State CNPS position: Integrated Campaign Specialist
We’re excited to share a new opportunity to join CNPS’s team. We’re hiring an Advocacy and Outreach Senior Coordinator to help build and mobilize a statewide network of advocates working to protect California’s native plants, habitats, and biodiversity.
Why this role matters now:
CNPS is advancing ambitious conservation goals through our Saving What Matters Most and Landscapes for Change biodiversity campaigns. Achieving those goals requires more than good policy. It requires informed, engaged people who are ready to take action in their communities and with decision makers. This role will help strengthen CNPS’s advocacy capacity by supporting volunteers, chapters, and partners across California and translating conservation priorities into meaningful public engagement.
This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys the intersection of conservation, advocacy, volunteer engagement, and community building. The ideal candidate is equally comfortable analyzing policy issues, coordinating grassroots action, facilitating trainings, and building relationships with diverse partners and stakeholders.
They’ll lead and grow the CNPS Advocacy Corps, recruiting, training, and supporting volunteers throughout California.
They’ll help analyze legislation, environmental reviews, and policy proposals that affect California’s native plants and biodiversity.
They’ll work closely with Chapters, coalition partners, Tribal partners, and community groups to advance conservation priorities and advocacy campaigns.
They’ll support high-priority conservation initiatives, including efforts related to habitat protection, public lands, and California’s 30×30 goals.
This role also serves as an important bridge between CNPS’s Conservation and Public Affairs teams, helping connect policy analysis, volunteer engagement, communications, and campaign strategy into a coordinated approach for achieving conservation outcomes.
Details:
Location: Hybrid (Sacramento-based)-
Deadline to apply: October 12, 2026 -
Target start date: Early November 2026 
Apply here: CNPS Career Page
Please share this opportunity with your networks and anyone who may be a great fit. This is a unique opportunity to help build the next generation of conservation advocates while advancing some of CNPS’s most important biodiversity and public lands priorities.