Senior Director, Climate and Agriculture Network
Hours: Full-time (4-days, 32 hours/week)
Salary: $70,000 - $80,000
Benefits: medical, dental, sick days, holidays
Supervisor: CEO
Green America is a non-profit organization dedicated to creating a just and sustainable society by harnessing economic power for positive change. Our unique approach involves working with consumers, investors and businesses to create a world that works for all. We deploy marketplace solutions to solve the most pressing social and environmental problems facing society today.
The Center of Sustainability Solutions builds on Green America’s work over the years, where we’ve brought together industry groups across supply chains to create major shifts in such areas as solar, community investing, sustainable agriculture and fair labor. The Center supports Innovation Networks, focused working groups of stakeholders with the objective of making significant, industry-wide system change.
The Climate and Agriculture Network is a multi-stakeholder, cross- industry working group supporting initiatives that focus on improving agricultural and food system outcomes in the areas of carbon sequestration, soil health, water quality, and ecosystem impacts (the “network”).
The Senior Director will provide leadership and team support in all facets of the network including: strategic direction, fundraising, stakeholder engagement, Network and team management, facilitation and operations management. Working with network managers, project managers, as well as senior Center staff, the Senior Director will help to ensure progress against project objectives, timelines, and targets.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Participant Vetting and Cultivation and Fundraising -30%
- Work closely with network manager, design team and CEO to identify qualified, collaborative participants and support processes for stakeholder outreach, engagement and recruitment across all working groups and initiatives.
Senior Director is responsible for ensuring revenue targets are attained for both the network and the initiatives. Revenue sources include: participant fees, corporate and foundation grants, major donors, and special project funding from private entities. Support includes development of proposals and partnership agreements. Senior Director will work closely with the network manager and CEO
Strategy, Planning and Networks Management – 20%
- In concert with senior Center staff, develop and implement strategy of the network including working groups and initiatives, and work to oversee and support network directors and their teams as they implement project strategy.
- In collaboration with agriculture team, identify priorities, coordinate team work plans, assess capacity, monitor and evaluate progress to ensure the Networks is effective, meaningful, and timely.
- Work with CEO to coordinate the work of the network with other Green America priorities.
- Work closely with senior Center staff on budget and operating plan development
- Track working group and initiative progress against goals and timelines using work management software.
- Lead efforts to successfully launch, maintain, and evaluate initiatives within the Agriculture and Food Network.
- Attend and contribute to network meetings.
- Ensure team produces accurate, high-quality project deliverables in a timely manner, including: meeting reports, special research projects, and other outputs.
- Coordinate team in producing communications materials for variety of audiences
- Ensure knowledge gained is converted into “knowledge capital” for Center and Green America teams, including how to launch and manage working groups successfully and shift markets toward sustainability.
Soil Carbon Initiative Management – 50%
- Provide direction, oversight and coordination for the continued development of the Soil Carbon Initiative. In 2020 this work will developing a go to market plan for the standard including identifying the technical development partners needed for the full launch, the supply chain partners needed for the pilot phase, and the funding resources needed
- The Senior Director will work closely with the CEO and Design Team to develop a strategic work plan for SCI that covers the next 12 month.
The position involves domestic travel for Network meetings, conferences and business cultivation meetings, staff training, and other purposes. Position has direct supervisory responsibility for agricultural Network Manager, the Climate and Agriculture Program Manager, and some contract positions as applicable.
Qualified Candidates should have the following skills and qualities:
- Strong interpersonal skills, including the ability to develop trusting relationships with senior executives and high-level leaders across the food and agriculture sector.
- A strong knowledge of food and agriculture issues, including GMOs, food supply chains, local foods, and organics.
- The ability to understand and converse competently about complex supply chain issues with a broad range of stakeholders, and to provide useful frameworks for analysis and action on key supply chain issues.
- Strong project management skills, with 5+ years of experience managing multiple projects simultaneously.
- Negotiating experience and the ability to move groups both quickly and collaboratively on key priorities. Experience facilitating large and small group discussions.
- Proven experience with business and client development (5-10 years)
- Strong research and writing skills.
- Strong speaking skills.
- MBA or equivalent strongly preferred.
How to apply: Please email your cover letter and resume/CV to CenterAgHire@greenamerica.org. No phone calls.
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Green America is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without discrimination regarding: actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, related medical conditions, breastfeeding, or reproductive health disorders), age (18 years of age or older), marital status (including domestic partnership and parenthood), personal appearance, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, family responsibilities, genetic information, disability, matriculation, political affiliation, citizenship status, credit information or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Harassment on the basis of a protected characteristic is included as a form of discrimination and is strictly prohibited.
