Regional Director

🕒 July 16

🐊 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

💼 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

• Lead, supervise, and develop a high-performing geographically distributed regional team • Strengthen managers’ leadership, decision-making, challenge-resolution, and results-delivery capabilities • Establish clear expectations, responsibilities, and decision-making practices • Align workloads, staff development, and team capacity with regional and national priorities • Serve as lead fundraiser for the Southeast region and deliver annual and multiyear revenue goals • Develop and execute a regional fundraising strategy with the Development team • Cultivate, solicit, and steward individual and institutional donors • Build a pipeline of prospective supporters and support the regional River Council • Translate conservation priorities into funding opportunities, donor conversations, and proposals • Provide vision for river conservation in the Southeast • Lead development and implementation of a cohesive Southeast regional strategy • Translate priorities into workplans with outcomes, responsibilities, timelines, and resource requirements • Guide regional project and advocacy priorities with staff, partners, and national program leaders • Develop and manage regional budgets; monitor revenue and expenses and adjust plans • Evaluate opportunities based on mission impact, funding prospects, staff capacity, and commitments • Build relationships with conservation agencies, organizations, community leaders, funders, regulators, businesses, and elected decision-makers • Serve as a primary ambassador for American Rivers in the Southeast • Build a river movement and durable majority for rivers in the Southeast • Coordinate the Southeast team with national programs, other regions, and Development, Communications, Finance, and administrative colleagues • Work with conservation strategy program directors to implement national strategic-plan strategies

🎯 Requirements

• Demonstrated success supervising and developing experienced staff, including people managers • Demonstrated success cultivating, soliciting, and securing philanthropic support, preferably 6+ figures • Experience with foundations, government, and major donors • Experience translating organizational strategy into priorities, workplans, budgets, and measurable outcomes • Ability to lead through collaboration and clear accountability in a geographically distributed organization • Strong relationship-building and communication skills • Commitment to American Rivers core values • Minimum of 10 years of relevant experience • Ability to make evidence- and stakeholder-feedback-based decisions • Ability to listen, lead, and mentor a team • Discretion, political astuteness, and good judgment • Ability to build trust and inspire enthusiasm • Commitment to supporting community leaders and working across political spectrums • Knowledge of multi-benefit river management, floodplains, urban rivers, pollution prevention, river restoration, and/or dam removal issues strongly recommended • 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: six weeks with one year of service • Reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities

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