Regional Director

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🐊 Florida, Kentucky, +3 more states – Remote

🐊 Florida – Remote 🐎 Kentucky – Remote 🌲 North Carolina – Remote 🌴 South Carolina – Remote 🎸 Tennessee – Remote

💵 $126k - $154k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

👔 Director

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American Rivers

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 1973

🤝 Non-profit

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

• Lead, supervise, and develop a high-performing, geographically-distributed regional team. • Develop and implement a cohesive regional strategy. • Manage Southeast-related project and advocacy work with local partners and national program staff. • Support the creation and execution of regional workplans based on the American Rivers strategic plan. • Serve as the lead fundraiser for the Southeast region. • Build and tend relationships at the local, state, regional, and federal level with various stakeholders. • Build the reputation of American Rivers in the region.

🎯 Requirements

• Commitment to American Rivers core values. • Demonstrated, successful experience in partnership building and collaboration, fundraising, verbal and written communications, project creation and implementation, program and budget planning, administration, and staff management. • A minimum of 10 years of relevant experience. • Experience with grants management and fundraising from individuals, foundations, and government programs. • Experience with direct or indirect lobbying, or electoral or advocacy campaigns. • Proven conservation professional capable of advancing advocacy and project work in the Region. • Knowledge of multi-benefit river management, floodplains, urban rivers, pollution prevention, river restoration, and/or dam removal issues are strongly recommended.

🏖️ 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. • Professional development opportunities. • Home office stipend. • Comprehensive leave policies, including sabbatical leave (every seven years) and paid parental leave (six weeks w/ one year of service).