Jobs at Ducks Unlimited

Coordinates communications across Ducks Unlimited’s Great Plains Region, producing press releases, magazine articles, project materials, story maps, presentations, speeches, newsletters, and other content. The role manages competing requests, tracks project workloads, supports field storytelling through regular site travel, provides leadership updates, and maintains relationships with diverse internal stakeholders. Strong writing, editing, photography, organizational, interpersonal, and project-management skills are required.

Leads major-gift fundraising across Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee. Manages a portfolio of high-net-worth prospects, cultivates donor and foundation relationships, solicits major gifts, guides development directors, and oversees regional fundraising strategy. Responsibilities include staff recruitment, coaching, performance management, volunteer collaboration, campaign planning, gift-planning partnerships, and participation in regional and national development leadership teams. The position is remote within the region and requires significant overnight travel.

Supports Southern Region communications and public outreach for Ducks Unlimited. Responsibilities include developing media plans, writing press releases and articles, managing website and social media content, producing newsletters and videos, cultivating media relationships, preparing presentations and reports, and coordinating conservation communications projects and events.

Plans, designs, contracts, and manages wetland, riparian, and habitat restoration engineering projects across Texas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico. Responsibilities include developing scopes, budgets, plans, specifications, cost estimates, and reports; overseeing bidding, construction, consultants, contractors, and project compliance; conducting field inspections; supervising engineering staff; providing training and quality control; and coordinating with conservation partners and government agencies. Occasional travel and strenuous outdoor fieldwork are required.

Manages geospatial data for conservation projects, easements, and monitoring. Performs spatial analysis, remote sensing, eligibility screening, parcel delineation, data quality assurance, and landscape-scale conservation planning. Creates maps, reports, documentation, and visualizations communicating project outcomes. Supports landowner enrollment, carbon project due diligence, conservation tracking systems, baseline reports, easement establishment, and habitat monitoring across the Southern Region.

Provides administrative, operational, communications, and project support for conservation programs across Colorado, Nebraska, and Wyoming. Coordinates schedules, meetings, contractors, partners, permits, budgets, records, grants, events, office resources, fleet and field equipment. Supports reports, outreach, donor materials, compliance documentation, travel, and day-to-day office operations while helping conservation projects progress from planning through completion.

Manages regional conservation land portfolios, including fee-title acquisitions, conservation easements, due diligence, stewardship, dispositions, contractual obligations, funding coordination, database management, and partner engagement. Supports land protection programs across several Great Lakes and Atlantic states, coordinates with legal, development, conservation, and external stakeholders, and advances projects addressing water quality, agriculture, climate resiliency, carbon sequestration, and ecosystem services. Requires regional travel and occasional outdoor work.

Manages strategic and tactical execution of direct marketing cultivation campaigns to increase revenue, donor retention, and supporter engagement. Develops omnichannel plans, oversees creative and segmentation, analyzes campaign performance, manages budgets and expenses, maintains campaign data in Blackbaud CRM, and recommends optimization strategies. Collaborates with leadership, internal teams, and external partners on fundraising initiatives, audience selection, trend analysis, and campaign execution.