Earthjustice is the premier nonprofit environmental law organization. We take on the biggest, most precedent-setting cases across the country. We wield the power of law and the strength of partnership to protect people’s health; to preserve magnificent places and wildlife; to advance clean energy; and to combat climate change. We partner with thousands of groups, supporters, individuals and communities to engage the critical environmental issues of our time, and bring about positive change. We are here because the earth needs a good lawyer.
Founded in 1971, Earthjustice has a distinguished track record of achieving significant, lasting environmental protections. We achieve this by hiring people who share a passion for justice and a healthy environment. Our headquarters are in San Francisco with offices in Anchorage, Juneau, Los Angeles, Tallahassee, Miami, Chicago, Honolulu, New York, Philadelphia, Denver, Seattle, Bozeman, and Washington, DC.
In addition to a talented cadre of environmental lawyers, legislative advocates, and other professional staff, Earthjustice has a highly creative and savvy Communications Department that is tasked with creating top-notch content to educate and engage audiences. The Director of Content Strategy oversees the Creative Content team, which encompasses editorial, multimedia, and graphic design storytelling.
The Director plays a leading role in understanding both our broader communication goals and audience needs, and managing the team tasked with creating the most impactful content that brings the two together. This position partners with teams in Program Communications, Marketing, and Digital Engagement to identify major communications goals, target audiences and relevant user data to produce the most effective content for audience expansion and engagement.
The Director of Content Strategy oversees the production cycle of major pieces of content, from conceptualization to planning and execution. The position also works directly with project managers and informs promotional strategies to reach and engage new and existing audiences. Like all director level positions within the department, this role serves as a member of the Communications Executive Team, which is responsible for the overall management and performance of the entire department. The Director of Content Strategy manages a current team of nine, with three direct reports, and reports to the Vice President of Communications and Marketing. This position is located in San Francisco, CA. Responsibilities:
Content Strategy (40%)
Leads Creative Content team in developing powerful and engaging stories about Earthjustice’s work using various communication disciplines, including editorial, multimedia, and graphic design.
Conducts high-level research and data analysis, including those on key audiences and their content consumption, to better inform the development of major pieces of content; Regularly shares data and learning with Communications staff to better inform decision-making.
Creates and institutionalizes a system for tracking and allocating communications resource expenditures; Conducts periodic content inventory and audit.
Co-leads departmental meetings on content strategy and quarterly planning; Oversees the production calendar of major content deliverables.
Works with various teams to ensure all print and digital content adheres to the organization’s voice, brand and message.
Oversees Editorial staff in the story development and production of Earthjustice Quarterly Magazine, blogs, columns, and other written content.
Oversees Multimedia staff in the use of photography and long and short form video for storytelling.
Oversees Graphic Design staff in the creation of major institutional print collateral and the development of visual brand standards.
Partners with Marketing team in the creative direction and production of major advertising campaigns; Works with Marketing to identify new audiences and develops relevant content for new audience engagement.
Collaborates with Digital Engagement team to optimize content creation and ensure a steady flow of high-quality content to the website, email, and social media; Works with Digital to craft robust engagement strategies to promote content to new and existing audiences.
Serves as thought partner for Program Communications staff to develop right-sized content that most effectively meets programmatic objectives and wins over key audiences.
Management (30%)
Directly supervises the Managing Editor, Senior Multimedia Producer, and Design Manager; Indirectly oversees a current team of nine in the Creative Content team.
Leads regular team and individual meetings, holds team-building events, and promotes welcoming work environment by modeling inclusive behavior.
Conducts ongoing supervisory duties, including performance reviews, budget management, and timecard approvals.
Recruits and hires qualified candidates who fit position requirements and the work culture.
Develops staff by identifying and encouraging training and professional development opportunities; Acts as a coach and mentor.
Promotes change in terms of the expected benefits, as well as removing or lowering the impact of potential obstacles.
Sets clear team direction that aligns with Earthjustice strategy, mission, and vision.
Provides staff with consistent performance feedback – both positive and constructive -- and acts as a coach and mentor.
Creates a learning culture, by encouraging debriefing after completion of significant stages of projects.
Ensures that any direct reports who have supervisory responsibility are properly executing those functions.
Creates a respectful and inclusive work environment for team and models respectful and inclusive behavior.
Promptly addresses micro-aggressions and other concerns brought to their attention.
Resolves interpersonal conflict among team members and brings in outside facilitators as needed.
Communicates regularly with existing employees and encourages staff to raise concerns and to provide ongoing feedback.
Creates or identifies strategic opportunities for team building and individual and overall staff engagement with one another in order to strengthen teamwork, interaction and collaboration.
Values and uses individual differences and talents to improve employee satisfaction and the quality of collective work.
Celebrates successes and helps team members to understand and manage setbacks.
Communications Executive Team (20%)
Represents Creative Content as a member of the Communications Executive team to spearhead and implement organizational policies and enhance coordination and planning across the Communications Department.
Works with Communications Executive team to cultivate a positive and welcoming team culture within the department, and serves as a positive ambassador for Creative Content to other departments.
Attends weekly staff level and director level meetings within the Communications Department and actively contributes to conversations on Communication strategies.
Partners with VP and other Communications Directors to improve information sharing and learning within teams and with other departments.
Continued Personal Learning (10%)
Participates in organization-wide initiatives and trainings that contribute to the creation of a diverse, equitable and inclusive work culture that encourages and celebrates differences.
Utilizes internal and external resources to support a personal and professional development journey that increases awareness and sensitivity to the needs and concerns of individuals from diverse cultures, backgrounds and orientations.
Qualifications:
BA or higher degree in Communications, Journalism, English, or related field.
Advanced coursework, seminars, training in data science highly desired.
8+ years working in the following fields preferred: professional print or digital media; nonprofit/advocacy organizations; communications consulting.
5+ years of direct management experience supervising teams of four or more required.
Strong familiarity with law, politics, environment and/or social justice issues desired.
Exceptional leader with a keen strategic eye and an ability to clearly articulate priorities while incorporating data and learning into the decision-making process.
Incredibly high emotional intelligence, with the ability to work productively across many different work styles and tackle challenges in a respectful and constructive manner.
Excellent and supportive supervisor who models welcoming and inclusive behavior, fosters healthy team dynamics, and encourages continuous professional development for staff.
Deep familiarity with principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion; demonstrated experience engaging with colleagues in open, honest, generative conversations on identity and personal learning.
Outstanding organizational skills with demonstrated ability to maintain oversight and prioritize a broad range of competing priorities.
Strong storyteller with familiarity with various creative disciplines, especially editorial, multimedia, and graphic design
Exceptional management skills; proven ability to manage large teams, complex projects, budgets, and deadlines.
Demonstrates an awareness and sensitivity to the needs and concerns of individuals from diverse cultures, backgrounds and orientations.
Contributes to recruiting, hiring, developing and retaining a diverse and inclusive workforce.
Management (Essential Skills)
Ability to effectively manage and lead a diverse team with emotional intelligence (self-awareness and understating of the impact of their behavior) and cultural humility (an understanding of the need for additional learning about different cultures, backgrounds and orientation and implementation of that learning daily management practices).
Ability to give and receive regular formal and informal feedback in a timely, constructive, respectful, and consistent manner and to incorporate debriefing into the team’s operations.
Strong team mentorship and communication skills.
Understands the individual and team strengths and areas for development and develops plans accordingly.
Commitment to and experience in developing team skills and talents to meet the evolving needs of an organization.
Salary is based on experience. Salary range for San Francisco, CA: $ 147,200 - $163,500
We offer a mission- and employee-focused work environment and a competitive compensation package, including excellent benefits. Earthjustice is an equal opportunity employer and highly values diversity.
Application Procedure: Interested candidates should submit a resume and cover letter via the Jobvite system.
Click here to apply: https://app.jobvite.com/j?cj=oo58afwv&s=Environmental_Career
Please reach out to jobs@earthjustice.org if you are having technical difficulties submitting your application. No phone calls, drop-ins, or hard copies.
Earthjustice is driven by a passion for justice, partnership and excellence. Our core values lead us to seek a broad range of perspectives and backgrounds to achieve our mission and to maintain an inclusive environment where all staff are valued and respected. As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to employment practices that ensure that employees and applicants for employment are provided with equal opportunities without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, age, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information or any other factor that is not related to the position .
For positions located within the City and County of San Francisco: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment-qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
or positions located within the City of Los Angeles: We will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring.
Oct 02, 2019
Full time
Earthjustice is the premier nonprofit environmental law organization. We take on the biggest, most precedent-setting cases across the country. We wield the power of law and the strength of partnership to protect people’s health; to preserve magnificent places and wildlife; to advance clean energy; and to combat climate change. We partner with thousands of groups, supporters, individuals and communities to engage the critical environmental issues of our time, and bring about positive change. We are here because the earth needs a good lawyer.
Founded in 1971, Earthjustice has a distinguished track record of achieving significant, lasting environmental protections. We achieve this by hiring people who share a passion for justice and a healthy environment. Our headquarters are in San Francisco with offices in Anchorage, Juneau, Los Angeles, Tallahassee, Miami, Chicago, Honolulu, New York, Philadelphia, Denver, Seattle, Bozeman, and Washington, DC.
In addition to a talented cadre of environmental lawyers, legislative advocates, and other professional staff, Earthjustice has a highly creative and savvy Communications Department that is tasked with creating top-notch content to educate and engage audiences. The Director of Content Strategy oversees the Creative Content team, which encompasses editorial, multimedia, and graphic design storytelling.
The Director plays a leading role in understanding both our broader communication goals and audience needs, and managing the team tasked with creating the most impactful content that brings the two together. This position partners with teams in Program Communications, Marketing, and Digital Engagement to identify major communications goals, target audiences and relevant user data to produce the most effective content for audience expansion and engagement.
The Director of Content Strategy oversees the production cycle of major pieces of content, from conceptualization to planning and execution. The position also works directly with project managers and informs promotional strategies to reach and engage new and existing audiences. Like all director level positions within the department, this role serves as a member of the Communications Executive Team, which is responsible for the overall management and performance of the entire department. The Director of Content Strategy manages a current team of nine, with three direct reports, and reports to the Vice President of Communications and Marketing. This position is located in San Francisco, CA. Responsibilities:
Content Strategy (40%)
Leads Creative Content team in developing powerful and engaging stories about Earthjustice’s work using various communication disciplines, including editorial, multimedia, and graphic design.
Conducts high-level research and data analysis, including those on key audiences and their content consumption, to better inform the development of major pieces of content; Regularly shares data and learning with Communications staff to better inform decision-making.
Creates and institutionalizes a system for tracking and allocating communications resource expenditures; Conducts periodic content inventory and audit.
Co-leads departmental meetings on content strategy and quarterly planning; Oversees the production calendar of major content deliverables.
Works with various teams to ensure all print and digital content adheres to the organization’s voice, brand and message.
Oversees Editorial staff in the story development and production of Earthjustice Quarterly Magazine, blogs, columns, and other written content.
Oversees Multimedia staff in the use of photography and long and short form video for storytelling.
Oversees Graphic Design staff in the creation of major institutional print collateral and the development of visual brand standards.
Partners with Marketing team in the creative direction and production of major advertising campaigns; Works with Marketing to identify new audiences and develops relevant content for new audience engagement.
Collaborates with Digital Engagement team to optimize content creation and ensure a steady flow of high-quality content to the website, email, and social media; Works with Digital to craft robust engagement strategies to promote content to new and existing audiences.
Serves as thought partner for Program Communications staff to develop right-sized content that most effectively meets programmatic objectives and wins over key audiences.
Management (30%)
Directly supervises the Managing Editor, Senior Multimedia Producer, and Design Manager; Indirectly oversees a current team of nine in the Creative Content team.
Leads regular team and individual meetings, holds team-building events, and promotes welcoming work environment by modeling inclusive behavior.
Conducts ongoing supervisory duties, including performance reviews, budget management, and timecard approvals.
Recruits and hires qualified candidates who fit position requirements and the work culture.
Develops staff by identifying and encouraging training and professional development opportunities; Acts as a coach and mentor.
Promotes change in terms of the expected benefits, as well as removing or lowering the impact of potential obstacles.
Sets clear team direction that aligns with Earthjustice strategy, mission, and vision.
Provides staff with consistent performance feedback – both positive and constructive -- and acts as a coach and mentor.
Creates a learning culture, by encouraging debriefing after completion of significant stages of projects.
Ensures that any direct reports who have supervisory responsibility are properly executing those functions.
Creates a respectful and inclusive work environment for team and models respectful and inclusive behavior.
Promptly addresses micro-aggressions and other concerns brought to their attention.
Resolves interpersonal conflict among team members and brings in outside facilitators as needed.
Communicates regularly with existing employees and encourages staff to raise concerns and to provide ongoing feedback.
Creates or identifies strategic opportunities for team building and individual and overall staff engagement with one another in order to strengthen teamwork, interaction and collaboration.
Values and uses individual differences and talents to improve employee satisfaction and the quality of collective work.
Celebrates successes and helps team members to understand and manage setbacks.
Communications Executive Team (20%)
Represents Creative Content as a member of the Communications Executive team to spearhead and implement organizational policies and enhance coordination and planning across the Communications Department.
Works with Communications Executive team to cultivate a positive and welcoming team culture within the department, and serves as a positive ambassador for Creative Content to other departments.
Attends weekly staff level and director level meetings within the Communications Department and actively contributes to conversations on Communication strategies.
Partners with VP and other Communications Directors to improve information sharing and learning within teams and with other departments.
Continued Personal Learning (10%)
Participates in organization-wide initiatives and trainings that contribute to the creation of a diverse, equitable and inclusive work culture that encourages and celebrates differences.
Utilizes internal and external resources to support a personal and professional development journey that increases awareness and sensitivity to the needs and concerns of individuals from diverse cultures, backgrounds and orientations.
Qualifications:
BA or higher degree in Communications, Journalism, English, or related field.
Advanced coursework, seminars, training in data science highly desired.
8+ years working in the following fields preferred: professional print or digital media; nonprofit/advocacy organizations; communications consulting.
5+ years of direct management experience supervising teams of four or more required.
Strong familiarity with law, politics, environment and/or social justice issues desired.
Exceptional leader with a keen strategic eye and an ability to clearly articulate priorities while incorporating data and learning into the decision-making process.
Incredibly high emotional intelligence, with the ability to work productively across many different work styles and tackle challenges in a respectful and constructive manner.
Excellent and supportive supervisor who models welcoming and inclusive behavior, fosters healthy team dynamics, and encourages continuous professional development for staff.
Deep familiarity with principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion; demonstrated experience engaging with colleagues in open, honest, generative conversations on identity and personal learning.
Outstanding organizational skills with demonstrated ability to maintain oversight and prioritize a broad range of competing priorities.
Strong storyteller with familiarity with various creative disciplines, especially editorial, multimedia, and graphic design
Exceptional management skills; proven ability to manage large teams, complex projects, budgets, and deadlines.
Demonstrates an awareness and sensitivity to the needs and concerns of individuals from diverse cultures, backgrounds and orientations.
Contributes to recruiting, hiring, developing and retaining a diverse and inclusive workforce.
Management (Essential Skills)
Ability to effectively manage and lead a diverse team with emotional intelligence (self-awareness and understating of the impact of their behavior) and cultural humility (an understanding of the need for additional learning about different cultures, backgrounds and orientation and implementation of that learning daily management practices).
Ability to give and receive regular formal and informal feedback in a timely, constructive, respectful, and consistent manner and to incorporate debriefing into the team’s operations.
Strong team mentorship and communication skills.
Understands the individual and team strengths and areas for development and develops plans accordingly.
Commitment to and experience in developing team skills and talents to meet the evolving needs of an organization.
Salary is based on experience. Salary range for San Francisco, CA: $ 147,200 - $163,500
We offer a mission- and employee-focused work environment and a competitive compensation package, including excellent benefits. Earthjustice is an equal opportunity employer and highly values diversity.
Application Procedure: Interested candidates should submit a resume and cover letter via the Jobvite system.
Click here to apply: https://app.jobvite.com/j?cj=oo58afwv&s=Environmental_Career
Please reach out to jobs@earthjustice.org if you are having technical difficulties submitting your application. No phone calls, drop-ins, or hard copies.
Earthjustice is driven by a passion for justice, partnership and excellence. Our core values lead us to seek a broad range of perspectives and backgrounds to achieve our mission and to maintain an inclusive environment where all staff are valued and respected. As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to employment practices that ensure that employees and applicants for employment are provided with equal opportunities without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, age, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information or any other factor that is not related to the position .
For positions located within the City and County of San Francisco: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment-qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
or positions located within the City of Los Angeles: We will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring.
THE JOB: Under direction, plan, assign, and supervise the work of public works maintenance personnel in an assigned program/division (Household Hazardous Waste, Roads / Drainage, Sanitation / Wastewater, or Solid Waste Disposal); assure the quality of the work performed; may perform the more difficult and technical work of the assigned division; and perform other duties as required. There are currently four vacancies, including one in Household Hazardous Waste, two in Road / Drainage Maintenance and one in Sanitation / Wastewater Operations. The list established from this recruitment may be used to fill current and future vacancies in any Public Works Division during the life of the eligible list.
Specialized assignments include:
Household Hazardous Waste (HHW) Assignment: Supervise operations at the HHW program by supervising and assisting the Solid Waste Inspectors who operate the facilities, including inspecting and assessing incoming waste material for identification and separation; identifying, assessing and categorizing hazardous material for disposal; arranging for proper storage and transportation of materials; and monitoring and maintaining various records. Assure HHW facilities’ operations comply with State and Federal regulations. Assist Environmental Program Coordinator with ensuring that environmental monitoring and reporting program activities for landfill gas, ground water, storm water, leachate and surface water are completed. Assist with and assign staff to perform maintenance to assure properly functioning leachate collection and landfill gas collection and conveyance systems.
Road / Drainage Assignment: Patrol roads and drainage channels to determine areas requiring maintenance and repair; supervise crews who prepare, grade, pave, resurface and reshape old roads, cut and spray weeds and brush, and patch and repair road surfaces; and install revetments for bank and levee protection; clear river and stream channels; build culvert head-walls; install storm drain culverts; spray herbicides; maintain access and levee roads, plant vegetation for bank protection; perform maintenance and repair on stationary pumps; and install flood gates and barricades; and investigate public complaints regarding poor or hazardous road and drainage conditions and take action to improve the situation.
Sanitation / Wastewater Assignment: Supervise crews performing maintenance, monitoring and repair of wastewater pumping stations and transmission facilities, transmission lines and access entries, and those staffing the office facility.
Solid Waste Disposal Assignment: Supervise operations at the County's solid waste disposal sites including staff who operate heavy equipment, collect fees and perform maintenance and repair; follow engineering specifications and plans to develop the disposal sites; ensure that land is properly utilized and streams are not contaminated; assure that disposal site operations comply with State standards for solid waste management, water and air quality and environmental health; oversee the maintenance and monitoring of environmental testing systems; and may install environmental testing systems.
THE REQUIREMENTS: Any combination of education and experience, which would provide the required knowledge and abilities, is qualifying. A typical way to obtain the knowledge and abilities would be:
Four years of maintenance experience in any one of the following areas: Roads, Sanitation, Solid Waste Disposal, or Drainage divisions, environmental monitoring / handling hazardous materials or a comparable assignment, including two years at the journey level and one year in a lead capacity, which would demonstrate possession of the knowledge and abilities required in the applicable program area.
SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS, CONDITIONS:
License Requirements: Possession of a valid California Class C driver license at time of hire; and for some positions, within six months from hire, possession of a valid class B driver license with Tank Endorsement (Sanitation assignment) or a valid class A driver license with Tank Endorsement. (Household Hazardous Waste assignment requires class C license at time of hire, but no A or B commercial driver license.)
Certificate: Some positions require possession of a Qualified Applicators Certificate issued by the State of California Department of Pesticide Regulation or of an OSHA 40 Hour HAZWOPER (hazardous waste operations) Certificate. For Sanitation Assignment, within one year of appointment, must obtain either a Grade I or higher Wastewater Collection System Maintenance certificate, a Grade I or higher Mechanical Technologist certificate, or equivalent certificates issued by the California Water Environment Association.
Special Working Conditions: Exposure to: Variable temperatures and other conditions; cramped work spaces; heights, such as on equipment, on cliffs or in the bucket of a bucket truck; high levels of noise; strong, unpleasant odors; vibration; dust and silica dust; potentially hostile or violet individuals; electrical hazards; allergens, such as poison oak and stinging insects; the possibility of experiencing burns, bodily injury, and contact with toxic substances and chemical irritants; working alone in isolated areas; and, for some assignments, possible exposure to needles or blood which could possibly result in chronic disease or death.
Other Special Requirements: Alcohol and drug tests: will be administered to all candidates prior to final selection for positions requiring class A or B driver licenses upon entry and to employees in positions requiring these licenses, as mandated by Department of Transportation federal regulations. In addition, all candidates must provide specific employment history for up to the past ten years for all jobs they have held which required operation of a commercial motor vehicle.
Availability : Incumbents may be required to work irregular hours, including responding to 24-hour emergency calls.
Knowledge: Thorough knowledge of methods, equipment, and materials used in the program assignment; occupational hazards and safety standards and practices of the program assignment; the capabilities, operation, and maintenance of light and heavy construction equipment required for most positions. Working knowledge of methods of estimating costs of projects and of supervision and training. Some knowledge of laws, ordinances and regulations governing the program assignment, and the application of data processing to program assignment.
For the Sanitation / Wastewater Assignment: working knowledge of the capabilities, operation, and maintenance of light and heavy construction equipment, required for some positions.
For Household Hazardous Waste Assignment : working knowledge of safe handling and management of HHW materials (including lab packing and bulking of hazardous materials). Some knowledge of chemistry, biology, and physics related to hazardous materials management in a solid waste landfill facility.
Ability to: Supervise, plan, assign, direct, and coordinate the work of subordinates. Schedule work and determine priorities. Train subordinates in proper work procedures, safety practices, and equipment operation. Prepare work schedules, reports, procedures, and cost estimates. Establish and maintain effective working relationships with those contacted in the course of work. Read and understand maps, engineering blueprints and drawings, instruction manuals, technical manuals, computer-generated reports, and surveys. Read and understand surveyors’ location and grade stakes. Understand, explain, and apply applicable laws, rules, and regulations. Input, access, and analyze data using a computer terminal. Assist in budget preparation and administration. Use hand and power tools which may cause body vibration; lift items up to 75 pounds. Perform tasks requiring strength, such as lifting equipment onto trucks, climbing over rough terrain, and pulling hoses up embankments. Drive and operate vehicles such as automobiles, utility and pick-up trucks, and construction equipment, such as tractors, graders, compactors, bulldozers, loaders, and scrapers. Distinguish colors, such as color-coded wires, fluid colors, or chemical test guides. Put on, wear, and use a respirator. Perform tasks which require manual dexterity, such as gas and electrical welding, assembling small parts and pouring liquids into receptacles. Hear and distinguish various sounds, such as voices of workers in noisy environments and sounds of operating equipment.
For Household Hazardous Waste Assignment: Ability to identify and respond safely to hazardous materials contained in waste loads. Lift and move five (5) gallon cans (equivalent to 50 pounds) in adverse environmental conditions and move fifty-five (55) gallon drums (equivalent to 600 pounds) using a drum dolly.
HOW TO APPLY: Apply online at www.santacruzcountyjobs.com or mail/bring an application and supplemental questionnaire to: Santa Cruz County Personnel Department, 701 Ocean Street, Room 510, Santa Cruz, CA 95060. For information, call (831) 454-2600. Hearing Impaired TDD/TTY: 711. Applications will meet the final filing date if received: 1) in the Personnel Department by 5:00 p.m. on the final filing date, 2) submitted online before midnight of the final filing date.
Women, minorities and people with disabilities are encouraged to apply. If you have a disability that requires test accommodation, please call (831) 454-2600.
To comply with the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act, Santa Cruz County verifies that all new employees are either U.S. citizens or persons authorized to work in the U.S.
Some positions may require Fingerprinting and/or Background Investigation.
Oct 01, 2019
Full time
THE JOB: Under direction, plan, assign, and supervise the work of public works maintenance personnel in an assigned program/division (Household Hazardous Waste, Roads / Drainage, Sanitation / Wastewater, or Solid Waste Disposal); assure the quality of the work performed; may perform the more difficult and technical work of the assigned division; and perform other duties as required. There are currently four vacancies, including one in Household Hazardous Waste, two in Road / Drainage Maintenance and one in Sanitation / Wastewater Operations. The list established from this recruitment may be used to fill current and future vacancies in any Public Works Division during the life of the eligible list.
Specialized assignments include:
Household Hazardous Waste (HHW) Assignment: Supervise operations at the HHW program by supervising and assisting the Solid Waste Inspectors who operate the facilities, including inspecting and assessing incoming waste material for identification and separation; identifying, assessing and categorizing hazardous material for disposal; arranging for proper storage and transportation of materials; and monitoring and maintaining various records. Assure HHW facilities’ operations comply with State and Federal regulations. Assist Environmental Program Coordinator with ensuring that environmental monitoring and reporting program activities for landfill gas, ground water, storm water, leachate and surface water are completed. Assist with and assign staff to perform maintenance to assure properly functioning leachate collection and landfill gas collection and conveyance systems.
Road / Drainage Assignment: Patrol roads and drainage channels to determine areas requiring maintenance and repair; supervise crews who prepare, grade, pave, resurface and reshape old roads, cut and spray weeds and brush, and patch and repair road surfaces; and install revetments for bank and levee protection; clear river and stream channels; build culvert head-walls; install storm drain culverts; spray herbicides; maintain access and levee roads, plant vegetation for bank protection; perform maintenance and repair on stationary pumps; and install flood gates and barricades; and investigate public complaints regarding poor or hazardous road and drainage conditions and take action to improve the situation.
Sanitation / Wastewater Assignment: Supervise crews performing maintenance, monitoring and repair of wastewater pumping stations and transmission facilities, transmission lines and access entries, and those staffing the office facility.
Solid Waste Disposal Assignment: Supervise operations at the County's solid waste disposal sites including staff who operate heavy equipment, collect fees and perform maintenance and repair; follow engineering specifications and plans to develop the disposal sites; ensure that land is properly utilized and streams are not contaminated; assure that disposal site operations comply with State standards for solid waste management, water and air quality and environmental health; oversee the maintenance and monitoring of environmental testing systems; and may install environmental testing systems.
THE REQUIREMENTS: Any combination of education and experience, which would provide the required knowledge and abilities, is qualifying. A typical way to obtain the knowledge and abilities would be:
Four years of maintenance experience in any one of the following areas: Roads, Sanitation, Solid Waste Disposal, or Drainage divisions, environmental monitoring / handling hazardous materials or a comparable assignment, including two years at the journey level and one year in a lead capacity, which would demonstrate possession of the knowledge and abilities required in the applicable program area.
SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS, CONDITIONS:
License Requirements: Possession of a valid California Class C driver license at time of hire; and for some positions, within six months from hire, possession of a valid class B driver license with Tank Endorsement (Sanitation assignment) or a valid class A driver license with Tank Endorsement. (Household Hazardous Waste assignment requires class C license at time of hire, but no A or B commercial driver license.)
Certificate: Some positions require possession of a Qualified Applicators Certificate issued by the State of California Department of Pesticide Regulation or of an OSHA 40 Hour HAZWOPER (hazardous waste operations) Certificate. For Sanitation Assignment, within one year of appointment, must obtain either a Grade I or higher Wastewater Collection System Maintenance certificate, a Grade I or higher Mechanical Technologist certificate, or equivalent certificates issued by the California Water Environment Association.
Special Working Conditions: Exposure to: Variable temperatures and other conditions; cramped work spaces; heights, such as on equipment, on cliffs or in the bucket of a bucket truck; high levels of noise; strong, unpleasant odors; vibration; dust and silica dust; potentially hostile or violet individuals; electrical hazards; allergens, such as poison oak and stinging insects; the possibility of experiencing burns, bodily injury, and contact with toxic substances and chemical irritants; working alone in isolated areas; and, for some assignments, possible exposure to needles or blood which could possibly result in chronic disease or death.
Other Special Requirements: Alcohol and drug tests: will be administered to all candidates prior to final selection for positions requiring class A or B driver licenses upon entry and to employees in positions requiring these licenses, as mandated by Department of Transportation federal regulations. In addition, all candidates must provide specific employment history for up to the past ten years for all jobs they have held which required operation of a commercial motor vehicle.
Availability : Incumbents may be required to work irregular hours, including responding to 24-hour emergency calls.
Knowledge: Thorough knowledge of methods, equipment, and materials used in the program assignment; occupational hazards and safety standards and practices of the program assignment; the capabilities, operation, and maintenance of light and heavy construction equipment required for most positions. Working knowledge of methods of estimating costs of projects and of supervision and training. Some knowledge of laws, ordinances and regulations governing the program assignment, and the application of data processing to program assignment.
For the Sanitation / Wastewater Assignment: working knowledge of the capabilities, operation, and maintenance of light and heavy construction equipment, required for some positions.
For Household Hazardous Waste Assignment : working knowledge of safe handling and management of HHW materials (including lab packing and bulking of hazardous materials). Some knowledge of chemistry, biology, and physics related to hazardous materials management in a solid waste landfill facility.
Ability to: Supervise, plan, assign, direct, and coordinate the work of subordinates. Schedule work and determine priorities. Train subordinates in proper work procedures, safety practices, and equipment operation. Prepare work schedules, reports, procedures, and cost estimates. Establish and maintain effective working relationships with those contacted in the course of work. Read and understand maps, engineering blueprints and drawings, instruction manuals, technical manuals, computer-generated reports, and surveys. Read and understand surveyors’ location and grade stakes. Understand, explain, and apply applicable laws, rules, and regulations. Input, access, and analyze data using a computer terminal. Assist in budget preparation and administration. Use hand and power tools which may cause body vibration; lift items up to 75 pounds. Perform tasks requiring strength, such as lifting equipment onto trucks, climbing over rough terrain, and pulling hoses up embankments. Drive and operate vehicles such as automobiles, utility and pick-up trucks, and construction equipment, such as tractors, graders, compactors, bulldozers, loaders, and scrapers. Distinguish colors, such as color-coded wires, fluid colors, or chemical test guides. Put on, wear, and use a respirator. Perform tasks which require manual dexterity, such as gas and electrical welding, assembling small parts and pouring liquids into receptacles. Hear and distinguish various sounds, such as voices of workers in noisy environments and sounds of operating equipment.
For Household Hazardous Waste Assignment: Ability to identify and respond safely to hazardous materials contained in waste loads. Lift and move five (5) gallon cans (equivalent to 50 pounds) in adverse environmental conditions and move fifty-five (55) gallon drums (equivalent to 600 pounds) using a drum dolly.
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The W.K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF), a leading national philanthropy helping communities create the conditions children need to thrive, is seeking nominations and applications for a Program Officer for its U.S. Southern Programs, serving communities in Mississippi & New Orleans. In recent years the foundation has sharpened its focus on improving conditions for vulnerable children, concentrating on three key factors of success and their intersections: education and learning; food, health and well-being; and family economic security. WKKF partners closely with community stakeholders and policy makers to co-create a network of organizations working together to advance economic stability, racial equity, and community and civic engagement, while increasing access to quality education, healthy food, and medical care for children and families in need.
Working in partnership across the two team offices for U.S. Southern Programs led by Director Rhea Williams-Bishop and with WKKF national staff, the Program Officer will provide leadership and oversight for on-the-ground execution of program efforts that nurture opportunities for achieving positive systemic change for better education, health, and economic outcomes for children and their families throughout Mississippi and in New Orleans. The Mississippi & New Orleans team works from base offices in Jackson and New Orleans and is a critical place-based team at the foundation for the region. Particular areas of interest for this role include economic development along the Gulf Coast; food systems, food access, and food entrepreneurship in rural and urban communities; and how these focus areas intersect with local industries (e.g., shipping, chemicals, energy, tourism, and seafood), environmental concerns, local entrepreneurship, and employment equity. The new Program Officer will leverage deep expertise in food systems and economic equity to screen and recommend grants for funding, conduct site visits, manage and monitor a portfolio of grant programs aligned with the foundation’s strategic framework, and collaborate within the programs team and across the foundation to develop a more interdisciplinary approach to grantmaking. The Program Officer will maintain strong, authentic relationships with grant seekers and grantees and act as a spokesperson for the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, effectively communicating the foundation’s goal of partnering with communities to improve the well-being of children and their families.
The ideal candidate will be committed to the values and mission of the foundation and have expertise and leadership experience in food systems, policy, and/or economic development. She/He/They will be knowledgeable about the intersections between food systems and food-based entrepreneurship, labor markets, and workforce development. The Program Officer will also have an understanding of and appreciation for the impact of the private sector and the role of the public sector in alleviating racial and economic disparities in urban and rural economies. Familiarity and experience with grantmaking is a plus, but is not required. She/He/They will have a deep and comprehensive understanding of program execution and development. The Program Officer will have both cultural fluency and networks in the Deep South, the Gulf Coast, the Delta region, and on the national level. The Program Officer will curate a portfolio that is reflective of, and responsive to, the needs of communities and grassroots leaders along the Gulf Coast, including Biloxi and New Orleans, and in rural areas in Mississippi and Louisiana as well. She/He/They will possess a strong team orientation, a high tolerance for ambiguity, the ability to adapt quickly to change, and a record of success in working effectively with persons from diverse cultural, social, and ethnic backgrounds.
This search is being conducted by NPAG . Application instructions can be found at the end of this document.
HISTORY AND MISSION
In 1930, breakfast cereal pioneer Will Keith Kellogg donated $66 million in Kellogg Company stock and other investments “to help people help themselves,” launching the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. The foundation began its work in Michigan, but by the 1940s had expanded its work internationally and was breaking ground in areas such as rural children’s health, “mainstreaming” children with disabilities, and the development of the healthcare profession. By its 50th anniversary, the foundation was among the world’s largest private philanthropic organizations. Its mission reflects the foundation’s core priorities of thriving children, working families, and equitable communities, and the dynamic connection between the three.
“The W.K. Kellogg Foundation supports children, families, and communities as they strengthen and create conditions that propel vulnerable children to achieve success as individuals and as contributors to the larger community and society.”
To advance this mission, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation created a framework supported by an innovative matrixed organizational design to prioritize investment decisions and maximize effectiveness toward achieving the desired ends and improvements for children and their families. This new framework supports disciplined choices toward targeted outcomes and stronger alignment across programs. It is a focused and networked approach to strategic programming that relies on close cross-foundation collaboration and agile teams to leverage human capital and knowledge resources to positively impact vulnerable children, families, and communities. Across bodies of work, the foundation implements an array of change-making tools – grantmaking, impact investing, contracting, networking and convenings – to ensure progress. A commitment to racial equity, community engagement, and leadership development are woven into each endeavor as essential to the creation of a social context in which all children can thrive, particularly the most vulnerable.
W.K. KELLOGG FOUNDATION: MISSISSIPPI & NEW ORLEANS
The foundation’s relationship with grantees in Mississippi and New Orleans dates back to 1942, and is rooted in eliminating educational disparities, poor health outcomes, pockets of poverty, and the enduring racial inequities that impede children’s healthy development and limit opportunities for their parents. Grants in Mississippi are concentrated in the East Biloxi region, the city of Jackson, and Sunflower County. The foundation’s work in New Orleans intensified in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina as it joined other stakeholders in rebuilding the city. Grants are made New Orleans-wide through a racial equity lens; focusing investments on creating a child-centered city with high quality early education and childcare, engaged parents and communities, healthy and safe environments, and economically secure families.
The new Program Officer will join a multidisciplinary team and will work collaboratively to support a grantmaking strategy that improves conditions for children, families, and communities, particularly in the Gulf Region.
Grantee Highlights Relative to this Position Include:
Refill Café
Refill Café is a workforce-training program designed to support Jackson’s most vulnerable young adults, particularly opportunity youth aged 18-24 years, who are disconnected from the workforce and education systems. Refill Café creates opportunities and links graduates of each cohort to career pathways, mostly in the restaurant and hospitality industries through active employer engagement. Refill Café also promotes healthy food access and community resiliency through an array of services, ranging from social services, connections to educational opportunities, and mentoring.
Restaurant Opportunities Center United (ROC)
ROC works around the nation to raise public awareness and knowledge about working conditions and sub-par, exploitative wages in the restaurant industry. ROC works with advocacy, faith-based, and community-based organizations, as well as employer partners to increase mobility in the industry and to be supportive of workers and their families. Their ultimate goal is to build a high road to better working conditions for restaurant workers in Mississippi.
National Center for Appropriate Technology, Inc. (NCAT)
NCAT focuses on improving health outcomes for vulnerable children and their families by increasing access to healthy food and integrating efforts to transform local food systems in Mississippi. The ultimate goal is to achieve greater strategic, collective impact, and catalyze systemic change through collaborative work. NCAT provides training and technical assistance to community-based organizations and grassroots, community-led efforts.
MS Farm to School Network
The MS Farm to School Network is a statewide organization with a focus on Jackson, Sunflower County, and Biloxi. MSF2SN provides technical assistance and capacity building options for partners in these communities to build farm to school/early childhood education programs, including support to minority farmers looking for new markets through enterprise development and small business entrepreneurship.
Hope Enterprise Corporation
Hope’s mission is to strengthen communities, build assets and improve lives in economically distressed areas of the Mid-South by providing access to high-quality financial products and related services. In Mississippi, Hope explores innovative models of sustainable operations that will increase access to fresh, healthy foods for the city of Drew, Mississippi by conducting site visits to other rural grocery stores in the South.
Gulf Coast Community Foundation, Inc
This foundation seeks to enhance employment equity, quality early childhood education, and health outcomes for children and families in East Biloxi, Mississippi. WKKF’s funding enabled the foundation to complete an updated community needs assessment and then implement the recommended actions from this assessment.
Liberty’s Kitchen, Inc
WKKF provides general operating support to enable this organization in achieving its mission to provide youth in New Orleans with a path to self-sufficiency through food service-based training and leadership and work-readiness programs.
For more information on the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, please visit: wkkf.org .
OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES FACING THE PROGRAM OFFICER
The Southern Pod for WKKF consists of an extraordinary team of individuals that is passionate about eradicating social disparities and improving well-being for all children. The new Program Officer will not only be a critical member of the Southern Pod team, but will also be part of a closely connected cross-disciplinary transnational team executing the foundation’s work across the country and internationally by sharing best practices and aligning resources, approaches, and assessments of grantmaking to drive solutions for systemic social change.
The new Program Officer for Mississippi & New Orleans will engage in the following challenges and opportunities:
Lead programmatic strategy and serve as a thought partner to senior leadership of the foundation to address significant questions that affect children and their families. WKKF’s team, in partnership with policy makers, business leaders, nonprofit stakeholders, and citizen communities, is exploring significant questions such as: How can we develop an understanding of the disparities in access to government support and private capital between affluent and less affluent farmers and business owners in the Gulf Coast and the Delta in Mississippi? What can be done to address this disparity? How do we assess and address food insecurity? How can local underrepresented farmers and food suppliers contribute to the solution? How do we develop expertise in the relationships between food quality and access, agricultural and industrial economies, climate change realities, and systemic inequities? How might we better connect people of color living in the Gulf Coast and in the Delta to viable and equitable food procurement options? Who are the current and emerging leaders in New Orleans and Mississippi who can contribute to this solution?
Leverage the existing influence and expertise of the foundation to address inequities in food availability, quality, and security, and how those inequities interlock with economic inequity. The new Program Officer will be a co-strategist in partnership with Director Rhea Williams-Bishop, members of the Mississippi and New Orleans team, and colleagues across the foundation in assessing the needs of the region and developing strategies to promote food security and reducing economic inequity. Collaborating throughout the foundation’s matrixed structure, he/she/they will expand and deepen the foundation’s work in food systems and its intersection with economic inequity. This work will likely include a robust learning phase with the grantees, policy makers, and community stakeholders in the Gulf Coast, the Delta, and throughout Mississippi and Louisiana.
Provide leadership and oversight for on-the-ground execution of program efforts that are aligned and integrated with the unified mission and vision of the foundation. The new Program Officer will develop a strong network of key stakeholders, policy makers, community and business leaders, and grantees that support the foundation’s mission and inform and advance its work in Mississippi and New Orleans, with a particular focus on the Gulf Coast. The Program Officer will further shape the Mississippi and New Orleans team’s work in these areas as it relates to enhancing the well-being of children and families in the region.
Collaborate with and support prospective and existing grantees in developing funding strategies, requests, and plans towards systems change in policy making and advocacy for food and economic security. The Program Officer will provide robust technical assistance to grantees through conducting site visits, consulting on model development, partnership negotiations, leadership capacity building, and coaching. She/He/They will use culturally-sound public and interpersonal communication strategies in both formal and informal engagements with grantees. The Program Officer will identify and recommend grantmaking opportunities that leverage WKKF investments for maximum impact in creating systemic change and maintaining strong, authentic relationships with grant seekers and grantees, thus ensuring the mutual understanding of direction, goals, and expectations.
Build public goodwill and awareness of issues affecting vulnerable children and families. The Program Officer will serve as a credible, articulate representative and spokesperson for WKKF in communicating the foundation’s strategic direction and funding interests. She/He/They will recognize that learning is a multi-directional process and will approach internal and external relationships with a learning posture. The Program Officer will collaborate across the foundation to cultivate and share the foundation’s knowledge and learning among peers, grantees, and other key audiences.
Identify and nurture opportunities for affecting positive systemic change. The Program Officer will join a team responsible for grantmaking locally and nationally, specifically to advance key campaigns for health equity. These campaigns will include increased access to healthy, affordable food and equity for farmers and other food entrepreneurs of color. She/He/They will build and sustain relationships with and convene both established and emergent leaders doing food systems work in Mississippi and New Orleans.
Create learning communities and collaborative networks amongst grantees and partners; develop and manage learning and evaluation components for grants; and cultivate a wide breadth and depth of knowledge about trends and innovative best practices in food systems work. The Program Officer will work closely with WKKF’s Learning and Impact team to incorporate assessment components into program efforts to measure progress and impact. She/He/They will document and circulate lessons learned from grant investments, networking meetings, and other foundation-related activities. The Program Officer will work collaboratively across the foundation to identify and prioritize the highest value knowledge and learnings, especially around how food systems work is relevant to early childhood education, economic development, racial equity, maternal and child health, and employment equity.
QUALIFICATIONS OF THE IDEAL CANDIDATE
While no one person will embody all the qualities enumerated below, the ideal candidate will possess many of the following professional and personal abilities, attributes and experiences:
A minimum of eight years of significant work experience, ideally in food systems or a similar field as it relates to economic equity and access for children and families. Experience with agricultural and industrial workers and businesses and rural economic development as they relate to food access is a plus. A Master’s degree in a field relevant to the foundation’s priorities in Mississippi and New Orleans is preferred;
Demonstrated flexible, multidisciplinary thinking required to address key issues facing children and families in the region, particularly food insecurity, disparities in access to government programs, unemployment/underemployment, and racial discrimination; the drive to shape and inform the work based on the immediate issues and opportunities found in communities; an understanding of the broad social and economic forces that affect communities and families and shape programming efforts; a holistic and multi-dimensional approach to leadership development, organizational change, and community transformation;
Sophisticated understanding of the educational and economic disparities in the region, especially the Gulf Coast and the Mississippi Delta, and the related policy landscapes and the enduring legacy of racism; the ability to successfully navigate the various legal, social, and political forces at play within the federal, state, and local governance systems;
Expertise in philanthropy’s role in developing policies to sustain program success and identifying the current trends, movements, best practices, and emerging opportunities to advance and magnify philanthropic investments;
Extensive and nuanced cultural fluency with deep, trust-filled relationships in relevant communities across the region served by the foundation’s U.S. Southern Programs; experience collaborating with grassroots leaders and a clear understanding of the needs of local constituencies;
Capacity to develop and implement impactful programs and to effectively communicate conceptual program frameworks to grant-seekers and grantees; a deep and comprehensive understanding of program design and development, systems, networking, and community change;
Demonstrated success in forging and stewarding partnerships with the private sector, government agencies, foundations, policy makers, community organizations, and other stakeholders in economic development, education, and health outcomes for children and families;
The knowledge and sensitivity to effectively work with and support vulnerable communities, including the appreciation for historical context, discernment of relationship nuances and power dynamics, and understanding of social, racial, and ethnic realities;
Demonstrated ability to develop and implement programs that have sustainable impact; ability to think globally while working locally; and the potential to represent WKKF to a variety of stakeholders and intermediaries in a credible and influential way and with a selfless manner focusing on values and the greater good;
Successful experience working as part of a multidisciplinary team and working effectively with persons from diverse cultural, social, and ethnic backgrounds; willingness to set aside a personal agenda in favor of organizational and community goals and objectives;
Strong relationship building and communication skills; the ability to have authentic dialogue around sensitive issues including funding priorities, WKKF expectations, and community concerns; highly developed emotional intelligence and active listening skills; the ability to use interpersonal and political skills in collaborative, diplomatic ways;
Excellent writing, editing, analytical, and oral communication skills including the ability to collect, review, synthesize, and present information and findings;
A strong record of multitasking and meeting deadlines within designated timeframes, as well as demonstrated resourcefulness in setting priorities; strong organizational skills and exceptional attention to detail with the ability to work independently, take initiative, and contribute ideas for enhancing performance;
An optimistic outlook and the humor, integrity, and patience necessary to work within a transformative environment; and
The ability to travel approximately 50 percent of the time in the Gulf Region is required; presence in the New Orleans or Jackson offices as needed; monthly attendance on-site at the Battle Creek headquarters to facilitate interaction and synthesis of the grantmaking programs is also required.
APPLICATIONS AND NOMINATIONS
This search is being assisted by Katherine Jacobs, Erica Nicole Richardson, and Courtney Thomas of NPAG . Due to the pace of the search, candidates are encouraged to apply as soon as possible. Applications including a cover letter describing your interest and qualifications, your resume (in Word or PDF format) and where you learned of the position should be sent to: WKKF-POFS@nonprofitprofessionals.com . In order to expedite the internal sorting and reviewing process, please type your name (Last, First) as the only contents in the subject line of your e-mail.
The W.K. Kellogg Foundation is an equal opportunity employer and proudly values diversity. Candidates of all backgrounds are encouraged to apply.
Sep 11, 2019
Full time
The W.K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF), a leading national philanthropy helping communities create the conditions children need to thrive, is seeking nominations and applications for a Program Officer for its U.S. Southern Programs, serving communities in Mississippi & New Orleans. In recent years the foundation has sharpened its focus on improving conditions for vulnerable children, concentrating on three key factors of success and their intersections: education and learning; food, health and well-being; and family economic security. WKKF partners closely with community stakeholders and policy makers to co-create a network of organizations working together to advance economic stability, racial equity, and community and civic engagement, while increasing access to quality education, healthy food, and medical care for children and families in need.
Working in partnership across the two team offices for U.S. Southern Programs led by Director Rhea Williams-Bishop and with WKKF national staff, the Program Officer will provide leadership and oversight for on-the-ground execution of program efforts that nurture opportunities for achieving positive systemic change for better education, health, and economic outcomes for children and their families throughout Mississippi and in New Orleans. The Mississippi & New Orleans team works from base offices in Jackson and New Orleans and is a critical place-based team at the foundation for the region. Particular areas of interest for this role include economic development along the Gulf Coast; food systems, food access, and food entrepreneurship in rural and urban communities; and how these focus areas intersect with local industries (e.g., shipping, chemicals, energy, tourism, and seafood), environmental concerns, local entrepreneurship, and employment equity. The new Program Officer will leverage deep expertise in food systems and economic equity to screen and recommend grants for funding, conduct site visits, manage and monitor a portfolio of grant programs aligned with the foundation’s strategic framework, and collaborate within the programs team and across the foundation to develop a more interdisciplinary approach to grantmaking. The Program Officer will maintain strong, authentic relationships with grant seekers and grantees and act as a spokesperson for the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, effectively communicating the foundation’s goal of partnering with communities to improve the well-being of children and their families.
The ideal candidate will be committed to the values and mission of the foundation and have expertise and leadership experience in food systems, policy, and/or economic development. She/He/They will be knowledgeable about the intersections between food systems and food-based entrepreneurship, labor markets, and workforce development. The Program Officer will also have an understanding of and appreciation for the impact of the private sector and the role of the public sector in alleviating racial and economic disparities in urban and rural economies. Familiarity and experience with grantmaking is a plus, but is not required. She/He/They will have a deep and comprehensive understanding of program execution and development. The Program Officer will have both cultural fluency and networks in the Deep South, the Gulf Coast, the Delta region, and on the national level. The Program Officer will curate a portfolio that is reflective of, and responsive to, the needs of communities and grassroots leaders along the Gulf Coast, including Biloxi and New Orleans, and in rural areas in Mississippi and Louisiana as well. She/He/They will possess a strong team orientation, a high tolerance for ambiguity, the ability to adapt quickly to change, and a record of success in working effectively with persons from diverse cultural, social, and ethnic backgrounds.
This search is being conducted by NPAG . Application instructions can be found at the end of this document.
HISTORY AND MISSION
In 1930, breakfast cereal pioneer Will Keith Kellogg donated $66 million in Kellogg Company stock and other investments “to help people help themselves,” launching the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. The foundation began its work in Michigan, but by the 1940s had expanded its work internationally and was breaking ground in areas such as rural children’s health, “mainstreaming” children with disabilities, and the development of the healthcare profession. By its 50th anniversary, the foundation was among the world’s largest private philanthropic organizations. Its mission reflects the foundation’s core priorities of thriving children, working families, and equitable communities, and the dynamic connection between the three.
“The W.K. Kellogg Foundation supports children, families, and communities as they strengthen and create conditions that propel vulnerable children to achieve success as individuals and as contributors to the larger community and society.”
To advance this mission, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation created a framework supported by an innovative matrixed organizational design to prioritize investment decisions and maximize effectiveness toward achieving the desired ends and improvements for children and their families. This new framework supports disciplined choices toward targeted outcomes and stronger alignment across programs. It is a focused and networked approach to strategic programming that relies on close cross-foundation collaboration and agile teams to leverage human capital and knowledge resources to positively impact vulnerable children, families, and communities. Across bodies of work, the foundation implements an array of change-making tools – grantmaking, impact investing, contracting, networking and convenings – to ensure progress. A commitment to racial equity, community engagement, and leadership development are woven into each endeavor as essential to the creation of a social context in which all children can thrive, particularly the most vulnerable.
W.K. KELLOGG FOUNDATION: MISSISSIPPI & NEW ORLEANS
The foundation’s relationship with grantees in Mississippi and New Orleans dates back to 1942, and is rooted in eliminating educational disparities, poor health outcomes, pockets of poverty, and the enduring racial inequities that impede children’s healthy development and limit opportunities for their parents. Grants in Mississippi are concentrated in the East Biloxi region, the city of Jackson, and Sunflower County. The foundation’s work in New Orleans intensified in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina as it joined other stakeholders in rebuilding the city. Grants are made New Orleans-wide through a racial equity lens; focusing investments on creating a child-centered city with high quality early education and childcare, engaged parents and communities, healthy and safe environments, and economically secure families.
The new Program Officer will join a multidisciplinary team and will work collaboratively to support a grantmaking strategy that improves conditions for children, families, and communities, particularly in the Gulf Region.
Grantee Highlights Relative to this Position Include:
Refill Café
Refill Café is a workforce-training program designed to support Jackson’s most vulnerable young adults, particularly opportunity youth aged 18-24 years, who are disconnected from the workforce and education systems. Refill Café creates opportunities and links graduates of each cohort to career pathways, mostly in the restaurant and hospitality industries through active employer engagement. Refill Café also promotes healthy food access and community resiliency through an array of services, ranging from social services, connections to educational opportunities, and mentoring.
Restaurant Opportunities Center United (ROC)
ROC works around the nation to raise public awareness and knowledge about working conditions and sub-par, exploitative wages in the restaurant industry. ROC works with advocacy, faith-based, and community-based organizations, as well as employer partners to increase mobility in the industry and to be supportive of workers and their families. Their ultimate goal is to build a high road to better working conditions for restaurant workers in Mississippi.
National Center for Appropriate Technology, Inc. (NCAT)
NCAT focuses on improving health outcomes for vulnerable children and their families by increasing access to healthy food and integrating efforts to transform local food systems in Mississippi. The ultimate goal is to achieve greater strategic, collective impact, and catalyze systemic change through collaborative work. NCAT provides training and technical assistance to community-based organizations and grassroots, community-led efforts.
MS Farm to School Network
The MS Farm to School Network is a statewide organization with a focus on Jackson, Sunflower County, and Biloxi. MSF2SN provides technical assistance and capacity building options for partners in these communities to build farm to school/early childhood education programs, including support to minority farmers looking for new markets through enterprise development and small business entrepreneurship.
Hope Enterprise Corporation
Hope’s mission is to strengthen communities, build assets and improve lives in economically distressed areas of the Mid-South by providing access to high-quality financial products and related services. In Mississippi, Hope explores innovative models of sustainable operations that will increase access to fresh, healthy foods for the city of Drew, Mississippi by conducting site visits to other rural grocery stores in the South.
Gulf Coast Community Foundation, Inc
This foundation seeks to enhance employment equity, quality early childhood education, and health outcomes for children and families in East Biloxi, Mississippi. WKKF’s funding enabled the foundation to complete an updated community needs assessment and then implement the recommended actions from this assessment.
Liberty’s Kitchen, Inc
WKKF provides general operating support to enable this organization in achieving its mission to provide youth in New Orleans with a path to self-sufficiency through food service-based training and leadership and work-readiness programs.
For more information on the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, please visit: wkkf.org .
OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES FACING THE PROGRAM OFFICER
The Southern Pod for WKKF consists of an extraordinary team of individuals that is passionate about eradicating social disparities and improving well-being for all children. The new Program Officer will not only be a critical member of the Southern Pod team, but will also be part of a closely connected cross-disciplinary transnational team executing the foundation’s work across the country and internationally by sharing best practices and aligning resources, approaches, and assessments of grantmaking to drive solutions for systemic social change.
The new Program Officer for Mississippi & New Orleans will engage in the following challenges and opportunities:
Lead programmatic strategy and serve as a thought partner to senior leadership of the foundation to address significant questions that affect children and their families. WKKF’s team, in partnership with policy makers, business leaders, nonprofit stakeholders, and citizen communities, is exploring significant questions such as: How can we develop an understanding of the disparities in access to government support and private capital between affluent and less affluent farmers and business owners in the Gulf Coast and the Delta in Mississippi? What can be done to address this disparity? How do we assess and address food insecurity? How can local underrepresented farmers and food suppliers contribute to the solution? How do we develop expertise in the relationships between food quality and access, agricultural and industrial economies, climate change realities, and systemic inequities? How might we better connect people of color living in the Gulf Coast and in the Delta to viable and equitable food procurement options? Who are the current and emerging leaders in New Orleans and Mississippi who can contribute to this solution?
Leverage the existing influence and expertise of the foundation to address inequities in food availability, quality, and security, and how those inequities interlock with economic inequity. The new Program Officer will be a co-strategist in partnership with Director Rhea Williams-Bishop, members of the Mississippi and New Orleans team, and colleagues across the foundation in assessing the needs of the region and developing strategies to promote food security and reducing economic inequity. Collaborating throughout the foundation’s matrixed structure, he/she/they will expand and deepen the foundation’s work in food systems and its intersection with economic inequity. This work will likely include a robust learning phase with the grantees, policy makers, and community stakeholders in the Gulf Coast, the Delta, and throughout Mississippi and Louisiana.
Provide leadership and oversight for on-the-ground execution of program efforts that are aligned and integrated with the unified mission and vision of the foundation. The new Program Officer will develop a strong network of key stakeholders, policy makers, community and business leaders, and grantees that support the foundation’s mission and inform and advance its work in Mississippi and New Orleans, with a particular focus on the Gulf Coast. The Program Officer will further shape the Mississippi and New Orleans team’s work in these areas as it relates to enhancing the well-being of children and families in the region.
Collaborate with and support prospective and existing grantees in developing funding strategies, requests, and plans towards systems change in policy making and advocacy for food and economic security. The Program Officer will provide robust technical assistance to grantees through conducting site visits, consulting on model development, partnership negotiations, leadership capacity building, and coaching. She/He/They will use culturally-sound public and interpersonal communication strategies in both formal and informal engagements with grantees. The Program Officer will identify and recommend grantmaking opportunities that leverage WKKF investments for maximum impact in creating systemic change and maintaining strong, authentic relationships with grant seekers and grantees, thus ensuring the mutual understanding of direction, goals, and expectations.
Build public goodwill and awareness of issues affecting vulnerable children and families. The Program Officer will serve as a credible, articulate representative and spokesperson for WKKF in communicating the foundation’s strategic direction and funding interests. She/He/They will recognize that learning is a multi-directional process and will approach internal and external relationships with a learning posture. The Program Officer will collaborate across the foundation to cultivate and share the foundation’s knowledge and learning among peers, grantees, and other key audiences.
Identify and nurture opportunities for affecting positive systemic change. The Program Officer will join a team responsible for grantmaking locally and nationally, specifically to advance key campaigns for health equity. These campaigns will include increased access to healthy, affordable food and equity for farmers and other food entrepreneurs of color. She/He/They will build and sustain relationships with and convene both established and emergent leaders doing food systems work in Mississippi and New Orleans.
Create learning communities and collaborative networks amongst grantees and partners; develop and manage learning and evaluation components for grants; and cultivate a wide breadth and depth of knowledge about trends and innovative best practices in food systems work. The Program Officer will work closely with WKKF’s Learning and Impact team to incorporate assessment components into program efforts to measure progress and impact. She/He/They will document and circulate lessons learned from grant investments, networking meetings, and other foundation-related activities. The Program Officer will work collaboratively across the foundation to identify and prioritize the highest value knowledge and learnings, especially around how food systems work is relevant to early childhood education, economic development, racial equity, maternal and child health, and employment equity.
QUALIFICATIONS OF THE IDEAL CANDIDATE
While no one person will embody all the qualities enumerated below, the ideal candidate will possess many of the following professional and personal abilities, attributes and experiences:
A minimum of eight years of significant work experience, ideally in food systems or a similar field as it relates to economic equity and access for children and families. Experience with agricultural and industrial workers and businesses and rural economic development as they relate to food access is a plus. A Master’s degree in a field relevant to the foundation’s priorities in Mississippi and New Orleans is preferred;
Demonstrated flexible, multidisciplinary thinking required to address key issues facing children and families in the region, particularly food insecurity, disparities in access to government programs, unemployment/underemployment, and racial discrimination; the drive to shape and inform the work based on the immediate issues and opportunities found in communities; an understanding of the broad social and economic forces that affect communities and families and shape programming efforts; a holistic and multi-dimensional approach to leadership development, organizational change, and community transformation;
Sophisticated understanding of the educational and economic disparities in the region, especially the Gulf Coast and the Mississippi Delta, and the related policy landscapes and the enduring legacy of racism; the ability to successfully navigate the various legal, social, and political forces at play within the federal, state, and local governance systems;
Expertise in philanthropy’s role in developing policies to sustain program success and identifying the current trends, movements, best practices, and emerging opportunities to advance and magnify philanthropic investments;
Extensive and nuanced cultural fluency with deep, trust-filled relationships in relevant communities across the region served by the foundation’s U.S. Southern Programs; experience collaborating with grassroots leaders and a clear understanding of the needs of local constituencies;
Capacity to develop and implement impactful programs and to effectively communicate conceptual program frameworks to grant-seekers and grantees; a deep and comprehensive understanding of program design and development, systems, networking, and community change;
Demonstrated success in forging and stewarding partnerships with the private sector, government agencies, foundations, policy makers, community organizations, and other stakeholders in economic development, education, and health outcomes for children and families;
The knowledge and sensitivity to effectively work with and support vulnerable communities, including the appreciation for historical context, discernment of relationship nuances and power dynamics, and understanding of social, racial, and ethnic realities;
Demonstrated ability to develop and implement programs that have sustainable impact; ability to think globally while working locally; and the potential to represent WKKF to a variety of stakeholders and intermediaries in a credible and influential way and with a selfless manner focusing on values and the greater good;
Successful experience working as part of a multidisciplinary team and working effectively with persons from diverse cultural, social, and ethnic backgrounds; willingness to set aside a personal agenda in favor of organizational and community goals and objectives;
Strong relationship building and communication skills; the ability to have authentic dialogue around sensitive issues including funding priorities, WKKF expectations, and community concerns; highly developed emotional intelligence and active listening skills; the ability to use interpersonal and political skills in collaborative, diplomatic ways;
Excellent writing, editing, analytical, and oral communication skills including the ability to collect, review, synthesize, and present information and findings;
A strong record of multitasking and meeting deadlines within designated timeframes, as well as demonstrated resourcefulness in setting priorities; strong organizational skills and exceptional attention to detail with the ability to work independently, take initiative, and contribute ideas for enhancing performance;
An optimistic outlook and the humor, integrity, and patience necessary to work within a transformative environment; and
The ability to travel approximately 50 percent of the time in the Gulf Region is required; presence in the New Orleans or Jackson offices as needed; monthly attendance on-site at the Battle Creek headquarters to facilitate interaction and synthesis of the grantmaking programs is also required.
APPLICATIONS AND NOMINATIONS
This search is being assisted by Katherine Jacobs, Erica Nicole Richardson, and Courtney Thomas of NPAG . Due to the pace of the search, candidates are encouraged to apply as soon as possible. Applications including a cover letter describing your interest and qualifications, your resume (in Word or PDF format) and where you learned of the position should be sent to: WKKF-POFS@nonprofitprofessionals.com . In order to expedite the internal sorting and reviewing process, please type your name (Last, First) as the only contents in the subject line of your e-mail.
The W.K. Kellogg Foundation is an equal opportunity employer and proudly values diversity. Candidates of all backgrounds are encouraged to apply.
The Director of Environmental Education & Camping is a cause driven, mission oriented leader dedicated to educating, exciting and inspiring every generation to preserve the environment and to encourage responsible use, stewardship and enjoyment of our natural resources. This individual will be responsible for the oversight of environmental education programs, Nature Adventures Camp, SSYMCA’s Family Farm and volunteerism for the South Shore Natural Science Center. This work will include program development and management, staff management and resource development for program support.
OUR CULTURE:
Our mission and core values are brought to life by our culture. In the Y, we strive to live our cause of strengthening communities with purpose and intentionality every day. We are welcoming: we are open to all. We are a place where you can belong and make a difference. We are genuine: we value you and embrace your individuality. We are hopeful: we believe in you and your potential to become a catalyst in the world. We are nurturing: we support you in your journey to develop your full potential. We are determined: above all else, we are on a relentless quest to make our community stronger beginning with you.
CORE EXPECTATIONS:
1. PROGRAM MANAGEMENT & DEVELOPMENT
Directs and supervises program activities to meet the needs of the community and fulfill YMCA objectives. Establishes new program activities and expands program within the community in accordance with strategic and operating plans. Responsible for resources (curriculum, living and non-living collections) and collateral(written/digital/web-based) to support programs. Tracks, evaluates and reports on programming and enrollment. Recruits and books school and community programming. Assists in grant writing and oversees the implementation, execution and reporting of all SSNSC educational grants.
2. STAFF ENGAGEMENT & DEVELOPMENT
Recruits, hires, trains, manages, develops, coaches, schedules, and directs staff and volunteers as needed. Reviews and evaluates staff performance. Develops strategies to motivate staff. Ensures records of required staff certifications are current and complete.
3. MEMBERSHIP ENGAGEMENT & DEVELOPMENT
Builds relationships with and among members, responds to inquiries and solves problems. Creates a safe and supportive community environment, assists in recruiting and engaging new members, and connects members to the YMCA’s cause. Leads outreach efforts to local organizations to market educational program offerings. Manages contact database.
4. BUDGET & FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
Plans and manages department budgets as approved in a fiscally responsible manner.
5. FACILITY MANAGEMENT
Works with appropriate branch staff to provide program facilities for members that are clean, safe, adequately equipped, well maintained, and attractive. Program facilities includes, but not limited to, EcoZone, trails, gardens, animal care building, collections, and SSYMCA Family Farm.
6. VOLUNTEER DEVELOPMENT
Builds and develops volunteer capacity, sharing the social responsibility.
7. COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT & SUPPORT
Assists in YMCA fundraising activities/events, and engages in collaborative relationships with community organizations, especially schools, in order to strengthen support and build community.
YMCA COMPETENCIES - TEAM LEADER
Mission and Community Oriented – Models and teaches YMCA values, inclusion activities, strategies and initiatives; ensures high-level service. Provide volunteers with orientation, training, development and recognition.
People Oriented – Effectively communicate with audiences of all levels; listen for understanding when dealing with conflict; provide staff with feedback, coaching, guidance and support.
Results Oriented – Provides guidance for launching programs and framework for making decisions. Develops plans and manages best practices through team engagement and holds staff accountable for high quality results. Effectively manages budgets and cultivates relationships to support fundraising.
Personal Development – Effectively addresses sensitive issues and inappropriate behavior or performance. Facilitate change and models adaptability and awareness of its impact.
QUALIFICATIONS:
Bachelor’s Degree, in a field related to science, education and/or social science
5– 8 years of work experience in environmental or science education;
Experience in innovative program development
Experience in grant writing and management
Experience in staff management and/or non-profit leadership
Experience with Microsoft Office Suite including Outlook, Word and Excel
Oct 09, 2019
Full time
The Director of Environmental Education & Camping is a cause driven, mission oriented leader dedicated to educating, exciting and inspiring every generation to preserve the environment and to encourage responsible use, stewardship and enjoyment of our natural resources. This individual will be responsible for the oversight of environmental education programs, Nature Adventures Camp, SSYMCA’s Family Farm and volunteerism for the South Shore Natural Science Center. This work will include program development and management, staff management and resource development for program support.
OUR CULTURE:
Our mission and core values are brought to life by our culture. In the Y, we strive to live our cause of strengthening communities with purpose and intentionality every day. We are welcoming: we are open to all. We are a place where you can belong and make a difference. We are genuine: we value you and embrace your individuality. We are hopeful: we believe in you and your potential to become a catalyst in the world. We are nurturing: we support you in your journey to develop your full potential. We are determined: above all else, we are on a relentless quest to make our community stronger beginning with you.
CORE EXPECTATIONS:
1. PROGRAM MANAGEMENT & DEVELOPMENT
Directs and supervises program activities to meet the needs of the community and fulfill YMCA objectives. Establishes new program activities and expands program within the community in accordance with strategic and operating plans. Responsible for resources (curriculum, living and non-living collections) and collateral(written/digital/web-based) to support programs. Tracks, evaluates and reports on programming and enrollment. Recruits and books school and community programming. Assists in grant writing and oversees the implementation, execution and reporting of all SSNSC educational grants.
2. STAFF ENGAGEMENT & DEVELOPMENT
Recruits, hires, trains, manages, develops, coaches, schedules, and directs staff and volunteers as needed. Reviews and evaluates staff performance. Develops strategies to motivate staff. Ensures records of required staff certifications are current and complete.
3. MEMBERSHIP ENGAGEMENT & DEVELOPMENT
Builds relationships with and among members, responds to inquiries and solves problems. Creates a safe and supportive community environment, assists in recruiting and engaging new members, and connects members to the YMCA’s cause. Leads outreach efforts to local organizations to market educational program offerings. Manages contact database.
4. BUDGET & FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
Plans and manages department budgets as approved in a fiscally responsible manner.
5. FACILITY MANAGEMENT
Works with appropriate branch staff to provide program facilities for members that are clean, safe, adequately equipped, well maintained, and attractive. Program facilities includes, but not limited to, EcoZone, trails, gardens, animal care building, collections, and SSYMCA Family Farm.
6. VOLUNTEER DEVELOPMENT
Builds and develops volunteer capacity, sharing the social responsibility.
7. COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT & SUPPORT
Assists in YMCA fundraising activities/events, and engages in collaborative relationships with community organizations, especially schools, in order to strengthen support and build community.
YMCA COMPETENCIES - TEAM LEADER
Mission and Community Oriented – Models and teaches YMCA values, inclusion activities, strategies and initiatives; ensures high-level service. Provide volunteers with orientation, training, development and recognition.
People Oriented – Effectively communicate with audiences of all levels; listen for understanding when dealing with conflict; provide staff with feedback, coaching, guidance and support.
Results Oriented – Provides guidance for launching programs and framework for making decisions. Develops plans and manages best practices through team engagement and holds staff accountable for high quality results. Effectively manages budgets and cultivates relationships to support fundraising.
Personal Development – Effectively addresses sensitive issues and inappropriate behavior or performance. Facilitate change and models adaptability and awareness of its impact.
QUALIFICATIONS:
Bachelor’s Degree, in a field related to science, education and/or social science
5– 8 years of work experience in environmental or science education;
Experience in innovative program development
Experience in grant writing and management
Experience in staff management and/or non-profit leadership
Experience with Microsoft Office Suite including Outlook, Word and Excel
Chesapeake Bay Foundation
Brock Environmental Center - Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Marlin Bay Drive, Virginia Beach, VA, USA
Context of the Position
Each year, on the first Saturday of June, thousands of Virginians simultaneously descend on the rivers, streams, and beaches throughout Virginia to remove harmful litter and debris as part of Clean the Bay Day. The Clean the Bay Day Assistant will help with the planning and execution of the 32nd Annual Clean the Bay Day (to be held on Saturday, June 6, 2020).
Essential Functions
1. Recruiting, organizing, coordinating, and mobilizing partners, including municipal partners, non-profits, church groups, military installations, small businesses, large corporations, and others to lead cleanups on Clean the Bay Day. This includes partner trainings and developing agreements. 2. Developing avenues for program promotion and registration, including assisting with development of promotional materials (including artwork) for awareness of the event and nurturing sponsorship opportunities. 3. Recruiting, managing, and interacting with Clean the Bay Day volunteers. 4. Managing preparation, dissemination, and collection of event materials, including giveaways, registration sheets, etc. 5. Working with CBF staff, operating professionally as a point of contact for the CTBD program. 6. Helping with general office/administrative support, including data entry and filing, digital and material organization, among other tasks related to the CTBD program.
Professional Experience and Qualifications
Self-initiative, the ability to work independently, as well as with a team, and excellent written and oral communication skills are required. Familiarity with Excel, Word, and Outlook required. The ability to multi-task, to manage several phases of an event simultaneously, to anticipate complications, and streamline processes are a must.
This is a part-time position. Hours per week will range from 4 to 30, increasing as the event draws near.
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Oct 08, 2019
Part time
Context of the Position
Each year, on the first Saturday of June, thousands of Virginians simultaneously descend on the rivers, streams, and beaches throughout Virginia to remove harmful litter and debris as part of Clean the Bay Day. The Clean the Bay Day Assistant will help with the planning and execution of the 32nd Annual Clean the Bay Day (to be held on Saturday, June 6, 2020).
Essential Functions
1. Recruiting, organizing, coordinating, and mobilizing partners, including municipal partners, non-profits, church groups, military installations, small businesses, large corporations, and others to lead cleanups on Clean the Bay Day. This includes partner trainings and developing agreements. 2. Developing avenues for program promotion and registration, including assisting with development of promotional materials (including artwork) for awareness of the event and nurturing sponsorship opportunities. 3. Recruiting, managing, and interacting with Clean the Bay Day volunteers. 4. Managing preparation, dissemination, and collection of event materials, including giveaways, registration sheets, etc. 5. Working with CBF staff, operating professionally as a point of contact for the CTBD program. 6. Helping with general office/administrative support, including data entry and filing, digital and material organization, among other tasks related to the CTBD program.
Professional Experience and Qualifications
Self-initiative, the ability to work independently, as well as with a team, and excellent written and oral communication skills are required. Familiarity with Excel, Word, and Outlook required. The ability to multi-task, to manage several phases of an event simultaneously, to anticipate complications, and streamline processes are a must.
This is a part-time position. Hours per week will range from 4 to 30, increasing as the event draws near.
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This is a full-time position with American Bird Conservancy (ABC) in either Washington, DC or The Plains, Virginia. American Bird Conservancy is a fast-growing, results-focused wildlife non-profit seeking employees with an entrepreneurial spirit and a desire to make a difference for birds throughout the Americas.
The ABC Development Officer serves as a lead fundraiser for ABC Policy programs, including Conservation Advocacy, Cats Indoors, Collisions, Pesticides, and others programs as deemed appropriate by the Vice-President of Development. In addition, Development Officers at ABC are integral members of program teams, and provide input into project planning and implementation. With an emphasis on achieving results and working in partnership, ABC takes on the greatest problems facing birds today, innovating and building on rapid advancements in science to halt extinctions, protect habitats, eliminate threats, and build capacity for bird conservation.
MAJOR DUTIES:
Lead and coordinate fundraising efforts to meet or exceed annual and long-term fundraising goals.
Identify and cultivate prospective donors.
Develop and submit well-written proposals and reports.
Help maintain program budgets in coordination with the Finance Division.
Provide input into conservation planning and project implementation, and attend weekly program division meetings.
Develop and coordinate fundraising appointments, dinners, events, and field trips.
Keep Board members and major donors informed of ABC programs and needs through regular updates, special appeals, and special publications.
Maintain donor tracking systems and provide reminders to program staff of upcoming deadlines and donor-anticipated products.
Assist with projects as requested by President or Vice President of Development, which may expand outside of Policy programs.
POSITION REQUIREMENTS:
Passionate about wildlife conservation.
Bachelor’s degree and at least three years’ experience in fundraising, communications, marketing, or related work, or a combination of relevant education and experience.
Excellent writing and oral communication skills.
Excellent organizational skills and successful experience managing complex activities.
Outgoing and flexible personality
Entrepreneurial outlook
Ability and willingness to contact donors.
Proficiency with computers and software, including Excel. Proficiency with Salsa CRM helpful.
Ability to work independently, efficiently and accurately, while maintaining deadlines.
Ability to work well as part of a team.
Ability to work with a wide range of people at all levels. Sense of humor.
Willingness to travel nationally.
Willingness to work some nights and weekends.
Proficiency in graphic design a plus.
Proficiency in both online and direct mail fundraising a plus.
Ability to maintain confidentiality of donor information.
Must be authorized to work in the US.
BENEFITS:
· Benefits include medical, dental, and 403(b) plan.
· Paid vacation days (15), holidays (10+), and sick leave.
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Oct 08, 2019
Full time
This is a full-time position with American Bird Conservancy (ABC) in either Washington, DC or The Plains, Virginia. American Bird Conservancy is a fast-growing, results-focused wildlife non-profit seeking employees with an entrepreneurial spirit and a desire to make a difference for birds throughout the Americas.
The ABC Development Officer serves as a lead fundraiser for ABC Policy programs, including Conservation Advocacy, Cats Indoors, Collisions, Pesticides, and others programs as deemed appropriate by the Vice-President of Development. In addition, Development Officers at ABC are integral members of program teams, and provide input into project planning and implementation. With an emphasis on achieving results and working in partnership, ABC takes on the greatest problems facing birds today, innovating and building on rapid advancements in science to halt extinctions, protect habitats, eliminate threats, and build capacity for bird conservation.
MAJOR DUTIES:
Lead and coordinate fundraising efforts to meet or exceed annual and long-term fundraising goals.
Identify and cultivate prospective donors.
Develop and submit well-written proposals and reports.
Help maintain program budgets in coordination with the Finance Division.
Provide input into conservation planning and project implementation, and attend weekly program division meetings.
Develop and coordinate fundraising appointments, dinners, events, and field trips.
Keep Board members and major donors informed of ABC programs and needs through regular updates, special appeals, and special publications.
Maintain donor tracking systems and provide reminders to program staff of upcoming deadlines and donor-anticipated products.
Assist with projects as requested by President or Vice President of Development, which may expand outside of Policy programs.
POSITION REQUIREMENTS:
Passionate about wildlife conservation.
Bachelor’s degree and at least three years’ experience in fundraising, communications, marketing, or related work, or a combination of relevant education and experience.
Excellent writing and oral communication skills.
Excellent organizational skills and successful experience managing complex activities.
Outgoing and flexible personality
Entrepreneurial outlook
Ability and willingness to contact donors.
Proficiency with computers and software, including Excel. Proficiency with Salsa CRM helpful.
Ability to work independently, efficiently and accurately, while maintaining deadlines.
Ability to work well as part of a team.
Ability to work with a wide range of people at all levels. Sense of humor.
Willingness to travel nationally.
Willingness to work some nights and weekends.
Proficiency in graphic design a plus.
Proficiency in both online and direct mail fundraising a plus.
Ability to maintain confidentiality of donor information.
Must be authorized to work in the US.
BENEFITS:
· Benefits include medical, dental, and 403(b) plan.
· Paid vacation days (15), holidays (10+), and sick leave.
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Description/Job Summary
HydroGeoLogic, Inc. (HGL) has a position open for a Principal Project Manager to support HGL’s growing business with the U.S. Air Force (USAF) and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE). HGL is a leader in the environmental remediation industry, with over 30 years of experience providing comprehensive engineering and design services by implementing innovative, effective, and sustainable solutions that address environmental, infrastructure, and natural resource management challenges. HGL provides environmental engineering, remediation, and construction services, as well as Military Munitions Response Program support to EPA, U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), USAF, USACE, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), and other federal and state government clients. HGL offers a dynamic work environment for creative, energetic professionals.
Responsibilities/Duties
The successful candidate will be responsible for managing the technical and administrative aspects of large and complex performance-based remediation (PBR) projects at multiple USAF installations across the country. Responsibilities and expectations for this position include:
Management of CERCLA remedial investigations (RI), feasibility Studies (FS); remedial designs (RD), remedial actions (RA), operations and maintenance (O&M), and long-term monitoring (LTM) or RCRA equivalent phases of environmental restoration projects.
Ensure exceptional project financial performance and attainment of performance milestones.
Ability to direct, manage, and lead project teams to meet project budget and schedule.
Strong communication skills to interact effectively with clients, regulators, project team members, and company management.
Ability to successfully execute multiple projects and tasks concurrently.
Ability to provide technical and/or management support for a variety of in-house projects.
Ability to support business development efforts, including leading or supporting large PBR proposal efforts to include developing site technical approaches, remediation optimization strategies, cost estimates, schedules, and subcontractor scopes of work.
Ability to identify project risks and develop mitigation approaches and strategies.
Experience working with other non-USAF clients, such as other DoD agencies or EPA is a plus.
Periodic business travel is required. Travel is anticipated to consist of visits to client offices and project sites. Travel is expected about 15% of the year.
Required Skills
Required skills include: excellent communication and organization; working with and maintaining confidential information; strong technical writing and documentation; managing work under detailed quality assurance/quality control programs; preparing detailed financial performance, schedules, and technical progress projections; and preparing and submitting recurring financial, technical, and quality assurance/quality control summary reports. Additional required skills include proficiency with the MS Office suite of computer software (including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint). The ability to develop schedules with MS Project is a plus.
Required Experience
A minimum of 5 years’ experience managing PBR contracts across the country with contract amounts >$10M. Emphasis in the Midwest, Rocky Mountain Region and Western US is highly desirable.
Experience with remedial technologies and approaches that can attain performance objectives within the required timeframes.
Solid understanding of screening values and the risk assessment process.
Detailed understanding of the CERCLA and RCRA process and requirements for restoration sites.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills to include presenting complex subject matter to technical and public audiences.
A minimum of 5 years’ experience working for the USAF and/or USACE and with strategic teaming partners.
Required Education
A minimum of a BS in Environmental Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Geology, Hydrogeology, or a related environmental field of study.
Preferred Education
An MS or PhD in Environmental Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Geology, Hydrogeology, or a related environmental field of study. Project Management Professional (PMP), Professional Engineer (PE) and/or Professional Geologist (PG) certifications are desirable.
Details
A pre-hire drug test is required and some positions may require a fit for duty baseline physical. Most positions require U.S. citizenship.
We are an Equal Employment/Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate in hiring on the basis of sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected Veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please contact us by email at hrIWD@hgl.com or by phone at 703-478-5186 and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Requests for accommodation will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Please note that only inquiries concerning a request for reasonable accommodation will be responded to from this e-mail address. For more information about our commitment to equal employment opportunity, please click here .
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Oct 08, 2019
Full time
Description/Job Summary
HydroGeoLogic, Inc. (HGL) has a position open for a Principal Project Manager to support HGL’s growing business with the U.S. Air Force (USAF) and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE). HGL is a leader in the environmental remediation industry, with over 30 years of experience providing comprehensive engineering and design services by implementing innovative, effective, and sustainable solutions that address environmental, infrastructure, and natural resource management challenges. HGL provides environmental engineering, remediation, and construction services, as well as Military Munitions Response Program support to EPA, U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), USAF, USACE, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), and other federal and state government clients. HGL offers a dynamic work environment for creative, energetic professionals.
Responsibilities/Duties
The successful candidate will be responsible for managing the technical and administrative aspects of large and complex performance-based remediation (PBR) projects at multiple USAF installations across the country. Responsibilities and expectations for this position include:
Management of CERCLA remedial investigations (RI), feasibility Studies (FS); remedial designs (RD), remedial actions (RA), operations and maintenance (O&M), and long-term monitoring (LTM) or RCRA equivalent phases of environmental restoration projects.
Ensure exceptional project financial performance and attainment of performance milestones.
Ability to direct, manage, and lead project teams to meet project budget and schedule.
Strong communication skills to interact effectively with clients, regulators, project team members, and company management.
Ability to successfully execute multiple projects and tasks concurrently.
Ability to provide technical and/or management support for a variety of in-house projects.
Ability to support business development efforts, including leading or supporting large PBR proposal efforts to include developing site technical approaches, remediation optimization strategies, cost estimates, schedules, and subcontractor scopes of work.
Ability to identify project risks and develop mitigation approaches and strategies.
Experience working with other non-USAF clients, such as other DoD agencies or EPA is a plus.
Periodic business travel is required. Travel is anticipated to consist of visits to client offices and project sites. Travel is expected about 15% of the year.
Required Skills
Required skills include: excellent communication and organization; working with and maintaining confidential information; strong technical writing and documentation; managing work under detailed quality assurance/quality control programs; preparing detailed financial performance, schedules, and technical progress projections; and preparing and submitting recurring financial, technical, and quality assurance/quality control summary reports. Additional required skills include proficiency with the MS Office suite of computer software (including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint). The ability to develop schedules with MS Project is a plus.
Required Experience
A minimum of 5 years’ experience managing PBR contracts across the country with contract amounts >$10M. Emphasis in the Midwest, Rocky Mountain Region and Western US is highly desirable.
Experience with remedial technologies and approaches that can attain performance objectives within the required timeframes.
Solid understanding of screening values and the risk assessment process.
Detailed understanding of the CERCLA and RCRA process and requirements for restoration sites.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills to include presenting complex subject matter to technical and public audiences.
A minimum of 5 years’ experience working for the USAF and/or USACE and with strategic teaming partners.
Required Education
A minimum of a BS in Environmental Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Geology, Hydrogeology, or a related environmental field of study.
Preferred Education
An MS or PhD in Environmental Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Geology, Hydrogeology, or a related environmental field of study. Project Management Professional (PMP), Professional Engineer (PE) and/or Professional Geologist (PG) certifications are desirable.
Details
A pre-hire drug test is required and some positions may require a fit for duty baseline physical. Most positions require U.S. citizenship.
We are an Equal Employment/Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate in hiring on the basis of sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected Veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please contact us by email at hrIWD@hgl.com or by phone at 703-478-5186 and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Requests for accommodation will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Please note that only inquiries concerning a request for reasonable accommodation will be responded to from this e-mail address. For more information about our commitment to equal employment opportunity, please click here .
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Job Description
TRC Companies, Inc., a pioneer in groundbreaking scientific and engineering developments since the 1960s, is a national engineering consulting and construction management firm that provides integrated services to the energy, environmental and infrastructure markets. TRC serves a broad range of clients in government and industry, implementing complex projects from initial concept to delivery and operation.
TRC is seeking a Senior Air Quality Engineer/Project Manager to join our team in Northern California. The position requires strong air quality technical capabilities, a strong work ethic, commitment to excellence, and a solid reputation of building and maintaining key client relationships. The preferred location for this position isn one of TRC's Northern California offices (Concord, Oakland, Rancho Cordova, or San Francisco).
Responsibilities:
Manage and lead air quality compliance, permitting, and related projects for TRC clients located primarily in California.
Serve as a technical resource on air quality compliance assurance and permitting programs, including regulatory analyses of facility operations; major and minor source air permit applications under NSR, Title V, and state-level regulations; air toxics assessments, and NESHAP MACT compliance programs.
Evaluate air quality and greenhouse gas impacts of the proposed projects to satisfy the requirements of both the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). Familiarity with CalEEMod is desirable.
Meet client needs via meetings, proposal development, maintaining client relationships, and passionate client service.
Lead project teams to provide exceptional project deliverables related to air quality permitting and compliance in an efficient and timely manner.
Work with other TRC project managers and leaders on strategic pursuits within the company, region, and air quality arena.
Requirements
BS or MS in chemical, environmental, mechanical, civil engineering or related discipline.
Minimum of 7 to 15 years of air quality compliance and permitting experience, including managing and implementing Clean Air Act programs such as Title V, New Source Review, and MACT.
Effective management of multiple air quality projects and the proven capability to establish and maintain client relationships that result in repeat business.
Excellent communication, interpersonal, and analytical skills.
Experience preparing proposals and managing work.
An effective collaborator and strategic thinker.
TRC offers advancement potential and a competitive compensation and benefits package including a 401k plan with a company match. For more information please visit our website at www.trcsolutions.com .
EOE/Minorities/Females/Protected Veterans/Disabled
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Oct 05, 2019
Full time
Job Description
TRC Companies, Inc., a pioneer in groundbreaking scientific and engineering developments since the 1960s, is a national engineering consulting and construction management firm that provides integrated services to the energy, environmental and infrastructure markets. TRC serves a broad range of clients in government and industry, implementing complex projects from initial concept to delivery and operation.
TRC is seeking a Senior Air Quality Engineer/Project Manager to join our team in Northern California. The position requires strong air quality technical capabilities, a strong work ethic, commitment to excellence, and a solid reputation of building and maintaining key client relationships. The preferred location for this position isn one of TRC's Northern California offices (Concord, Oakland, Rancho Cordova, or San Francisco).
Responsibilities:
Manage and lead air quality compliance, permitting, and related projects for TRC clients located primarily in California.
Serve as a technical resource on air quality compliance assurance and permitting programs, including regulatory analyses of facility operations; major and minor source air permit applications under NSR, Title V, and state-level regulations; air toxics assessments, and NESHAP MACT compliance programs.
Evaluate air quality and greenhouse gas impacts of the proposed projects to satisfy the requirements of both the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). Familiarity with CalEEMod is desirable.
Meet client needs via meetings, proposal development, maintaining client relationships, and passionate client service.
Lead project teams to provide exceptional project deliverables related to air quality permitting and compliance in an efficient and timely manner.
Work with other TRC project managers and leaders on strategic pursuits within the company, region, and air quality arena.
Requirements
BS or MS in chemical, environmental, mechanical, civil engineering or related discipline.
Minimum of 7 to 15 years of air quality compliance and permitting experience, including managing and implementing Clean Air Act programs such as Title V, New Source Review, and MACT.
Effective management of multiple air quality projects and the proven capability to establish and maintain client relationships that result in repeat business.
Excellent communication, interpersonal, and analytical skills.
Experience preparing proposals and managing work.
An effective collaborator and strategic thinker.
TRC offers advancement potential and a competitive compensation and benefits package including a 401k plan with a company match. For more information please visit our website at www.trcsolutions.com .
EOE/Minorities/Females/Protected Veterans/Disabled
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Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority
Temple Hall Farm Regional Park, Limestone School Road, Leesburg, VA, USA
The Park Specialist is responsible for assisting with planning, developing, coordinating, and executing an operational management plan for a park. Work is performed under the general direction of the Park Manager or Assistant Park Manager with latitude for independent judgment and action. Park Specialist assumes charge of park operations in the absence of the Park Manager and/or Assistant Park Manager. Annual performance goals will be set for the Park Specialist. Park Specialists are subject to transfer within the Regional Park system.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS (with illustrative examples of work)
Assist with management of personnel:
Plan, direct, and control the work of groups of employees in the operation and maintenance of park facilities, grounds, and equipment.
Determine workload, assign priorities, schedule employees, and allocate resources.
Promote high levels of work performance and employee morale.
Assist with management of facility operations:
Monitor operation to ensure customer satisfaction.
Inspect park facilities for adherence to NOVA Parks standards.
Operate facilities and fill in at all positions as needed.
Apply and interpret safety standards and ensure compliance.
Ensure security of park facilities and assets.
May assume management responsibility for special facility within the park, such as a water park.
May be assigned temporarily to other parks.
Assist with management of facility and grounds maintenance:
Inspect park facilities, equipment, and grounds for hazards and for adherence to NOVA Parks standards.
Identify maintenance problems and hazards, initiate corrective action or refer to Park Manager.
Operate various pieces of maintenance equipment as needed and perform related work including manual labor.
Assist with development and management of budget:
Recommend operations, maintenance, and development items for budget.
Interpret and apply NOVA Parks policies and procedures to meet personnel, budget, property management, and general service needs of the park.
Assist with establishment and maintenance of positive public relations program:
Foster a positive public image for the park and NOVA Parks.
Provide information to the public and special interest groups through presentations and other means through accurate, courteous, and diplomatic communications.
Maintain effective relationships with groups such as vendors, local law enforcement, and special user groups.
Encourage visitor comments; investigate and respond to complaints.
Assist with performance of administrative duties:
Investigate accidents, thefts, vandalism, and other violations and file appropriate reports in a timely manner.
Represent NOVA Parks as designated legal authority in providing testimony and evidence in court.
Prepare and maintain various business, personnel, and administrative reports and records.
Initiate and monitor standard user permits; assists with the development of special contractual agreements.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS (minimum)
Education: Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university with a Bachelor's degree in park management or closely related field preferred or an exceptional combination of education, experience, and training that is equivalent to a four-year degree.
Physical: Non-manual and manual work with strength and dexterity necessary to perform all required tasks, including lifting, stooping, bending and working in tiring and uncomfortable positions in office and outdoor settings; will perform heavy manual labor in all weather conditions, lift items at or greater than 80 pounds, climb ladders, use tools, and operate equipment.
Experience: One year of responsible experience in parks or conservation work, or any equivalent combination of education, training, or experience which provides:
Knowledge of principles, methods, and practices involved in park management.
Knowledge and experience in personnel management.
Ability to identify and isolate problems, and to initiate appropriate actions.
Ability to deal effectively with the public and special interest groups and provide a strong, positive public relations program.
Ability to interpret and explain NOVA Parks policies, rules, and procedures to employees and to the public.
Ability to communicate clearly and effectively, with ability to prepare and present accurate reports.
Ability to acquire a working knowledge of NOVA Parks, its development, traditions, and policies.
Working knowledge of the materials, equipment, and procedures involved with park maintenance.
Ability to maintain knowledge of current trends and developments in the park and recreation profession.
Working knowledge of personal computers and various software applications.
Possession of or ability to obtain and maintain driver’s license with safe driving record.
Availability for call in emergency situations.
Availability to work additional hours during peak operating times including shift work and weekends.
Certification or ability to obtain certification in CPR and first aid and other licenses as required.
Park Specialists are subject to transfer.
Regular and predictable attendance is an essential function of the position.
Duties and responsibilities are designed to be the essential elements of the job. They do not preclude the performance of related, or even unrelated, jobs which may be necessary to properly and efficiently complete all work assignments. NOVA Parks reserves the right to amend job specifications to meet current needs. Benefits: This position is a benefit eligible position. Benefits include medical and dental insurance, life insurance, long-term disability, retirement plan, and more. Testing : The Park Specialist position is classified as a safety-sensitive position. Candidates for full-time, safety-sensitive positions must submit to a pre-employment drug screening and achieve a negative result as a condition of employment.
It is the policy of the Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority to prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, sex, color, national origin, religion, age, veteran status, political affiliation, genetics, or disability in the recruitment, selection, and hiring of its workforce.
Reasonable accommodations are available to persons with disabilities during application and/or interview processes per the Americans with Disabilities Act. Contact 703-352-5900 and ask for Human Resources for assistance.
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Oct 04, 2019
Full time
The Park Specialist is responsible for assisting with planning, developing, coordinating, and executing an operational management plan for a park. Work is performed under the general direction of the Park Manager or Assistant Park Manager with latitude for independent judgment and action. Park Specialist assumes charge of park operations in the absence of the Park Manager and/or Assistant Park Manager. Annual performance goals will be set for the Park Specialist. Park Specialists are subject to transfer within the Regional Park system.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS (with illustrative examples of work)
Assist with management of personnel:
Plan, direct, and control the work of groups of employees in the operation and maintenance of park facilities, grounds, and equipment.
Determine workload, assign priorities, schedule employees, and allocate resources.
Promote high levels of work performance and employee morale.
Assist with management of facility operations:
Monitor operation to ensure customer satisfaction.
Inspect park facilities for adherence to NOVA Parks standards.
Operate facilities and fill in at all positions as needed.
Apply and interpret safety standards and ensure compliance.
Ensure security of park facilities and assets.
May assume management responsibility for special facility within the park, such as a water park.
May be assigned temporarily to other parks.
Assist with management of facility and grounds maintenance:
Inspect park facilities, equipment, and grounds for hazards and for adherence to NOVA Parks standards.
Identify maintenance problems and hazards, initiate corrective action or refer to Park Manager.
Operate various pieces of maintenance equipment as needed and perform related work including manual labor.
Assist with development and management of budget:
Recommend operations, maintenance, and development items for budget.
Interpret and apply NOVA Parks policies and procedures to meet personnel, budget, property management, and general service needs of the park.
Assist with establishment and maintenance of positive public relations program:
Foster a positive public image for the park and NOVA Parks.
Provide information to the public and special interest groups through presentations and other means through accurate, courteous, and diplomatic communications.
Maintain effective relationships with groups such as vendors, local law enforcement, and special user groups.
Encourage visitor comments; investigate and respond to complaints.
Assist with performance of administrative duties:
Investigate accidents, thefts, vandalism, and other violations and file appropriate reports in a timely manner.
Represent NOVA Parks as designated legal authority in providing testimony and evidence in court.
Prepare and maintain various business, personnel, and administrative reports and records.
Initiate and monitor standard user permits; assists with the development of special contractual agreements.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS (minimum)
Education: Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university with a Bachelor's degree in park management or closely related field preferred or an exceptional combination of education, experience, and training that is equivalent to a four-year degree.
Physical: Non-manual and manual work with strength and dexterity necessary to perform all required tasks, including lifting, stooping, bending and working in tiring and uncomfortable positions in office and outdoor settings; will perform heavy manual labor in all weather conditions, lift items at or greater than 80 pounds, climb ladders, use tools, and operate equipment.
Experience: One year of responsible experience in parks or conservation work, or any equivalent combination of education, training, or experience which provides:
Knowledge of principles, methods, and practices involved in park management.
Knowledge and experience in personnel management.
Ability to identify and isolate problems, and to initiate appropriate actions.
Ability to deal effectively with the public and special interest groups and provide a strong, positive public relations program.
Ability to interpret and explain NOVA Parks policies, rules, and procedures to employees and to the public.
Ability to communicate clearly and effectively, with ability to prepare and present accurate reports.
Ability to acquire a working knowledge of NOVA Parks, its development, traditions, and policies.
Working knowledge of the materials, equipment, and procedures involved with park maintenance.
Ability to maintain knowledge of current trends and developments in the park and recreation profession.
Working knowledge of personal computers and various software applications.
Possession of or ability to obtain and maintain driver’s license with safe driving record.
Availability for call in emergency situations.
Availability to work additional hours during peak operating times including shift work and weekends.
Certification or ability to obtain certification in CPR and first aid and other licenses as required.
Park Specialists are subject to transfer.
Regular and predictable attendance is an essential function of the position.
Duties and responsibilities are designed to be the essential elements of the job. They do not preclude the performance of related, or even unrelated, jobs which may be necessary to properly and efficiently complete all work assignments. NOVA Parks reserves the right to amend job specifications to meet current needs. Benefits: This position is a benefit eligible position. Benefits include medical and dental insurance, life insurance, long-term disability, retirement plan, and more. Testing : The Park Specialist position is classified as a safety-sensitive position. Candidates for full-time, safety-sensitive positions must submit to a pre-employment drug screening and achieve a negative result as a condition of employment.
It is the policy of the Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority to prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, sex, color, national origin, religion, age, veteran status, political affiliation, genetics, or disability in the recruitment, selection, and hiring of its workforce.
Reasonable accommodations are available to persons with disabilities during application and/or interview processes per the Americans with Disabilities Act. Contact 703-352-5900 and ask for Human Resources for assistance.
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The Department: The Sustainability Department leads sustainability, climate, and energy policy and projects for the City. A large portion of the department's work is driven by the implementation of the City's Climate Action Plan (CAP) adopted in 2015 which aims to reduce local greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 50 percent below 2010 levels by 2035. By doing so, the Plan sets the City on a path to meet the State of California's requirement to reduce emissions by 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050. Though various City departments are involved in the implementation of the CAP, the Sustainability Department is responsible for the cross departmental coordination of these efforts on a day-to-day basis. The Sustainability Department currently has 26 budgeted positions and a Fiscal Year 2020 budget of approximately $5.5 million. The Position : Under the guidance of the Sustainability and Technology Program Manager, the Sustainability Analytics Program Coordinator will support the development and implementation of policies and projects that enable the city to use advanced technologies to obtain more efficient and effective outcomes in reaching its sustainability targets. This includes technologies such as Internet-of-Things (IoT) solutions, building/energy management systems, new mobility data and technologies, zero emissions vehicles infrastructure and expansion, sustainability-related market transformation opportunities, and big data analytics and machine learning. This position will largely be expected to support the measurement, evaluation, development, and implementation of these advanced technologies using data analytics and visualization. Minimum Requirements:
Bachelor's Degree in Public Policy, Public or Business Administration, Sustainability, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, and
A minimum of three (3) years of professional experience in sustainability, renewable energy, technology procurement, mobility data and technologies, sustainability-related market transformation opportunities, energy efficiency or other government services management, and
Certification programs or post graduate work in data science or full stack software development with an emphasis on data science applications.
Any combination of education and experience that demonstrates these qualifications may be qualifying.
Key Areas of Responsibilities:
Identify opportunities for expanding data and technology applications in new and existing building energy management systems, new mobility data and technologies, renewable energy use, energy storage capabilities, IoT solutions, and zero emissions vehicles (ZEV);
Find, define, and describe use cases where a more effective use of data can improve the use of technology to create positive environmental impacts;
Engage with stakeholders and subject matter experts in other departments to prototype data-enabled solutions to sustainability challenges;
Design and build software that is scalable, while staying within the City's technology guidelines;
Develop and contribute to City's Docker-based Airflow implementation, with integrations to Oracle 9, 10, 11, 12, Samba Share drives, S3, SQL Server, Postgres, and other legacy and open-source systems;
Work with universities and community institutions to build pipelines for talent to data analytics projects;
Communicate results and findings in a clear and concise manner, recommending next steps for implementation;
Assist with other key initiatives led by the Sustainability Department; and
Carry out additional duties as necessary.
Qualifications: The ideal candidate will possess the following qualifications:
Strong understanding of modern technologies and methodologies, including, but not limited to the following:
Git source control
Agile and Lean methodologies and practices
GIS and mapping
Data analysis and visualization platforms such as Jupyter notebook or Tableau
Data management and governance;
General proficiency in Python, JavaScript, SQL and HTML / CSS is preferred;
Strong quantitative analytical abilities, including a thorough understanding of common data analysis tools and techniques;
Desire and willingness to continuously learn new tools, technologies, and processes and share them with others;
Passion for finding problems and creatively using technology to solve them;
Excellent writing and communications skills, as well as strong interpersonal skills;
Ability to communicate complex and technical information to a variety of audiences, including elected officials, various levels of City staff, residents, and technology professionals;
A commitment to public service, fiscal responsibility and innovation in government;
A commitment to the team and to always being a team player;
A focus on enhanced services and customer satisfaction; and
Collaborative skill in working with other city departments, businesses, elected officials, the public, and other government agencies.
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Oct 04, 2019
Full time
The Department: The Sustainability Department leads sustainability, climate, and energy policy and projects for the City. A large portion of the department's work is driven by the implementation of the City's Climate Action Plan (CAP) adopted in 2015 which aims to reduce local greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 50 percent below 2010 levels by 2035. By doing so, the Plan sets the City on a path to meet the State of California's requirement to reduce emissions by 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050. Though various City departments are involved in the implementation of the CAP, the Sustainability Department is responsible for the cross departmental coordination of these efforts on a day-to-day basis. The Sustainability Department currently has 26 budgeted positions and a Fiscal Year 2020 budget of approximately $5.5 million. The Position : Under the guidance of the Sustainability and Technology Program Manager, the Sustainability Analytics Program Coordinator will support the development and implementation of policies and projects that enable the city to use advanced technologies to obtain more efficient and effective outcomes in reaching its sustainability targets. This includes technologies such as Internet-of-Things (IoT) solutions, building/energy management systems, new mobility data and technologies, zero emissions vehicles infrastructure and expansion, sustainability-related market transformation opportunities, and big data analytics and machine learning. This position will largely be expected to support the measurement, evaluation, development, and implementation of these advanced technologies using data analytics and visualization. Minimum Requirements:
Bachelor's Degree in Public Policy, Public or Business Administration, Sustainability, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, and
A minimum of three (3) years of professional experience in sustainability, renewable energy, technology procurement, mobility data and technologies, sustainability-related market transformation opportunities, energy efficiency or other government services management, and
Certification programs or post graduate work in data science or full stack software development with an emphasis on data science applications.
Any combination of education and experience that demonstrates these qualifications may be qualifying.
Key Areas of Responsibilities:
Identify opportunities for expanding data and technology applications in new and existing building energy management systems, new mobility data and technologies, renewable energy use, energy storage capabilities, IoT solutions, and zero emissions vehicles (ZEV);
Find, define, and describe use cases where a more effective use of data can improve the use of technology to create positive environmental impacts;
Engage with stakeholders and subject matter experts in other departments to prototype data-enabled solutions to sustainability challenges;
Design and build software that is scalable, while staying within the City's technology guidelines;
Develop and contribute to City's Docker-based Airflow implementation, with integrations to Oracle 9, 10, 11, 12, Samba Share drives, S3, SQL Server, Postgres, and other legacy and open-source systems;
Work with universities and community institutions to build pipelines for talent to data analytics projects;
Communicate results and findings in a clear and concise manner, recommending next steps for implementation;
Assist with other key initiatives led by the Sustainability Department; and
Carry out additional duties as necessary.
Qualifications: The ideal candidate will possess the following qualifications:
Strong understanding of modern technologies and methodologies, including, but not limited to the following:
Git source control
Agile and Lean methodologies and practices
GIS and mapping
Data analysis and visualization platforms such as Jupyter notebook or Tableau
Data management and governance;
General proficiency in Python, JavaScript, SQL and HTML / CSS is preferred;
Strong quantitative analytical abilities, including a thorough understanding of common data analysis tools and techniques;
Desire and willingness to continuously learn new tools, technologies, and processes and share them with others;
Passion for finding problems and creatively using technology to solve them;
Excellent writing and communications skills, as well as strong interpersonal skills;
Ability to communicate complex and technical information to a variety of audiences, including elected officials, various levels of City staff, residents, and technology professionals;
A commitment to public service, fiscal responsibility and innovation in government;
A commitment to the team and to always being a team player;
A focus on enhanced services and customer satisfaction; and
Collaborative skill in working with other city departments, businesses, elected officials, the public, and other government agencies.
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Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission
Arlington, VA, USA
The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commisison is seeking qualified applicants for the position of ACCSP Recreational Program Team Lead . The incumbent is responsible for state conduct of Marine Recreational Information Program (MRIP) surveys on the Atlantic coast, including the Access Point Intercept Angler Survey (APAIS). The incumbent provides program support to partner agencies conducting MRIP surveys from Georgia through Maine, and acts as a liaison between ACCSP partners conducting the survey and the MRIP program. In addition, the incumbent will coordinate other aspects of the ACCSP recreational program, including staffing the ACCSP Recreational Technical Committee, providing guidance and oversight to recreational issues as they arise, and performing related duties as required as the ACCSP evolves. See ACCSP's website ( www.accsp.org ) for comprehensive information about the program.
Application Process: Please email a resume and cover letter to Laura Leach , Director of Finance and Administration, Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission, 1050 N. Highland Street; Suite 200 A-N, Arlington, VA 22201 ( asmfc-jobs@asmfc.org ) by the closing date of October 18 . The vacancy number ( 19-009 ) must be identified in the subject line.
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Oct 04, 2019
Full time
The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commisison is seeking qualified applicants for the position of ACCSP Recreational Program Team Lead . The incumbent is responsible for state conduct of Marine Recreational Information Program (MRIP) surveys on the Atlantic coast, including the Access Point Intercept Angler Survey (APAIS). The incumbent provides program support to partner agencies conducting MRIP surveys from Georgia through Maine, and acts as a liaison between ACCSP partners conducting the survey and the MRIP program. In addition, the incumbent will coordinate other aspects of the ACCSP recreational program, including staffing the ACCSP Recreational Technical Committee, providing guidance and oversight to recreational issues as they arise, and performing related duties as required as the ACCSP evolves. See ACCSP's website ( www.accsp.org ) for comprehensive information about the program.
Application Process: Please email a resume and cover letter to Laura Leach , Director of Finance and Administration, Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission, 1050 N. Highland Street; Suite 200 A-N, Arlington, VA 22201 ( asmfc-jobs@asmfc.org ) by the closing date of October 18 . The vacancy number ( 19-009 ) must be identified in the subject line.
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RETTEW’s Energy and Environmental Engineering service area works on community infrastructure such as waste disposal, water control, and energy production. We seek a Senior Project Manager to oversee and guide important project facets in this realm, such as maintaining plans, client communications, and documentation. Located in our Allentown, PA office, the Senior Project Manager is to provide leadership and technical expertise to our Energy & Environmental Engineering Group. Our nationally expanding footprint has increased our need for capable professionals to lead specific projects and clients within and outside of Pennsylvania. As we continue to work for award-winning clients and projects, opportunities exist for technical staff to be involved in innovative water treatment and energy projects. With active projects in ten states, our staff are challenged to work on complex and sustainable infrastructure projects.
Focus Area of Current Projects :
General and Advanced Municipal Water and Wastewater Treatment
Membrane Treatment of Municipal and Industrial Water and Wastewater
Biosolids and Alternative Energy Development, including Photovoltaics and Biogas
Permanent Produced Water Treatment Facilities
Responsibilities:
Planning and managing of large multi-disciplined projects
Leading design teams in all aspects of project design
Business development and client management leader focused on project delivery
Attend marketing events and functions
Ability to effectively present projects to clients and regulatory authorities
Ability to effectively mentor junior level staff with regard to both technical direction and professional development
Ensuring projects are completed within scope, schedule and budget
Ensure client satisfaction on every project
Requirements:
Bachelor’s Degree Engineering with PE license
Minimum of 10 years engineering consulting experience
Strong Business Development, Sales and Project Management skills
Experience managing and mentoring staff and sub-consultants
Knowledge of the municipal water/wastewater market in PA/NJ
Local experience and knowledge of competition and sub-consultant resources.
History of development of new and existing clients
EOE/AA/Veteran/Disabled
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Oct 04, 2019
Full time
RETTEW’s Energy and Environmental Engineering service area works on community infrastructure such as waste disposal, water control, and energy production. We seek a Senior Project Manager to oversee and guide important project facets in this realm, such as maintaining plans, client communications, and documentation. Located in our Allentown, PA office, the Senior Project Manager is to provide leadership and technical expertise to our Energy & Environmental Engineering Group. Our nationally expanding footprint has increased our need for capable professionals to lead specific projects and clients within and outside of Pennsylvania. As we continue to work for award-winning clients and projects, opportunities exist for technical staff to be involved in innovative water treatment and energy projects. With active projects in ten states, our staff are challenged to work on complex and sustainable infrastructure projects.
Focus Area of Current Projects :
General and Advanced Municipal Water and Wastewater Treatment
Membrane Treatment of Municipal and Industrial Water and Wastewater
Biosolids and Alternative Energy Development, including Photovoltaics and Biogas
Permanent Produced Water Treatment Facilities
Responsibilities:
Planning and managing of large multi-disciplined projects
Leading design teams in all aspects of project design
Business development and client management leader focused on project delivery
Attend marketing events and functions
Ability to effectively present projects to clients and regulatory authorities
Ability to effectively mentor junior level staff with regard to both technical direction and professional development
Ensuring projects are completed within scope, schedule and budget
Ensure client satisfaction on every project
Requirements:
Bachelor’s Degree Engineering with PE license
Minimum of 10 years engineering consulting experience
Strong Business Development, Sales and Project Management skills
Experience managing and mentoring staff and sub-consultants
Knowledge of the municipal water/wastewater market in PA/NJ
Local experience and knowledge of competition and sub-consultant resources.
History of development of new and existing clients
EOE/AA/Veteran/Disabled
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Business for Social Responsibility
San Francisco, CA, USA
Position Overview
The Manager, Sustainability Management Practice, will play an important role in BSR’s Sustainability Management practice, which incorporates BSR’s approaches to strategy, corporate governance, stakeholder engagement, and sustainability reporting. The Manager will deliver consulting and grant-funded projects that provide high value to BSR members, and assist with development of BSR’s point of view on the future of sustainability management at companies. The Manager will work collaboratively across BSR’s industry and area of expertise teams, and with colleagues based in all of BSR’s offices.
This position is full-time, based in New York or San Francisco, though Paris and Copenhagen will also be considered.
The successful applicant will be:
Passionate about BSR’s mission and above-mentioned focus areas.
Comfortable in a high-performing, fast-paced, entrepreneurial and challenging work environment.
Client ready, with significant experience in developing and delivering presentations to engage senior clients.
Structured and analytical in communication and work products.
Experienced in managing several projects simultaneously.
Responsibilities
Project Management (50% of total time): The Manager will assume responsibility for managing member relationships and projects. This will require:
Managing several projects concurrently
Leading the intellectual agenda for projects, shaping the direction for what the project should achieve and how to get there
Maintaining day-to-day client relationship
Preparing for and leading client workshops
Leading and guiding production of client-ready work products
Managing the project team of BSR colleagues (typically 3-4 people)
Developing and managing to a clear project timeline and budget
Ensuring consistent delivery of best-in-class work products
Business development and thought leadership (50% of total time):
The Manager will work with the Sustainability Management Team and other BSR Directors to help establish a BSR point of view on the future of sustainability management, taking into consideration the ambition required to achieve BSR’s mission, lessons learned from 25 years of sustainability management practice, and emerging global business and sustainability trends. Topics might include:
Methods for the integration of sustainability into business strategy.
Perspectives on the integration of sustainability into corporate governance, including board governance and the relationship with ethics, integrity, and anti-corruption.
A refreshed BSR materiality methodology, tool, and process
Perspectives on the future of sustainability reporting and disclosure
Stakeholder engagement strategies
This point of view will be used to develop BSR tools and methodologies, and support the development of new project opportunities. This approach could include assisting with and/or leading proposal writing, publications, staff training, marketing collateral, and an overall go-to-market plan.
The manager will also be responsible for building/maintaining relationships with relevant sustainability management organizations, such as the various reporting framework organizations.
Qualifications
Candidates with the below specific requirements will be considered:
Master’s degree from top-tier program in public affairs, international development, business, law, or other relevant discipline.
Significant experience (at least 5 years) in a high-performing, fast-paced and challenging environment.
Experience working on sustainability management issues, which could include consulting to companies on sustainability reporting, strategy, materiality, governance, ethics, or stakeholder engagement.
Experience working with one or more BSR industries.
Consulting experience and/or proven ability to perform the key functions of a consultant, including: developing and maintaining client relationships; pursuing and creating business opportunities; and managing multiple projects under tight deadlines.
Significant experience working closely with senior clients.
Well-developed leadership and people skills, including a demonstrated ability to enhance the skills and effectiveness of other team members
Excellent verbal and written communication skills (i.e. structured, concise, impactful).
Willingness to undertake business travel (~ up to 25% time)
Capacity to work and thrive in a growing, fast-paced entrepreneurial organization with a collaborative environment.
High ethical standards and commitment to BSR core values of Leadership, Respect and Integrity.
Spanish, French, Chinese, Japanese, and/or other language skills are a plus.
Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background investigation.
Diversity
As part of our dedication to diversity, BSR is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Individuals seeking employment at BSR are considered without regard to race, ethnicity, color, age, sex, religion, national origin, ancestry, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, physical or mental disability, registered domestic partner status, caregiver status, marital status, veteran or military status, citizenship status, or any other legally protected category.
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Oct 03, 2019
Full time
Position Overview
The Manager, Sustainability Management Practice, will play an important role in BSR’s Sustainability Management practice, which incorporates BSR’s approaches to strategy, corporate governance, stakeholder engagement, and sustainability reporting. The Manager will deliver consulting and grant-funded projects that provide high value to BSR members, and assist with development of BSR’s point of view on the future of sustainability management at companies. The Manager will work collaboratively across BSR’s industry and area of expertise teams, and with colleagues based in all of BSR’s offices.
This position is full-time, based in New York or San Francisco, though Paris and Copenhagen will also be considered.
The successful applicant will be:
Passionate about BSR’s mission and above-mentioned focus areas.
Comfortable in a high-performing, fast-paced, entrepreneurial and challenging work environment.
Client ready, with significant experience in developing and delivering presentations to engage senior clients.
Structured and analytical in communication and work products.
Experienced in managing several projects simultaneously.
Responsibilities
Project Management (50% of total time): The Manager will assume responsibility for managing member relationships and projects. This will require:
Managing several projects concurrently
Leading the intellectual agenda for projects, shaping the direction for what the project should achieve and how to get there
Maintaining day-to-day client relationship
Preparing for and leading client workshops
Leading and guiding production of client-ready work products
Managing the project team of BSR colleagues (typically 3-4 people)
Developing and managing to a clear project timeline and budget
Ensuring consistent delivery of best-in-class work products
Business development and thought leadership (50% of total time):
The Manager will work with the Sustainability Management Team and other BSR Directors to help establish a BSR point of view on the future of sustainability management, taking into consideration the ambition required to achieve BSR’s mission, lessons learned from 25 years of sustainability management practice, and emerging global business and sustainability trends. Topics might include:
Methods for the integration of sustainability into business strategy.
Perspectives on the integration of sustainability into corporate governance, including board governance and the relationship with ethics, integrity, and anti-corruption.
A refreshed BSR materiality methodology, tool, and process
Perspectives on the future of sustainability reporting and disclosure
Stakeholder engagement strategies
This point of view will be used to develop BSR tools and methodologies, and support the development of new project opportunities. This approach could include assisting with and/or leading proposal writing, publications, staff training, marketing collateral, and an overall go-to-market plan.
The manager will also be responsible for building/maintaining relationships with relevant sustainability management organizations, such as the various reporting framework organizations.
Qualifications
Candidates with the below specific requirements will be considered:
Master’s degree from top-tier program in public affairs, international development, business, law, or other relevant discipline.
Significant experience (at least 5 years) in a high-performing, fast-paced and challenging environment.
Experience working on sustainability management issues, which could include consulting to companies on sustainability reporting, strategy, materiality, governance, ethics, or stakeholder engagement.
Experience working with one or more BSR industries.
Consulting experience and/or proven ability to perform the key functions of a consultant, including: developing and maintaining client relationships; pursuing and creating business opportunities; and managing multiple projects under tight deadlines.
Significant experience working closely with senior clients.
Well-developed leadership and people skills, including a demonstrated ability to enhance the skills and effectiveness of other team members
Excellent verbal and written communication skills (i.e. structured, concise, impactful).
Willingness to undertake business travel (~ up to 25% time)
Capacity to work and thrive in a growing, fast-paced entrepreneurial organization with a collaborative environment.
High ethical standards and commitment to BSR core values of Leadership, Respect and Integrity.
Spanish, French, Chinese, Japanese, and/or other language skills are a plus.
Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background investigation.
Diversity
As part of our dedication to diversity, BSR is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Individuals seeking employment at BSR are considered without regard to race, ethnicity, color, age, sex, religion, national origin, ancestry, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, physical or mental disability, registered domestic partner status, caregiver status, marital status, veteran or military status, citizenship status, or any other legally protected category.
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ABOUT THE JOB Greenpeace believes that climate change is the most urgent problem facing our planet right now, and the window for meaningful action is closing fast. Corporations and governments lack ambition, and in many cases are actively obstructing climate solutions.
Greenpeace is hiring a Senior Climate Campaigner to use their campaigning skills to lead projects and teams to deliver key pieces of Greenpeace’s climate campaign using moments of creative confrontation, working with allies and our supporters to build our organization’s power and impact and strategic smarts to make sure that our climate campaigns are as effective as possible.
This is a full time, exempt, benefits-eligible position reporting to Janet Redman, the Climate Director, who is based in Washington, DC. Note that this role can work from either Washington, DC: San Francisco or Oakland, California.
THIS ROLE WILL:
Identify campaign opportunities in the external world and develop and deliver campaign strategies and interventions that move GPUS closer to our agreed campaign objectives.
Creatively communicate climate issues, opportunities and interventions, especially through Greenpeace social media channels and via other platforms to reach, inspire and engage our supporters and allies.
Represent Greenpeace US among external partners and in the media, and work within coalition spaces to further campaign and organizational goals.
Work with GP grassroots, online and engagement staff to identify and act on strategic opportunities to mobilize GP’s network of supporters and activists.
Contribute and cultivate issue expertise on climate issues within teams
Line manage individuals and coordinate teams as needed.
QUALIFICATIONS
A min of six (6) years experience in developing and delivering campaigns.
Campaign strategy skills, including experience in setting campaign objectives, developing a critical pathway/campaign strategy to achieve these, and selecting an effective series of interventions that strengthens our supporter base and meets the campaign objectives.
Ability to lead multi-disciplinary teams through a process of developing and delivering a specific campaign, successfully ensuring that the team’s outputs deliver on campaign objectives.
Proven track record of reaching and inspiring people online to take action both online & offline in a way that builds long term power for the organization.
Organizational skills, including experience with running fast-paced, creative, engaging activist projects and campaigns project administration (budgets, reporting, etc.)
Proven understanding of and ability with social media practices, principles and implementation.
Strong presentation skills, written and oral; comfort speaking to the public, Greenpeace supporters, allies and the media.
Commitment to nonviolence as a means of effecting change.
Experience working in coalitions, including cross-cultural, cross-movement sector.
General knowledge of climate-related topics desired but not essential if eager to dive in and learn.
If you want to save the world from climate change and believe in environmental justice, please submit an application on our careers page. Applications will be review on a rolling basis and will conclude once we have found the best candidate.
Greenpeace is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, class, sex, gender, sexual orientation, disability, family/marital status, religion or other protected classes. We strongly encourage applications from marginalized communities. If you require assistance applying to this opportunity, please contact us.
BENEFITS Greenpeace USA values a healthy work-life balance and has flexible, family-friendly employment policies. Our competitive benefits package for full-time employees includes medical, dental, and vision coverage with low contributions from staff. We have options for pre-tax flexible spending accounts for medical and dependent care costs. Greenpeace employees enjoy generous 401K matching and time off for vacation, sick, personal, and parental leave. After five years, staff are eligible for a paid sabbatical. To encourage public transportation use and biking, we offer subsidies for staff who choose to bike or ride mass transit to work. Greenpeace is committed to the growth and development of staff and fostering a creative workplace culture. For more information, check out our benefits plan.
Only applicants eligible to work and live in the United States without any legal restrictions need apply for this opportunity.
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Oct 02, 2019
Full time
ABOUT THE JOB Greenpeace believes that climate change is the most urgent problem facing our planet right now, and the window for meaningful action is closing fast. Corporations and governments lack ambition, and in many cases are actively obstructing climate solutions.
Greenpeace is hiring a Senior Climate Campaigner to use their campaigning skills to lead projects and teams to deliver key pieces of Greenpeace’s climate campaign using moments of creative confrontation, working with allies and our supporters to build our organization’s power and impact and strategic smarts to make sure that our climate campaigns are as effective as possible.
This is a full time, exempt, benefits-eligible position reporting to Janet Redman, the Climate Director, who is based in Washington, DC. Note that this role can work from either Washington, DC: San Francisco or Oakland, California.
THIS ROLE WILL:
Identify campaign opportunities in the external world and develop and deliver campaign strategies and interventions that move GPUS closer to our agreed campaign objectives.
Creatively communicate climate issues, opportunities and interventions, especially through Greenpeace social media channels and via other platforms to reach, inspire and engage our supporters and allies.
Represent Greenpeace US among external partners and in the media, and work within coalition spaces to further campaign and organizational goals.
Work with GP grassroots, online and engagement staff to identify and act on strategic opportunities to mobilize GP’s network of supporters and activists.
Contribute and cultivate issue expertise on climate issues within teams
Line manage individuals and coordinate teams as needed.
QUALIFICATIONS
A min of six (6) years experience in developing and delivering campaigns.
Campaign strategy skills, including experience in setting campaign objectives, developing a critical pathway/campaign strategy to achieve these, and selecting an effective series of interventions that strengthens our supporter base and meets the campaign objectives.
Ability to lead multi-disciplinary teams through a process of developing and delivering a specific campaign, successfully ensuring that the team’s outputs deliver on campaign objectives.
Proven track record of reaching and inspiring people online to take action both online & offline in a way that builds long term power for the organization.
Organizational skills, including experience with running fast-paced, creative, engaging activist projects and campaigns project administration (budgets, reporting, etc.)
Proven understanding of and ability with social media practices, principles and implementation.
Strong presentation skills, written and oral; comfort speaking to the public, Greenpeace supporters, allies and the media.
Commitment to nonviolence as a means of effecting change.
Experience working in coalitions, including cross-cultural, cross-movement sector.
General knowledge of climate-related topics desired but not essential if eager to dive in and learn.
If you want to save the world from climate change and believe in environmental justice, please submit an application on our careers page. Applications will be review on a rolling basis and will conclude once we have found the best candidate.
Greenpeace is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, class, sex, gender, sexual orientation, disability, family/marital status, religion or other protected classes. We strongly encourage applications from marginalized communities. If you require assistance applying to this opportunity, please contact us.
BENEFITS Greenpeace USA values a healthy work-life balance and has flexible, family-friendly employment policies. Our competitive benefits package for full-time employees includes medical, dental, and vision coverage with low contributions from staff. We have options for pre-tax flexible spending accounts for medical and dependent care costs. Greenpeace employees enjoy generous 401K matching and time off for vacation, sick, personal, and parental leave. After five years, staff are eligible for a paid sabbatical. To encourage public transportation use and biking, we offer subsidies for staff who choose to bike or ride mass transit to work. Greenpeace is committed to the growth and development of staff and fostering a creative workplace culture. For more information, check out our benefits plan.
Only applicants eligible to work and live in the United States without any legal restrictions need apply for this opportunity.
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Rare seeks an entrepreneurial, creative and task-oriented Vice President to work directly with the CEO bringing insight and life to a new US Climate Change Campaign.
Position Overview
This individual will lead the strategic development and implementation of a multi-faceted behavior change campaign designed to leverage individual behavior change to reduce emissions across the food/agriculture, energy and transport sectors.
Key Responsibilities
The Vice President, U.S. Climate Change will exercise both independent judgement and a collaborative approach to carry out the following responsibilities:
Design and execute program strategy
Lead a cross-functional team of behavioral designers and market researchers in partnership with the Center for Behavior and Environment to develop a strategy for changing the behavior of 10% of Americans. This effort is presently called “Make It Personal.”
Develop and test a theory of change that links adoption of new behaviors to policy advocacy and voting behavior
Utilize a “lean startup” approach to pilot and eventually scale various elements of this campaign through:
A tech platform to enable behavioral adoption
Program roll-out through nationwide partnerships with cities, college campuses, and corporate staff engagement programs
A robust social media, mass media and public outreach effort
Raise funds necessary to transition from pilot to scale over the next two years by making the case to philanthropic foundations, individual contributors and corporate sponsors
Lead implementation of project, including day-to-day management and ensuring alignment with the long-term vision, including:
Design and hire the necessary staff and consultants to design and execute this effort
Engage key stakeholders both internal and external to the organization Establish a network of city-based Advisory Councils, starting with Austin,TX
Design, develop and execute a regular report on the progress of the project for key funders, investors and advisors
Collaborate internally to develop and sustain an external drumbeat promoting this work, which includes both communications strategies and the development of content and related marketing assets
Lead project marketing and funding in partnership with the Development and Communications team
Liaise with relevant donor owners in each development segment to manage a portfolio of donors relevant to this effort and act as the
Development team’s content expert for all project-related proposals and grant reports
Write drafts, copy-edit, and assist in the preparation of grant proposals and reports to funders, with a focus on content related to this project
Identify relevant platforms and podiums to promote this effort
Experience and Education
The ideal candidate will be dynamic, entrepreneurial, and high-energy, with the ability to work productively with a diverse array of leaders, experts and philanthropists. S/he should be able to demonstrate prior success in a variety of high-impact initiatives that include experience managing from conception through completion with explicit outcomes. S/he should be a hands-on, action-oriented leader. Experience creating and managing behavior change campaigns, public advocacy programs, or consumer marketing efforts with significant budget/P&L responsibility is critical. Priority skillsets include: strategy formulation, message design, campaign management, and fundraising. Candidates should self-identify as creative and analytical and organized with strong writing skills. Other qualifications include:
A minimum of 10 years of related experience in campaign design, marketing, and executive-level management
Exceptional ability in project management and cross-functional collaboration
Superior interpersonal and communications skills including the ability to engage effectively with staff and partners at all levels in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial work environment;
Excellent track record in developing and managing communications with high priority external partners;
Demonstrated experience in cultivating and stewarding donor relationships; Exceptional writing skills (a writing test will be conducted during interview process);
Sound business judgment and ability to manage shifting priorities and competing deadlines to ensure accuracy and high-quality standards while applying a systems view of outcomes and impact.
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Oct 02, 2019
Full time
Rare seeks an entrepreneurial, creative and task-oriented Vice President to work directly with the CEO bringing insight and life to a new US Climate Change Campaign.
Position Overview
This individual will lead the strategic development and implementation of a multi-faceted behavior change campaign designed to leverage individual behavior change to reduce emissions across the food/agriculture, energy and transport sectors.
Key Responsibilities
The Vice President, U.S. Climate Change will exercise both independent judgement and a collaborative approach to carry out the following responsibilities:
Design and execute program strategy
Lead a cross-functional team of behavioral designers and market researchers in partnership with the Center for Behavior and Environment to develop a strategy for changing the behavior of 10% of Americans. This effort is presently called “Make It Personal.”
Develop and test a theory of change that links adoption of new behaviors to policy advocacy and voting behavior
Utilize a “lean startup” approach to pilot and eventually scale various elements of this campaign through:
A tech platform to enable behavioral adoption
Program roll-out through nationwide partnerships with cities, college campuses, and corporate staff engagement programs
A robust social media, mass media and public outreach effort
Raise funds necessary to transition from pilot to scale over the next two years by making the case to philanthropic foundations, individual contributors and corporate sponsors
Lead implementation of project, including day-to-day management and ensuring alignment with the long-term vision, including:
Design and hire the necessary staff and consultants to design and execute this effort
Engage key stakeholders both internal and external to the organization Establish a network of city-based Advisory Councils, starting with Austin,TX
Design, develop and execute a regular report on the progress of the project for key funders, investors and advisors
Collaborate internally to develop and sustain an external drumbeat promoting this work, which includes both communications strategies and the development of content and related marketing assets
Lead project marketing and funding in partnership with the Development and Communications team
Liaise with relevant donor owners in each development segment to manage a portfolio of donors relevant to this effort and act as the
Development team’s content expert for all project-related proposals and grant reports
Write drafts, copy-edit, and assist in the preparation of grant proposals and reports to funders, with a focus on content related to this project
Identify relevant platforms and podiums to promote this effort
Experience and Education
The ideal candidate will be dynamic, entrepreneurial, and high-energy, with the ability to work productively with a diverse array of leaders, experts and philanthropists. S/he should be able to demonstrate prior success in a variety of high-impact initiatives that include experience managing from conception through completion with explicit outcomes. S/he should be a hands-on, action-oriented leader. Experience creating and managing behavior change campaigns, public advocacy programs, or consumer marketing efforts with significant budget/P&L responsibility is critical. Priority skillsets include: strategy formulation, message design, campaign management, and fundraising. Candidates should self-identify as creative and analytical and organized with strong writing skills. Other qualifications include:
A minimum of 10 years of related experience in campaign design, marketing, and executive-level management
Exceptional ability in project management and cross-functional collaboration
Superior interpersonal and communications skills including the ability to engage effectively with staff and partners at all levels in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial work environment;
Excellent track record in developing and managing communications with high priority external partners;
Demonstrated experience in cultivating and stewarding donor relationships; Exceptional writing skills (a writing test will be conducted during interview process);
Sound business judgment and ability to manage shifting priorities and competing deadlines to ensure accuracy and high-quality standards while applying a systems view of outcomes and impact.
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SUMMARY
Greenpeace USA’s Frontline team is the public face of Greenpeace. The Frontline program’s objective is to increase the financial strength and support for our mission of creating a green and peaceful future while providing hard-hitting grassroots results across the country for priority Greenpeace campaigns.
The NYC Frontline office uses street canvassing tactics to recruit members and mobilize them to support Greenpeace. This program is vital to the success of GPUSA and the Senior City Coordinator is a central leader of the Frontline program with the authority to hold all staff within the office accountable to standards and expectations, manage office performance and its contribution to the Frontline program, coach staff on fundraising skills, and develop new leadership.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Performance: Ensure that new member and financial goals are achieved by meeting the following objectives:
Office performance - each Frontline office is responsible for a fundraising budget as determined by national leadership and the City Coordinator is expected to work with the Coordinator Team to maintain the following metrics: Minimum of 80% of budget
Minimum of 1.75 Return on Investment (ROI)
Specific fundraising Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) such as average gift, age percentage, turf time, etc.
Personal Fundraising - all staff are held to fundraising standards and City Coordinators are expected to maintain a high, consistent performance record. Canvass an average of 2-3 days per week
Recruit a minimum of 39 members per quarter
Ensure that all staff have adequate support, training and resources to achieve the team goal
City Coordinators should be available to work both door and street canvass shifts as necessary to achieve the team goal Canvass shifts require up to 8 hours of standing and/or walking per shift
You are responsible for the training and/or staffing of employees assigned to work with you each canvass day
The Regional Director will evaluate the City Coordinator’s personal and office’s fundraising performance every quarter
Staff Recruitment:
Perform group presentations and one-on-one interviews to hire quality staff
Message organic recruitment (employment referrals and in-field recruitment) as high priority and motivate your Team Leaders to
Postering and flyering as necessary to increase applicant volume
Engage with Career Centers on local college campuses to recruit and network with students
Perform phone interviews to recruit candidates from new and diverse locations
Track and report all recruitment data as designated by the Frontline Recruitment Specialist
Find creative ways to increase the quantity and improve the quality of applicants to work with Frontline
Staff Development:
Hire suitable staff who meet the physical and emotional demands of the job
Find creative ways to maintain a high level of staff motivation and build an inclusive workplace culture
Establish and maintain team discipline and performance levels standards. Address all related issues in a timely and fair manner, including the termination of staff when necessary
Ensure that all staff are working with integrity by properly representing Greenpeace at all times and not engaging in fraudulent activity
Conduct regular and ongoing training sessions with team members
Relay campaign knowledge and event information to team members
Observe and train team members in the field and provide constructive feedback
Hold people accountable to Greenpeace standards and job expectations
Set objectives for performance with each staff person and give feedback on performance
Provide Day One training for staff and ensure that Team Leaders provide training in approach, handling objections, and the basics of presentations throughout the first and second week of employment
Meet one-on-one with team members regularly and as necessary to ensure they are feeling comfortable and supported in their respective roles
Review staff performance on a daily and weekly basis and make a plan to support key staff
Hold team meetings each week to provide campaign updates, highlight individual and office success, set an urgent tone, and build morale
Meet with Team Leaders once per week to discuss staff management and standards and to train Team Leaders on motivation and coaching
Train and evaluate trainers on canvassing skills
Turf Research, Development and Management:
Create long-term, monthly, weekly and daily site schedules and staffing plan
Communicate with the Frontline Operations team regarding the number of required maps each month
Print maps and distribute to team on a daily basis
Coordinate and communicate meet-up locations, times, and transportation with the team, keeping travel time to and from turf to as minimal as possible
Strategically assign turf to maximize success
Building our list of sites by scouting and asking permission for sites/turfs on private property
If necessary, ensure turfs are in accordance with permits to maximize the performance of the team
Research and develop strategic canvassing locations for street canvass shifts
Help identify new new zip codes and turf for door canvass shifts
Track how each site/turf has performed over time
Complete data entry in the results document every day
Office Management:
Create weekly and monthly plans to improve office performance
Collate and submit timesheet and salary data for all staff every Tuesday
Oversee spending and stay within budget for office supplies, transportation to sites, recruitment, and other budgeted items.
Submit all tax and legal paperwork to People & Culture in a timely manner
Observe questions that can be legally asked in interviews
Collect all turf maps from the team on daily basis
Complete the Results Report daily
Office and National Leadership
Advance train staff to assist other team members
Lend support to other Frontline teams nationally, which may include travel to other cities
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
Skills/Attributes:
Demonstrated respect of and to all personal identities
Passion for social and environmental justice
Effective and clear communication and listening skills
Easily motivate and inspire others
Ability to give, receive, and implement feedback
Tenacity and resilience
Ability to stand/walk for up to 8 hours each canvass shift
Experience:
Minimum 6 months of face-to-face canvassing/fundraising/direct marketing experience with evidence of a consistent, high-performance track record
6 months of staff management experience
Staff recruitment and skills training
Intermediate to advanced proficiency in Google Suite, e-mail, and databasing systems
Only applicants eligible to work and live in the United States without any legal restrictions need apply for this opportunity.
COMPENSATION
Salary
The starting salary for the position is $1,940 bi-weekly ($50,440.00 annualized). During your tenure with Greenpeace USA, you will be subject to periodic performance reviews. Continued employment will be based upon satisfactory performance and other factors as outlined in our Personnel Policy Manual.
Salary increases are granted based on tenure within a specific job band. Changes to any job bands and associated salaries are made at the sole discretion of Greenpeace USA in accordance with established compensation related policies and procedures.
Benefits
Greenpeace USA values a healthy work-life balance and has flexible, family-friendly employment policies. Our competitive benefits package is offered to all staff who complete 90 days of employment and it includes medical, dental, and vision coverage. We have options for pre-tax flexible spending accounts for medical and dependent care costs. Greenpeace employees enjoy generous 401K matching and time off for vacation, sick, personal, and parental leave. After five years, staff is eligible for a paid sabbatical. To encourage public transportation use and biking, we offer subsidies for staff who choose to bike or ride mass transit to work. Greenpeace is committed to the growth and development of staff and fostering a creative workplace culture. For more information, check out our benefits plan .
Commitment to Diversity: Greenpeace welcomes and values diversity of people, cultural experiences and perspectives. Through our campaigning, we create solutions that promote environmental sustainability rooted in social justice. Our mission is to create a diverse and inclusive work environment that is a reflection of the global campaigns and missions that we champion.
Greenpeace is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, class, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, family/marital status, religion or other protected classes. We strongly encourage applications from marginalized communities.
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Oct 02, 2019
Full time
SUMMARY
Greenpeace USA’s Frontline team is the public face of Greenpeace. The Frontline program’s objective is to increase the financial strength and support for our mission of creating a green and peaceful future while providing hard-hitting grassroots results across the country for priority Greenpeace campaigns.
The NYC Frontline office uses street canvassing tactics to recruit members and mobilize them to support Greenpeace. This program is vital to the success of GPUSA and the Senior City Coordinator is a central leader of the Frontline program with the authority to hold all staff within the office accountable to standards and expectations, manage office performance and its contribution to the Frontline program, coach staff on fundraising skills, and develop new leadership.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Performance: Ensure that new member and financial goals are achieved by meeting the following objectives:
Office performance - each Frontline office is responsible for a fundraising budget as determined by national leadership and the City Coordinator is expected to work with the Coordinator Team to maintain the following metrics: Minimum of 80% of budget
Minimum of 1.75 Return on Investment (ROI)
Specific fundraising Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) such as average gift, age percentage, turf time, etc.
Personal Fundraising - all staff are held to fundraising standards and City Coordinators are expected to maintain a high, consistent performance record. Canvass an average of 2-3 days per week
Recruit a minimum of 39 members per quarter
Ensure that all staff have adequate support, training and resources to achieve the team goal
City Coordinators should be available to work both door and street canvass shifts as necessary to achieve the team goal Canvass shifts require up to 8 hours of standing and/or walking per shift
You are responsible for the training and/or staffing of employees assigned to work with you each canvass day
The Regional Director will evaluate the City Coordinator’s personal and office’s fundraising performance every quarter
Staff Recruitment:
Perform group presentations and one-on-one interviews to hire quality staff
Message organic recruitment (employment referrals and in-field recruitment) as high priority and motivate your Team Leaders to
Postering and flyering as necessary to increase applicant volume
Engage with Career Centers on local college campuses to recruit and network with students
Perform phone interviews to recruit candidates from new and diverse locations
Track and report all recruitment data as designated by the Frontline Recruitment Specialist
Find creative ways to increase the quantity and improve the quality of applicants to work with Frontline
Staff Development:
Hire suitable staff who meet the physical and emotional demands of the job
Find creative ways to maintain a high level of staff motivation and build an inclusive workplace culture
Establish and maintain team discipline and performance levels standards. Address all related issues in a timely and fair manner, including the termination of staff when necessary
Ensure that all staff are working with integrity by properly representing Greenpeace at all times and not engaging in fraudulent activity
Conduct regular and ongoing training sessions with team members
Relay campaign knowledge and event information to team members
Observe and train team members in the field and provide constructive feedback
Hold people accountable to Greenpeace standards and job expectations
Set objectives for performance with each staff person and give feedback on performance
Provide Day One training for staff and ensure that Team Leaders provide training in approach, handling objections, and the basics of presentations throughout the first and second week of employment
Meet one-on-one with team members regularly and as necessary to ensure they are feeling comfortable and supported in their respective roles
Review staff performance on a daily and weekly basis and make a plan to support key staff
Hold team meetings each week to provide campaign updates, highlight individual and office success, set an urgent tone, and build morale
Meet with Team Leaders once per week to discuss staff management and standards and to train Team Leaders on motivation and coaching
Train and evaluate trainers on canvassing skills
Turf Research, Development and Management:
Create long-term, monthly, weekly and daily site schedules and staffing plan
Communicate with the Frontline Operations team regarding the number of required maps each month
Print maps and distribute to team on a daily basis
Coordinate and communicate meet-up locations, times, and transportation with the team, keeping travel time to and from turf to as minimal as possible
Strategically assign turf to maximize success
Building our list of sites by scouting and asking permission for sites/turfs on private property
If necessary, ensure turfs are in accordance with permits to maximize the performance of the team
Research and develop strategic canvassing locations for street canvass shifts
Help identify new new zip codes and turf for door canvass shifts
Track how each site/turf has performed over time
Complete data entry in the results document every day
Office Management:
Create weekly and monthly plans to improve office performance
Collate and submit timesheet and salary data for all staff every Tuesday
Oversee spending and stay within budget for office supplies, transportation to sites, recruitment, and other budgeted items.
Submit all tax and legal paperwork to People & Culture in a timely manner
Observe questions that can be legally asked in interviews
Collect all turf maps from the team on daily basis
Complete the Results Report daily
Office and National Leadership
Advance train staff to assist other team members
Lend support to other Frontline teams nationally, which may include travel to other cities
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
Skills/Attributes:
Demonstrated respect of and to all personal identities
Passion for social and environmental justice
Effective and clear communication and listening skills
Easily motivate and inspire others
Ability to give, receive, and implement feedback
Tenacity and resilience
Ability to stand/walk for up to 8 hours each canvass shift
Experience:
Minimum 6 months of face-to-face canvassing/fundraising/direct marketing experience with evidence of a consistent, high-performance track record
6 months of staff management experience
Staff recruitment and skills training
Intermediate to advanced proficiency in Google Suite, e-mail, and databasing systems
Only applicants eligible to work and live in the United States without any legal restrictions need apply for this opportunity.
COMPENSATION
Salary
The starting salary for the position is $1,940 bi-weekly ($50,440.00 annualized). During your tenure with Greenpeace USA, you will be subject to periodic performance reviews. Continued employment will be based upon satisfactory performance and other factors as outlined in our Personnel Policy Manual.
Salary increases are granted based on tenure within a specific job band. Changes to any job bands and associated salaries are made at the sole discretion of Greenpeace USA in accordance with established compensation related policies and procedures.
Benefits
Greenpeace USA values a healthy work-life balance and has flexible, family-friendly employment policies. Our competitive benefits package is offered to all staff who complete 90 days of employment and it includes medical, dental, and vision coverage. We have options for pre-tax flexible spending accounts for medical and dependent care costs. Greenpeace employees enjoy generous 401K matching and time off for vacation, sick, personal, and parental leave. After five years, staff is eligible for a paid sabbatical. To encourage public transportation use and biking, we offer subsidies for staff who choose to bike or ride mass transit to work. Greenpeace is committed to the growth and development of staff and fostering a creative workplace culture. For more information, check out our benefits plan .
Commitment to Diversity: Greenpeace welcomes and values diversity of people, cultural experiences and perspectives. Through our campaigning, we create solutions that promote environmental sustainability rooted in social justice. Our mission is to create a diverse and inclusive work environment that is a reflection of the global campaigns and missions that we champion.
Greenpeace is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, class, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, family/marital status, religion or other protected classes. We strongly encourage applications from marginalized communities.
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Chesapeake Climate Action Network
Takoma Park, MD, USA
Summary
Do you have fundraising experience? Are you excited about the possibility of using your innovation and skills in the service of tackling climate change? Are you a great writer and comfortable with tech tools? If so, this could be the perfect job for you.
Our Donor Engagement Coordinator will deepen and expand Chesapeake Climate Action Network’s (CCAN) base of donors throughout the region. With tens of thousands of dedicated activists in Maryland, DC, and Virginia, CCAN has inspired countless people to get involved in our campaigns to protect our climate. We are searching for someone with the passion and skills to deepen the financial investment within a set of these supporters and help us expand to new donors as well. There is exceptional room for growth within this position.
About Us
For nearly 20 years, CCAN has been dedicated to building a powerful movement for bold climate solutions in the Chesapeake region of Maryland, Virginia and Washington, DC. We are committed to taking on big fights and pushing the envelope of what’s “politically possible,” using every tool inside and outside of the box – from organizing and lobbying to the law and direct action. We apply that same ethic to our fundraising efforts.
CCAN has a proven track record of winning, including our recent victories to ban fracking and to secure and strengthen Maryland’s banner clean energy bill – the Renewable Portfolio Standard. In Virginia, we are launching an exciting new effort to ensure VA finally invests in its clean energy potential. These are just a few of the exciting campaigns CCAN is undertaking. In all our work, we focus on movement-building because we believe that people are at the center of change and that solving climate change means fighting for justice.
About the Donor Engagement Coordinator
The Coordinator will use their knowledge of best practices, effective new tools, and instincts for innovation to reach out to current, past, and future individual supporters, asking for larger and firmer commitments both online and offline. Additionally, CCAN hosts fun and successful fundraising events each year that the Coordinator will manage and take to the next level. We are excited for the Coordinator to build on our successes and to make this work their own through new ideas to strengthen our grassroots fundraising overall, including supporter cultivation and appreciation, new outreach efforts and/or new approaches to traditional ones, and systems management.
Core Duties and Responsibilities
Donor meetings: Meet one-on-one with CCAN’s major donors and donor prospects and the associated preparation, follow-up, and tracking. This requires regional travel and associated night and weekend hours to meet our donors at their convenience.
Donor cultivation and communication: Create and manage systems related to the donor’s experience, ensuring our most committed supporters are kept up to date on our campaigns and thanked for their gifts.
Donor prospecting: Work with existing supporters and commonly used tools to bring in new support for CCAN, including coordinating with our communications team to further engage digitally-acquired supporters.
Event fundraising: Manage 2-3 fundraising events each year including the logistics, outreach, tracking, and follow up involved. This includes our highly successful annual Polar Bear Plunge as well as supporter-initiated smaller events throughout the year.
Qualifications
2-5 years of demonstrated experience within the fundraising field
Commitment to the mission of fighting climate change
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Experience with donor visits, highly preferred
Proven ability to make strong asks and produce goal-driven results
Excellent skills in time and systems management
Proven ability to be self-driven, while working with a team
Tech-savvy, with a love of numbers, data tracking, and analysis
Experience with Engaging Networks or other CRM, highly preferred
Experience with event fundraising, preferred
Willing to travel as needed, a valid driver’s license and car, a good driving record and auto insurance
Other
This position reports to CCAN’s Deputy Director. Salary is commensurate with experience in the range of $40,000-$50,000. CCAN provides a generous benefits package including health care, dental and vision coverage, a 401(k), and four weeks of paid vacation.
This position is based in CCAN’s Takoma Park, MD office, just a block from the DC border (on Metro’s Red Line).
How to Apply
To apply: Please submit your application via this Google Form . We will ask a few introductory questions and ask that you upload your cover letter, resume, and a sample fundraising appeal that you’ve authored.
We are accepting applications on a rolling basis .
Equal Employment Opportunity:
Chesapeake Climate Action Networks (CCAN) is committed to creating an inclusive employee experience for all. Regardless of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, age, disability, or if you are parenting the next generation of climate action innovators, we believe that our work is at its best when everyone feels free to be their most authentic self.
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Oct 02, 2019
Full time
Summary
Do you have fundraising experience? Are you excited about the possibility of using your innovation and skills in the service of tackling climate change? Are you a great writer and comfortable with tech tools? If so, this could be the perfect job for you.
Our Donor Engagement Coordinator will deepen and expand Chesapeake Climate Action Network’s (CCAN) base of donors throughout the region. With tens of thousands of dedicated activists in Maryland, DC, and Virginia, CCAN has inspired countless people to get involved in our campaigns to protect our climate. We are searching for someone with the passion and skills to deepen the financial investment within a set of these supporters and help us expand to new donors as well. There is exceptional room for growth within this position.
About Us
For nearly 20 years, CCAN has been dedicated to building a powerful movement for bold climate solutions in the Chesapeake region of Maryland, Virginia and Washington, DC. We are committed to taking on big fights and pushing the envelope of what’s “politically possible,” using every tool inside and outside of the box – from organizing and lobbying to the law and direct action. We apply that same ethic to our fundraising efforts.
CCAN has a proven track record of winning, including our recent victories to ban fracking and to secure and strengthen Maryland’s banner clean energy bill – the Renewable Portfolio Standard. In Virginia, we are launching an exciting new effort to ensure VA finally invests in its clean energy potential. These are just a few of the exciting campaigns CCAN is undertaking. In all our work, we focus on movement-building because we believe that people are at the center of change and that solving climate change means fighting for justice.
About the Donor Engagement Coordinator
The Coordinator will use their knowledge of best practices, effective new tools, and instincts for innovation to reach out to current, past, and future individual supporters, asking for larger and firmer commitments both online and offline. Additionally, CCAN hosts fun and successful fundraising events each year that the Coordinator will manage and take to the next level. We are excited for the Coordinator to build on our successes and to make this work their own through new ideas to strengthen our grassroots fundraising overall, including supporter cultivation and appreciation, new outreach efforts and/or new approaches to traditional ones, and systems management.
Core Duties and Responsibilities
Donor meetings: Meet one-on-one with CCAN’s major donors and donor prospects and the associated preparation, follow-up, and tracking. This requires regional travel and associated night and weekend hours to meet our donors at their convenience.
Donor cultivation and communication: Create and manage systems related to the donor’s experience, ensuring our most committed supporters are kept up to date on our campaigns and thanked for their gifts.
Donor prospecting: Work with existing supporters and commonly used tools to bring in new support for CCAN, including coordinating with our communications team to further engage digitally-acquired supporters.
Event fundraising: Manage 2-3 fundraising events each year including the logistics, outreach, tracking, and follow up involved. This includes our highly successful annual Polar Bear Plunge as well as supporter-initiated smaller events throughout the year.
Qualifications
2-5 years of demonstrated experience within the fundraising field
Commitment to the mission of fighting climate change
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Experience with donor visits, highly preferred
Proven ability to make strong asks and produce goal-driven results
Excellent skills in time and systems management
Proven ability to be self-driven, while working with a team
Tech-savvy, with a love of numbers, data tracking, and analysis
Experience with Engaging Networks or other CRM, highly preferred
Experience with event fundraising, preferred
Willing to travel as needed, a valid driver’s license and car, a good driving record and auto insurance
Other
This position reports to CCAN’s Deputy Director. Salary is commensurate with experience in the range of $40,000-$50,000. CCAN provides a generous benefits package including health care, dental and vision coverage, a 401(k), and four weeks of paid vacation.
This position is based in CCAN’s Takoma Park, MD office, just a block from the DC border (on Metro’s Red Line).
How to Apply
To apply: Please submit your application via this Google Form . We will ask a few introductory questions and ask that you upload your cover letter, resume, and a sample fundraising appeal that you’ve authored.
We are accepting applications on a rolling basis .
Equal Employment Opportunity:
Chesapeake Climate Action Networks (CCAN) is committed to creating an inclusive employee experience for all. Regardless of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, age, disability, or if you are parenting the next generation of climate action innovators, we believe that our work is at its best when everyone feels free to be their most authentic self.
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What you'll do
Develops media and digital strategies for corporate and business unit clients by monitoring and measuring strategies; identifying public relations opportunities, threats, and best practices; participating in clients' strategic planning; allocating resources for the development and implementation of media measurement techniques; and evaluating and reporting the effectiveness of media relations efforts to enhance the company's reputation, with a focus on environmental sustainability. Influences and provides input on the development of Walmart's overall communications strategy by facilitating efforts to ensure continuity of messaging roll-out, post roll-out, and influencer strategies; evaluating the financial and social impact of key issues; advising and providing recommendations to executives on how to mitigate or address these issues through messaging; and recommending strategic messaging changes based on relevant legislation, stakeholder feedback, or program modifications. Serves as a high-level company spokesperson to ensure statements and key messages of sensitivity and impact are provided to the media by improving and protecting the corporate or division reputation; implementing message frameworks; evaluating public opinion research; writing, editing, and approving communications materials; coordinating approval process with internal clients, Corporate Communications management, and Legal; working to ensure key external audiences understand Walmart's culture and values; developing, maintaining, and leveraging relationships with national, local, and online journalists and bloggers for proactive and reactive media stories; and mitigating and elevating potential media opportunities. Provides strategic expertise to Walmart senior management by collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure consistent communication and media relations; presenting views and opinions of Corporate Communications; providing media advice and public relations counsel; influencing public relations decisions; driving collaboration across the business; serving as primary contact for key external partners and third-parties; identifying and communicating public relations trends and best practices; and collaborating with leaders and team members to deliver strategic plans and coordinated materials while balancing changing and competing priorities. Ensures corporate messaging enhances the reputation of business units across Walmart by gathering information from business unit leaders, external groups, and other key stakeholders; determining and evaluating business unit strategy and direction to develop on-target messaging; integrating message testing, corporate positions, business strengths and vulnerabilities, external influences, and senior executive input; and developing message frameworks. Minimum Qualifications...Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications. Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Public Relations, Business, or related field and 5 years’ experience in public relations, communications, or relevant area OR 7 years’ experience in public relations, communications, or relevant area. 2 years’ supervisory experience or experience leading cross-functional teams. Preferred Qualifications...Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications. Government Relations, Media Relations, Retail Industry
Minimum Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Public Relations, Business, or related field and 5 years’ experience in public relations, communications, or relevant area OR 7 years’ experience in public relations, communications, or relevant area. 2 years’ supervisory experience or experience leading cross-functional teams.
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Oct 01, 2019
Full time
What you'll do
Develops media and digital strategies for corporate and business unit clients by monitoring and measuring strategies; identifying public relations opportunities, threats, and best practices; participating in clients' strategic planning; allocating resources for the development and implementation of media measurement techniques; and evaluating and reporting the effectiveness of media relations efforts to enhance the company's reputation, with a focus on environmental sustainability. Influences and provides input on the development of Walmart's overall communications strategy by facilitating efforts to ensure continuity of messaging roll-out, post roll-out, and influencer strategies; evaluating the financial and social impact of key issues; advising and providing recommendations to executives on how to mitigate or address these issues through messaging; and recommending strategic messaging changes based on relevant legislation, stakeholder feedback, or program modifications. Serves as a high-level company spokesperson to ensure statements and key messages of sensitivity and impact are provided to the media by improving and protecting the corporate or division reputation; implementing message frameworks; evaluating public opinion research; writing, editing, and approving communications materials; coordinating approval process with internal clients, Corporate Communications management, and Legal; working to ensure key external audiences understand Walmart's culture and values; developing, maintaining, and leveraging relationships with national, local, and online journalists and bloggers for proactive and reactive media stories; and mitigating and elevating potential media opportunities. Provides strategic expertise to Walmart senior management by collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure consistent communication and media relations; presenting views and opinions of Corporate Communications; providing media advice and public relations counsel; influencing public relations decisions; driving collaboration across the business; serving as primary contact for key external partners and third-parties; identifying and communicating public relations trends and best practices; and collaborating with leaders and team members to deliver strategic plans and coordinated materials while balancing changing and competing priorities. Ensures corporate messaging enhances the reputation of business units across Walmart by gathering information from business unit leaders, external groups, and other key stakeholders; determining and evaluating business unit strategy and direction to develop on-target messaging; integrating message testing, corporate positions, business strengths and vulnerabilities, external influences, and senior executive input; and developing message frameworks. Minimum Qualifications...Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications. Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Public Relations, Business, or related field and 5 years’ experience in public relations, communications, or relevant area OR 7 years’ experience in public relations, communications, or relevant area. 2 years’ supervisory experience or experience leading cross-functional teams. Preferred Qualifications...Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications. Government Relations, Media Relations, Retail Industry
Minimum Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Public Relations, Business, or related field and 5 years’ experience in public relations, communications, or relevant area OR 7 years’ experience in public relations, communications, or relevant area. 2 years’ supervisory experience or experience leading cross-functional teams.
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Overview
Now in its second century, Audubon is dedicated to protecting birds and other wildlife and the habitat that supports them. Audubon’s mission is engaging people in bird conservation on a hemispheric scale through science, policy, education and on-the-ground conservation action. By mobilizing and aligning its network of Chapters, Centers, State and Important Bird Area programs in the four major migratory flyways in the Americas, the organization will bring the full power of Audubon to bear on protecting common and threatened bird species and the critical habitat they need to survive. And as part of BirdLife International, Audubon will join people in over 100 in-country organizations all working to protect a network of Important Bird Areas around the world, leveraging the impact of actions they take at a local level. What defines Audubon’s unique value is a powerful grassroots network of nearly 500 local chapters, 23 state offices, 41 Audubon Centers, Important Bird Area Programs in 50 states, and 700 staff across the country. Audubon is a federal contractor and an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE).
Position Summary
Reporting to the Colorado River Program Director at the National Audubon Society, the Program Manager is responsible for assisting the Colorado River Program with policy and management efforts as well as stakeholder relations with a principal focus on water and habitat issues at the United States-Mexico border. As part of the team, s/he will work with a broad array of internal and external partners to improve coordination and collaboration, to contribute to Audubon’s efforts to use science, economics, law, fundraising and communications to improve the reliability of water supplies for people and birds across the Colorado River Basin, as well as produce timely work products throughout the year. Additionally, the Program Manager effectively oversees specific projects pertaining to Audubon’s Colorado River Program. S/he will work in partnership with other like-minded organizations in pursuit of Audubon’s objectives; and s/he will also advocate on behalf of Audubon to local, state, and federal government officials, including agency staff and appointed and elected officials. **The Program Manager may be based out of Boulder, Colorado or an agreeable remote location within the region that uses Colorado River water.
Essential Functions
Under the guidance of the Program Director, track and coordinate progress on a variety of collaborative efforts in the Colorado River Delta.
Provide content and broadly support broad-ranging Audubon efforts to secure resources for restoration of the Colorado River Delta.
Support and manage select Audubon partnership efforts to promote Colorado River water conservation.
Support and manage select Audubon partnership efforts to promote the protection and restoration of Colorado River Basin riparian habitats.
Develop productive relationships with key stakeholders, including staff from local, state, and federal agencies, NGOs, and funders in the United States and Mexico.
Provide content in support of Audubon objectives for web and social media platforms; be active in the communication and dissemination of Audubon objectives and successes in the Colorado River Basin.
Research and guide framing of Colorado River and related policy positions, including development of briefing papers and talking points.
Provide occasional document translation from English to Spanish and Spanish to English.
Work closely and effectively with consultants that Audubon retains for science, economics, and policy work; act as a liaison on projects and report updates to the Program Director following meetings.
Qualifications and Experience
Bachelor’s degree in environmental policy or science or related field required; Master’s or Professional degree preferred.
5+ years professional experience in environmental advocacy, to include demonstrated success at the federal, state and/or local level. Knowledge of Western Water or Colorado River issues required.
Outstanding writing, editing, presentation, and public speaking skills required, as well as superior communication and interpersonal skills.
Experience working within or managing diverse coalitions.
Written and spoken Spanish fluency.
Ability to work independently and in a team-based environment.
A self-starter, with strong organizational and time/project management skills.
Fundraising or donor cultivation a plus.
Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, as well as web-based and social media tools.
A flexible approach to work, and ability to occasionally travel for work when needed.
Demonstrated interest in conservation and the mission of the National Audubon Society.
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Oct 01, 2019
Full time
Overview
Now in its second century, Audubon is dedicated to protecting birds and other wildlife and the habitat that supports them. Audubon’s mission is engaging people in bird conservation on a hemispheric scale through science, policy, education and on-the-ground conservation action. By mobilizing and aligning its network of Chapters, Centers, State and Important Bird Area programs in the four major migratory flyways in the Americas, the organization will bring the full power of Audubon to bear on protecting common and threatened bird species and the critical habitat they need to survive. And as part of BirdLife International, Audubon will join people in over 100 in-country organizations all working to protect a network of Important Bird Areas around the world, leveraging the impact of actions they take at a local level. What defines Audubon’s unique value is a powerful grassroots network of nearly 500 local chapters, 23 state offices, 41 Audubon Centers, Important Bird Area Programs in 50 states, and 700 staff across the country. Audubon is a federal contractor and an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE).
Position Summary
Reporting to the Colorado River Program Director at the National Audubon Society, the Program Manager is responsible for assisting the Colorado River Program with policy and management efforts as well as stakeholder relations with a principal focus on water and habitat issues at the United States-Mexico border. As part of the team, s/he will work with a broad array of internal and external partners to improve coordination and collaboration, to contribute to Audubon’s efforts to use science, economics, law, fundraising and communications to improve the reliability of water supplies for people and birds across the Colorado River Basin, as well as produce timely work products throughout the year. Additionally, the Program Manager effectively oversees specific projects pertaining to Audubon’s Colorado River Program. S/he will work in partnership with other like-minded organizations in pursuit of Audubon’s objectives; and s/he will also advocate on behalf of Audubon to local, state, and federal government officials, including agency staff and appointed and elected officials. **The Program Manager may be based out of Boulder, Colorado or an agreeable remote location within the region that uses Colorado River water.
Essential Functions
Under the guidance of the Program Director, track and coordinate progress on a variety of collaborative efforts in the Colorado River Delta.
Provide content and broadly support broad-ranging Audubon efforts to secure resources for restoration of the Colorado River Delta.
Support and manage select Audubon partnership efforts to promote Colorado River water conservation.
Support and manage select Audubon partnership efforts to promote the protection and restoration of Colorado River Basin riparian habitats.
Develop productive relationships with key stakeholders, including staff from local, state, and federal agencies, NGOs, and funders in the United States and Mexico.
Provide content in support of Audubon objectives for web and social media platforms; be active in the communication and dissemination of Audubon objectives and successes in the Colorado River Basin.
Research and guide framing of Colorado River and related policy positions, including development of briefing papers and talking points.
Provide occasional document translation from English to Spanish and Spanish to English.
Work closely and effectively with consultants that Audubon retains for science, economics, and policy work; act as a liaison on projects and report updates to the Program Director following meetings.
Qualifications and Experience
Bachelor’s degree in environmental policy or science or related field required; Master’s or Professional degree preferred.
5+ years professional experience in environmental advocacy, to include demonstrated success at the federal, state and/or local level. Knowledge of Western Water or Colorado River issues required.
Outstanding writing, editing, presentation, and public speaking skills required, as well as superior communication and interpersonal skills.
Experience working within or managing diverse coalitions.
Written and spoken Spanish fluency.
Ability to work independently and in a team-based environment.
A self-starter, with strong organizational and time/project management skills.
Fundraising or donor cultivation a plus.
Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, as well as web-based and social media tools.
A flexible approach to work, and ability to occasionally travel for work when needed.
Demonstrated interest in conservation and the mission of the National Audubon Society.
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Description
**Please include a cover letter when submitting an application**
At Aramark, our purpose revolves around our mission to “Enrich and Nourish Lives,” which brings together 270,000 committed team members in a collective effort to be successful by doing well. Our approach is to drive sustainable growth and create long-term stakeholder value by focusing on every dimension of how the company operates — ethical, economic, and environmental. We do this through initiatives that engage employees, empower healthy living, preserve the planet, and build local communities.
This position is responsible for supporting the implementation of Aramark’s company-wide sustainability strategy, with an emphasis on environmental practices, and the enhancement of Aramark’s reputation.
This role will focus on 1) leading implementation of the company’s public environmental commitments including responsible sourcing, waste minimization and operational efficiency, and 2) supporting engagement of key external stakeholders, responsible for cultivating relationships, gaining insights and expertise and advancing Aramark’s strategy and brand.
The Sustainability Manager will play an integral role in Aramark’s business success and, is responsible for partnering with key functions across the company including supply chain, culinary development, operational excellence, investor relations, legal and communications. The ideal candidate will have subject matter expertise on social and environmental matters, with a priority focus on sustainable sourcing issues and consumer health and wellness, in additional to understanding employee wellbeing and community engagement. This role will communicate and consult with Aramark’s key external stakeholders including advocacy groups, investors and industry organizations.
This position reports to the Vice President, Enterprise Sustainability.
Business Integration
Primary focus on environmental practices and food service business, with responsibility for coordination and alignment across facilities services and uniforms business. Key projects include:
Lead cross-functional teams responsible for Aramark’s public waste minimization commitments including implementing and reporting on the company’s commitment to reduce single-use plastics globally by 2022, reduce food waste in the U.S. by 50% by 2030 following the U.S. EPA Food Recovery Hierarchy, and oversee food donation program partnership and approach to addressing food insecurity.
Partner with supply chain to drive sustainable sourcing strategy and public commitments by providing support through development and implementation of new sustainable sourcing strategy.
Support implementation of Aramark’s plant-forward strategy including coordinating with culinary, supply chain, lines of business and external partners to reinforce and expand Aramark’s consumer driven solutions, while tracking environmental impact of the company’s menu offerings.
Manage field engagement strategy including national network of sustainability coordinators across lines of business, and develop model to engage employees in driving enterprise priorities and cultivate sense of purpose and impact.
Across all projects, develop agendas, coordinate and facilitate meetings, identify gaps and opportunities, partner functional owners to advance key outcomes, provide updates on progress and outcomes.
Marketing and Communications
Oversee Green Thread™ platform and brand by maintaining and developing tools and resources to support implementation of operational practices and consumer marketing materials, working in partnership with center-led and field marketing teams.
Partner with internal and external communications to tell Aramark’s environmental sustainability story through progress reports, blogs, articles and social media.
Support Request for Proposals (RFPs) responses, quarterly business review content development and annual refresh of proposal content, in partnership with Global Sales.
Manage limited set of Public Reporting requests, including overseeing timelines, information gathering, drafting responses, review processes, and completing submissions. Track evaluations from CDP (Carbon Disclosure Project) and other organizations, identifying opportunities for continuous improvement.
Governance and Stakeholder Engagement
Support internal governance structure by formalizing and managing process to ensure all public announcements include input from key external stakeholders, socialized with functional and business leaders, and communicated to clients and employees through suite of tools and resources.
Develop stakeholder engagement plan that (1) links to Aramark’s sustainability and business objectives, and builds upon current practices and partnerships (2) identifies specific issues and objectives related to each stakeholder group, and (3) identifies Aramark’s goals, objectives and preferred outcomes from engagement with each group.
Develop and facilitate relationships of trust and confidence with key stakeholders, based in providing timely and transparent information that maximizes stakeholder opportunities to proactively engage and provide feedback to Aramark, and that enable Aramark to do the same.
Define and facilitate lines of communication between each stakeholder group and key functions across the company based upon overlapping subject matters and issues.
Identify and understand stakeholder issues, interests, aspirations and concerns to better define what matters most, and identify opportunities to advance mutual interests.
Understand and incorporate into the stakeholder engagement process best practices and standards including the Global Reporting Initiative.
Represent the company in external events, conferences and industry meetings
Qualifications
Degree in a subject related to sustainability; Master’s degree preferred (business, environment and/or sustainability).
Significant (5-7 years +) experience working in sustainability team or specialized consultancy. Relevant professional experience from a top-tier consulting firm, non-profit working with business, or sustainability, corporate affairs, or similar role in the private sector.
Knowledge of and experience with social and environmental matters, including interconnected issues; understands business and operations of large food, facilities and uniform company.
Inquisitive mind set with strong analytical abilities. Strategic thinker looking outside to bring new approaches to continually improve internal effectiveness.
Highly analytical, ability to synthesize information and offer recommendations/solutions.
Ability to work independently and manage multi-stakeholder engagement from vision to implementation.
Ability to communicate and facilitate dialogue with those holding diverse and opposing views, by finding common ground and identifying opportunities to move forward. Courage and conviction in managing difficult conversations.
Resilient, and able to adapt to challenges, identify underlying concerns, share ideas and develop effective responses or elevate to higher management.
Demonstrated ability to work across complex organizations.
Strong interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal.
Organized with a strong attention to detail and follow-through.
Able to handle multiple projects and competing priorities effectively.
Budget development and oversight experience.
Ability to travel as needed, up to 10% of time.
**Please include a cover letter when submitting an application**
ARAMARK is an EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY/AFFIRMATIVE ACTION employer – Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran Aramark will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the Los Angeles Fair Chance ordinance. Application FAQs
Remember to say you found this opportunity at EnvironmentalCareer.com
Oct 01, 2019
Full time
Description
**Please include a cover letter when submitting an application**
At Aramark, our purpose revolves around our mission to “Enrich and Nourish Lives,” which brings together 270,000 committed team members in a collective effort to be successful by doing well. Our approach is to drive sustainable growth and create long-term stakeholder value by focusing on every dimension of how the company operates — ethical, economic, and environmental. We do this through initiatives that engage employees, empower healthy living, preserve the planet, and build local communities.
This position is responsible for supporting the implementation of Aramark’s company-wide sustainability strategy, with an emphasis on environmental practices, and the enhancement of Aramark’s reputation.
This role will focus on 1) leading implementation of the company’s public environmental commitments including responsible sourcing, waste minimization and operational efficiency, and 2) supporting engagement of key external stakeholders, responsible for cultivating relationships, gaining insights and expertise and advancing Aramark’s strategy and brand.
The Sustainability Manager will play an integral role in Aramark’s business success and, is responsible for partnering with key functions across the company including supply chain, culinary development, operational excellence, investor relations, legal and communications. The ideal candidate will have subject matter expertise on social and environmental matters, with a priority focus on sustainable sourcing issues and consumer health and wellness, in additional to understanding employee wellbeing and community engagement. This role will communicate and consult with Aramark’s key external stakeholders including advocacy groups, investors and industry organizations.
This position reports to the Vice President, Enterprise Sustainability.
Business Integration
Primary focus on environmental practices and food service business, with responsibility for coordination and alignment across facilities services and uniforms business. Key projects include:
Lead cross-functional teams responsible for Aramark’s public waste minimization commitments including implementing and reporting on the company’s commitment to reduce single-use plastics globally by 2022, reduce food waste in the U.S. by 50% by 2030 following the U.S. EPA Food Recovery Hierarchy, and oversee food donation program partnership and approach to addressing food insecurity.
Partner with supply chain to drive sustainable sourcing strategy and public commitments by providing support through development and implementation of new sustainable sourcing strategy.
Support implementation of Aramark’s plant-forward strategy including coordinating with culinary, supply chain, lines of business and external partners to reinforce and expand Aramark’s consumer driven solutions, while tracking environmental impact of the company’s menu offerings.
Manage field engagement strategy including national network of sustainability coordinators across lines of business, and develop model to engage employees in driving enterprise priorities and cultivate sense of purpose and impact.
Across all projects, develop agendas, coordinate and facilitate meetings, identify gaps and opportunities, partner functional owners to advance key outcomes, provide updates on progress and outcomes.
Marketing and Communications
Oversee Green Thread™ platform and brand by maintaining and developing tools and resources to support implementation of operational practices and consumer marketing materials, working in partnership with center-led and field marketing teams.
Partner with internal and external communications to tell Aramark’s environmental sustainability story through progress reports, blogs, articles and social media.
Support Request for Proposals (RFPs) responses, quarterly business review content development and annual refresh of proposal content, in partnership with Global Sales.
Manage limited set of Public Reporting requests, including overseeing timelines, information gathering, drafting responses, review processes, and completing submissions. Track evaluations from CDP (Carbon Disclosure Project) and other organizations, identifying opportunities for continuous improvement.
Governance and Stakeholder Engagement
Support internal governance structure by formalizing and managing process to ensure all public announcements include input from key external stakeholders, socialized with functional and business leaders, and communicated to clients and employees through suite of tools and resources.
Develop stakeholder engagement plan that (1) links to Aramark’s sustainability and business objectives, and builds upon current practices and partnerships (2) identifies specific issues and objectives related to each stakeholder group, and (3) identifies Aramark’s goals, objectives and preferred outcomes from engagement with each group.
Develop and facilitate relationships of trust and confidence with key stakeholders, based in providing timely and transparent information that maximizes stakeholder opportunities to proactively engage and provide feedback to Aramark, and that enable Aramark to do the same.
Define and facilitate lines of communication between each stakeholder group and key functions across the company based upon overlapping subject matters and issues.
Identify and understand stakeholder issues, interests, aspirations and concerns to better define what matters most, and identify opportunities to advance mutual interests.
Understand and incorporate into the stakeholder engagement process best practices and standards including the Global Reporting Initiative.
Represent the company in external events, conferences and industry meetings
Qualifications
Degree in a subject related to sustainability; Master’s degree preferred (business, environment and/or sustainability).
Significant (5-7 years +) experience working in sustainability team or specialized consultancy. Relevant professional experience from a top-tier consulting firm, non-profit working with business, or sustainability, corporate affairs, or similar role in the private sector.
Knowledge of and experience with social and environmental matters, including interconnected issues; understands business and operations of large food, facilities and uniform company.
Inquisitive mind set with strong analytical abilities. Strategic thinker looking outside to bring new approaches to continually improve internal effectiveness.
Highly analytical, ability to synthesize information and offer recommendations/solutions.
Ability to work independently and manage multi-stakeholder engagement from vision to implementation.
Ability to communicate and facilitate dialogue with those holding diverse and opposing views, by finding common ground and identifying opportunities to move forward. Courage and conviction in managing difficult conversations.
Resilient, and able to adapt to challenges, identify underlying concerns, share ideas and develop effective responses or elevate to higher management.
Demonstrated ability to work across complex organizations.
Strong interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal.
Organized with a strong attention to detail and follow-through.
Able to handle multiple projects and competing priorities effectively.
Budget development and oversight experience.
Ability to travel as needed, up to 10% of time.
**Please include a cover letter when submitting an application**
ARAMARK is an EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY/AFFIRMATIVE ACTION employer – Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran Aramark will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the Los Angeles Fair Chance ordinance. Application FAQs
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