Restoring indigenous knowledge and practices to Popeloutchom - our ancestral lands

Amah Mutsun Land Trust is Hiring

Executive Director

This role is an exceptional opportunity for a strategic land trust leader to continue AMLT’s learning, growth, and community connection on behalf of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band and the lands known to them as Popeloutchom.

The Executive Director (ED) will collaborate with the Board of Directors and Tribal Band leadership to implement a new strategic plan focused on its core mission to restore indigenous knowledge and practices to Popeloutchom. The ED will guide AMLT and execute a shared vision and strategy. They will manage AMLT personnel and operations, develop resources to ensure AMLT’s financial health, and act as a key liaison with the tribe and partners to ensure fulfillment of AMLT’s purpose. The ED will be AMLT’s primary spokesperson and champion within the community and throughout the region. They will cultivate meaningful relationships with community members and other tribal nations, conservation partners, elected and agency officials, and funders, and maintain a consistent focus on preserving and honoring Popeloutchom for current and future generations.

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Director of Development

AMLT’s work is supported by a wide range of funders, including foundations, state agencies, partner organizations, and individual donors. Significant untapped potential exists to expand our operating budget and budget for land acquisition, and the Director of Development is an exciting position that will lead AMLT’s fundraising efforts and enable AMLT to capitalize on the many opportunities we have to expand our work in Mutsun and Awaswas territories.

The Director of Development creates and executes a comprehensive fundraising program, develops strategies and plans, and leads efforts to cultivate, solicit, and steward donors. This includes cultivating and stewarding relationships with prospective and existing institutional donors and individual supporters, developing and growing a Major Gifts Program, planning, and executing special donor events and supporting the development and successful execution of special initiatives, including capital campaigns.

As a member of the senior management team, the Director of Development participates in strategic planning and budgeting initiatives, helping develop and implement the annual operating plan and long-term strategic vision and goals of the organization. The Director of Development works collaboratively to achieve strategic and sustainable organizational growth, to manage AMLT grants and contracts, successfully execute capital campaigns, and to help AMLT effectively communicate our story to existing and prospective donors and the general public. The Director of Development supervises, and is supported by, a Development and Communications Manager.

This is a full-time, exempt, position that comes with health benefits, paid personal time off and holidays. The annual compensation is between $95,000 to $110,000, depending upon experience. This position will report to the Executive Director.

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The Amah Mutsun Land Trust

The Amah Mutsun Land Trust (AMLT), an initiative of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band, is the vehicle by which the Amah Mutsun access, protect, and steward lands that are integral to our identity and culture. The AMLT returns our tribe to our ancestral lands and restores our role as environmental stewards. Due to our difficult history and generations of physical, mental, and political abuses, our land stewardship practices were disrupted, and much of our culture was lost. AMLT serves not only in the re-learning of our history and restoration of indigenous management practices, it also serves as a vehicle for healing. By restoring our traditional ecological knowledge and revitalizing our relationship to Mother Earth, we also restore balance and harmony to the lands of our ancestors.

Our Mutsun Identity

The people of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band, collectively referred to by many as “Ohlone”, are the indigenous peoples of the territories ranging from Año Nuevo to the greater Monterey Bay area. Historically comprised of more than 20 politically distinct peoples, the modern tribe represents the surviving descendant families of the indigenous people who survived the Santa Cruz and San Juan Bautista missions. Working the lands known to them as Popeloutchom for millennia, it is the goal of AMLT to restore the Mutsun people and their knowledge to better conserve and protect these lands.