American Forest Foundation

• Work in partnership with the DEI Director and the National Indian Carbon Coalition to develop the organization's outreach strategy to engage Tribal Nations in the Family Forest Carbon Program and conduct in-person outreach to Tribal Nations to assess opportunities to develop nature-based carbon projects, within AFF’s enrolment area. • Serve as the project manager for the implementation of the National Indian Carbon Coalition’s Tribal Carbon and Cobenefits tool with Family Forest Carbon Program enrollees. • Work with Tribal Nations to generate forest carbon projects and practices that integrate Indigenous Knowledge and socio-cultural benefits to restore forest ecosystems. • Explore opportunities to foster equitable access to forest carbon projects for Indigenous communities. • Synthesize and effectively communicate concerns and ideas raised by tribal communities, or equity working group, to the science and enrollment teams and DEI Director and find effective solutions and responses. • Support technical assistance providers with incorporating indigenous knowledge into scientific analyses. • Track and manage the development of a portfolio of relationships, scopes of work, and projects simultaneously which may include enrolment of tribes or small indigenous landowners. • Attend internal meetings regularly via Zoom, teams, slack, or other meeting platforms.