Watersheds United Vermont (WUV) is seeking a full-time Grants Coordinator to play a key role in supporting watershed restoration efforts across the state. WUV administers multiple block grant programs that provide funding to watershed groups and partner organizations for the development, design and implementation of restoration projects as well as education and outreach and capacity building efforts. The Grants Coordinator will be at the core of these programs, supporting the administrative and financial management of these grant programs while also contributing to communications that support the work. The Grants Coordinator is responsible for leading project and financial tracking and will assist in all aspects of grant management work, including developing grant agreements and supporting documents, communication with subgrantees around grant invoicing, tracking and deliverables, and communicating with project funders around reporting and requirements. The Grants Coordinator will also guide WUV’s communications around both grants and other programmatic goals.

The Grants Coordinator is a full-time salaried position. The salary range for this position is $58,000-$62,000 per year, based on experience. Benefits include vacation, sick and holiday leave, as well as an employer stipend towards both health insurance and retirement. The Grants Coordinator will work remotely from a home office. Candidate must be based in Vermont.

Send a cover letter, resume, and the contact information for two references to Lyn Munno, Director, Watersheds United Vermont, [email protected] by February 9, 2026.

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September is Vermont River Cleanup Month! Many watershed groups throughout Vermont are hosting cleanups this September to pull trash out of our rivers while the water is low and relatively warm. Many cleanups are still looking for volunteers to help with trash cleanup. And river cleanups are fun!! See the list below for a river cleanup near you.

Over the 5 year period of a grant from the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation’s Clean Water Initiative Program, WUV subgranted $2,443,430 to fund a total of 48 projects across the state of Vermont to restore our waters and work towards clean water and healthy and resilient watersheds.

In 2022, Watersheds United Vermont (WUV) received a Partnership Project Development Block Grant through the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation's (DEC) Clean Water Initiative Program (CWIP). The purpose of the grant was to subgrant funds to organizations across Vermont to develop water quality improvement projects.

Watersheds United Vermont has several open grant rounds for water quality restoration projects statewide. Please see WUV's Block Grant Resources Page for existing grant RFPs and deadlines. 

PRESS RELEASE – December 20, 2022
Contact – Lyn Munno, Watersheds United Vermont
[email protected]

In 2019, Watersheds United Vermont (WUV) received a Project Development and Technical Support Block Grant through the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Clean Water Initiative Program (CWIP) to subgrant funds to watershed groups to develop water quality improvement projects. From 2020 through 2022. WUV subgranted over $180,000 through this grant program to support clean water project development work across the state of Vermont.

These funds were used by watershed groups for getting landowners, municipalities and other partners “on board” with projects to improve water quality and to move projects towards design and implementation. Watershed groups used these funds to develop projects of the following types: stormwater improvement, riparian plantings, dam and culvert removal, river restoration, and wetland restoration.

Through this funding, WUV was able to support the following watershed groups to perform project development activities: White River Partnership, Connecticut River Conservancy, Friends of the Mad River, Friends of the Winooski River, Lewis Creek Association, Missisquoi River Basin Association, Franklin Watershed Committee, and Memphremagog Watershed Association. With this funding, the above watershed groups developed over 50 clean water projects that are now ready for design and implementation. These watershed groups also worked on an additional 200 projects. This project development work will set the stage for the implementation of water quality improvement projects in the years to come leading to clean water and healthy watersheds across Vermont.

WUV Project Development Block Grant - Applications due on January 18, 2022. Completed applications must be submitted through email to Lyn ([email protected]) and Christian ([email protected]). Please feel free to reach out with any questions! Find the application at: https://watershedsunitedvt.org/resources/block-grants

WUV has released the latest RFP under WUV’s Vermont Department of Conservation (DEC) Clean Water Initiative Design and Implementation Block Grant (DIBG).  Funding under the DIBG must be used to support the design or implementation of projects that reduce sediment and nutrient pollution from runoff and soil erosion that discharge into the State’s rivers, streams, lakes, ponds and wetlands. All projects are to be completed before October 1, 2023. WUV has approximately $1,270,000 to allocate to projects over three categories: Stormwater (~$580,000), Stormwater – Three-Acre General Permit under operational stormwater general permit 3-9050 (~$315,000), and Natural Resources: Lake Shoreland, Rivers - Stream/Floodplain restoration, Forestry (~$375,000). 

Watersheds United Vermont (WUV) received a Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) grant to provide one-on-one training to groups throughout the state to improve their water quality monitoring programs. This “train-the-trainer” grant provided groups an opportunity to dive deeper into their water quality monitoring data to better address water quality concerns in their watershed and provide education and outreach to their communities on the health of local rivers and streams.

Thanks to the 2019-2020 Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Woody Buffer Block Grant, Watersheds United Vermont (WUV) has subgranted more than $120,000 to watershed groups over two years to develop and implement riparian buffer plantings in Vermont. Planting riparian buffers along streams and rivers is a key strategy to stabilize streambanks; reduce nutrient, sediment and pollutant runoff; and improve aquatic and riparian habitat.