Job Description

• Title -- Regional Wildlife Program Manager -- Region 1

Classification -

WMS Band 2 Job Status - Full-Time/Permanent

• WDFW Program - Wildlife Program
• Duty Station -- Spokane, Washington -- Spokane County
• Eastern Region 1 -Counties Served - Asotin, Columbia, Ferry, Garfield, Lincoln, Pend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens, Walla Walla, and Whitman.
• Remote Employment -- This position may include telework options up to 2 days per week, at the discretion of the supervisor.
• Posting Timeframe - This recruitment is scheduled to be posted until June 8, 2026. Application review is ongoing, submit your application materials as soon as possible, this recruitment may be closed at any time.

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As the Regional Wildlife Program Manager for Region 1, you will lead a multidisciplinary team while providing strategic direction and executive oversight to advance WDFW priorities and deliver effective wildlife conservation and recreation outcomes.

Serving as the link between agency administration and field operations, you will oversee four divisions (Game, Wildlife Diversity, Landowner Services, and Lands) and support staff across the region. This includes setting clear expectations, ensuring consistency in program delivery, and maintaining accountability across four Wildlife Area Complexes encompassing approximately 113,550 acres and 35 Water Access Areas.

You will contribute to policy development, program planning, and implementation of new initiatives, while supporting staff through complex and sometimes sensitive issues related to wildlife conflict, lands management, and threatened and endangered species.

Provide leadership and direction to regional Wildlife Program staff to accomplish work aligned with the agency's strategic goals, program directives, and division objectives. Foster accountability, collaboration, communication, and team effectiveness across the program.

Responsibilities

In this role, the Regional Wildlife Program Manager provides strategic leadership for managing and sustaining Washington's wildlife populations, some of the key responsibilities include:**

Supervising regional Wildlife Program staff to accomplish tasks that address the agency's strategic goals, program directives, and division objectives. Directly supervise six (6) staff members and provide oversight for a total of approximately forty (40) employees.

Participating in regular meetings as a member of the Agency Senior Management Team, Wildlife Program Leadership Team, and Regional Senior Management Staff.

Developing policies that are included in species plans and recreational hunting programs that have regional and statewide significance.

Ensuring a cohesive Wildlife Program response to depredation events.

Being responsible for interpreting and applying policies and elevating policy issues or questions to the Regional Director and/or Wildlife Program leadership.

Serving as the Wildlife Program policy lead for team recommendations in response to wolf/livestock depredations.

Managing the implementation of the Region 1 Wildlife Program budget.

Negotiating with the public, Tribes, organized constituents' groups, other state, county, city and federal agencies regarding wildlife management policies, recreation access, hunting recreation and wildlife protection.

Providing oversight to regional wildlife conflict activities to ensure continued successful integration into the Wildlife Program and proper implementation in th

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