Advocacy and Outreach Senior Coordinator

The Advocacy and Outreach Senior Coordinator plays a critical role in advancing CNPS’s Saving What Matters Most and Landscapes for Change campaigns by building grassroots advocacy capacity, supporting chapter conservation leaders, coordinating volunteer engagement, and advancing strategic conservation initiatives across California. 

The Senior Coordinator provides leadership for the CNPS Advocacy Corps, a statewide initiative jointly managed by the Conservation and Public Affairs Departments. The position reports to the Conservation Director on advocacy training, volunteer support, and chapter engagement, and to the Senior Public Affairs Director on policy analysis, advocacy strategy, and communications.  

Working closely with staff, volunteers, chapters, and coalition partners, the Senior Coordinator helps translate CNPS conservation and organization priorities into coordinated advocacy efforts that protect California’s native plants, habitats, and biodiversity. By strengthening connections among CNPS’s chapter network, conservation partners, and CNPS strategic campaigns, the Senior Coordinator helps build the public support, volunteer leadership, and civic engagement necessary to achieve lasting conservation outcomes, including California’s 30x30 goals.