Conservation Associate Director

🕒 Julho 10

🎸 Tennessee – Remoto

🎸 Tennessee – Remote

💵 $61.800 - $75.600 / ano

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American Rivers

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51 - 200 funcionários

Fundada em 1973

💼 Consultoria

🤝 Sem Fins Lucrativos

Consulting • Non-profit • Environmental

American Rivers é uma organização sem fins lucrativos dedicada à proteção e restauração de rios em todo os Estados Unidos. Eles se concentram em garantir água limpa, restaurar rios e proteger ecossistemas fluviais, com objetivos como a remoção de barragens prejudiciais e a promoção da resiliência climática em comunidades urbanas. A American Rivers visa proteger um milhão de milhas de rios de fluxo livre até 2030 e metade de todos os rios nos EUA até 2050, focando em áreas onde as pessoas vivem, trabalhando para garantir que os fundos federais sejam utilizados de maneira eficaz para melhorar a segurança, saúde e biodiversidade. Eles também se empenham em educar e mobilizar o público para se tornarem defensores da conservação dos rios.

Descrição

• Leads the priority restoration efforts in the Tennessee River. • Leads American Rivers’ engagement with the Tennessee Aquatic Connectivity Team. • Contributes to organizational and regional priorities as a member of the Southeast Regional staff. • Leads community engagement with racially, culturally, and economically diverse individuals and communities in an equitable and meaningful way. • Provides technical assistance and program-building assistance to advance high-priority dam removal and aquatic connectivity projects. • Facilitates meetings and nurtures relationships. • Identifies, tracks, and collaboratively pursues funding sources for projects. • Supports sound project administration, including consultant scopes, contracts, budgets, invoices, grant deliverables, and internal records. • Assists in the selection and management of consultants, and coordination of partners engaged in restoration projects. • Identifies ecosystem scale restoration projects in the Upper Tennessee River basin that will help meet the goals of the organization to remove 30,000 dams by 2050. • Represents American Rivers at technical meetings, conferences, press events and other public events as needed, and by composing, editing, and preparing high-quality, time-sensitive written communication. • Accurately and consistently manages administrative responsibilities, including timesheets, expenses, travel planning, project documentation, and internal reporting.

🎯 Requisitos

• Three to five years of experience in a relevant field, and a Bachelor’s degree or professional certification in a relevant field. • Strong passion for protecting and restoring the rivers of the Southeast and their watersheds. • Demonstrates commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice, and an ability to work with others with varying perspectives and values. • Requires experience and strength in the following areas: project management, verbal and written communications, critical thinking, judgment and dependability. • Self-starter able to work independently and manage multiple projects and priorities. • Demonstrates initiative and creativity, and continually strives to improve program operations. • Consistent exercise of professional discretion and independent judgment. • Excellent personal organization and time management skills. • Ability to travel as needed which may include using a personal and/or rented vehicle. • Ability to perform multiple tasks effectively and efficiently in a fast-paced environment. • Ability and willingness to conduct field work in rivers, including paddling, wading, hiking, extended standing, transporting gear, and lifting and carrying 40 lbs.

🏖️ Benefícios

• Health and Wellness: Medical, dental, vision, long-term and short-term disability, and life insurance. • Financial Security: After one year of service, American Rivers begins contributing a 3% employer contribution. There is no vesting schedule for employer contributions as employees are 100% vested upon participation. • Time Off: Four weeks of paid leave, eleven paid holidays, three floating holidays, and sick leave.