Systems Director – Conservation

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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 product owner for the organization’s CRM, project management platform, and other core business systems • Develop and execute a multi-year systems roadmap aligned with strategic plan objectives • Prioritize and implement system enhancements • Evaluate AI and emerging technologies and recommend solutions • Own configuration, structure, maintenance, access, templates, documentation, and standards for CRM and project management platforms • Ensure systems are scalable, user-friendly, secure, and compliant with privacy and security requirements • Conduct reviews of user access, permissions, and system controls • Partner across departments to improve processes and translate operational needs into technology solutions • Design standardized workflows and identify automation opportunities • Integrate CRM, project management, finance, communications, and data systems • Build and maintain automations • Establish data governance practices • Develop dashboards and reporting for decision-making • Lead implementation of functionality, upgrades, and releases • Develop training, documentation, and support resources • Coordinate testing, user acceptance, communications, and ongoing user support • Manage software vendor and implementation partner relationships • Oversee licensing, product updates, and vendor performance • Support software evaluation, procurement, and future technology implementations

🎯 Requirements

• Associate or Bachelor’s degree required • Experience in systems management, product management, or a related field, preferably in a nonprofit or mission-driven organization • Hands-on experience managing a CRM • Proficiency with Microsoft Office, including Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint • Proficiency with core enterprise software tools, including accounting and budgeting software, project management software, and/or CRM • Experience managing integrations preferred • Exceptional organizational skills and attention to detail and follow-through • Technical fluency with a variety of software tools • Ability to balance competing needs and evaluate tradeoffs • Strong written and verbal communication • Professional discretion and confidentiality • Ability to work across varied personalities and work styles at all organizational levels • Ability to work independently and as part of a cross-functional team • Systems thinking • Resourcefulness • Reliability and integrity • Initiative and adaptability • Time and project management • Collaboration and relationship-building • Process orientation and continuous improvement mindset • 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% vested 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