Deputy Director of Landscape Conservation, World Wildlife Fund (Bozeman, MT)
Deadline: Open until filled
Since the beginning of the Northern Great Plains program in 2000, the World Wildlife Fund has played an integral role in charting a sustainable future for the region. By bringing together local communities, landowners, governments, scientists, conservation experts and industry, we are achieving lasting results in the conservation and restoration of the region's natural heritage. WWF seeks a Deputy Director to lead the Northern Great Plains leadership team in collaboration with the Managing Director.
RESPONSIBILITIES
* Planning, developing, implementing, managing, monitoring, and reporting of WWF's NGP conservation work
* Support WWF-US's overall strategic long-range goal of results in places
* Develops and recommends short- and long-range conservation goals
* Works with the MD and development staff to raise crucial operation funds and provides leadership and management to field staff working to accomplish these objectives
* Maintains relationships with a wide variety of stakeholders and partners from different cultures and backgrounds
QUALIFICATIONS
* A Masters Degree and 8-10 years experience in a related field
* Excellent knowledge of national and regional conservation arena, key players and policy, including a deep understanding of western tribal and public lands policy
* Direct experience developing and implementing strategic plans, large budgets, and program teams
* Demonstrated success synthesizing and packaging big ideas and raising money for those ideas through individual donors, government grants, foundation and corporate support
* Experience forging partnerships with a wide variety of players, including local communities, government, tribes and NGO's and using strategic communications
* Ability to quickly master a deep understanding of all aspects of the NGP Program, with particularly strong emphasis on ecoregional scale conservation, policy, trends and science
* Excellent written and oral communication skills, including demonstrated skills in grant writing, technical writing and public speaking; advanced leadership skills; ability to supervise, inspire, foster creativity and professional growth and collaborate with employees at all levels of organization
TO APPLY
To submit cover letter and resume please visit http://www.worldwildlife.org/careers, job # 12030
