Conservation Associate Director

🕒 July 10

🎸 Tennessee – Remote

🎸 Tennessee – 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

• 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.

🎯 Requirements

• 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.

🏖️ Benefits

• 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.