Associate Rare Plant Botanist

Job description

Associate Rare Plant Botanist Application Deadline: 17 May 2026: Department: Rare Plant: Employment Type: Full Time: Location: Hybrid: Sacramento, CA, USA: Reporting To: Adam Searcy: Compensation: $31.51 - $33.96 / hour Description: The Associate Rare Plant Botanist is a full-time, non-exempt scientific position within the CNPS Rare Plant Program focused on developing status review documents that inform additions, deletions, and changes to plant information within the CNPS Rare Plant Inventory (RPI). The RPI is a widely recognized resource that contains our assessment of the current conservation status of our state’s rare, threatened, and endangered plants and directly guides rare plant education, protection, conservation planning, and land acquisition and management in California. The Associate Botanist also supports other projects that fulfill CNPS’s Saving What Matters Most campaign and prepares scientific reports to meet the requirements of contracts, grants, and formal agreements related to the California flora. Working under the supervision of the Rare Plant Botanist and collaborating closely with scientific staff, volunteers across CNPS Chapters, and external experts, the As...