Employment
Bird Conservancy of the Rockies conserves birds and their habitats through science, education, and land stewardship. Our organization employs people who are passionate about our mission and vision. Whether you are a scientist, an administrator or an educator, at Bird Conservancy, you help connect people, birds, and land.
Staff are based in our offices in Brighton or Fort Collins, Colorado, or western Nebraska, or they work remotely from partners’ offices, or seasonal housing throughout the Rocky Mountains, Great Plains, and northern Mexico. Bird Conservancy of the Rockies offers competitive wages and benefits, including medical, dental, vision, paid time off, and a retirement plan. Follow the directions provided in the announcements below to apply for open positions.
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Bird Conservancy of the Rockies is an equal opportunity employer.
Current Job Openings
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Full-time Positions
Accounting Manager - Brighton, CO
The Accounting Manager is primarily responsible for overseeing the accounting department and ensuring compliance with all relevant federal, state, and local regulations, including tax requirements, audit procedures, and other financial laws.
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Wildlife Habitat Biologist - Baker, MT
We are hiring a Wildlife Habitat Biologist (biologist) to deliver habitat conservation projects on private lands in the grasslands of southeastern Montana. This position is a partnership between the US Department of Agriculture – Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), Montana, Fish, Wildlife and Parks (MTFWP), and Bird Conservancy of the Rockies. The biologist will help agricultural producers improve wildlife habitat and achieve their management objectives by developing comprehensive conservation plans, coordinate implementation
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Financial Program Manager - Fort Collins, CO
The Program Manager to support programmatic operations and cross-team coordination. Working closely with the Senior Program Manager, this position provides operational, financial, and administrative support to Team Leads—particularly the Stewardship Team— and serves as a liaison between program staff and organization-wide support teams (finance, development, communications, and technology). The Program Manager plays a key role in ensuring that grant-funded projects are implemented effectively, on schedule, and in compliance with funding requirements
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Seasonal/Part-time Positions
Mexican Spotted Owl Technician - Colorado
Experience a season of adventure surveying for nocturnal owls on the Pike-San Isabel and Arapahoe-Roosevelt US National Forests near Castle Rock and Boulder, Colorado. All field work will be conducted with appropriate federal permits. Bird Conservancy of the Rockies is hiring one field technician that will travel within a small team to conduct Spotted Owl playback surveys. Technicians follow strict protocols of broadcasting calls and listening for responses, as per USFWS, adding to a monitoring dataset that informs presence of the raptor species within forest management areas.
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Mexican Spotted Owl Crew Lead - Colorado
Spend 1.5 months coordinating a monitoring project on the Arapahoe-Roosevelt and Pike San-Isabel National Forests in Colorado. All field work will be conducted with appropriate federal permits. Bird Conservancy of the Rockies is seeking 1 crew leader that will each steer another technician to conduct Spotted Owl surveys. This position will build leadership, management and mentorship skills while working on a charismatic federally-threatened species in Colorado. Successful candidates will have excellent inter-personal and organizational skills, will be passionate about working outdoors and comfortable working in the backcountry. The crew leader is responsible for the logistical planning of the field season and will coordinate their crews’ schedule, gear use, and data collection.
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Program Assistant - Fort Collins, CO
We are hiring a Stewardship Program Assistant to support the day to day administrative operations of the Stewardship Team. The Program Assistant attends regularly meetings note takes, coordinates meeting and travel logistics, and assists the Stewardship Director and Stewardship Program Managers in general administrative tasks to ensure overall programmatic success.
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Mountains to Plains Avian Field Technician - Fort Collins, CO
The seasonal technicians will participate in avian point count surveys and vegetation monitoring on properties owned and managed by the City of Fort Collins in Larimer County in an effort to monitor bird populations and guide management of Natural Areas and Open Spaces.
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Bird Camp Intern - Brighton, CO
We are looking for one Bird Camp Instructor intern to help with our day and overnight camps. This role will run from May 21, 2026 through August 7, 2026 as a full-time position encompassing approximately 400 hours total through the 10 week term. In this time the intern will join in on a week long staff training that encompasses preventative protocols, meets state licensing requirements and provides hands-on training for the programs to be run throughout the course of the internship. Click here to download a complete position description with instructions on how to apply! Click here to download the complete position manual.
Seasonal Bird Bander - Nebraska
We are seeking an experienced bird bander for a Spring migration banding station. The station is at Ash Hollow State Historical Park near Lewellen, NE. Position is approximately 5 weeks of banding; dates are April 21st – May 23rd. Primary duties are bird capture and banding, but also include: set-up and dismantling of banding stations, including clearing net lanes, erecting and maintaining nets, and proper storage of nets at the end of the banding season. Click Here to download the full position description and instructions on how to apply.
Board of Directors
We do not have any open positions on our Board of Directors at the moment. Please check back quarterly if you are interested!