Avon Park Air Force Range Sentinel Landscape Resilience Specialist
The role of the Avon Park Air Force Range Sentinel Landscape (APAFRSL) Resilience Specialist is to
collaborate closely with partners and supporters to identify, implement and accelerate collaborative
projects to enhance resilience to protect military missions, community infrastructure, working
agricultural lands, and habitats. Resilience projects are ones that mitigate risks and increase resilience of
military installations and the landscapes that overlap mission footprints. The Resilience Specialist will
work in close coordination with the APAFR Sentinel Landscape Coordinator (Coordinator) at the Central
Florida Regional Planning Council (CFRPC), other staff at the CFRPC, the partners of the APAFR, and
military installations to develop collaborative, near-and long-term, resilience and adaptation project
proposals.
The primary role of the Resilience Specialist would be to assist the Natural Resources Conservation
Service (NRCS) and its partners in outreach and technical assistance to underserved and new landowners
within the APAFRSL and the FL Wildlife Corridor. The Specialist will work with the Coordinator to develop
projects, facilitate partner collaboration, pursue funding, and administer projects. At the discretion of
the Coordinator, the Resilience Specialist may work directly with NRCS staff on utilizing NRCS technical
and financial assistance programs. The Resilience Specialist would also assist with the APAFRSL Military
Installation Resilience Review (MIRR), FL Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Lake Wales Ridge
Wildlife and Environmental Area, Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP) proposals and
projects, APAFRSL Sentinel Landscape Implementation Plan resilience strategies and actions, recently
awarded America the Beautiful grants, and FL Department of Environmental Protection-awarded
vulnerability assessment grants for community resilience.
The APAFRSL Resilience Specialist will report to LegacyWorks Group (LWG) and the APAFRSL Coordinator
to identify adaptation and resilience needs. This position will be based within the CFRPC service area and
require travel throughout the APAFRSL area, with additional regional and national travel as well. This
position will have a hybrid work arrangement – up to three days a week in the CFRPC office at 555 East
Church Street, Bartow, Florida 33830.
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