Associate Director, Hydropower Reform Coalition

🔥 22 hours ago

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $61.8k - $75.6k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👔 Director

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American Rivers

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 1973

💼 Consulting

🤝 Non-profit

Consulting • Non-profit • Environmental

American Rivers is a non-profit organization dedicated to the protection and restoration of rivers throughout the United States. They focus on ensuring clean water, restoring rivers, and protecting river ecosystems, with goals such as removing harmful dams and promoting climate resilience in urban communities. American Rivers aims to protect one million miles of free-flowing rivers by 2030 and half of all rivers in the U. S. by 2050, focusing on areas where people live, and they work to ensure federal funds are used effectively to improve safety, health, and biodiversity. They also aim to educate and mobilize the public to become advocates for river conservation.

📋 Description

• Serve as the central hub for Coalition coordination, connecting members, tracking priorities, promoting information sharing, and ensuring follow-through • Plan, facilitate, and support Coalition meetings, caucuses, and working groups • Strengthen relationships across Coalition members and partners • Identify gaps, challenges, and opportunities and take initiative to address them • Build working knowledge of the federal hydropower licensing process and related policy frameworks • Support Coalition members, Indigenous Tribes, and partners in hydropower licensing and policy processes • Coordinate and contribute to joint advocacy efforts, comments, letters, and strategy development • Help design and deliver tools, trainings, and resources explaining complex policy processes • Manage internal communications and synthesize complex information into accessible updates and materials • Support external communications, storytelling, basic media engagement, and funder communications • Lead logistical planning and execution of Coalition convenings, meetings, and events • Support grant tracking, reporting, fundraising coordination, and budgeting processes • Maintain organizational systems for projects, timelines, and Coalition resources • Participate in meetings with Coalition members, partners, and agencies • Travel occasionally to support Coalition activities and relationship-building • Perform other duties as assigned

🎯 Requirements

• 3–5 years of professional experience in conservation, public policy, nonprofit coordination, or a related field; education may substitute for experience • Interest in environmental policy and willingness to build expertise in hydropower licensing and regulatory processes • Familiarity with the Federal Power Act, Endangered Species Act, Clean Water Act, or NEPA is a plus • Ability to coordinate complex projects or partnerships involving multiple stakeholders • Strong organizational and administrative skills and ability to manage competing priorities • Initiative and problem-solving ability • Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to build relationships across diverse partners, including Indigenous communities • Strong written and verbal communication skills, including synthesizing and translating complex information • Experience facilitating meetings, supporting collaborative processes, or convening groups • Familiarity with or willingness to learn Google Workspace, Microsoft Office, Slack, MailChimp, and WordPress • Fundraising, grant coordination, or coalition-building experience is desirable • Commitment to equity, inclusion, and collaborative approaches • Passion for protecting and restoring rivers and watersheds • Willingness to travel occasionally • Valid U.S. driver’s license • Must be legally allowed to work as an employee in the United States

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, long-term and short-term disability, and life insurance • 3% employer contribution after one year of service • 100% vesting upon participation • Four weeks of paid leave • Eleven paid holidays • Three floating holidays • Sick leave • Focus Fridays with no internal meetings • Professional development opportunities • Home office stipend • Sabbatical leave every seven years • Paid parental leave of six weeks with one year of service • Reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities