participate actively in team meetings and organizational working groups to foster a cohesive team environment
  • Comply with all LWG’s systems and policies including, but not limited to, time tracking, credits card expense reporting, reimbursement requests, and other organizational requirements

Who We’re Looking For 

We’re looking for someone who approaches work with curiosity, openness, and care—someone who notices possibilities others might miss and brings both courage and creativity to exploring them. You listen deeply and center the voices of others, embracing growth with honesty and vulnerability, seeing mistakes as part of the learning process. You move with intention, balancing clear direction with openness to surprise and change, and thrive in the space between steady progress and emerging possibility. Your core skills and experience would ideally include: 

• Building capacity by supporting projects in identifying challenges, advancing solutions, and connecting local outcomes to national resilience and conservation goals
• Designing, planning, resourcing, and implementing high-impact resilience projects that advance the mission and needs of the project or organization
• Bringing vision to life by co-creating goals and driving disciplined, focused execution
• Communicating candidly and compassionately, keeping messages clear, timely, and accessible
• Embracing distributed leadership, stepping up while creating space for others to contribute and collaborate
• Channeling systems thinking by connecting perspectives to make sense of complexity
• Harnessing technology creatively, using current and emerging tools to advance projects and organizational goals
• Facilitating with confidence and care by guiding diverse groups through challenging conservation and community issues, creating space for dialogue, sense-making, and collaborative solutions
• Mentoring and coaching with intention by fostering professional growth, sharing knowledge openly, and building capacity in others to strengthen collective leadership
• Building and stewarding teams by cultivating trust, aligning diverse reporting structures, and creating cohesion that empowers people to thrive together

Compensation & Benefits 
The salary range for the Resilience Advisor position is $100,000-120,000 based on relevant qualifications and experience. We offer a comprehensive benefits package, including health insurance, vision and dental coverage, a 401(k) retirement plan, remote work stipend, and unlimited vacation time alongside sick leave.