Associate Rare Plant Botanist

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 Associate Rare Plant Botanist synthesizes large volumes of technical information, evaluates botanical data, and contributes to the advancement of best-available science in support of rare plant conservation throughout California.